Does Your Phone Matter for Your Brand?
According to a new survey, iPhone users are more sexually active than BlackBerry and Android phone users. Did you think about what phone you have? Me too. I don’t think this study is actually valid, but it got me thinking about what your phone says about you. Before the rise of smart phones I don’t …
The Truth about Acting, Marketing, and Personal Branding
I have noticed recently that marketing, acting, and personal branding are intertwined in many different ways. The two seemingly different careers (or strategies) embrace similar goals. All three are in the business of storytelling, true or false?
1. Marketing is an integrated process by which companies create interest in a product or service.
3. Personal …
3 Ways to Take Your Personal Brand Offline
I’ve shared lots of tactics with you about branding yourself online. But what about when you take relationships offline? When you meet people you may (or may not) have a relationship with online?
Although you’ll be in a different environment, a lot of the same rules still apply to offline relationships. You want to convey …
What Type of Personal Brand Do You Want to Develop?
Your personal branding strategy depends solely on your long-term goals. You have to brand yourself for the career you want, not the job you have. This means that how you brand yourself online is completely dependent on your chosen career path: employee, entrepreneur, and consultant. Each of these types of workers has to maintain their …
Personality Rocks Your Brand, But There’s A Catch
Personality really can rock your brand to the next level; it’s the public face that makes you memorable. All the most outstanding commercial brands have a distinct personality: that green gecko with the funny English accent immediately springs to mind.
The question is what came first, Geico or the gecko? The product came first; the …
Personal Brands Can Have Logos Too
Every brand has a logo. Whether it’s a symbol; text; graphic, or a mix of these, a logo is one of the most important and distinguishing elements of a brand. Some frequently re-brand with a new or updated logo like Pepsi. Others keep their logos more consistent like United Airlines or BMW. For some brands …
Advance Your Personal Brand and Let Content Persuade
Personal branders know objections and resistance are a part of the personal branding process and there are many great resources that detail strategies for handling objections. Many of these strategies focus on how to handle objections verbally in either face to face encounters or over the phone. There is much less thought leadership on how …
Branding the Cast of Jersey Shore
What started off as a guilty pleasure has now grown in to a cultural phenomenon. Whether its influence on our culture is positive or negative is still to be determined; however, I must admit that MTV and the cast of Jersey Shore have done a pretty damn good job branding not only the show, but …
3 Ways to Acquire Referrals for Your Personal Brand
There is no greater gift your personal brand can receive than a recommendation, referral, or testimonial. I’m currently reading a great book by John Jantsch called The Referral Engine: Teaching Your Business to Market Itself. Although clearly a business book and not a personal branding book, so many of its principles can be applied to …
A Cup of Coffee to The LAW of Personal Packaging
Time to grab your cup of coffee and dedicate a few minutes of your time to examining John Jenson’s Law of Personal Packaging.
John is a speaker and author who helps companies and individuals develop their message and deliver it in a way that invokes confidence and trust in their audience. Years ago, he told …