Comments on: Do You Have a Personal Brand?

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:38:03 +0000

That’s easy for celebs, they have people to do it for them and mould them into a popular persona. :-)

By: Vivienne Quek

Vivienne Quek — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:08:21 +0000

Hi Steve
In the name of personal branding, many would choose to showcase their very best and not necessarily their very real. Many knows about hard-sell and soft-sell, but many didn’t think about heart-sell.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:40:49 +0000

Hi Vivienne,

Good article. Well researched and thought-through.

THere is a good article related to personal branding from “Focus on the Family” in today’s (10 July 2008)TODAY, page 30.

It talks about becoming the real ‘you’. The one who is the same when the lights goes out, and when no one is watching. Do people see the real ‘you’ when you greet them or are they merely seeing one of the many masks that ‘you’ wear?

In the process of personal branding, it is also important to project the real ‘you’ or the ‘you’ that you hope to become. Otherwise, people will soon know that it is all a hypocritical marketing ceffort.

Just my comments :)

Cheers :)
Steve Chia

By: likopinko

likopinko — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:57:45 +0000

Hello

I love the colors you use, and the images are vivid and energetic. Great work, good site too. I’ll be in touch!

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By: Vikram Rajan

Vikram Rajan — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 03:45:24 +0000

Thanks for reading my blog post and referencing it!

~ Vikram
PersonalBrandMarketing.com

By: govokinolij

govokinolij — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:17:12 +0000

Very useful, good stuff. Good resources here. Thanks very much!

Bye

By: wansai

wansai — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:09:26 +0000

I think people may go through several different changes of their personal brand identityduring their lifetime. As people grow personally, so do their individual brand ident. I'd like to think that these differences coalesce into one single branding the further along we get in our public/professional lives. I know that for myself, my own identity has grown from rebel to problem solver, which has irritatingly stuck on me for the longest time (ensuring I get the hardest,most politically damaging projects). But more & more the words I hear people describing me would be "Diplomat-able to get people and situations to work my way without offending ppl in the process".

I'd like to very much think that personal branding is not static and unchanging. Otherwise it would be very hard for individuals to grow out of an image they are otherwise uncomfortable with.

Great article!!

By: tredinertok

tredinertok — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:59:46 +0000

Very interesting information! Thanks!

Bye

By: Vikram Rajan

Vikram Rajan — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 23:16:02 +0000

Our personal brand is a Combination of our Competency + Character + Charisma, focused by our Community.

Our brand is dependent on our Persona, the face/image we choose to display to that Community. Its our roles… we are different with our friends vs. parents vs. children vs. co-workers vs. clients, etc. Thus, we should have personal brand Role Models (both personal & professional, with achievements both qualitative & quantitative).

Our personal brand marketing is the way we can attract more qualified prospects for our practice. It should be as strategic as political campaigning… without the mud-slinging ;) Unless that’s part of your persona! (think of Rush Limbaugh or Howard Stern)

By: Matla

Matla — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:04:10 +0000

Very good concept indeed.In whatever we do, we build or destroy our brands.We should just do the right thing and build those personal brands.

By: Vivienne Quek

Vivienne Quek — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 11:00:58 +0000

Hi Laura,
This post was a result of realizing many companies put lots of efforts in developing a corporate branding, yet their top guns and frontline staff are eroding the brand unknowingly.

Hi Sarah
We are selling every day. It’s just that many people didn’t know that they are their own salesman. They still said “I don’t like selling, and I don’t want to sell.”

By: Sarah E. Wilson

Sarah E. Wilson — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:31:21 +0000

Very interesting points to ponder here.

In the ultra competitive world of voice overs, branding YOURSELF as the talent is virtually as important as the brand you are selling in an advertising campaign.

Thank you,

~Sarah