Success Story: How Bernard Lachance’s Creative Personal Branding Got Him on Oprah
Bernard Lachance is a French-Canadian singer who had a dream and achieved it with a creative personal branding strategy.
He tells it best:
10 lessons we can learn from Bernard Lachance’s inspirational success<
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Bernard had no agent, manager or promoter when he decided to rent the Chicago Theatre for his show. …
Twitter Personal Branding Q + A #1
In this article, I take a look at the latest questions people are asking on Twitter about personal branding.
Best Twitter personal branding tipMegan Miles Alba, @MeganAlba, twittered: wondering how to use Twitter to promote my personal “brand.” what’s your #1 suggestion?
Jacob Share, @jacobshare: Try to help people with your expertise as much …
A Personal Branding Overview in 5 Short Video Clips
Whether you’re new to personal branding or have already built a strong brand, there’s something for everyone in the personal branding video playlist below.
The 5 clips run just over15 minutes in total. Enjoy.
The primary element in developing your personal brandWatch: Kaplan Mobray: 10Ks of Personal Branding
The 3 fundamentals of a good…Why You Should Update Your Personal Avatar Now
When should you update your personal avatar?
I asked you that question and got some good responses. Combined with some extra insight, here are the reasons why now might be a good time for an avatar update.
7 avatar casesAvatar not achieving branding goals
Is your avatar following the 11 Rules for Best Personal …
3 Username Checking Tools to Help Promote Your Personal Brand
One way of quickly checking out the reach of a personal brand name is by scanning the Web to find where it’s used as a username. Here are username checking tools that do just that.
History of Username Checking ToolsAll of these tools are based on a free tool called Usernamecheck. It became so …
30 Personal Branding Experts on Twitter
Below is our select list of personal branding experts to follow on Twitter.
Personal branding expert tweeters: Dan Schawbel, @danschawbel Jacob Share, @jacobshare Katie Konrath, @katiekonrath Jun Loayza, @junloayza Maria Elena Duron, @mariaduron William Arruda, @williamarruda Wendy Marx, @wendymarx Hajj Flemings, @HajjFlemings who runs @BrandCampU Lesley Everett, @LesleyEverett Ola Rynge, @Rynge Jeffrey Blake, @jeffrey_blake Trace…10 Ways to Brand Yourself with AllTop
Guy Kawasaki’s AllTop RSS feed aggregator continues to grow in popularity. Let’s take a look at how you can leverage AllTop’s popularity for your personal brand.
If you’re on social media, are you on AllTop?You should be. AllTop has pages that are dedicated to member feeds on social media such as Twitter, Squidoo, Etsy …
Ask the Readers: When Should You Update Your Personal Avatar and Why?
Why change something that so many people have seen and associate with you in a good way?
Your avatar is one of the most recognizable aspects of your personal brand online. Building that recognition probably took weeks, months, even years of effort. The last thing you would want to do is throw all of that …
50+ Tips to Brand Yourself Offline
Now that you know how to brand yourself online, complete your personal branding strategy with another handy list, this time of suggestions for branding yourself offline in the real world.
It’s all about leaving the best impression.
Reminder: General Guidelines to Brand Yourself Offline Show your expertise as much as possible. Give people every way…50+ Tips to Brand Yourself Online
Once you’ve designed your personal brand and have a personal brand name, use this handy list of suggestions to implement your personal branding strategy.
General purpose Show your expertise as much as possible. Publicize your brand-related successes and achievements. Make yourself easy to contact for thoughts and questions via email, Twitter, Skype, internet messaging, etc.…