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Personal Branding

On the “super raining” Thursday September 30th, along with a delegation of more than 10 people from the RBC research Chair at HEC Montréal, I attended “the Art of Marketing” conference, an event targeted to marketing practitioners where I was a spectator to 6 best-selling presenters. However, even though I was not the target audience, [...]

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Last week, brands’ psychoanalyst (sometimes referred as cultural anthropologist) Clotaire Rapaille was fired by the Quebec City mayor Regis Labeaume from his role as a brand management (image) consultant for the city because mainly of curriculum vitae falsifications. The news arrived more than a month after being hired to a $300,000 3-month contract to propose [...]

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Every week, like everybody around me, I am getting older, that’s nothing new and nothing really imaginative to say as a first sentence of a post. However, with communications facilitated by social media, it seems like every week I hear the news that the girlfriend of an old friend of mine will give birth to [...]

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Like most people, I look at my e-mail box several times a day and answer my emails by order of priority. I am generally efficient as I classify my emails according to methods shown in best-seller books such as the “Hamster Revolution”. However, every once in a while I receive one of these impersonal emails [...]

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Reinvent Yourself – The Dan Blackburn Story

by Jean-Francois Belisle on November 6, 2009

in Hockey,Personal Branding

Bad events are always important opportunities to reinvent yourself or to think about what went wrong. The recession is/was a good example for many organizations. On a more personal side, this Wednesday, I dislocated my left shoulder and spent a beautiful six hours (11PM to 5AM) at the hospital waiting for this nightmare to end. [...]

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This super cool blog has been online for 6 months, and for this half-year life anniversary, I decided to highlight the top 10 posts on this blog based on unique pageviews. So here they are: 1. The 10 Most Hi-Tech Cities in the World 2. Canada in the Worldwide Top 3 for Internet Penetration Rate [...]

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For the last few days, I worked hard on the modeling of networking interactions in viral contests and with the start of the National Hockey league (NHL) season on October 1st, I thought it would be a nice idea to share my vision of how a sport, in this case hockey, is importantly influenced by [...]

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