Personal Branding Weekly – Your Brand Story in 60 seconds


This past weekend the Personal Branding Blog was down
. If you tried to reach out, you only saw “Error in Establishing Database Connection”. That’s why you’re receiving the Personal Branding Weekly so late this week. We were not able to establish the connection until late in the evening of this past Monday into early in the morning on Tuesday.

Now, as I prep this post, Facebook has had a global outage – the biggest and the longest outage I’ve even seen.

Is this a coincidence? We shall see.  Twitter – are you prepared?

It’s important to have a story.  It gives people an insight into what you value and what others value about you.

Not sure how to craft one?  I’ve put all the resources and an easy “how to” together for you here:

4 Easy Steps to Crafting Your Vital Connection Story

Here’s more helpful articles and valuable insights from last week:

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Maria Elena Duron

Maria Elena Duron, is managing editor of the Personal Branding Blog, CEO (chief engagement officer) of buzz2bucks– a word of mouth marketing firm, and a professional speaker and trainer on developing social networks that work. She provides workshops, webinars, seminars and direct services that help create conversation, connection, credibility, community and commerce around your brand.  Maria Duron is founder and moderator of #brandchat- a weekly Twitter chat focused on every aspect of branding that is recognized by Mashable as one the 15 Essential Twitter Chats for Social Media Marketers.

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