Tips for Measuring the Influence of Your Personal Brand
Measuring the influence of your personal brand is a necessary first step towards increasing the influence of your personal brand. Measurement creates a baseline against which you can track your increasing influence.
How do you measure the influence of your personal brand?
Brand measurement is more important today than ever before. There’s more competition for …
Five Email Oversights That Kill Your Brand
Sometimes, with the pressure to do a good job on the big things – close the sale, deliver the code, solve the problem – we overlook the little things along the way, and destroy the very brand we are trying to create.
I knew I had to write this blog thirty minutes ago when I …
Personal Branding Interview: Lisa Nirell
Today, I spoke to Lisa Nirell, who is the Chief Energy Officer of EnergizeGrowth®, and the author of EnergizeGrowth® NOW: The Marketing Guide to A Wealthy Company. In this interview, Lisa talks about how she came up with her brand name, goes over some issues that impact entrepreneurs when they’re businesses are expanding, and more.…
Book Excerpt: Marketing Lessons From the Grateful Dead
The following is an excerpt from David Meerman Scott and Brian Halligan’s new book called Marketing Lessons From the Grateful Dead: What Every Business Can Learn from the Most Iconic Band in History (Wiley, August 2010). They are both friends of mine and people who I admire and respect in the marketing space. David is …
A Lesson in Personal Branding from Apple
To many, Apple is more than just a company – it’s an institution. I’m not a 100% Apple product consumer, but I’ve sipped some of the Kool-Aid. I’ve always admired the company for it’s innovative thinking, and finally took some time to think about some of the elements of the company that make it so …
Personal Branding Interview: Roy S. Johnson
Today, I spoke to Roy S. Johnson, who is the VP/ Editor-in-Chief of Men’s Fitness magazine and MensFitness.com, the nation’s premier fitness publication and website for men. His latest article for LifeGoesStrong.com’s health vertical is called “Want to Succeed at Work and in Life? Get Off Your Butt!” In this interview, Roy talks about how …
Write Your Way to a Profitable Personal Brand, $5 at a Time
For several years, writing and giving away ideas online has been viewed as the best way to build your personal brand. It’s a popular and powerful technique, well-documented in numerous best-selling marketing books, like David Meerman Scott’s New Rules of Marketing & PR.
But, does it make sense to limit your brand building writing activities …
Steve Pavlina’s 5-Point Guide to Achieving Your Personal Branding Goals
This week we’ll work on more effectively achieving your goals as you build your personal brand. Helping us today is personal development guru (and a top personal role model) Steve Pavlina, who is widely recognized as one of the most successful personal development bloggers on the web, attracting over two million monthly readers to his …
Personal Brands: Do Ask. Don’t Tell.
“When is it appropriate for me to criticize my co-worker?” I got the question from a young manager in my course: the Perfect Presentation, on campus at UCLA last week.
I felt flooded by the power to disabuse an entire group of people about an entirely inappropriate – yet pervasive – kind of communication: delivering …
Working on Your Brand Delivers Cutting Edge Skills
A successful personal brand differentiates you as a dynamic, growing professional, so it evolves along with market demands (employer requirements) and your growing skills. When your skills keep current with changing market demands, your brand stays relevant and you maximize your earnings potential. From a practical POV, this demands an objective way to track relentlessly …