10 Reasons Why A Blog Must Be Your Main Personal Branding Hub
A few weeks ago, I asked you What is the Main Hub of Your Personal Brand Online?
Real people, real blogs2 people took up the cause:
Steve Campbell of the Social Branding Blog had this to say:
“My blog is my main hub. It’s the site that all of my social profiles link to …
Brand Shift: Goldman’s Golden Gun
In May I wrote about branding lessons learned from Goldman Sachs. This company has an illusive communications strategy that is not working very well in 2010 as the ever-evolving “new consumer” is changing the way that companies interact with the public. After a very public legal dispute with the S.E.C. that has taken its toll …
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 …
30 Thoughts on the Power of Personal Branding
Keeping true to the nature of the way we consume content in bite sized pieces, here is a list of 30 thoughts on the power of personal branding, why it is important, and the affect it has on the world around you.
The content you create influences your perceived value The content you create in…5 Ways Guest Blog Posts Build Your Personal Brand
If you wanted to grow a new blog quickly, or give a boost to an existing blog, one of the best ways would be to guest post on relevant, popular blogs that are read by people who will probably want to read your blog too.
For example, Darren Rowse’s Problogger is one of the most …
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 …
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 …
How to Align Your Business Cards with Your Brand
Business cards may seem extremely outdated in today’s technology-driven world. However, they are actually an important part of your brand. Think of business cards as a portable version of you and your brand – one that you hand out to other people to remember you by.
Design mattersAn eye-catching design can say a lot …
LeBron James: The Brand That Crossed The Line
LeBron James’s choice to leave the Cleveland Cavaliers for the Miami Heat is a major personal branding catastrophe. Not just because he’s leaving the place where he grew up, but because he did it on national TV to boost his own ego, at the expense of a team he’s been on for years. ESPN took …
Do People Like Your Personal Brand?
How much people like you will have a direct impact on your career and almost everything you do, but being liked is a relative thing.
True storyAt a former company of mine, there was an engineer who was overwhelmed with work. We’ll call him Tom. This 8-year veteran of the IT department – his …