How to Create Your Personal Brand — Part 1
My post last Saturday, highlighted how I built my personal brand from scratch and the opportunities that followed. For today’s post, I want to focus on how you can get started building your personal brand so you can receive some awesome opportunities as well.
What’s required to begin building your personal brand?First, let me …
30 Personal Branding Experts on Twitter
Below is our select list of personal branding experts to follow on Twitter.
Personal branding expert tweeters: Dan Schawbel, @danschawbel Jacob Share, @jacobshare Katie Konrath, @katiekonrath Jun Loayza, @junloayza Maria Elena Duron, @mariaduron William Arruda, @williamarruda Wendy Marx, @wendymarx Hajj Flemings, @HajjFlemings who runs @BrandCampU Lesley Everett, @LesleyEverett Ola Rynge, @Rynge Jeffrey Blake, @jeffrey_blake Trace…Strengthen Your Personal Brand by Leveraging It to Help Others
If choice overload for evening activities was a challenge living in New York City for so many years, I definitely don’t have that problem now that I’m living Florida. For reliably good entertainment, my husband and I find ourselves quite regularly at the Naples Philharmonic, five minutes from home and with a great track record …
How to be Popular on Social Media
Have you ever read the book How to Be Popular by Meg Cabot? (Probably not, because it’s a young adult novel written for 12-14 year-old girls, who probably don’t read this blog.) I read it this weekend as research for another project I’m working on, and was surprised by how much I enjoyed the book.…
It’s Not Enough to Just be a Better Mousetrap
There’s a saying by Ralph Waldo Emerson that many innovators like: “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.”
We love it because the saying implies an invention or fresh idea simply needs to be better than what’s already out there to be successful. All we need to do …
Build Your Personal Brand and Reap the Rewards
Hi everyone, my name is Chad Levitt, and I’m the newest member of the Personal Branding Blog team. My posts will run here every Saturday and I’m looking forward to hearing all of your thoughts and responding to your comments.
For my first post, I wanted to share with you my story on how I …
How to Give Your Personal Brand a Boost When It Takes a Confidence Dip
Part of promoting your personal brand effectively is to radiate a confidence that draws people in and makes them want to find out more about you. Then if there’s a fit between what you provide and what they need, hopefully they make the investment to hire you, or recommend you to someone who can.
When…It’s Time to go Against the Grain
I have a genuine ability to make a good impression at networking events. The way I do it is by going against the grain – I do the exact opposite of what everyone else is doing.
While everyone is practicing their 30-second self pitch and making sure they have enough business cards for the event, …
How Not to be a Walking Billboard
If you’ve been to a big city lately, there’s a good chance you’ve seen someone standing on a street corner wearing a sandwich board. Usually, they’re advertising a restaurant that is a little off the beaten path, or a sale, or even a place that sells gold… cheap!
And, if you’ve been to a networking …
You Don’t Need to be an Expert to Build Your Personal Brand
According to my blog archives, I have been blogging for exactly 1 year. For an entire year I have been trying to build my personal brand equity through video interviews, a video documentary, and getting publicized throughout the internet.
Looking back, there are a lot of things that I feel I could have done better. …