Become a Personal Branding Superstar
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 …
The Personal Branding Advantage of Visible Minorities
After a recent seminar, I was approached by a Hassidic Jew with a personal branding question.
As he was becoming more active branding himself online, he was considering the use of video. An expert in an industry that has nothing to do with Judaism or religion, he was hesitating because he wasn’t sure how people …
Personal Branding Interview: Steve Miller
Today, I spoke with Steve Miller, who is a marketing consultant, speaker and blogger. In this interview, Steve talks about what social media tools he uses for personal branding, his opinion on Twitter and it’s future, strategies Gen-Y should use to stand out and more.
Which social media tools do you rely on to build…Is Facebook Now The Top Personal Branding Tool?
Dan Schawbel did a great job of notifying everyone in advance of the major development of vanity URL’s over at Facebook. I hope most of you were able to get your name or something quite close — I was real pumped to be able to grab www.facebook.com/chadlevitt. There’s been a ton of chatter on Twitter …
The 5Ps of Marketing
Marketing, by definition, is creating a positive environment for exchange. It could be exchange of goods and services. Yet, in today’s economy, it also includes the exchange of human resources for financial resources.
You as the productViewing yourself as the product that you are marketing, might help you in wrapping your mind around the …
Why Everyone Wins When You Have a Strong Personal Brand
We spend a lot of time here on the Personal Branding Blog talking about the importance of a strong personal brand to the brand holder. You get known more widely, you get hired more quickly, you get paid more, etc. But what about the flip side? What about the benefits to the buyer, the customer, …
Your Digital DNA
Facebook made available ‘personalized’ URL’s at midnight on Friday. I got mine facebook.com/beverlymacy. Did you get yours? Another personal branding opportunity!
Your Digital DNAAs more and more people realize the value and importance of personal branding, I thought it important to take a step back and remember that your online/digital presence is absolutely necessary …
Brand Yourself as an Expert to Survive the Future
Last week, I wrote a blog post called “6 Reasons You Shouldn’t Brand Yourself as a Social Media Expert” and it quickly became the most popular post I’ve ever written on this blog (since October, 2006), with over 400 retweets and almost 60 comments. There were a few people who disagreed with my statements and …
Roger Federer and Personal Branding
In Wimbledon 2008, Roger Federer found himself down to Rafael Nadal 2 sets to none. Roger was playing for his 6th Wimbledon title in a row; Rafael was playing for his first – either way, history was going to be made.
Roger was winded, discouraged, and it seemed like a 2 sets to none lead …
Recent College Graduates Listen Up | Build Your Personal Brand
While doing my weekend reading I came across a few articles from different perspectives on the unemployment rate, job creation, and what new college graduates should do in such a tough job market. The tone was overwhelmingly negative and really didn’t leave you feeling too optimistic about the outlook for the future. Seems like the …