We’ve had a HUGE response to our official launch and our donations to I’m Too Young For This! Cancer Foundation for every free signup. In fact, we’ve had such a heavy amount of traffic that our site is temporarily down. We’re working hard right now to get back up and running as soon as possible! We are deeply sorry for any inconvienience.

If you signed up for an account today and it’s not there later, email us at rsherman@brand-yourself.com and we will personally make sure it gets fixed.

Thanks again,

Patrick

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While the last few weeks have been unbelievably exciting for us – we finished building our new online reputation platform, successfully began our first round of funding, and sealed valuable business partnerships to work with our system – the real reason we started a business has remained the same: to make a difference. We feel grateful to finally be in a position to more actively do that.

In honor of our launch, we are partnering with i[2]y: The I’m Too Young for This! Cancer Foundation which ensures that every young adult affected by cancer is given access to the best support possible. We will be donating $0.25 for every single free user we sign up in the next two weeks.

In addition, you can sign up with the

promo code: “i2y”

to receive full premium access for an additional week.

No foundation we found better illustrates the power of young people to make a difference and build meaningful communities. They rally around a rarely spoken about topic–cancer in young adults– by empowering young people like us to spread the word.

Make a difference now by signing up for a free trial and raising the amount of money we donate to I’m Too Young For Cancer. With your support, they will continue providing hope, education and community to millions of survivors around the globe.

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I’m excited to announce that our new Online Reputation Management Platform is ready for the public. In honor of all of your support and loyal readership, we are giving away 100 full access, premium accounts. And who is our system for? Everybody! Job applicants, consultants, small business owners, entrepreneurs, actors, professional service providers, authors – anybody whose web presence matters.

Use the promo code “BrandYourself” and

After countless hours working closely with readers like you, top HR folks and personal branding experts like Dan Schawbel, we’ve created a process that enhances your reputation, rather than hurts it. We walk you through our four step process with automated tools along the way. How can it help you?

Step One: Build

In the Build section, we help you create the content you want people to associate with your name. We help you pinpoint your core strengths and build high ranking web pages and profiles that demonstrate them.

Example Tool: Google Results Organizer

Throughout the process we’ve built some cool tools. Our Google Results Organizer is a fun way to discover how people perceive you when they Google you. You identify which results are about you and which are not by clicking and dragging results into appropriate columns. Our search engine optimization tools in the next section will then help you raise relevant results up above negative or irrelevant results.

Step Two: Optimize

Creating favorable content is not enough. The optimize section empowers you to choose which content shows up at the top of Google over negative content, irrelevant content and other peoples’ results.

Step Three: Promote

Being found when people are searching for you is an excellent reactive approach. In the Promote section, we help you proactively promote your content to the right people in the right places. We help you do this via social media by serving you daily recommendations of what to do next, and who to connect with to build your brand’s network.

Step Four: Monitor

Growing your reputation is an ongoing process. In the Monitor section, we make it easy to monitor your progress along the way by tracking changes in Google results and mentions of your name across the social web.

Over the past few months we’ve literally lived at the office, building the platform you can now try for free today. We’ve built something we are proud of, and we can’t wait to share it with you – and hear what you think.

For the first ten people who comment with feedback on the system, we’ll email super-extended free trial promo codes!

So poke around and let us know what you like, and what you’d change. Meanwhile, RJ Sherman (our Chief Technology Officer) can finally step away from his triple computer monitors and get some fresh air.

Sign up for your free trial >

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For those who don’t know, we are speaking at the CEO National Conference in Chicago this weekend. We could not be more excited. The last six months have been surreal for brand-yourself and, quite frankly, ground breaking. We launched our services, expanded our community,  developed a working product, and were named one of the top 5 Entrepreneurs of the year.  Many things have changed, but our mission has remained steady. We want to help young proffesionals manage and create credible online presences that help advance their career. We can not think of a better way to celebrate than share our success, our story and our advice with the brightest, career minded college students in the country.

If you will be at the conference, some things you want to check out:

• Our presentation Leveraging social media for career advancement Saturday, 11:30-101-106 South building
• Our friends at UNDER30CEO are giving a few presentations. These guys know their stuff, you do NOT want to miss them
• Our friend Bradley Will is giving a presentation you’ll want to catch.

CEO After Party

We are also happy to announce we will be throwing a CEO after party with Under30CEO at Mcfadden’s Chicago. Everyone (of age) is welcome to attend, network, and most importantly, unwind. If you are not attending the conference, we are more than happy to have you anyways. $20 dollar open bar from 8-10, cash bar after that.

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