Podcast #42 – Building Your Personal Brand

Feature begins at 3:49 (News roundup prior to that)

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Today’s guest is Damon Zick, owner of Life Brand Academy:

Damon’s email: damon@damonzick.com
Damon’s LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/damonzick/
Life Brand Academy’s YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/@lifebrandacademy

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NEWS ROUNDUP

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The number of new jobs created soared to 517,000 in January.
https://www.kiplinger.com/investing/jobs-report-shows-massive-hiring-in-january-what-the-experts-are-saying

January one-month annualized hourly earnings growth for small business employees fell to 2.88%, the lowest level since 2020, according to Paychex.
https://www.paychex.com/employment-watch/#!/news-release/

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Xero has found that sales growth for US small businesses continued to slow and recorded its two smallest increases of the past 20 months in July 2022 and September 2022.
https://www.xero.com/us/media-releases/xero-small-business-insights-usa-january-2023/

According to an estimate by Goldman Sachs, by the end of this year Americans will have spent two-thirds of the extra savings they were able to stash away during Covid.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/once-flush-savings-accounts-are-starting-to-run-dry-11675691637

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Walmart has launched an e-commerce site for small and medium-sized businesses called Walmart Business.
https://www.retaildive.com/news/walmart-business-e-commerce-site-small-businesses/640946/

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