This document summarizes a personal branding workshop that took place at Nottingham Trent University on March 12, 2012. The workshop covered defining personal branding, understanding how others perceive your brand, developing a four-step personal branding process, and tools for managing your personal brand both offline and online, especially for career and job searching purposes. Key topics included creating goals and strategies for your personal brand, using social media like Twitter and LinkedIn to showcase your expertise, and monitoring your personal brand over time.
2. Personal Branding 10-1pm
1. What is personal branding?
2. What are other people saying about you?
3. Four-step personal brand planning process
4. Personal branding tools (offline and social
media)
5. Personal branding and getting a job
6. Monitoring your personal brand
7. Social media changes everything
Before: Now:
Jobs are for life, stay loyal to Loyalty is to your professional
the company brand journey working with organisations
that can support your aims
Only businesses and organisations Loyalty is to your professional
are visible online, branding is a journey working with organisations
corporate issue that can support your aims
15. Three laws of personal branding
Authenticity:
Be yourself, replicas aren’t valuable.
Define your brand before someone
else does for you.
Transparency:
It’s better to be straightforward and
honest, then lie, and have your
actions work against you.
Visibility:
If you aren’t known, you don’t exist.
“Me 2.0” Dan Shawbel
personalbrandingbook.com
16. What are other people saying about you?
Passive Listening
Monitoring what people
say
Active Listening
Starting a conversation
21. The 4 step personal brand planning
process
1. Discovery 2. Brand
what’s your story? what are your goals?
4. Management 3. Approach
Start doing (and measuring) The 4 Cs of personal marketing
31. 3 year career chart
Your big vision in
3 years
Your major
goals
in 1 year
Your major
Your major
goals
goals
in 1 year
in 1 year
Your activities and focus areas this year
32. Creating goals: Employee
John, 30
Junior HR manager 100-person
print company in London
• He wants to be promoted or get
hired at another company
• Become known as expert on
managing change
33. Creating goals: sole trader
Uzma, 35
jewellery designer, Long Eaton
• Get people to come to visit her
at craft fairs
• Attract jewellery distributors
• Visit her Etsy online shop
34. Creating goals: business owner
Malcolm, 55
Owner of an IT services company in
Nottingham.
Delivers exceptional customer support,
but as his rates are quite high he has
lost work, and shed staff, during the
recession.
He wants to promote the reliability
and quality of his services to local
businesses.
35. Creating goals: job seeker
Steffi, 22
Design graduate from
Nottingham Trent University
Seeking her first job working as a
graphic designer in the fashion
and textiles industry
38. Twitter review
Tony Hsieh, CEO Zappos @zappos
Alexia Leachman, Personal Brand Coach:
Personal: @AlexiaL
Brand: @bbrands
Nick Hewitt, Digital Community expert: @nikhewitt
41. Personal branding job hunting tips
Have a business card
Use Twitter/blog to curate expertise in
your practice
Have a website/portfolio/blog to
showcase your work
Be active in LinkedIn
42. LinkedIn tips
Have a 100% complete profile
Add all your peers, colleague
Add contacts straight after events
Update with your work/industry news
Use keywords in your profile
44. Thank you
Susi O’Neill, Digital Consultant
www.digitalconsultant.co.uk
Twitter @susioneill
LinkedIn/Facebook @susioneill
email: susi@digitalconsultant.co.uk
Tel: 07981 222799
Hinweis der Redaktion
Steve Pavilina: “I f you type an email, you’re branding yourself. If you have a conversation with a friend or family member, you’re branding yourself. How you dress, what you eat, and how you talk all contribute to your brand. Think of your brand as the summation of all the associations about you that are stored in people’s minds .” - Steve Pavlina, Personal development coach www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2008/02/personal-branding/ 1997 - Fast Company Magazine article “ The Brand Called You” by Tom Peters. Instead of relying on a company for career guidance, it’s up to you to become a ‘free agent’ to take ownership of the brand called you. The new ‘killer app’ at that time - email – would only be read and engaged with if you already had a strong, personal brand connection with that person.
Marrakesh square market, distinquish yourself in a crowded marketplace
Why you choose wine: label, design, description
All have great content, great design and unified, consistent marketing messages Marmite – become a verb to describe extremity, from XFactor to Politicians. Innocent a byword for creativity to upsell. Howies, ethical clothing, selling lifestyle values (website has Last.fm channel, blog around leisure/lifestyle)
Lose a competitive advantage – online world is a utility for marketing, communications, sales – social media becoming a utility
Press reports Ask friends, families, colleagues
EXERCISE
The secret to a successful personal brand is knowing your strengths and who your audience is and why they would want to buy from you The digital economy benefits experts and those who can own their niche – by carving out a deep niche you can eradicate the competition. Your niche can be about: - Skills (provide specialist technical or service skills) - Service delivery (a unique methodology, a different way of purchasing or billing) - Values (your style of service delivery matches the values of your customers) To succeed in your niche you need to have: Differentiation (standing out from crowd) with Marketability (providing something others want and need)
It sounds too good to be true, but by doing what you love work will be fun, you will be more motivated so you can earn more. Personal branding adds value to your job or enterprise and improves happiness - in and outside work.
Focus on what you do well – be a super-hero (or heroine) within your strengths. Outsource your weaknesses.
Enthusiasm is contagious – this makes it viral “But I’m not a salesman!” Personal branding is perfect for those who aren’t natural sales people – by planning your approach to your brand and sticking to it you are ‘soft selling’ your brand – what you do, your values and services – every day. Don’t cold call: let them come to you
Stage 2 of brand planning process Define your audience: - Who is the audience for your products & services? (location, lifestyle, demographics, buying behaviours) - What are their values? - Create User Personas – archetypes to describe the types of customers you have and what they expect from your business Know your market: Competitors – Who are you losing work to currently? What can you learn (and steal) from them? Comparators – Who are your peers? Who can you share with them and learn from them? Key influencers – Who do you aspire to be? How and when could you connect with them? (Tip: social media is a great short cut to influence your influencers)
Min 3 goals – action led
traditional Business card: add your photo & preferred method of contact (Scott Monty: “Google Me”) Virtual business card send by text message: http://contxts.com PR – do newsworthy things, hire a PR expert Using social networks and online content to support your personal brand Promote expertise: - Your blog - Guest write for bigger blogs, industry magazines, newspaper by-lines - LinkedIn Answers, Yahoo! Answers Share knowledge: - Scan horizon in your subject area (Google Alerts, Twitter Search Feeds, industry journals) - Write and re-tweet relevant stories as status updates
Have a memorable avatar: - A consistent image, your face smiling and looking up or a distinctive logo - Use your avatar consistently, or a consistent style of imagery Claim your name: - Register a name you can ‘own’ across all networks you may potentially want to later use (NameChk.com) Networks: Audit your followers – Who are they? Where do they live? What do they share? What percentage are friends/ associates/ strangers?
Tips for Twitter: Once a day: A tip based on your experience Something personal Ask a question Re-tweet an expert Converse with a contact Converse with a key influencer Once a week: Your new or archive blog article Promote followers (follow Friday) Once a month: Build or promote a list Twitter management tools: HootSuite – www.hootsuite.com manages all major social networks and scheduling updates TweetDeck – www.TweetDeck.com Desktop and iPhone App to manage all major social networks
Stage 4: Management and measuring
Business brand pros: Gives you scale to grow as a business Puts reputation against business rather than your name Cons: Need to be less personal about your status updates (e.g. ‘we’ or ‘the company’ are doing instead of ‘I’) Person to person networks are more effective than business to person Managing two networks is nearly twice as time-consuming!
Business brand pros: Gives you scale to grow as a business Puts reputation against business rather than your name Cons: Need to be less personal about your status updates (e.g. ‘we’ or ‘the company’ are doing instead of ‘I’) Person to person networks are more effective than business to person Managing two networks is nearly twice as time-consuming!
Business brand pros: Gives you scale to grow as a business Puts reputation against business rather than your name Cons: Need to be less personal about your status updates (e.g. ‘we’ or ‘the company’ are doing instead of ‘I’) Person to person networks are more effective than business to person Managing two networks is nearly twice as time-consuming!
Monitoring your digital footprint: Be aware of the ‘traces’ you leave: the internet is an evergreen cache, good and bad content takes a long time to disappear. Create new content to bury older content. Re-highlight great content (e.g. refreshing articles, linking to past achievements). Don’t say anything online you wouldn’t want repeated. Make sure you know and control the level of privacy on your networks. Capture and consistently measure your brand against your objectives: Google Alerts www.google.com/alerts – records new mentions of your name/brand Web Analytics – measures web traffic, particularly referral websites Social Mention - www.socialmention.com – your name/brand mention in social media Measure growth in users of your social networks, email list, customer database Capture and redistribute positive mentions, good PR and testimonials