Personal Branding Interview: Michael Hyatt
Today, I spoke to Michael Hyatt, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Thomas Nelson Publishers, the largest Christian publishing company in the world and the seventh largest trade book publishing company in the U.S. In this interview, Michael talks about how and when he started using social media tools, the impact blogging has had …
Personal Branding Interview: Peggy McColl
Today, I spoke to Peggy McColl, who is a New York Times Best Selling Author, speaker, mentor and an expert in the area of goal achievement. Her latest book is called Viral Explosions. In this interview, Peggy tells you how to stand out online, how to create a viral buzz to get people talking about …
Social “Me”dia Syndrome: A Deadly Epidemic
That Will Cause Your Brand Building and Business Growth to Suffer
Could you be suffering from Social “Me”dia Syndrome and not even know it? Unfortunately, this common ailment is causing millions of businesses and individual’s serious pain when it comes to their online brand building and business growth efforts.
So what is Social “Me”dia Syndrome? …
Personal Branding Interview: Barbara Findlay Schenck
Today, I Spoke to Barbara Findlay Schenck, who is a marketing strategist and small business advocate, author of Small Business Marketing for Dummies and Selling Your Business for Dummies, and co-author of Branding for Dummies and Business Plans Kit for Dummies, Second Edition. In this interview, Barbara talks about branding, the brands that have stood …
6 Questions Your One Sheets Must Answer
One sheets must answer 6 important questions if want them to build your personal brand and successfully sell your speaking services to event planners and conference organizers.
One sheets, as I described in an earlier post, are single-page author marketing materials that authors use to build their brand, promote their books, and increase consulting, coaching, …
7 Tips to Boost the Clarity of Your Personal Brand
Whether they’re right or not, people form impressions of your personal brand based on the way you write – from emails, to web profiles, to proposals to cover letters. Today we’ll go over seven tips to improve your writing skills.
Impressions form fastReaders assume that if your…
Writing is sloppy: You don’t care about…Music Branding 2.0 Event Recap
Recently, I hosted the first Music Branding 2.0 event to a sold out crowd, which included an expert panel and a live rock band. I wanted to try something different with this event and I drew a connection between music, branding, and the internet. The focus of the event was on how artists can brand …
Using Design To Extend And Safeguard Your Brand
Authors should use design to extend and safeguard their brand beyond the cover of the book they wrote to build their visibility, attract new business, and establish a personal brand.
The book cover is the starting point; it’s the most immediately obvious visible symbol of an author’s personal brand.
And, in many cases, a book …
Personal Re-Branding
Creating a personal brand is like creating a product brand, because you as a person are a product that needs to be developed, marketed and evolved over time. There are very few brands out there that have had the same marketing and communications strategy since their formation, because as brands grow and consumers evolve brands …
Perception vs Reality in Social Media
Is social media everything we really make it out to be? Is there an imbalance between perception and reality? I would venture to say yes. Before we get into the underlying argument of the two terms… let’s define them (from dictionary.com).
Perception: a single unified awareness derived from sensory processes while a stimulus is present.…