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Important Elements Of A Powerful Personal Brand Identity

September 29, 2013August 22, 2013 by Kumar Gauraw

If you have had a few jobs by now, you do realize how important your resume becomes whenever you are looking for the next opportunity. If you are an entrepreneur, you know how important it is that your prospect takes you seriously.

Over the years, I’ve helped many people in building their personal brand online. Yet, I’ve also met those who don’t believe in personal branding online though they do work very hard to build and maintain their brand value in traditional ways.

Working with people from various walks of life and helping them leverage the power of the internet and social media, has been a tremendous experience. The process of personal branding is a lot of fun and also challenging at times. It is fun because it is not just very engaging but also very rewarding when you do it right. But, it becomes a challenge when the process is broken.

Drop These 25 Excuses To Drive Away Regrets From Your Life

September 29, 2013August 19, 2013 by Kumar Gauraw

He who is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. ―Benjamin Franklin [tweet this]

Recently, I came across a very interesting book written by a palliative nurse, Bronnie Ware. She named her book as, "The Top Five Regrets of The Dying". It is a book that touches our lives in the most relatable ways.

Ask any young kid about what they would like to be when they grow up. It's amazing to know how almost all of them will tell you about their dream of becoming top athlete, top cricketer, doctor, engineer, top spy, astronaut etc. At the same time, you will find almost none of them who will tell you that they would like to be average at anything when they grow up.

10 Online Activities You Should Avoid To Protect Your Brand Reputation

September 29, 2013August 15, 2013 by Kumar Gauraw

Did you know that there are more than 400 million tweets sent per day on Twitter? Did you know that there are more than 699 million active Facebook users every day? This list only grows when we start including other growing social networking sites such as Google+, Pinterest, Instagram and so on.

These stats only mean that the freedom, the ability to have your own platform where you can say things you like to say, has made social media so popular. The number of people adapting to social media, and at the speed of growth, is simply astounding.

Like anything else, this has given birth to two school of thoughts when it comes to social media:

Haters
Lovers

But wait, there is a third group as well. This belongs to those who use every opportunity to speak against it but can’t stay away from it.

Know What You Can And Can’t Do Online

Social media is the new media. It is here to stay, whether or not you and me like it. This is the way we are going to communicate and stay in touch with the world. This is the way businesses are being conducted, connections are made, jobs are being searched and new business ventures are being established.

Why Popular Career Advice Is Usually Deceptive In Reality

September 29, 2013August 12, 2013 by Kumar Gauraw

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life. ~Wayne Dyer [tweet this]

First of all, not many of us have those kind of choices. Most of us are told what we will do when we grow up right from our childhood. Growing up in India I didn't have many choices while choosing a career. You either become an engineer or a doctor. That's it. If you can’t become both, then you are not worth anything of significance.

However, the internet has made a significant changes in the way we learn things today. Information is flowing more quickly today than ever and that is affecting thought processes worldwide. This means that popular career advice in America is also quickly taking over the world.

6 Growth Strategies Business Leaders Employ

August 29, 2013August 8, 2013 by Kumar Gauraw

I have not met anybody who doesn’t want to start a business at some point in their life. And everyone who is in business, wants to become successful.

I have met a number of ultra-successful business leaders throughout my business career and there are about 6 important growth strategies they all take very seriously when it comes to their business. I believe anybody, who pays close attention to these business lessons, can become extremely successful.

How To Setup Your Self-Hosted WordPress Website And Blog [Updated]

April 5, 2014August 4, 2013 by Kumar Gauraw

To setup a WordPress website for yourself, you need just the basic technical knowledge. If you can read instructions and follow them step by step, this is the last WordPress website setup guide you will ever need to setup your own self-hosted and professional quality WordPress website just in a few minutes – all by yourself.

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Setting my first WordPress blog was one of my major challenges and that is why I know the struggle a new person goes through when it comes to setup a self-hosted website or a blog.

I didn't have any experience in setting up a WordPress website and I stumbled many times before I could finally get it right. And now it’s my job to make sure I make your job as easy as possible.

Important: If you are reading this blog post, I assume that you are convinced that blogging is important for your personal branding. I assume that you are now ready to take the steps needed to build your online brand identity through your blog. Therefore, I am going to jump straight to the process of setting up your own self-hosted WordPress website.

10 Twitter Basics You Must Know To Be Effective

April 16, 2014August 2, 2013 by Kumar Gauraw

Understanding Twitter is a challenge that many struggle with (I know I did for a long time). Many entrepreneurs fail to understand Twitter, fumble for some time trying to get followers and then fade away.

I meet people everyday who wonder if Twitter is really worth their time and they can’t figure out why this thing is so popular when it is so hard for them. At the same time, I also see many others who are on Twitter wasting their time all day long.

If you fall in any of these two categories, you need to go through this post. My goal today is to help you learn some Twitter basics and the best practices.

How Rejection Makes You A Champion

January 29, 2014July 30, 2013 by Kumar Gauraw

If it wasn’t for the fear of rejection, most people would love to be in business for themselves. It is the fear of rejection that stops many people from even starting their own business, while many others give up early on when they are faced with a few rejections.

Even though I have been pretty confident (my mother thought I was overconfident) from my childhood, I have been intimidated by rejections very much in the early days of my career as an entrepreneur. It was unacceptable to me that somebody would actually reject my offer.

In fact, it was because of the fear of rejection that I never went for ‘Walk-In’ job interviews. I never applied for a job by myself. I uploaded my resumes on job websites and waited for the calls to come. To my serendipity, I did receive interview calls and I always (I mean always) got selected.

The Top 15 Personal Development Books You Must Read

January 28, 2014July 26, 2013 by Kumar Gauraw

One thing I absolutely take seriously is to begin the day with gratitude. This is the most powerful way I have found to prepare for the day after getting up.

Another thing I do in the morning to at least take 15-20 minutes to read a few pages from one of my favorite personal development books. Not just once, I have read some of these books several times and I love to go back to them whenever I get the opportunity. Interestingly, my reading habit helps me feel even more grateful and be more intentional about my life.