Susan Boyle – Personal Branding Perfect Storm
If you haven’t seen the video of Susan Boyle, contestant on “Britian’s Got Talent”, you’ve been under a rock. 47+ million hits of her audition video have been recorded on YouTube and the numbers keep climbing. In five days, Susan Boyle has become a global brand. Eat your heart out…she’s accomplished in 5 days what …
When Passion Meets Expertise Your Brand Succeeds
The more and more I reflect upon how I’ve used social media to grow my own personal brand (as well as observe others), the more I’ve come to realize that there are two things that are required for success: passion and expertise. Passion is your excitement and enjoyment around a certain activity that interests you …
Your Brand, Work Ethic or Luck?
I know a lot of people who work hard but who haven’t made it big yet. It makes me wonder what truly breeds success: is it work ethic or is it luck?
I listen to Gary Vaynerchuk religiously (@garyvee on Twitter). He talks about hustle and how work ethic is what you need to be …
How To Create Your Personal Brand — Part 3
The first two posts in this series explored how you can begin creating your personal brand through having a few great brainstorm sessions, organizing your thoughts by creating a web, and then showed you how to create your own self-hosted blog with some great how-to videos.
This week’s post will explore how you can begin …
Personal Branding Interview: Scott Kirsner
Today, I spoke with Scott Kirsner, who is a Boston Globe journalist and has just released his third book called Friend, Fans & Followers: Building an Audience and a Creative Career in the Digital Age. In this interview, Scott examines the difference between achieving creative success in the 20th and 21st century. He also talks …
Why You Should Update Your Personal Avatar Now
When should you update your personal avatar?
I asked you that question and got some good responses. Combined with some extra insight, here are the reasons why now might be a good time for an avatar update.
7 avatar casesAvatar not achieving branding goals
Is your avatar following the 11 Rules for Best Personal …
Personal Branding Interview: Richard Laermer
Today, I spoke with Richard Laermer, who is the author of five bestselling books including his latest one called 2011: Trendspotting. In this interview, Richard spends a lot of time explaining how public relations has changed, from the early days till now and helps us prepare for the future. He also touches on the different …
Not Getting Traction with Your Personal Brand?
During one of the funniest episodes of Seinfeld’s final season, George tells Jerry he’s tired of his name and wants to find a nickname that makes people light up.
“I’m thinking T-Bone,” says George.
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“But there’s no T in your name!” exclaims Jerry.
Not surprisingly, when George …
Personal Branding Interview: Randall Jones
Today, I spoke with Randall Jones, who is the founder of Worth Magazine and author of The Richest Man In Town. In this interview, Randall talks to us about what self-made rich individuals think of personal branding, the strategies they use, how he’s leveraged his brand to interview successful individuals, brand characteristics of the rich …
More on Measuring Your Personal Brand
This is a follow-up post to my post last week: How to Measure Your Personal Brand. Here are some comments from you guys, and what I think about these three topics at the end.
On the meaning of numbers to measure a brand“I DO think that you can measure your personal brand from stats …