Tag: Personal Branding

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A Cup of Coffee to Your Personalized Email Campaign

At some point over the next year – whether you own a small business, run a website, sell professional services, or are looking to get hired for a gig or full time employment – people you don’t regularly communicate with will be ready to “buy.”

So—when they are ready, will you be top of mind?…

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Advance Your Personal Brand and Let Content Persuade

Personal branders know objections and resistance are a part of the personal branding process and there are many great resources that detail strategies for handling objections. Many of these strategies focus on how to handle objections verbally in either face to face encounters or over the phone. There is much less thought leadership on how …

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Which Social Networking Platform Should An Entrepreneur Brand Themself On?

As I’ve discussed in the past, to help build a brand for an entrepreneur, entrepreneurs should explore blogging, social networking, and creative cover letters and resumes. In this post, I’ll help to evaluate the various social networking platforms an entrepreneur can use to build a brand on:

Facebook: With Facebook, an entrepreneur can create a …

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3 Ways to Acquire Referrals for Your Personal Brand

There is no greater gift your personal brand can receive than a recommendation, referral, or testimonial. I’m currently reading a great book by John Jantsch called The Referral Engine: Teaching Your Business to Market Itself. Although clearly a business book and not a personal branding book, so many of its principles can be applied to …

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A Cup of Coffee to The LAW of Personal Packaging

Time to grab your cup of coffee and dedicate a few minutes of your time to examining John Jenson’s Law of Personal Packaging.

John is a speaker and author who helps companies and individuals develop their message and deliver it in a way that invokes confidence and trust in their audience.  Years ago, he told …

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More Examples of Entrepreneur Blog Posts

I have previously discussed how entrepreneurs should use a blog to build their personal brand and I have provided some examples of entrepreneur blog posts. Here are a few more examples of entrepreneur blog posts:

The Human Resources Blog:

– Offering retirement savings for a small business: This would be an article talking about how …

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The Personal Branding Email Signature Formula

How to get the most out of that often-seen personal branding space: your email signature.

Create your well-branded email signature according to this formula. Required elements are bolded, the rest are recommended when relevant:

Salutation,

Name Tagline Title(s), Organization Association Membership Phone numbers (mobile/land/fax) Website/Social media profiles Image

Where:

Salutation – using your email signoff …

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Seth Godin’s 7-Point Guide to Bootstrap Your Personal Brand

Seth Godin is perhaps one of the most widely read marketers in the world, and with good reason. His long string of best-sellers have been pushing the envelope in marketing for decades.

Today we’ll extract some key lessons from his hit “The Bootstrapper’s Bible,” and apply them to your personal branding efforts.  In the simplest …

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Your Networking Etiquette Can Tank Your Brand

Building your personal brand has become an important factor in promoting yourself to hiring managers, employers, and potential clients. One facet of building your brand is networking and building your connections. Networking online or offline, following proper etiquette or netiquette can help build upon your reputation and character.

Is this really you?

As you worked …

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Win or Lose, You Choose. The Critical Skill That Builds Your Messaging Power And Everyone’s Valuation Of Your Brand

We hire the operations exec that keeps her cool under pressure; we don’t hire the guy for the C-suite marketing job, because he holds his knife and fork like a savage. We like the powerful and persuasive talker, but we offer the job to the guy who’s persuasive and listens, because he’ll gather the insights …