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How to attract, hire and retain successful employees

We are living in unprecedented times with the current job market. Employers are finding it hard to hire. The great resignation, exodus, reset, whatever you want to call it, never before in history have more people quit their jobs in one swift motion.  Due to this massive reshuffling of skills and careers, it has become an employee’s market, where they are calling the shots and employers are scrambling for the… Read More »How to attract, hire and retain successful employees

5 Phases of Leveraging Events to Build and Grow Your Personal Brand

Life after COVID means many of the daily aspects of our lives have changed, but they’ve also changed the way we produce events and position our personal brand. With all events being virtual during the pandemic and since in-person events are becoming an option, the question is now being raised, do we remain virtual, transition to in-person, or do a hybrid event? To help us uncover the answer to this… Read More »5 Phases of Leveraging Events to Build and Grow Your Personal Brand

The 3M Formula for Getting Great Publicity for Your Personal Brand with Jill Lublin

In the age of social media, anyone can have fifteen minutes of fame, garnering an audience for their personal brand all on their own. This would lead anyone to assume that the need for any sort of public relations goes out the window if you have followers. However, don’t be so quick to assume that traditional publicity is dead, because it is very much alive and thriving. In fact, there… Read More »The 3M Formula for Getting Great Publicity for Your Personal Brand with Jill Lublin

How to create 23 pieces of content in 3 hours with Jas Takhar

Creating a personal brand may seem it may back you into a corner because it might be impossible to scale that is because clients only want to work with you, the face of the brand.  When you think about it that makes sense because people who sought out your business in the first place were often attracted by connecting and working with you. However, there is a way to create… Read More »How to create 23 pieces of content in 3 hours with Jas Takhar

The Top Business Skill You Don’t Use Enough

The storm that blew through Bruce County a few weeks ago left a trail of downed trees including 7 on my partner’s property. It’s always a shame to see any tree disappear because of the benefit they have on the environment and we will be replacing them x3 at least. What it did mean was a lot of lumber that needed cutting up, chopping and splitting. Of course, this wood… Read More »The Top Business Skill You Don’t Use Enough

3 Steps to Help Stop This Year Being a Turkey For You

I couldn’t quite believe my eyes on a run the other morning through the streets of Hamilton. I knew the days were drawing in and so the light was less, but I could see this black mass running toward me on the sidewalk. My first thought was ‘skunk’! I was ready to turn around or sprint across the road. But it was too big and it certainly did not have… Read More »3 Steps to Help Stop This Year Being a Turkey For You

Are Your Running Vanilla Marketing Campaigns?

Because your desire (or perhaps desperation) is to not exclude anyone with a pulse who could be a client or joint venture partner. Or you play it safe so you do not run the risk of offending anyone. You end up with vanilla real estate investing marketing. Perhaps you are following the ‘way it’s always been done’ or you are following some new guru or copycatting a 10x influencer or… Read More »Are Your Running Vanilla Marketing Campaigns?

How to Handle a Name Change AND Maintain Your Personal Brand

The older tradition of changing your name after marriage is not one that is so readily followed today, probably for a number of reasons.   I have had a number of clients who have successfully built their professional reputations under their maiden name and kept that professionally after marriage. Using their married name in more personal situations or for legal or financial reasons. However recently a client had the added… Read More »How to Handle a Name Change AND Maintain Your Personal Brand

Publish and Be Damned

A connection of mine on LinkedIn reached out recently to ask for some advice on getting noticed in the newsfeed.  Although they had thousands of followers and connections the engagement on their posts was low.  Why was that and what could be done?  My advice resulted in this message from my connection a couple of days later;  Wow. You weren’t wrong. ????  I did one post without a photo that flopped,… Read More »Publish and Be Damned

Are You BENCH-Marking Your Brand?

A belated Happy Valentines Day! Talking of love, what’s not to love about combining a passion for beer AND branding? Short of becoming a brand manager for a craft brewer (but then I am limited to one brewery!) the next best thing is to slowly make our way around the various craft breweries and do the taste test of beer AND branding. Recently we had a great experience at a… Read More »Are You BENCH-Marking Your Brand?