A few of you have emailed me asking how you can get covered by newspapers and magazines. The easy answer is to pay a public relations firm, but that can cost thousands of dollars. Because of this I decided to interview Chris Winfield who has been covered by USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times (just to name a few) without paying a public relations firm. [click to continue…]
I talked about personal branding quite a bit last week and some of you asked “how does this make me money”? In most cases you will not monetarily benefit from branding in the short run, but here is how you will benefit from it in the long run. [click to continue…]
In an ideal world everyone would know you for all the great things you have done and they wouldn’t know about the bad things that you may have done in the past. The problem is that some people, such as Ted Kaczynski have a tainted personal brand. In some cases it can be almost impossible to reverse the negative connotation with a personal brand, but here are some things you can do to help clean up your brand. [click to continue…]
This post was written by Cameron Olthuis who is my business partner at ACS and is a blogger at Cameronolthuis.com.
I have to hand it to Neil, I don’t think I have ever seen anyone rise to the same level of fame within their own industry as quickly as him. A person could learn a lot from watching how Neil does it and fortunately for me I’ve had a front row view the entire time. So what are some things that I’ve noticed from watching Neil that I would contribute to his success? [click to continue…]
Time is usually our biggest enemy because there is only so much you can do in a day. If you think about it, most of our day is taken up by eating, sleeping, and working which leaves very little room for branding yourself. If you don’t have much time on your hand, here are 5 quick ways to brand yourself: [click to continue…]
Neil Patel is the co-founder of 2 Internet companies: Crazy Egg, and KISSmetrics. Through these 2 companies he has helped large corporations such as AOL, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard and Viacom make more money from the web. By the age of 21 not only was Neil named a top 100 blogger by Technorati, but he was also one of the top influencers on the web according to the Wall Street Journal. Continue reading