Why You Should Update Your Personal Avatar Now
When should you update your personal avatar?
I asked you that question and got some good responses. Combined with some extra insight, here are the reasons why now might be a good time for an avatar update.
7 avatar casesAvatar not achieving branding goals
Is your avatar following the 11 Rules for Best Personal …
Not Getting Traction with Your Personal Brand?
During one of the funniest episodes of Seinfeld’s final season, George tells Jerry he’s tired of his name and wants to find a nickname that makes people light up.
“I’m thinking T-Bone,” says George.
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“But there’s no T in your name!” exclaims Jerry.
Not surprisingly, when George …
More on Measuring Your Personal Brand
This is a follow-up post to my post last week: How to Measure Your Personal Brand. Here are some comments from you guys, and what I think about these three topics at the end.
On the meaning of numbers to measure a brand“I DO think that you can measure your personal brand from stats …
Up Your Personal Brand Game
I was reading an article today about the two tech giants Google and Microsoft. The article focused on how Microsoft may be positioning itself to make a play in the highly competitive search marketplace.
Dominance and perseveranceGoogle was referred to as having market dominance. Microsoft was referred to as having perseverance. Clearly, the article …
Personal Branding Adds New Angst to Getting Married
It’s that time of year again. Spring is in the air and the wedding invites are in the mailbox. And, I don’t know about you, but my friends are dropping like flies.
All this wedding mania has made me think though: how does getting married affect your personal brand.
Right now, there are a lot …
How To Create Your Personal Brand — Part 2
My post last Saturday explored how you can begin creating your personal brand through having a few great brainstorm sessions and then organizing your thoughts by creating a web. This week’s post will show you how to take the first steps into spreading your personal brand online through creating your own blog.
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3 Username Checking Tools to Help Promote Your Personal Brand
One way of quickly checking out the reach of a personal brand name is by scanning the Web to find where it’s used as a username. Here are username checking tools that do just that.
History of Username Checking ToolsAll of these tools are based on a free tool called Usernamecheck. It became so …
How to Measure Your Personal Brand
Today I was going to write a post about different ways to measure your personal brand. Then I realized, there is only one way that we all measure our own personal brands: through how we stack up to competitors.
Don’t believe me? See for yourself.How do you measure your personal brand on twitter? Through …
LeBron James – The Man with the Billion Dollar Personal Branding Plan
I don’t know if you had the chance to see the 60 Minutes piece on LeBron James last week? I did and I was extremely impressed with what I heard. I love sports and I love business. And while the creation of sports icons is not new, taking on the role of Chief Brand Manager …
Personal Branding Tip: Get Your Bio Ready
Over the past week, I’ve been helping put together a teleseminar series with a bunch of experts. One of the things I’ve needed from them is a 70 word bio – and let’s just say that getting it has been a lot like herding cats.
The problem isn’t with them though. I’m just as guilty. …