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Celibrity home sales in the credit crunch
Prices of real estate in London may be down with 20%, for some they still are seeking a hefty premium. The apartment above the famous travel book shop where Hugh Grant met Julia Roberts in the romantic Notting Hill comedy is for sale.
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And the price tag is a mere 900K Pounds. The founder of the book store has put her apartment for sale. Celebrity homes for sale is one of the most popular real estate categories searched online. Read more
Better than the Bible? The Internet Password Organizer
Internet Password Organizer
And there is the INTERNET PASSWORD ORGANIZER! Webpage, username, password, notes: it’s that simple. Since the one-stop-shop login and passwords system has not yet been found, many scribble their login info for all different websites on post-it notes, address books and what have you. But after a review by Monica Ricci about this ’single centralized location in which to store all your online account login information’, we have converted. Read more
Female Heroes Interview: Eileen Gittins
Every week we publish an interview with one of our female internet heroes. MEET interesting women, READ about their WORK, THINK about how they PLAY the internet industry and see how you MATCH them. Be inspired! This week: Eileen Gittins.
Eileen Gittins
Eileen is a serial entrepreneur of the truest kind. She has set up a number of web companies, including Personify, an ecommerce data mining and analytics company and Verb, a context-based search engine company. Her current company Blurb was founded from Eileen’s passion for photography and from the realization that the idea for Blurb was “the idea that doesn’t leave you, that comes back to you while you are under the shower.” The result is a web company that allows anyone to print a book, whether they need ten or a hundred copies. More importantly however, it is a company to which many can relate; artists, families, photography hobbyists, and even Eileen’s mom. Eileen: “My mother used to say: ‘Eileen is in the internet.’ Now she says ‘Eileen runs a company where anyone can make a book.’ There is something very nice about doing something so concrete, something people get.”
Thenextwomen talked to Eileen about why founding a company from a passion is so fulfilling, her success, her mistakes and what she learned from them.
· How did you come to set up Blurb?
Personal Branding 2
Margot Katz is an author, an international business consultant and an expert on personal branding. Margot encourage women to “turn up the volume” and “be bloody good”. For TheNextWomen she provides us in reply to our questions with an extract from her latest book: Tarzan & Jane, how to thrive in the new corporate jungle published by Profile Books. Set forth below is part II.
Does it make sense to write your personal brand down in a personal mission statement or your resume?
Personally, I’m not in favour of anything that smacks of inauthenticity. You must be natural and able to build rapport with people and anything too scripted might get in the way. That being said, it is a good idea to be clear about your key messages and to deliver them with confidence using fresh, punchy language. Be engaged yourself; enthusiasm and passion are infectious and make engaging with you fun, energising, inspiring, and memorable.
When it comes to the written word, including your resume, you need to work even harder to jump off the page. So what you say should absolutely reflect your brand – what you’re looking for, who you are and what you bring to the table. Read more
Personal Branding 1
Margot Katz is an author, an international business consultant and an expert on personal branding. Margot encourages women to “turn up the volume” and “be bloody good”. For TheNextWomen she provides us in reply to our questions with an extract from her latest book: Tarzan & Jane, how to thrive in the new corporate jungle published by Profile Books. Set forth below is part I.
What is personal branding?
Imagine yourself as a product on the supermarket shelf. How do you stand out in a crowded market and get picked over others? How do you influence the buying decision? Like branding a product to set it apart from others, personal branding does the same for you. People have usually made up their minds about us within four seconds of contact, so the aim of personal branding is for you to be in charge of the messages you give out, making sure that people ‘get’ what you’re all about straight away, associating you with the things you want to be associated with. Not only that, but you want them to keep ‘getting’ you consistently.
It’s not about creating a false impression or trying to be like someone else; it’s all about being, a confident, bolder, crisper and louder version of you. The key is being natural, authentic and congruent.
It’s a step by step process that allows you to fine-tune your own brand, exploring creative ways of communicating it across different touch points so that you build a congruent message that gets remembered.
Is there a difference between men and women when it comes to personal branding?
The process is the same for men and women. Each individual needs to work out their own message and express who they are in their own way, though women are more likely to need to up their levels of confidence and boldness to achieve this.
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