Build Your Personal Brand

• Personal Branding

  

  A brand is a promise. When you have a brand, it’s a promise that you make and are known for keeping to the person who...

  How to Create & Strengthen Your Personal Brand

• Branding yourself

  Branding yourself means developing your professional identity to align with your values. A personal brand statement ...

  How to Create & Strengthen Your Personal Brand

• Focus and Specialize in One Area

  

  It means you have to focus your brand on one area of achievement.  You can choose to specialize either in your...

  How to Create & Strengthen Your Personal Brand

• Become a Thought Leader

  ... in your field. You have to be acknowledged as one of the most knowledgeable, respected, or skilled people in your...

  How to Create & Strengthen Your Personal Brand

• Your Brand, Your Personality

  

  Your brand must be built around your personality in all its aspects, including flaws. Think about this: If you want...

  How to Create & Strengthen Your Personal Brand

• Build a Distinct Brand

  

  Once you’ve created your personal brand, you have to express it in a unique way. Maybe you will sign your name in a...

  How to Create & Strengthen Your Personal Brand

• Be Visible

  

  When you form a brand, in a way you’re getting into show business. Be out there where people see you all the time. ...

  How to Create & Strengthen Your Personal Brand

• Be Consistent

  Your behavior in the offline world must match your public brand. One of the greatest brand claims you can get is pe...

  How to Create & Strengthen Your Personal Brand

• Be Persistent

  

  Once you’ve established your personal brand, give it time to grow. Stick with your brand and ignore fads, trends, cha...

  How to Create & Strengthen Your Personal Brand

• Build Good Will to Others

  Ask yourself this:“In 3 years from now, if they’re going to do a study on me and come back with a report on the kind ...

  How to Create & Strengthen Your Personal Brand

• Do Your Research First

  Commit to a niche--but choose the one you can actually win. All the big names in your industry started out by do...

  5 Unusual Personal Branding Tips

• Weave Your Brand Into Everything You Do

  

  For example, brand the content you're creating, whether it's great data (charts, research, infographics, visualizatio...

  5 Unusual Personal Branding Tips

• Go Big at Industry Conferences or Stay Home

  Generally, the people who attend a large industry conference will only remember the top 2 % - 5 % of sessions. The re...

  5 Unusual Personal Branding Tips

• Invest in Yourself

  That means you're going to have to pay for stuff. Consider: Hiring an editor to proofread your content. Hiring ...

  5 Unusual Personal Branding Tips

• Do something remarkable first

  Many uber-wealthy and successful people have built unique personal brands. But they also did, created, or said r...

  5 Unusual Personal Branding Tips

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  "Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand."

  How to Create an Effective Career Brand - Thrive Global

• Offer proof

  You may excel as a project manager, marketer, scientist or astronaut but would anyone know? Sharing specific example...

  How to Create an Effective Career Brand - Thrive Global

• Eliminate superlatives

  Statements like “successful,” “accomplished,” and, “dedicated,” to name a few, are empty words. Don’t take up preciou...

  How to Create an Effective Career Brand - Thrive Global

• Create content

  

  One of the best ways to establish your brand is to write or speak about what you know.  Even if you don’t have 1...

  How to Create an Effective Career Brand - Thrive Global

• Seek feedback

  You may think you know yourself, but others may see you differently. A more accurate measure of your value is t...

  How to Create an Effective Career Brand - Thrive Global

• Show your personality

  What sets you apart from the thousands of others in your field?   Your branding is more than a collection of fa...

  How to Create an Effective Career Brand - Thrive Global

• Leverage Social Media

  

  Social media is an incredibly powerful tool for personal branding.  Your up-to-date profiles can tout your...

  How to Build Your Personal Brand When You're an Introvert

• Focus on Relationships

  

  Don't pressure yourself into thinking that you need to be the center of attention or speak with a large audience. I...

  How to Build Your Personal Brand When You're an Introvert

• Expand Your Qualifications

  

  Expanding your skills and expertise is a surefire way to solidify and improve your personal brand .  Once you c...

  How to Build Your Personal Brand When You're an Introvert

• Create a Plan for Networking

  

  You're probably going to find yourself in a crowd of strangers every now and then. It can be particularly helpfu...

  How to Build Your Personal Brand When You're an Introvert

• The protagonist in your life

  

  One very good reason to mix the personal with the professional is that if you are intentionally living a life of auth...

  A united front: the importance of congruence for your personal brand - Thrive Global

• The personal and the professional

  People don’t trust faceless corporations. They trust people. And intersecting your personal and business brands give...

  A united front: the importance of congruence for your personal brand - Thrive Global