Here are 7 questions to ask yourself as you audit your personal brand building efforts this week. As the first quarter of 2013 ends, and 2013′s second quarter begins, take a little time to audit your recent personal brand building activities. Audits play a crucial role in personal brand building success. They provide an opportunity [...]
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Guide to Personal Brand Building Using Kindle Publishing
Learn how to write and self-publish a book to build your personal brand with the help of Ryan Deiss’s Kindle Publishing Revolution. Writing and publishing a book remains the best strategy for building your personal brand. Writing a book establishes you as an expert in your field, instantly differentiating you from your competition and opening [...]
Heroes of Personal Branding (iii): k.d. lang
The chances of a Canadian Tibetan Buddhist, adroginous-looking vegan and out-of-the-closet lesbian making it in the inner sanctum of country music of Nashville, Tennessee seem so remote as to defy belief. It takes the unflinching faith in her abilities, the total love for music and singing and the rare amount of self-confidence found in personal [...]
Learning from Henry Ford | Productivity Tips for Personal Branding
Unlike most individuals interested in building their personal brands in today’s world, Henry Ford didn’t reinvent the wheel every time he produced a car. Rather, Henry Ford created an efficient system, or process, for building and selling cars. Once he perfected the system, he was able to refine and fine-tune the process until his established [...]
Personal Branding Heroes (ii): Dan Balan
If at the onset of the new millennium someone had predicted that a Moldovan pop band would be selling over one million records in Japan and reaching the top ten in the charts of every major European country singing in its native tongue, he would have been accused of being an interested party, insanity… or [...]
Personal Branding Heroes (i): Jean-Claude Van Damme
Many men and women have successfully built strong and durable personal brands that have catapulted them to success: but few have done so with more gritty determination and ‘fighting’ (forgive the pun) so many internal and external demons as the popular Belgium-born action movie star Jean-Claude Van Varenberg, better known by his artistic name of [...]
7 Questions to Ask Before You Start to Write
Ask yourself the following questions before you start to write your next article, blog post, or book to build your personal brand. The questions may appear to be simple, but always pausing to answer them can help you save time by focusing your attention on the key issues that determine the success of your writing [...]
Creative Briefs And Personal Branding Success
If you’re building your personal brand with the help of freelancers like copywriters, graphic designers, coaches, or web consultants, you should be preparing a creative brief for each project. Creative briefs are short documents, typically just 1 or 2 pages long. They save time, money, and frustration by identifying the crucial elements of a project. [...]
