Bringing Your Brand To Life Through Your Visual Identity Online
March 1, 2008
For some time I’ve been wanting to do a major overhaul of my visual identity online.
So this year I am planning to develop a number of my personal website and business blog sites and try to bring them back to the core of my personal brand.
I would always recommend that you start with looking at the corporate identity of your business and work from there, but since my personal brand is so intertwined with the corporate identity of my business and the fact that most people come to know me through “Biz Growth News”, I made a decision to start with a redesign of this site.
Read morePodcast: Talking About Twitter
February 28, 2008
Have you succumbed to the Twitter bug yet?
Well over at “The Podcast Sisters” the focus of the show this week was about how Anna and I are using Twitter the microblogging platform as an online networking tool and how our networks on Twitter can help us achieve our goals.
You can listen to this weeks episode about online video or download it here.
And you can follow me on Twitter here.
Twitter Podcast Resources
Read moreHow To Embed Documents In Your Blog With iPaper
February 27, 2008
If you are looking for ways to embed documents into your website or business blog, then you might be interested in the solution offered by Scribd - iPaper.
This tool allows you to take Word, Powerpoint and even PDF’s and upload them to your website - in fact there are a host of formats you can upload
I uploaded as an example the details of the forthcoming Association for Coaching in Ireland Masterclass which I had created in Word to see how easy the tool was to use. Check it out below.
Some of the great things about iPaper is that you can:
Read moreTips on Personal Branding from Tim Harris
February 20, 2008
Tim Ferris, author of the book “The 4-hour work week” has some great posts on his blog about personal branding. This posting titled “Tips for personal branding in the digital age:” rang bells that we thought should be brought to your attention;
Read more“Branding is no longer for Fortune 500 companies and Madison Avenue agencies with excessive budgets and inadequate tracking. Personal branding is about managing your name — even if you don’t own a business — in a world of misinformation, disinformation, and semi-permanent Google records. Going on a date? Chances are that your “blind” date has Googled your name. Going to a job interview? Ditto.”
CommandShift3
February 9, 2008
PepperjamNETWORK: Can it replace my adsense income?
January 30, 2008
Ever since Google made their adsense units less clickable, my adsense revenue has dropped by almost 60%. So I have been on the lookout for alternatives to replace the lost income.
On 15 Jan, Pepperjam launched their affiliate network, PepperjamNetwork, which promises to revolutionize the way we do affiliate marketing. I signed up yesterday and was approved within 12 hours. Basically what they offer is a mashup between traditional affiliate marketing and adsense. In the words of Pepperjam’s CEO
Read moreHow to lose your job on your own time
January 2, 2008
A recent article written by Randall Stross for The New York Times (”How to lose your job on your own time“) with in the article it states;
Read more“many companies are using the Internet to snoop on their employees. If you fail to maintain amorphous “professional” standards of conduct in your free time, you could lose your job”
