Personal Brands: Let Me Entertain You
We’re having a BBQ with about 50 people up at my house in a few weeks. It’ll be in August, which weirdly enough, is when about a full third of my family and friends are born. So it’s always a big party, featuring crowd faves like ribs, beer, and cake. What could be bad?
Nothing, …
A Cup of Coffee to Leverage
In the past few weeks, we’ve discussed defining and solidifying your personal brand by building your network, increasing peer recommendations, and publishing relevant articles online. If you have completed some or all of the Sunday exercises over your cup of coffee, then you currently have some valuable personal branding collateral.
Magnify your personal brandDon’t …
You Can’t Trademark Your Name…But You Can Buy It In Google
You have probably seen the recent viral video about the guy who bought the names of some top New York ad executives in Google to help land his dream job…and it worked! Watch the video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FRwCs99DWg.
This brings up an interesting dilemma for individuals who want to be found in Google. Unlike companies and …
Social Networking: Is Growth Destroying it’s Value for End Users?
Social networking is great for many things – it can help you get a job, make a new connection, get your foot in the door, and meet folks you would have never had the opportunity to meet physically. But, lately, I’ve started to wonder if social media networks are losing their value at the expense …
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 …