Managing Your Reputation Online
April 30, 2008
Branding Yourself With The “Guru Theme”
April 30, 2008
Blogs are a great way to make money online. However, sometimes the money is made not from direct methods like Google Adsense or affiliate marketing.
Sometimes, all you need a blog for is to grow your personal brand as a guru or an expert and the money comes in many, many other ways.
I’m releasing the theme I use for my work-at-home blog as The Guru Theme so you can use it on your blog too. I basically created space for a bigger blog header, which is necessary if you want to band yourself well.
This simple theme is perfect if: Read more
Personal brand pack
April 9, 2008
You probably already have a few accounts dotted around the Internet on social networking sites like MySpace, YouTube, Facebook etc and have reached the point where you’re thinking about building your own website, your own dotcom, somewhere to present yourself, your business, your thoughts… your BRAND.
Brand-Forge.com’s Personal Brand package is designed for people with some knowledge of how websites work (HTML, PHP, FTP, Flash etc) but are not interested in the technical jiggery-pokery behind managing your own webserver and other time-consuming and unrewarding activities. For those who have no interest in getting down and dirty with a bit of simple code customization and plugin configuration, don’t worry, Brand-Forge.com offers a fully managed service from as little as $10 (£5) per hour.
Now, for the first time you can order, at the click of a button, a complete suite of tools to help you realize your dream and begin the process of building your own online brand.
The personal brand package includes: Read more
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April 7, 2008
Personal Branding Masterclass: So What’s Your Brand?
March 8, 2008
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 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.”
