How to Create Your Personal Brand — Part 1
My post last Saturday, highlighted how I built my personal brand from scratch and the opportunities that followed. For today’s post, I want to focus on how you can get started building your personal brand so you can receive some awesome opportunities as well.
What’s required to begin building your personal brand?First, let me …
How to be Popular on Social Media
Have you ever read the book How to Be Popular by Meg Cabot? (Probably not, because it’s a young adult novel written for 12-14 year-old girls, who probably don’t read this blog.) I read it this weekend as research for another project I’m working on, and was surprised by how much I enjoyed the book.…
Should Personal Branding Take a Page from Celebrity Branding?
I live and work in Los Angeles, the capital of “The Star System”. Yes, it’s true – the method of creating and promoting stars in Hollywood used to be known “The Star System”. It started with the movie studios in the 1920s and 30s. Studios would select talented actors and create roles for them, complete …
It’s Not Enough to Just be a Better Mousetrap
There’s a saying by Ralph Waldo Emerson that many innovators like: “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.”
We love it because the saying implies an invention or fresh idea simply needs to be better than what’s already out there to be successful. All we need to do …
Build Your Personal Brand and Reap the Rewards
Hi everyone, my name is Chad Levitt, and I’m the newest member of the Personal Branding Blog team. My posts will run here every Saturday and I’m looking forward to hearing all of your thoughts and responding to your comments.
For my first post, I wanted to share with you my story on how I …
10 Ways to Brand Yourself with AllTop
Guy Kawasaki’s AllTop RSS feed aggregator continues to grow in popularity. Let’s take a look at how you can leverage AllTop’s popularity for your personal brand.
If you’re on social media, are you on AllTop?You should be. AllTop has pages that are dedicated to member feeds on social media such as Twitter, Squidoo, Etsy …
Think Like a Brand: CEOs in Times of Crisis
Tom Peters asked employees of large companies to “think like a CEO” as they branded themselves within the organization in the late 1990s. The idea was to contribute to the company in a way that helped you stand out, and helped you take control of your own brand and destiny within your career. The concept …
How Not to be a Walking Billboard
If you’ve been to a big city lately, there’s a good chance you’ve seen someone standing on a street corner wearing a sandwich board. Usually, they’re advertising a restaurant that is a little off the beaten path, or a sale, or even a place that sells gold… cheap!
And, if you’ve been to a networking …
Ask the Readers: When Should You Update Your Personal Avatar and Why?
Why change something that so many people have seen and associate with you in a good way?
Your avatar is one of the most recognizable aspects of your personal brand online. Building that recognition probably took weeks, months, even years of effort. The last thing you would want to do is throw all of that …
An Audacious Way to Build an Online Brand
Last week, Jamie Varon made waves in the Twitter and Gen Y communities with a career advice post about her last job and a new website to get Twitter to hire her. I caught up with her to talk about what she’s doing to build her online personal brand – and ask how she comes …