Success Story: How Bernard Lachance’s Creative Personal Branding Got Him on Oprah
Bernard Lachance is a French-Canadian singer who had a dream and achieved it with a creative personal branding strategy.
He tells it best:
10 lessons we can learn from Bernard Lachance’s inspirational success<
Believe in yourself<
Bernard had no agent, manager or promoter when he decided to rent the Chicago Theatre for his show. …
‘Miss California’ Personal Branding Winners and Losers
I live in Los Angeles and I’m a native Californian. I love living here – I was born in Southern California, where I live now. I’ve also lived in San Francisco – what a magnificent city! As a Californian, my ears perked up when I saw out of the corner of my eye last week …
Don’t Trust Spell Check to Safeguard Your Personal Brand
If part of your personal brand strategy involves blogging, you’ve probably run into publishing regret once or twice.
I’m not talking about the publishing regret that comes from writing something snarky online and having it come back to bite you when you’re applying for your next job. I’m talking about the embarrassing typo mistakes that …
How To Transition or Expand Your Brand to Two Topics
I have a dilemma. I have a blog about Gen Y topics with nearly 1000 subscribers. I started a new blog about marketing and consumer insights this week, and I am worried about transitioning my personal brand. My second blog is far more important than my first one because it’s the platform for my company, …
How to Create Your Personal Brand | Part 4
The first three 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 diagram, showed you how to create your own self-hosted blog with some great how-to videos and then gave some tips on how to promote your …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Personal Branding Adds New Angst to Getting Married
It’s that time of year again. Spring is in the air and the wedding invites are in the mailbox. And, I don’t know about you, but my friends are dropping like flies.
All this wedding mania has made me think though: how does getting married affect your personal brand.
Right now, there are a lot …