Personal Branding For A New Comedian
How can a comedian brand himself or herself, in order to win new fans and build a following that will get comedy club owners to book them?
I was asked that question recently by Jennifer Bianchi, a former lawyer turned comedian, who was wondering what she could do to win the attention of more fans.…
Personal Branding For Two Sides Of Your Life
How do you do personal branding for two sides of your life? What if you have two jobs in two wholly separate worlds? And what if each of those jobs could negatively affect the other — like being a hit man and a politician.
I received an email from David — who is not a …
Branding Yourself on Skype, Google Hangouts and Tango!
Video chat and calls are becoming more and more popular among people. In addition to people using these to communicate with their family and friends both near and far, brands, both personal and business ones, are now using these to communicate with their clients, customers, employers, and employees. Skype, Google Hangouts and Tango are just …
The Biggest Danger Of Personal Branding With Social Media
How much of your personal brand do you own?
If you follow the good advice provided here on The Personal Branding Blog, you spend a part of your daily routine building your personal brand on social media. But did you know that what you create on those sites can be used in ways you can’t …
Separation Of Personal And Brand
LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest and social networking sites have given you a platform for creating and managing your reputation: your personal brand.
Perhaps that’s not working for your family.
Perhaps they don’t care to read your wonky blog about the political war being waged on contraception, or don’t know why you want them to know …
Digital Fatigue And Refreshment
Just go to my website. I’ll text you. I posted it on my FB page. I tweeted it. I found it on LinkedIn. He sent me a Branchout request. It’s on my Pinterest. I saw your 4square check-in at the gym. Did you get my email?
Noooooooo.
I may have hit the wall this week. …
Twitter Personal Branding Q + A #15
Here are responses to recent tweets by people about personal branding and resumes, tweets, teeth whitening and sales.
Resumes of the new worldGarth Braithwaite, @Br8thw8t, twittered: Will resumes be a thing of the past? Will Personal Branding via Social Medium be the measure by which employers make there pre-selections?
Jacob Share, @jacobshare: Our notion …
The Day That Influence Became The New Online Currency
In the past couple of weeks, we have been witness to the furore about online influence reaching new heights. It was, for the most part, thanks to the rekindling of the public debate around online influence measuring and its effectiveness brought about by the recent release of Brian Solis’ report ‘The Rise of Digital Influence‘, …
Arouse Don’t Assault
I have a client who persists in assaulting unprepared “prospects” with sales messages on social media. Not that this “jump them” attack can’t result in someone buying something. It is just the lowest percentage approach when it comes to actually generating revenue.
Selling tactics of the pastIn the early days of selling, sneak attacks …
5 Ways to Find the Time for Personal Branding
You’re busy, I get it. You’ve got your job or school. You have a social life. You just don’t have a whole lot of time to do any of it to a great extent. You’re keeping up with Twitter and LinkedIn, and even Facebook, but you’re not able to do any real brand building. That …