Building Your Personal Brand

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Blogging is a great way to share your thoughts with interested people. Some agree and some disagree, that's the beauty of it. It broadens human perspective on any subject.

I have been a believer in personal branding for some time. My last three jobs have come about because I marketed myself first. Resumes, job fairs and recruiters are going the way of the classified newspaper/Help Wanted ad.

Personal branding is important

I love blogging too check my blog out @ www.genxor.com :)

Is she the same Marketleverage rebacca ?

I think branding is very important to any site/business. Using our site names when making posts is only a small part of it though!

Your blog/website is your brand, no different that General Motors or Citibank are brand names(well, since both of those are doing bad these days, bad examples)

but you get the point...lol

Great post... I agree, Personal branding is of the utmost importance!

These days you can't expect to hind behind pen names or screen names on forums if you want to get out there and start building relationships and trust.

Awesome stuff!

James

Hey John, are you ever comming to Australia for some speaking events? Peole here would like to hear what you have to say, thanks.

Personal branding is so important that why I comments with my website name :)

Thanks for the heads up............. and nice way to increase Twitter Followers :)

Another event I won't be able to attend :( It's so limited to people without money or young.

-Mike

Hi all John Chow dot com readers! Third Tuesday is held across Canada -- in five cities. Myself and Monica Hamburg organize the monthly events in Vancouver on a wide variety of topics based on social media and marketing.

I'm sure if you look at Meetup.com, there'll be similar events in your major metro areas, as well. And, do watch the live blogging (we almost always live blog them on one of the local blogger's sites) as there'll be some great info there too.

Thanks for highlighting this event, John! Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow!

That's an event I would like to attend. It's nice we can watch the liveblogging of it.

Personal branding is so important. It is one of the reasons I comment so much on other blogs. I want people to know who I am and to get my brand out there

I've RSVP'd and should make it depending on traffic and getting my butt down there. I can park in my cool private parkade too and walk a couple blocks. No idea why I am going but thought I try and attend a ThirdTuesday (which the event is really called) :)

y does this have to be in canada.....

I wonder if they will discuss the differences on branding a business you own, and your personal brand outside your business. Should be great either way!

Helping people like Rebecca by posting an event is nice. It does give me an idea to strengthen my internal links with posts links like those given.

just outta curiosity, are most of your readers from vancouver? you blog about a lot of vancouver events, i know thats where you're from, but do a lot of your readers show up?

very useful! glad theres a blogger to gives us the info!

This is an event I wish I could attend. I'll be watching that liveblogging of it, though. Thanks for the heads up.