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Re: Personal Branding 101: How to Discover and Create Your Brand

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Re: Personal Branding 101: How to Discover and Create Your Brand

Antjuan.LaShawn — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:24:42 -0000

Thank you for this helpful information. My company; Empyrean Perspectives Inc. has a new client that is in need of some personal branding. If this site truly helps you'll begin to see and hear about e.d. mondainé. Hope to hear more from you.

Thank you again,
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Re: Personal Branding 101: How to Discover and Create Your Brand

jordan shoes — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:59:15 -0000

creat my own brand, that deserves a try.

Re: Personal Branding 101: How to Discover and Create Your Brand

ritaroni — Mon, 25 May 2009 00:25:49 -0000

Maybe some of that is common sense, but what an amazing article. I have a lot of work to do yet.

Re: Personal Branding 101: How to Discover and Create Your Brand

Jack Smith — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:06:41 -0000

If you are going to make sure to have some form of your domain in Step 4, then shouldn't you also use Google Apps to host your email so your email address can be first.last@yourdomain.com rather than first.last@gmail.com. Perhaps it is poor form to judge, but I always wonder about professionalism when a business owner hands me a card with @yahoo.com, @gmail.com or whatever.

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Business Card — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:01:11 -0000

I need to add my branding to all my correspondence. I was missing a number of profiles and email signatures.

Re: Personal Branding 101: How to Discover and Create Your Brand

sydney — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:34:21 -0000

what are you talking about branding what is it i do not know that this is important to me right now

Re: Personal Branding 101: How to Discover and Create Your Brand

Amadou Sy — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:10:17 -0000

Hi there, thanks for this interesting post. I also think that the step after creating its own brand, is to monitor it carefully. A simple google alert is a good starting point. After all you will see what people see when they google your brand. Maybye this is a subject for another post.
.:| Amadou |:.

Re: Personal Branding 101: How to Discover and Create Your Brand

@carlplant — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:52:19 -0000

Brand identity...check....business card....check.....blog...check....FB/Linkedin
...check....wardrobe..err...err..ahh I may have spent too long on here doing the rest!

Re: Personal Branding 101: How to Discover and Create Your Brand

Joseph Curran — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:04:03 -0000

Thanks for a great article. It puts a lot of things in perspective with regard to branding. It has given me a greater understanding of the importance of it and how it is accomplished. This is extremely helpful to someone still learning how all this social medium works... I for one thank you for laying out the steps. I noticed in one of the comments that someone questioned how you separate or maintain the difference between a professional life and the personal life with social media such as Facebook, etc. I am wondering if maybe, there really isn't a difference with social media, since it is so open and immediate. Seems we all need to be careful with both. Some here also laughed about the clothing comments in the article... Least we forget, many people still judge the book by its cover.

Re: Personal Branding 101: How to Discover and Create Your Brand

Rachel — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:40:05 -0000

Facebook does NOT allow you to prevent others from tagging you in photos. The best you can do is let them know you donâ€™t want to be tagged, and/or untag yourself from any photos you find inappropriate after youâ€™ve been tagged. Not ideal.

Re: Personal Branding 101: How to Discover and Create Your Brand

Gerald Hensel — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:17:28 -0000

Yeah...and where's the news? I mean, I expected to read about a couple of really covert ego branding strategies. Instead I got Facebook and LinkedIn. Crazyyyyy!!!

Re: Personal Branding 101: How to Discover and Create Your Brand

Designer — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:46:20 -0000

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Re: Personal Branding 101: How to Discover and Create Your Brand

Peter Knight — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 04:56:40 -0000

"Your self-impression = How people perceive you"

could you elaborate on what you exactly mean with this?

self-impression can mean many different things.

Re: Personal Branding 101: How to Discover and Create Your Brand

Daniel Anderson — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:37:02 -0000

Great Article Dan

This is a question for you (or anyone else for that matter), Do you think it is possible to use Personal Branding in the IT Industry?

I am just wondering if I should go down the personal branding line or a company branding line?

Any thoughts would be most appreciated.

Cheers

Daniel

Re: Personal Branding 101: How to Discover and Create Your Brand

Marcus — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:08:30 -0000

Never heard of Dan.. so it's hard for me to take his advice. Now, Beyonce, Oprah, Diddy, Martha Stewart, David Beckham, Tiger Woods.. those are brands I've heard of. Why not just hire a publicist?

Re: Personal Branding 101: How to Discover and Create Your Brand

Craig — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:59:09 -0000

Many steps to developing your personal brand, these seem to be specifically for getting a job. Can you also develop multiple personal brands for different areas of interests?

Re: Personal Branding 101: How to Discover and Create Your Brand

Timothy — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:58:27 -0000

LinkedIn rocks

Re: Personal Branding 101: How to Discover and Create Your Brand

Steve — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:08:08 -0000

These are all good ideas, but remember a person or business needs to have a product or service and a detailed business plan or a job seeking with a resume. Branding should be done after that is done.

Re: Personal Branding 101: How to Discover and Create Your Brand

Kara Edwards — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:55:19 -0000

Dan,

There is great advice here, thank you for sharing! I look forward to reading more from you in the future!

Kara

Re: Personal Branding 101: How to Discover and Create Your Brand

Dan Schawbel — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:21:05 -0000

@Colin @Ben - thanks for commenting on this post. It's great to see you reveal yourself through comments. I've learned a lot by you from the URL you left on your comments. Always good to see people include their last name for identification as well.

Thanks for the feedback :)

Re: Personal Branding 101: How to Discover and Create Your Brand

many — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:53:57 -0000

HAHA, thats really funny, is it another somewhat try for social engineering self expose guide here?

Re: Personal Branding 101: How to Discover and Create Your Brand

KyNam Doan — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:01:49 -0000

@Ben, @Colin, Thanks for moving the ball forward and really adding something to the conversation!

But seriously, this is a good checklist. I've been working on building a personal brand and I've missed a few of these steps myself, such as the email and online business card. I have a retaggr account, but have never given it out.

Thanks, Ky

Re: Personal Branding 101: How to Discover and Create Your Brand

ted brothers — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 04:54:33 -0000

"9. Wardrobe: Your personal style is tangible and is extremely important for standing out from the crowd. Select clothing that best represents you because it will be viewable through your pictures/avatars online, as well as when you meet people in reality." - http://danschawbel.com/Imag... . Ha ha haha hahahahahahahah ha ha.

Re: Personal Branding 101: How to Discover and Create Your Brand

Colin — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 04:51:12 -0000

Here's a tip Dan:

Poor Spelling + Poor Grammar = Decrease in Brand Value