Personal Branding: Your Content DOES NOT MATTER
Do you know how good it feels like the first time your blog gets a thousand visitors in a day? Neither do I…I’m just kidding.
The reality is that there is a very important lesson that you must learn if you want what you write to be read. It’s very simple – yet SO important:…
Personal Brand Audit: What’s Your Google Score?
This is part 3 in the “Personal Brand Audit” series. Feel free to start at the beginning with Part 1: LinkedIn Audit and Part 2: Facebook Audit.
Google is today’s instant reputation checkGoogle is how we find out more about people: first dates, business partners, celebrities, clients. It’s fast, easy, and objective. That’s why …
Brand Yourself Before Someone Else Brands You
Discovering your personal brand is the first step in the personal branding process for a reason. If you don’t know what you’re brand is then how are you going to convey it to the world? Your brand is what you will be known for. When your name or image is seen or heard, what will …
My Personal Branding Journey Part 9: Maintaining Your Brand
This is the ninth of ten posts where we follow Marcos Salazar’s personal branding journey, as he uses the concepts and four-step process outlined in Me 2.0 for his own career.
About a year ago, I received an email from someone who had commented on a post of mine on a series about postcollege depression. …
3 Search Engines You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
Move over Google – the future of searching is no longer just about you! Check out these 3 new search engines below, then consider how to manage your personal brand on them in the comments section.
OneRiotOneRiot looks at what’s happening on Twitter and Digg in realtime results. They write, “Increasingly, the web’s most …
Twitter Personal Branding Q + A #1
In this article, I take a look at the latest questions people are asking on Twitter about personal branding.
Best Twitter personal branding tipMegan Miles Alba, @MeganAlba, twittered: wondering how to use Twitter to promote my personal “brand.” what’s your #1 suggestion?
Jacob Share, @jacobshare: Try to help people with your expertise as much …
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 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 …
3 Username Checking Tools to Help Promote Your Personal Brand
One way of quickly checking out the reach of a personal brand name is by scanning the Web to find where it’s used as a username. Here are username checking tools that do just that.
History of Username Checking ToolsAll of these tools are based on a free tool called Usernamecheck. It became so …
How to Measure Your Personal Brand
Today I was going to write a post about different ways to measure your personal brand. Then I realized, there is only one way that we all measure our own personal brands: through how we stack up to competitors.
Don’t believe me? See for yourself.How do you measure your personal brand on twitter? Through …