Personal brand does NOT mean you are a self centered narcissist.
Personal branding is intentional use of your time, voice, channel and platforms.
Marketing 101: building a personal brand
- what does personal brand mean
- why should you care
- how to distinguish it against the company you work for
- how to do it w/ support from your boss
- how to build yours
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Personal brand does NOT mean you are a self centered narcissist.
Personal branding is intentional use of your time, voice, channel and platforms.
How you invest your time = How you will spend your life
Social media can become passive and addicting without true meaning and intention.
Don’t waste your life reading other people’s highlight reel, make your own.
Similar to building a brand strategy: know what you stand for as a person
What lights you up? (Your mission)
What value do you want to bring to the table? (Value props)
How do you deliver it? (Voice and tone)
Reminder on brand strategy 101 ⬇️ https://t.co/ZpqfEU4XEh
How to build a brand strategy from 0-1: a beginning guide
— Amanda Goetz (@AmandaMGoetz) August 10, 2020
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You can stray from these but this is the core of what you talk about.
For me, everything I do relates to 1 of 4 things:
1. Empowering and helping women
2. Building companies
3. The ups and downs of parenting
4. Marketing
Who you build your brand with will dictate how your content pillars will perform.
Thirst traps grow your audience faster (IG algorithms love a thirsty photo) but your audience won’t be engaging with the content you want to post.
Just like brands, you can’t be everything to everyone, everywhere.
Decide where you will invest your time based on the above decisions (your content, audience, form of delivery)
This seems silly for personal channels but it goes back to intentionality.
I started my twitter journey with a goal of tweeting 3-5 times a day.
these are not mutually exclusive. In fact, the best brands encourage the individual nature of the person w/ the mission of the co (hello @morningbrew @AviationGin )
The holy grail is when your company aligns with your personal mission. 🔥
Be up front / honest with your boss. An increase in SM presence can cause an eyebrow raise.
Share the why, how and “what’s in it for them” https://t.co/j1UbPJsN14
When I see an exec at a company start to tweet more, I immediately assume they are planning their next move.
— Austin Rief \u2615\ufe0f (@austin_rief) October 24, 2020
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Can't run FB ads on your own profile?
No problem.
Here's how you use a virtual browser to run ads safely on someone else's FB account.
** Thread **
In order for this to work, you need to have permission from someone to use their FB profile.
Whether that's a friend/family of yours or some random guy/gal you pay.
Because you'll need the login information to their FB profile.
Just a heads up.
A virtual browser is the best solution I've found for this.
A remote access tool like Splashtop is an alternative option but the user has to have their computer on if you want to access it.
This can create a bunch of headaches which is why I prefer to use a virtual browser.
It allows you to access the user's computer alongside them so you're able to log on whenever you like no matter if the user is using their computer or not.
I'm sure there are a bunch of options for virtual browsers but I use Multilogin ==> https://t.co/RF6s0Mto8f
99% of you will be fine with the Solo package which is around $100 a month.
Small price to pay, if this is the only option you have to run ads.
No problem.
Here's how you use a virtual browser to run ads safely on someone else's FB account.
** Thread **
In order for this to work, you need to have permission from someone to use their FB profile.
Whether that's a friend/family of yours or some random guy/gal you pay.
Because you'll need the login information to their FB profile.
Just a heads up.
A virtual browser is the best solution I've found for this.
A remote access tool like Splashtop is an alternative option but the user has to have their computer on if you want to access it.
This can create a bunch of headaches which is why I prefer to use a virtual browser.
It allows you to access the user's computer alongside them so you're able to log on whenever you like no matter if the user is using their computer or not.
I'm sure there are a bunch of options for virtual browsers but I use Multilogin ==> https://t.co/RF6s0Mto8f
99% of you will be fine with the Solo package which is around $100 a month.
Small price to pay, if this is the only option you have to run ads.
David Ogilvy is the King of Copywriting.
And in 1982 he writes a 38 lesson manifesto titled
"How to create advertising that sells"
Here are the top 7 tips that you can use today:
We Make the Wrong Promise
A promise is not a random claim or stupid slogan.
It is a benefit for the consumer.
And the product delivers that benefit.
Awards are Dumb
"Pursuing creative awards seduces creative people from pursuing sales."
Translation:
If your job is to sell, focus 100% of your energy on selling the product.
Not selling yourself to voters to win an award.
"Nobody was ever bored into buying a product."
Give it some magic and charm.
The iPhone vs. Blackberry is a modern
Hit the Headline
"On average, 5 times as many people read the headline vs. the body."
People are scared of writing clickbait titles.
But the truth is that clickbait exists only when you fail to keep your promise to the reader.
h/t @nicolascole77
And in 1982 he writes a 38 lesson manifesto titled
"How to create advertising that sells"
Here are the top 7 tips that you can use today:
We Make the Wrong Promise
A promise is not a random claim or stupid slogan.
It is a benefit for the consumer.
And the product delivers that benefit.
Awards are Dumb
"Pursuing creative awards seduces creative people from pursuing sales."
Translation:
If your job is to sell, focus 100% of your energy on selling the product.
Not selling yourself to voters to win an award.
"Nobody was ever bored into buying a product."
Give it some magic and charm.
The iPhone vs. Blackberry is a modern
Steve Jobs killed BlackBerry.
— Chris Hladczuk (@chrishlad) December 7, 2021
By creating a cult and inventing new rules
Here's the breakdown and why it matters\U0001f447
Hit the Headline
"On average, 5 times as many people read the headline vs. the body."
People are scared of writing clickbait titles.
But the truth is that clickbait exists only when you fail to keep your promise to the reader.
h/t @nicolascole77
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We know that elite institutions like the one Flier was in (partial) charge of rely on irrelevant status markers like private school education, whiteness, legacy, and ability to charm an old white guy at an interview.
Harvard's discriminatory policies are becoming increasingly well known, across the political spectrum (see, e.g., the recent lawsuit on discrimination against East Asian applications.)
It's refreshing to hear a senior administrator admits to personally opposing policies that attempt to remedy these basic flaws. These are flaws that harm his institution's ability to do cutting-edge research and to serve the public.
Harvard is being eclipsed by institutions that have different ideas about how to run a 21st Century institution. Stanford, for one; the UC system; the "public Ivys".
As a dean of a major academic institution, I could not have said this. But I will now. Requiring such statements in applications for appointments and promotions is an affront to academic freedom, and diminishes the true value of diversity, equity of inclusion by trivializing it. https://t.co/NfcI5VLODi
— Jeffrey Flier (@jflier) November 10, 2018
We know that elite institutions like the one Flier was in (partial) charge of rely on irrelevant status markers like private school education, whiteness, legacy, and ability to charm an old white guy at an interview.
Harvard's discriminatory policies are becoming increasingly well known, across the political spectrum (see, e.g., the recent lawsuit on discrimination against East Asian applications.)
It's refreshing to hear a senior administrator admits to personally opposing policies that attempt to remedy these basic flaws. These are flaws that harm his institution's ability to do cutting-edge research and to serve the public.
Harvard is being eclipsed by institutions that have different ideas about how to run a 21st Century institution. Stanford, for one; the UC system; the "public Ivys".
