5 Little-Known Factors Could Affect Your Personal Brand
Although it’s a constant uphill battle to build your brand, destroying or severely damaging it is scarily easy. In that vein, you’ll want to stay away from the following practices:
Appearing Unfocused
You might have multiple interests or passions. Think about which is the most important or most developed to focus your brand around. It …
How to Maintain Consistency Across Branding Channels
There’s no doubt that you have a lot of branding opportunity on the Internet today. With every newly released social networking or blogging site comes another way to brand yourself to this new audience.
Just like a company’s brand needs to be consistent, so does your personal brand. A problem some people may have is …
Automate Your Brand?
Is there such a thing as automating anything? Or, is human interaction necessary at every level?
I posed those questions over dinner last week to Brandon Kennington and Matt Dotson, the two thought leaders who podcast Automate My Small Business.
MATT: And you know both of us have been focused on the internet for most …
Save Your Online and Offline Brands from Yourself
Here at the PersonalBrandingBlog, we provide you with all sorts of tips for creating and maintaining your personal brand. But, we don’t cover often enough what you might have already done wrong and how to fix it.
OnlineTBYP (Think Before You Post)
Because the impact of any single mistake on the Internet is exponential, …
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 …
Social Networking: Is Growth Destroying it’s Value for End Users?
Social networking is great for many things – it can help you get a job, make a new connection, get your foot in the door, and meet folks you would have never had the opportunity to meet physically. But, lately, I’ve started to wonder if social media networks are losing their value at the expense …
Are We There Yet?
This is the mantra of younger kids and people networking – online and offline. Impatient for results, they wonder why no one’s responding, why won’t they retweet me, where’s my traffic and if I put a status update out there and no one comments on it am I being heard?
Questions like: How long does …
3 Best Free Twitter Background Makers for Your Personal Brand
How to have a personal brand-building background image on your Twitter profile that looks like it came from a professional graphic designer… almost.
Although there are many websites that let you download Twitter backgrounds, here I focus on the few sites that let you generate backgrounds with your own personal branding information.
1) TwitbacksAlexa: …
Great Personal Branding Video Tutorials
Here are three great videos to help you round out your personal brand using Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Blogging, and Email Marketing. Have a look at each and start applying the lessons learned to your personal brand today.
Twitter Search in Plain EnglishSuccessful Email Marketing – How it’s Done
Did You Know 4.0
HOW TO: Build a Strong Online Brand in 14.5 Hours per Week
A Wall Street Journal blog post by Dan Finnigan, CEO of Jobvite, last week entitled, “A Resume Is Not Enough: How to Market Yourself Online” makes a really good point in the headline alone: having a positive online presence is more important than ever.
And if you’re without a job right now, you should have …