Laundry List | Why You Should Create Your Personal Brand

The choice to build my personal brand was one of the best I’ve made in my life. Here are just some of the ways that building your personal brand can help you get what you want.

  • Increase your chances of success for reaching your self-defined goals.
  • Shorten your timeline of how long it takes to reach your self-defined goals.
  • Can bring incredible unsolicited opportunities to advance your career.
  • Can serve as a differentiator between you and others in getting promoted at work.
  • Help you to get the job you really want in the field of your choice.
  • Show your value to your employer/future employers and earn you a higher salary.
  • Bring you out of the Internet shadows and into the light where the action is (Google search rankings).
  • Increase the rate that you meet new people inside and outside your niche.
  • Build relationships for both personal and professional gain.
  • Develop your social networking safety net ahead of time so that when you need it, you have it.
  • Will help you develop into a thought leader in your niche or tribe.
  • Get you active in social networks where people meet and form communities.
  • Help you monitor the conversations taking place about you or your niche.
  • Distinguish yourself as a leader at work.
  • Will help you learn new skills that will become increasingly necessary in the digital world we all live in.
  • Can bring an added sense of fulfillment to your life.

There are so many ways that creating your personal brand can help you, these were just some of the ones I thought of. I can’t think of one good reason to keep waiting to build your personal brand, because with each day that passes opportunities are passing you by and going to those who have built their unique brand.

What are you waiting for — go get started!

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Chad Levitt

Chad Levitt is the author of the New Sales Economy blog, which focuses on how Sales 2.0 & Social Media can help you connect, create more opportunities and increase your business. Chad is also the featured Sales 2.0 blogger at Sales Gravy, the number one web portal for sales pros, the professional athletes of the business world. During the day, Chad is an inside sales associate with EMC Corp., the global leader in information infrastructure technology & solutions, in their award winning sales development program. Chad attended the University of Central Florida for his undergraduate degree and Nova Southeastern University for his MBA with a concentration in finance.

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