Am I your friend or your brand?
I had a chance to support a friend but chose to be true to myself and my audience. Am I a friend or am I a brand? What would you choose?
How to choose a personal branding theme when you have diverse interests
Choosing a personal branding theme is essential on your journey to become known. That can be tricky if you have diverse interests and passions. These guidelines will help you.
The Content Consistency Imperative
It’s tempting to take a break from the frenzy of content creation, but as the author learned, content consistency is key. In fact, it’s more important that genius or having that big idea.
The Power of Fried Chicken: Using Visual Brand Anchors
If you want to stand out in a noisy world, you might consider if there is an appropriate visual brand anchor to connect you to your audience.
10 Ideas driving the future of social media marketing
Mark Schaefer provides an outlook of ten big ideas that will be driving the future of social media marketing in the next few years. He stresses the need to embrace the chaos!
Five golden lessons from writing 2,000 blog posts (and counting)
I’ve learned some lessons from writing more than 2,000 blog posts. Here are a few surprises that may resonate with content creators.
Why personal branding is not pathetic (or, why Sheryl Sandberg never wears a T-shirt)
Everyone has a personal brand, so why argue against it? Personal branding is part of our business world and it makes sense to be intentional about it.
Three ways people fumble their personal brand strategy
People are bumping up against three hurdles as they try to determine their personal brand strategy. Here are some ideas to overcome and break though!
Mental toughness, personal crisis, and the role of grit in your success
When I talked to many successful people, I learned that they had a certain toughness, or grit. Here’s some ideas to get you through the tough times.
Once you’re “KNOWN,” here’s how to stay that way
You’ve put your work into a personal brand but your status will dissipate if you don’t remain known in your industry. Here are five tips to sustain you!