Become a Personal Branding Superstar

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When you’ve created your personal brand – you’ve put yourself in the game – you’re on the team. You may not be in the starting lineup yet, but with some hard work and focus on evolving your personal brand, you can eventually be the superstar.

When starting out creating your personal brand and all throughout your first year, it’s important to just stay in the game – don’t give up. Just like in sports, personal branding superstars are not born overnight – they are born through a lot of hard work, learning, and action.

Look at success stories like Dan Schawbel – it took Dan two years and many sacrifices to reach his 1,000th blog subscriber. But, now, through his passion and persistence, he is widely considered to be a personal branding superstar.

Another personal branding superstar in the world of sales is Jeb Blount — author, creator and CEO of SalesGravy.com, the top sales community on the web. SalesGravy.com receives around one million page views per month – but there was a time when SalesGravy.com was new and didn’t have a following.

Personal branding stories

There are personal branding success stories all around us – just type a keyword into Google and you will find out who the personal branding superstars are for that term. Those who rank the highest on the best keywords for your niche are going to get most of the action, opportunities, and credibility – they’re the superstars.

But you can also become a superstar with some hard work, passion and sacrifice! It just takes time and many people are too impatient to let their personal brand gain traction. I encourage you to be patient, learn from your mistakes, and keep at it through the ups and downs. If you do you too can be your own personal branding superstar!

Add some juice to your personal brand

Go to Google and type in the keyword for your personal brand followed by the word blog (i.e. Sales blogs) The results are typically some bloggers who have some juice in your niche. Once you’ve identified a few you like, subscribe to them and begin commenting on the blog regularly. This will expose that blog’s author and readers to your personality and ideas – this is a great way to build a following of those interested in your niche!

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Chad Levitt

Chad Levitt is the author of the New Sales Economy blog, which focuses on how Sales 2.0 & Social Media can help you connect, create more opportunities and increase your business. Chad is also the featured Sales 2.0 blogger at Sales Gravy, the number one web portal for sales pros, the professional athletes of the business world. During the day, Chad is an inside sales associate with EMC Corp., the global leader in information infrastructure technology & solutions, in their award winning sales development program. Chad attended the University of Central Florida for his undergraduate degree and Nova Southeastern University for his MBA with a concentration in finance.

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