The Importance of Content in Internet Success
I have always been blessed to have people around me that continue to push me into new ideas and new areas of conversation. I was having a conversation recently with a friend of mine and we landed on the topic of content. When it comes to content and Internet success my friend developed an equation …
How to Build Your Brand Through Blog Comments
Believe it or not, blog comments are an excellent way to build relationships with key people in your field (find them on AllTop and Technorati), create positive touchpoints for your personal brand, and demonstrate your ability to synthesize information, provide insight and draw …
Stadium Naming Rights, Without Spending a Penny
Nance Rosen, your name, Verizon, Twitter and Jenny Craig: all brand names with something in common. We all are – or can be – marquee names on stadiums that draw hundreds of thousands – even millions – of fans now and for decades into the future. It’s true, it’s inexpensive and it’s easy.
How would …
From Function to Feeling in Personal Branding
There can be major emphasis placed on the importance of function when relating to personal branding. “Send me your resume,” the manager will say, “I want to know more about your experience.” Function can be defined as your ability to accomplish a task. This could also be called your “technical” skills.
I wanted to shift …
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 …
Break Out of the Social Media Prison
This is a direct response to Carlos Miceli’s post on Owl Sparks: Prison, Fear, and Personal Branding
You know that feeling you have when you first meet someone? It’s that feeling that you have to put your best foot forward so that you can make the best first impression. We have this feeling at networking …
Personal Branding: Your Content DOES NOT MATTER
Do you know how good it feels like the first time your blog gets a thousand visitors in a day? Neither do I…I’m just kidding.
The reality is that there is a very important lesson that you must learn if you want what you write to be read. It’s very simple – yet SO important:…
Digital First Impressions Part II
My post last week on digital first impressions created some good debate and awesome comments! I wanted to dive into one of the points that was brought up, offer a few more insights and add some focus to an evolving trend in personal branding.
From Barry:
Nice ideas about digital first impressions. However, I think …
Oh no!… Not another “How to be a great blogger” blog post :)
The internet has provided a platform that allows anyone to call themselves an “expert.” Because of this, every blog post is teaching you how to be more productive, how to build a better company, or how to make more money. There is now so much content on the internet that I can’t quickly differentiate quality …
Creating an Online Presence to Develop Your Brand
As an online journalist and news junkie, there are multiple platforms that I use in gathering news and digesting the plethora of information out there. Whether it is to keep up on my areas of interests (tech, social media, business models in journalism) or areas of news that I simply enjoy being informed about (local …