Looking for some Personal Branding Tips?

Personal branding tips? What is that? Is that something I have to think about just being in Network Marketing or in having a blog? Yes, yes it  is.

Many people think Personal Branding is only for large companies or celebrities, but anyone and everyone can build a Personal Brand. It’s simply how we market ourselves to the public, and any Joe Schmoe can do it.

The largest difference is that these large companies and celebrities might have a great deal of more money to advertise or do their marketing, whereas average people most likely do not, but that doesn’t have to be the case. You can still have one….

We now have a more level playing field with Social Media and all of the options at our fingertips through the Internet. It’s a frenzy of activity!

Today I want to share some Personal Branding Tips with you so you can position and BRAND yourself for success!

PERSONAL BRANDING TIPS

Personal Branding Tips #1: Specify Goals – What are your reasons? What is your plan? If you don’t have any goals set and you’re simply doing it just because you think you’ll get rick quick and/or “other people are doing it”, but have no plan, you won’t get very far. You have to invest the time and resources to achieve a goal, and better yet, write this goal down!

Along with writing down a goal, you need to find your niche or the market you are entering. Figure out a specific arena you are interested in!

Personal Branding Tips #2: Build Your Presence/Brand – Now that you’ve got a goal and niche in mind, you need to start building your BRAND and building your PRESENCE online and on paper. Have business cards for your local market and start networking. Get to know people on a personal level, not just a business level where all you do is talk about what you do. Start a blog or website where you are branding YOU, so get a domain name with your name in it. You are not branding your Network Marketing company. You build credibility and trust by giving and providing VALUE. You will start to build once you start gaining trust and building relationships with people.

Personal Branding Tips #3: Develop your skills – As I’ve mentioned before, building a brand is going to take time, it’s not overnight. These personal branding tips will help to develop your skills and knowledge, and the only way you’re going to get this is through EDUCATION and LEARNING. If you never learn anything new or improve your education, how can you expect to grow or move forward?? I have some great education tools, one called the Better Web Builder, and it’s FREE to sign up for. Really fantastic!

Personal Branding Tips #4: Get Involved – You won’t get very far in personally branding yourself if you’re not out there doing things and communicating with others. Many people think you can just start up a blog and sit there waiting for something to happen. You need to communicate with others, respond to their comments, go to their blogs and leave comments, and share information although NOT just about your company. This is called PERSONAL BRANDING for a reason with emphasis on “PERSONAL”. You need to get to know people on a personal level as well and initially so start using Social Media to your advantage too by getting a Facebook page, Twitter, a YouTube account, Linked In, etc, but use it wisely. Look into leaving comments on highly read blogs so others can see you.

Offline you’ll want to look into networking groups, but again, don’t just start talking about your company. You can give them the gist of what you do, but start asking them what they do for fun or ask about their family. People start to trust you and enjoy speaking to you if you’re interested in them “as a person” not just a lead or prospect. Ask them how you can help refer people to them and their business to start a great rapport.

Personal Branding Tips #5: Write Guest Posts – When starting out this can be tricky, but if you begin to build relationships with others (and especially highly read blogs) you can start building rapport and experience, and then ask someone if you can write a guest post for them to be put on their blog. They may not accept, but perhaps down the road they will and that’s okay. This will give them a break on writing something, and it will give you additional exposure.

By using these Personal Branding Tips I hope it has helped get some ideas into your head, and over time they will pay off and help you grow your business and personal brand!

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