A proven way to attract business opportunities is to proactively self-promote and establish yourself as an expert. As a McDermott & Bull Executive Network member, you now have four powerful ways to express your unique insights to our highly influential senior executive membership.
We are particularly excited about the breadth of opportunities that we offer, because they allow you to choose a medium that best reflects your strengths. Whether it's through the written word or in-person presentations, we hope you take advantage of at least one of these opportunities:
In Part 1 of 3 Social Networking Tips for the Unemployed, I mentioned how it is never too late to Dig Your Well Before You’re Thirsty and explained the attitude that will help you network while looking for your next job. This is important in interfacing with the physical network that you already have.
Neal Schaffer is an internationally recognized social networking guru helping companies and individuals embrace social media for personal and business applications. His experience in creating the Windmill Networking blog — a social networking world that has become so vast in one year that it constitutes one of the widest read LinkedIn blogs world-wide — resulted in his book, Understanding, Leveraging, & Maximizing LinkedIn.
Grant Johnson’s Marketing For Results is a blog on best practices and lessons learned, driving growth at several successful tech companies - from venture-backed enterprises, e.g. FrontBridge (acquired by Microsoft) to well established public companies, e.g. FileNet (acquired by IBM).
The past couple of weeks I have written about how corporate roles have changed and how we all must prepare ourselves for this new corporate world. Today, I want to discuss the topic of personal branding.
Welcome to the hyper-competitive job market of The Great Recession. Finding a job today is about consistently hitting it out of the park. That means taking advantage of opportunities to do what most of your competitors have not. I suggest you start by rethinking your static two-page resume and starting a blog instead.
It’s easy to get bogged down in the minutiae of new social media technologies like Twitter, Blogs, LinkedIn, Facebook, Squidoo or whatever the service dujour. However, from time to time it’s good to take a step back to fully understand how everyday people are using these tools to redefine and sometimes replace cultural institutions we once took for granted.
![Is Your "Brand Architecture" a Foundation or a Facade?](http://www.mbexec.net/files/content_types/blog/blueprint.jpg "Is Your "Brand Architecture" a Foundation or a Facade?")
