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Can Your Personal Brand Co-Exist with Your Company’s Brand?

July 29, 2011 by Drew McLellan with 179 views

How to lead with your personal strengths without overshadowing team members or branding. [read more]

Re-Evaluating Your Strengths and Goals in Eleven Steps

October 30, 2009 by elizabethhannan with 273 views

I strongly believe there is a sense of flow to personal branding, life and your business. Like tides, you can guide the water into channels but you can't control it. Your business has a flow. Your sales profit and loss are the most obvious indicators of how you affect your businesses flow. Access the situation.The best way to view... [read more]

Personal Brands: Leveling Our Own Internal Playing Field

October 8, 2009 by Zane Safrit with 261 views

Social media is lauded as the ultimate playing field leveler for brands, big or small. The playing field leveled is the playing field of honesty and integrity. It is a big story, an interesting story. But honesty and integrity are personal attributes. What’s more interesting is social media's role leveling our internal playing field of... [read more]

What Value Do You Provide?

October 1, 2009 by Connie Benson with 265 views

Peter Kim’s post today reminded me of something that I think about every day: my brand, my company’s brand and how they’re interwoven. As a community manager it is your job to uplift the brand. Do you have the right to uplift your own brand? Peter framed his post around concern that people are building their personal brands in social... [read more]

Celebritize Yourself for Success

September 18, 2009 by Bud Bilanich with 189 views

Competence is one of the keys to career and life success that I discuss in several of my books: Straight Talk for Success; Your Success GPS; and 42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Professional Success. If you want to succeed you need to develop four basic, but important competencies: (1) creating positive personal impact; (2) becoming a... [read more]

The shift from corporate brands to personal brands

September 11, 2009 by Ross Dawson with 277 views

Was just catching up on Ray Wang and Jeremiah Owyang joining Charlene Li's Altimeter group from Altimeter. Jeremiah is quoted in the New York Times: Mr. Owyang said that his story holds lessons for other companies. “I think this is an interesting trend that many companies are going through — personal brands are here to stay, alongside... [read more]

Tips for creating a smoking personal brand

August 22, 2009 by Pamela Slim with 313 views

A few days ago, I was lucky enough to participate in the Social Media Arizona conference, a day-long event for corporate employees and entrepreneurs who wanted to learn how to use social media effectively in their business. My presentation was called How to amp up the personal in your brand. I uploaded it to Slideshare and added... [read more]

Success Tips for Using Social Media

August 21, 2009 by Bud Bilanich with 186 views

Competence is one of the keys to career and life success that I discuss in several of my books: Straight Talk for Success; Your Success GPS; and 42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Professional Success. If you want to succeed you need to develop four basic, but important competencies: 1) creating positive personal impact; 2) becoming a... [read more]

Branding Yourself for Success

August 16, 2009 by Bud Bilanich with 180 views

I’d like to thank everyone who sent me birthday greetings yesterday. I appreciate you taking the time to do so. And by doing so, you set yourself apart as interpersonally competent people. You have my deepest thanks.  And, I still have one more copy of 42 rules to Jumpstart Your Professional Success available. If you want it, be... [read more]

How the Social Web is Redefining Community and Brand Legitimacy

August 12, 2009 by Eric Tsai with 287 views

Recently I gave a presentation on social media in which I mentioned that one of reasons social media is gaining great momentum is that it fosters the creation of community. Naturally, we all have the desire to be part of a community, to become an insider on something that we’re interested in. I gave the example of how two fans who loved... [read more]

3 Ways to Capitalize on the Destruction of Traditional Media and Embrace Social Media

June 23, 2009 by Eric Tsai with 223 views

If you’re part of the social media movement, you’re witnessing the annihilation of traditional media. From newspapers to cable TV, everything is converging onto the internet resulting in a more accessible, cost-effective and integrated media. Let’s look at some statistics courtesy of Silicon Alley Insider: Newspaper - “Print ad sales... [read more]

A Brief Guide to Personal Branding using Social Media

June 20, 2009 by HasanShirazi with 238 views

Becoming a thought leader in an industry requires expert level knowledge and vision, accompanied with the ability to communicate and align with relevant people. Social media provides that platform and power to reach out to people online and create a powerful and long lasting personal brand. Personal branding is no different than product... [read more]

7 Keys to Creating Social Media Strategy for Your Brand

June 15, 2009 by Eric Tsai with 140 views

In the past few weeks I’ve experienced a decent amount of spam from social networking sites ranging from people marketing their books, selling “make money online” information, to promoting their personal brand.  It’s indicative of the fact that individuals and businesses are viewing the space seriously as it takes on the mainstream... [read more]

Get Back to Work Faster

June 11, 2009 by Ardath Albee with 104 views

My great friend, Jill Konrath, has created a new project to help people Get Back to Work Faster. She saw the impact this economy was having on friends, family and colleagues and took a big step up to the plate to develop a job creation book. But she didn't stop there. She's created a free expert webinar series this summer to help you... [read more]

Six Links Every Entrepreneur Can Appreciate

April 21, 2009 by Brett Duncan with 122 views

Enjoy some great marketing, direct sales and marketing links from the past week. Mantras vs. Mission Statements? How About a Passion Statement: Travis from Dahle Communication makes a plea to toss the ever-corporate, lifeless mission statement and replace it with a passion statement. I like this idea. What’s your passion statement?... [read more]

Personal Brand or Online Reputation

April 6, 2009 by Debra Murphy with 390 views

Whatever you call it, you still need to manage it! There’s a lot of conversation about the term personal brand. My favorite personal brand is Bono (no surprise here), but Tom Brady, Madonna, J. Lo, Manny Ramirez, Britney Spears and many other celebritites all have personal brands - some good and some not so good at times. As small... [read more]

Personal Brand and Sponsorship: Test Against the 4 C’s

March 13, 2009 by Michele Goetz with 170 views

Blog sponsorship is a tricky thing for those that have built a livelihood around personal brand. Forrester sees social media sponsorship as the future. There has also been much talk about Chris Brogan and his sponsorship of Kmart.The other thing that got me thinking on this futher is a post from Annie Petite. She asked this... [read more]

Visual CV and Your On Line Presence

July 22, 2008 by Bud Bilanich with 74 views

Successful people create positive personal impact.  You create positive personal impact by building and nurturing your personal brand, dressing for success and knowing and following the basic rules of etiquette. You can use the internet to build and nurture your personal brand.  Last week I did a blog post in which I... [read more]

Personal Brand, Transparency & Authenticity

April 30, 2008 by Debra Murphy with 127 views

Bookmark & Share © Add This   Favorites   Del.icio.us   Digg   Google   MySpace   Facebook   Reddit   Live   Furl   Yahoo MyWeb   StumbleUpon   More... In the workshop I gave last week: Personal Branding: Promote Your Expertise using Social Media, we... [read more]

Integrity Is Not A Sometimes Thing

April 15, 2008 by Bud Bilanich with 109 views

Today is Tuesday, so this post is on positive personal impact. Recently, I’ve been posting about the importance of integrity as a cornerstone of your personal brand.  Over the weekend, we all (at least those of us who are interested in golf) got to see a young man who personified integrity. Michael Thompson is a senior at The... [read more]

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