We are still making our way through the awesome-sauce book, Personal Branding for Dummies (A Wiley Brand). Grab yourself a drink, a snack, and your copy of the book and let’s talk COMMERCIALS! 669 more words
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Personal Branding and Professional Writing
The modern, interconnected world has many perks, but sometimes I crave a simpler way of life: a world in which people don’t have to submit to online self-promotion to elevate their potential in the job market; a world wherein personal branding only exists for business empires, not individuals. 1,154 more words

Hollywood Rewind
In his timelessly decorated
office, a Hollywood studio executive listens to a century’s worth of pitches
for movies he has already made…
A young man with incredible super… 838 more words
Do you need startup help?
So I realize that some of you may be wondering how to start a startup.
I can’t exactly answer that question yet since the CeWiT event for later tonight was postponed until next month but I kind of wanted to give out a few resources that I’ve been using to understand how I need to go about the processes of getting my startup started. 345 more words

What I learned during my first term as a PhD researcher
Embarking on a PhD can be daunting, yet the first term brings opportunities to make a strong start by establishing solid working processes for the months and years to come. 731 more words

Pitching the Quintessential Elevator Pitch
Confession: I’d never heard the term “elevator pitch” until this week. I must have been living in a cave (at least metaphorically). But it’s what I suspected it might be: a sales pitch. 480 more words

Analogies: Your Best Friend
by Narmeen Iqbal & Robyn Hatcher
According to Dictionary.com, an analogy is: “a form of reasoning in which one thing is inferred to be similar to another thing in a certain respect, on the basis of the known similarity between the things in other respects… 554 more words