Category: Social Media

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If You Suck, Your Personal Brand Does, Too

Personal branding is not shameless, endless self-promotion. It’s not direct messaging me with your faux request to “take this IQ test and see if you’re smarter than me.” It’s not directing me to your website with every post. It’s not seeing yourself as the epicenter of everything to do with your industry, category, talent, idea, …

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Is Visibility More Important Than Money?

The cost of content is decreasing, but the importance of content is increasing. Now and in the future, your main differentiator will be your personal brand.  Distribution and promotional costs are being reduced in price because of social media tools that allow you to achieve both.  More and more people are preaching that “social media …

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Are You Ready for the Personal Branding Cloud?

Last week I shared with you how to sync up your Twitter and Linkedin profiles to help promote your personal brand. This week I will take a look at Linkedin and their announcement to open the Linkedin platform, what this means for your personal brand, and the evolution of the Personal Branding Cloud.

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Personal Branding Interview: Jason Fried

Today, I spoke to Jason Fried, who is the co-founder and President of 37signals.    In this interview, Jason talks about how simplicity is so important when it comes to products, his views on personal branding, web 2.0, the future, and more.

Your brand is based on simplicity and your products represent that. Why is simplicity…
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Twitter Personal Branding Q + A #4

Responses to recent tweets made recently by people about personal branding.

Sherman M. Cheng, @chengm7ny, asked: thinking of building up my personal brand…but what should I start with?

Jacob Share, @jacobshare:

The first part of a personal branding is to understand what its goals should be i.e, once you’ve understood what your personal branding goals …

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Personal Branding Interview: Josh Mullineaux

Today, I spoke to Josh Mullineaux, who is the Director of Marketing and lead business development manager at Unique Blog Designs.  Josh and his team have helped a lot of big companies and personal brands build their blog platforms, such as Yahoo!, MySpace, ShoeMoney and I.   I’ve been their client for about a year now …

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“Twitter #in” — Better Than Peanut Butter And Chocolate?

If you missed it this week, Linkedin added some new functionality this week. Now you can sync up your Linkedin and Twitter profiles to share content you chose with either network.

From the Linkedin blog:

Now you can tweet your LinkedIn status to your Twitter followers or automatically post your tweets as your LinkedIn status.…

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Personal Branding Interview: Scott McGrew

Today, I spoke to Scott McGrew, who has 20 years experience as a television reporter, 10 of them as a technology reporter. His work has been seen on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC and the BBC. He has been nominated for 10 Emmy Awards and reports on technology on the Bay Area’s NBC.  In this interview, Scott …

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How to Use RSS to Strengthen Your Personal Brand

If you were asked point blank, “What current events happened in the past two weeks in your industry?” how would you respond?

By the end of this post, you will turn that question into a serendipitous branding moment. Your answer will be timely, relevant, and put into context of the larger picture.

With competition so …