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Preston Bailey is one of the world’s premier event planners. A native of Panama, Preston Bailey arrived in Manhattan in the early 1970s. His eye for elegantly dramatic statement in total event décor has made Bailey a favorite among celebrities and arbiters of taste.

Preston’s Bailey blog

His books:
Preston Bailey Celebrations

Inspirations

Preston Bailey’s Fantasy Weddings

Preston Bailey’s Design for Entertaining

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“Mark my words, if you want to stay competitive in the coming years – I don’t care if you’re in sales, tech, finance, publishing, journalism, event planning, business development, retail, real estate, you name it – you will still need to develop and grow your personal brand . Everyone-EVERYONE-needs to start thinking of themselves as a brand. It is no longer an option; it is a necessity. “   Gary Vaynerchuk, Crush It

Lana Kravsova, Daring Clarity

If Facebook was a country it would be the 4th largest country in the world. Youtube is the second largest search engine after Google. Twitter, Linkedin, Tumblr, Flickr… What are those social networks all about?

Personal brands.

We live in the era of personal brands.

Your personal brand is what sells your services, gets you hired, helps you develop relationships. Your personal brand is what makes your business recognizable and sets it apart from others.

Here is where a lot of people get stuck. Everyone tells you that you have to create a unique and compelling brand. And you probably have been thinking long and hard what your brand is all about and how you can make it unique and different.

Let me tell you the truth that you already know.

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How to meet the Rich: For Business, Friendship, or Romance by Ginie Sayles

If you want to climb the ladder of success in business… Or enter the world of high society without intimidation… Or if you have fallen in love with someone who happens to be Rich—and you don’t want to lose… This book was written for you!

Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

“Everyone’s an artist now.”
By Seth’s definition, an artist is not just some person who messes around with paint and brushes, an artist is somebody who does  “emotional work.”

Work that you put your heart and soul into. Work that matters. Work that you gladly sacrifice all other alternatives for. (Hugh MacLeod Reviews)

Linchpin, Seth Godin

Design Your Self: Rethinking the Way You Live, Love, Work, and Play

Celebrated industrial designer Karim Rashid explains how to optimize all areas of life, aesthetic and spiritual, in this colorful, beautifully designed book.

“Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn’t mean mattered.” – Seth Godin

There’s a hidden message in this post – it’s your free prize inside.  Whether you find the free prize or not, this post will make you think.  About your life.  About work.  About just about everything.  Why?  Because it’s a distillation of lessons from a man named Seth.  Seth Godin is an author, an agent of change, a meaning maker, and an Idea Merchant.

Top 10 Seth Godin Quotes:

• “Expectations are the engines of our perceptions.”
• “Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.”
• “Go ahead, do something impossible. “
• “You can’t shrink your way to greatness! “
• “I don’t know what the key to success is, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.”
• “Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from.”
• “Why waste a sentence saying nothing? “
• “If you could do tomorrow over again, would you?”
• “Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.”
• “Are you a serial idea-starting person? The goal is to be an idea-shipping person.”

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Great emotional speech by Gary Vaynerchuk
Gary Vaynerchuk delivered this passionate and powerful speech at FOWA London 09 and it rocked the house. If you need a bit of inspiration (and a slight kick in the ass) don’t miss this one.

Warning: Strong language.
Gary Vaynerchuk has captured attention with his pioneering, multi-faceted approach to personal branding and business. After primarily utilizing traditional advertising techniques to build his family’s local wine business into a national industry leader, Gary rapidly leveraged social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook to promote Wine Library TV, his video blog about wine. As his viewership swelled to over 80,000 a day, doors opened to a book deal, several national TV appearances, and a flurry of speaking engagements around the world.

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Written by Lana Kravtsova from daringclarity.com for The Entrepreneur School

If Facebook was a country it would be the 4th largest country in the world. Youtube is the second largest search engine after Google. Twitter, Linkedin, Tumblr, Flickr… What are those social networks all about?

Personal brands.

We live in the era of personal brands.

Your personal brand is what sells your services, gets you hired, helps you develop relationships. Your personal brand is what makes your business recognizable and sets it apart from others.

Here is where a lot of people get stuck. Everyone tells you that you have to create a brand. And you probably have been thinking long and hard what your brand is all about and how you can make it unique and different.

Let me shine the light on this mystery for you.

You don’t need to create a brand. You don’t need to come up with anything unique and different.

Know why?

Because you ARE a brand already.

And this brand of YOU is as unique as it can get. You can try long and hard but you won’t find anything more unique than YOU. You are one of a kind. Don’t look any further.

All you really need to do is embrace your DNA, get clear on your core message and learn to clearly communicate that message to the world.

That’s what authentic branding is all about. And authentic brands are the ones that crush it.

So here are the steps you should follow:

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