Category: Social Media

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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 brand

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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 …

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Personal Branding Interview: Jim Petrus

Today, I spoke to Jim Petrus, who is the chief operating officer for Trump International Hotels Management LLC, the operating arm of Trump® Hotel Collection. Recently, Jim and his team have created the Trump Hotel Collection’s social media presence, including Twitter and Facebook accounts. In this interview, Jim explains why and how they are using …

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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 …

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Write Your Way to a Profitable Personal Brand, $5 at a Time

For several years, writing and giving away ideas online has been viewed as the best way to build your personal brand. It’s a popular and powerful technique, well-documented in numerous best-selling marketing books, like David Meerman Scott’s New Rules of Marketing & PR.

But, does it make sense to limit your brand building writing activities …

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Personal Branding Interview: Judy Shapiro

Today, I spoke to Judy Shapiro, who is Chief Brand Strategist of Cloud Linux, CEO of engageSimply a social media/ direct marketing communications company and contributor to AdAge.com.  In this interview, Judy talks about how she got started in the advertising world, how the industry has changed since she started, calculating the ROI of social …