Brand Yourself BetterFinding and using your personal X-factor for business success
Stacey MillerSenior Social Media Manager
Our Agenda
• What is personal branding?• What isn’t personal branding?• Benefits• How to determine your personal brand• Assets needed to grow and build your
personal brand • Self-packaging• Measuring and protecting your personal
brand
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What is personal branding?
YOU as the
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“Personal branding is what people say about you when you leave the room.”
- Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder
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What Personal Branding Isn’t
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Benefits of Personal Branding
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Go-to expert
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Likeability
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Industry thought leadership
Determining Your Brand
• What are you good at? – Strengths, weaknesses?
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Determining Your Brand
• What interests you and motivates you, professionally or personally?
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Determining Your Brand
• What is your passion?
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Determining Your Brand
• What feedback do friends and colleagues provide about how you are perceived?
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Determining Your Brand
• Experience – What are the factual bases of your career?
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Determining Your Brand
• Differentiator – What unique quality makes you different or unusual?
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Assets
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What you do? +
What problem(s) you solve? +
What makes you qualified to do it?
Simplified Elevator Pitch
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Be presentBe consistent
Answer questionsEngage
Follow BackInclude keywordsComplete profile
Rules for Social
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Content Assets
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Suggestion: Colors as Branding
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Facebook Groups
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Linkedin Groups
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Visual Identifiers
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No more kittie profile pics.
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…and definitely none of this.
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Plan of Attack
• Organize
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Plan of Attack
• Organize• Build
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Plan of Attack
• Organize• Build• Measure
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Measuring Your Personal Brand
• Monitor, listen, document– Your name, industry keywords,
hashtags, groups on social and search
– Track conversation using tagged URLs, look at analytics
– Run your own themed campaigns– Market yourself!
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Plan of Attack
• Organize• Build• Measure• Reassess
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