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Personal Brand Management – When Your Personal Brand Outshines the Corporate Brand

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As the concept and importance of personal branding, social media, and an online presence becomes more commonplace, companies are becoming more interested in their employees’ personal brands. Their concerns are legitimate. Here’s why. . .

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Personal Branding Tips: Prevent Facebook ‘Like’ From Destroying Your Personal Brand

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For the sake of avoiding lots of “what-if” scenarios, let’s say that you have every single Facebook privacy setting set to “only friends.” You also took great caution as to the coworkers/managers/bosses who can see your page. Are you all set to do whatever you please on Facebook? Nope. Your Facebook profile quotations and ‘Likes’ are public for all the world to see. Subsequently, what you quote or Like on Facebook can destroy your personal brand.

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Be Heard but don’t be a Jerk: Work on Your Personal Brand – Master the Casual Conversation

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Working on your personal brand should be fun. This should be an ongoing activity, and not a chore to accomplish.

So, as you work each day on making the best impression, networking and building relationships with others, there may be a few things that slip into your conversation that you should really try to avoid.

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A New Way for Personal Branding – Use Geolocation to Build Your Personal Brand

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Geo tools present a new and exciting way for users to network, develop relationships, engage a customer base, and build a brand within a niche community or ecosystem. Building a brand reputation, recognition, or relationship takes time and touches. Customers want to do business with a brand which is recognizable and has a solid reputation built on recommendations from trusted sources like their own friends and family. And with your personal brand, geolocation and tagging tools are another new facet of the marketing and branding package that sets you apart from the rest.

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Personal Branding Tips: How Foursquare Affects Your Personal Brand

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Foursquare is one of the newer social media sites that is growing quite quickly in popularity. It allows you to “check in” wherever you are (restaurant, shopping, museum, etc). It can connect with Twitter and Facebook so you can let all your friends know where you are and maybe offer up some good tips on the great things about that place. Since Foursquare is yet another social media outlet that reveals more information about you (where you are, what time, etc.) it is most definitely a personal branding tool for those who use it – whether they want it to be or not.

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Build A Social Media Resume Profile- How You Use LinkedIn Can Impact Your Job Search

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LinkedIn is, by far, the number one social network geared strictly towards business professionals. While it is a great place to network, meet people, and find jobs, it is also your electronic resume. What users need to understand is that it is more than a business networking site. Your LinkedIn profile can go a long way towards giving you an edge in your job search. On the same note, it can also kill it if you aren’t using it correctly.

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Part 4: How I Work With My Personal Brand – How I Communicate What I Do

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Showing what I do and have done adds credibility to my skills, shows that what I do is in alignment with my values, and that my brand is to be trusted.

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Being Yourself in a “Brand Yourself” World

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Looking for and keeping a job is such an interesting concept to analyze.  There are hundreds of books and thousands of articles on how to get a job, how to get promoted, how to be a great leader and so many more.   With social media being such a huge force in our lives now, branding

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Brand Yourself – How Foolishness Can Turn Madness Into Glory

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Every year, March Madness proves that foolishness can actually be brilliant. Can you extend that principle to the rest of life? Absolutely.

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Blogging Beyond Your Personal Brand

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For me, blogging it not about making money. It’s about building relationships and growing your personal and professional brand. Because I have worked hard to build my name and brand, blogging affords me a lot of benefits.

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