What is your opinion on Branding?
I'm Interested in people's feelings on how Personal Branding via social media has been going for people. Also I'm interested in your approaches to social media as well. I'm doing a lot of research and have been making hubs related to Personal Branding and your input on this "trending" topic would be most helpful as I continue to define and create videos to help people learn Personal Branding with ease but I'm only one person and though I also have a company that does this very well for people it is a market that is always changing and diversifying since new forms of creative outlets are always on the move.
Right now we currently use unique created hubs, Lead capture pages, Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, etc... the list goes on for another 4 lines. What are your thoughts on Personal Branding online? Tips? Questions? lets figure it out here
Sincerely,
Brian FanslauYes I have Suffered From Branding for many years!!
Not a lot I can do about it, but accept my fate
It's Okay though... I am ready to meet my maker - And Kick his Butt!!
Thank you for asking.Barcoding is by far easier!!
And..... It reduces the effect of Over Zealous Ego Syndrome!
u funny- pgrundyposted 14 years ago
0It bothers me. It's everything I don't like about life and the internet and corporate life. Yuck. I'm not a product, I'm a person.
I'm getting ready to drop off the charts for awhile and write a book. When I get it done I guess I'll have to make myself into a commodity. Until then I'm enjoying just being Pam.
LOL! My marketing team...er, my parents! That's good, Ryan.
I respect people's right to recreate themselves online but I don't mind being who I am. I guess we all 'tweak' our online persona, but I draw the line at creating a 'brand'.
On a more serious note, and in answer to Brian's question, I do thinking 'branding' will soon 'trend' downward. On what do I base this prediction? The death of the consumer economy, which is imminent, even if not everyone sees it on the horizon yet.
My feeling is that five years from now personal groups will be very important, and there will be more barter, less marketing. More tribal sorts of groups, almost like the trade guilds of the Middle Ages.
Someone will be along shortly to tell me I don't know crap, and I probably don't... but this is my feeling about it.
I still think that "personal branding" stands for a). not being yourself, and b). selling out.
I don't want to be successful by creating an illusion, I want to be successful by being myself.
If I started a company, I would take a marketing course and "brand" my company.... but myself? how do you seperate your real self from your faux self?
I know too many people that get onto a good thing and have forgotten where they have come from. I will always be me, that in itself is a "success".
Just my personal opinion, each to their own
- Ghost32posted 14 years ago0
- pgrundyposted 14 years ago0
- Leta Sposted 14 years ago0
- ralwusposted 14 years ago0
"Maybe it's due to my ranch upbringing, but to me Branding means the application of red hot irons to unsuspecting, living hide/skin...."
Lol that is what I told myself when I first started doing this. I thought about how hard it will be to switch this perception as I talk and learn about this.
"I still think that "personal branding" stands for a). not being yourself, and b). selling out. "
I would have to disagree and agree with what you said Ryan. Most people get the idea that they need to sell out and be someone they are not when they begin. But as Pam pointed out she just wants to be herself. This is what I believe personal branding should be. I think that when people create a "Brand" of themselves that it is more like making a consistency over their online presence.
For instance if you google my name you will find I'm connected by over 19,000 pages when I wasn't only a few months ago. I chose my own name and made it consistent over all of my online profiles and have connected them together as much as I can so everywhere I go and wherever I spend my time it is easily tracked and recorded properly. I have control over what My name is associated with by over coming any possible slander within reason by simply being "out there"
Google never forgets and when or if I need to show a possible employer my work or if they want to search me and find out who I am I've made it easy and available for them to find me and what I am all about.
This has set me apart when I have consultations or am asked whether or not I have a good reputation online because I have the proof all backed up through online data. I literally have my profile "Google-able"
A I develop as a person and learn my profile and the connections I've made continue to change and develop as well thus I keep my unique Brian-ness That is how I see personal branding and how I use it. It has helped me get jobs, as well as work. It also helps me prove my point when doing SEO that I can do what I say I can
Very useful when jobs are scarce.- Leta Sposted 14 years ago0
Ah, well, guys. Relax. I get it and see this wasn't a bad thing, at all really...
After you've heard those kinds of jargon terms a great deal, it gets a bit old/much after a while, I'd say.
And some of us here enjoy satirical word play. It's something of our 'brand,' I guess... At least that's my excuse, and I'm sticking with it. I love it that is exactly how to use your "personal brand"
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