Personal Branding Journal

This is a checklist of items you need for an all-encompassing personal branding strategy. Personal branding is the process of marketing and selling yourself as a brand in order to gain success in business. Personal branding is a continual process just as knowing yourself is a continual process. As you grow, so does your brand. The need for personal branding arises from the fact that globalization has increased competition in the workplace. As the wheat is separated from the chaff, if you are left standing, you are left standing with others of good caliber. The playing field is now that much more challenging since your competition is as good as, or better, than you. To paraphrase David Samuel, the bloke who got me into personal branding after I saw him speak a few years ago; he spoke about of why you need personal branding. His audience was a group from a large teleco... (more)

Ulitzer Names the World's 30 Most Influential Cloud Computing Bloggers

Cloud Expo on Ulitzer Ulitzer.com announced today "the World's 30 most influential Cloud bloggers," who collectively generated more than 24 million Ulitzer page views. Ulitzer's annual "most influential Cloud bloggers" list was announced at Cloud Expo 2009 West, which took place at the Santa Clara Convention Center, California. Cloud Expo 2009 West drew more delegates than all other Cloud-related events put together worldwide. "The world's 50 most influential Cloud bloggers 2010" list will be announced at the Cloud Expo 2010 East, which will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the ... (more)

PwC to Launch Personal Brand Experience For Students on February 6

NEW YORK, Jan. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- PwC US today announced it will launch a customizable personal brand experience on its campus website February 6-10. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100917/NY66894LOGO)   "Our goal is for students to walk away with a personalized toolkit and resources enabling them to discover and articulate their brand," says Holly Paul, PwC's US Recruiting Leader. "This experience will provide them with a competitive advantage from which to launch their career." Each day, students will have the opportunity to complete a customized career-buildi... (more)

Build Your Business with Authentic Personal Branding and Social Media Marketing

In today’s online, virtual, and individual age and in the rapidly evolving world of Internet authentic personal branding and social media have begun playing a leading role. To stay ahead of the game, you need to have a strong personal brand and need to know how to use innovative social media to maximum effect. This master class will guide you to become a powerful authentic personal brand and introduce you to the many opportunities offered by social media. Authentic Personal Branding is about influencing others, by creating a brand identity that associates certain perceptions and... (more)

Be the CEO of Your Life

In life, as in business, branding is more effective, powerful, and sustainable than marketing and sales and an effective way to eliminate your competitors. It's about influencing others, by creating a brand identity that associates certain perceptions and feelings with that identity. Branding isn't just for companies anymore. There is a new trend called Personal Branding. Successful Personal Branding entails managing the perceptions effectively and controlling and influencing how others perceive you and think of you. Having a strong Personal Brand seems to be a very important as... (more)