Personal Branding

The term Personal Branding was first coined in 1997, by author and management guru Tom Peters; on the cover story for Fast Company magazine. In the article “The Brand Called you”, Peters correctly identified that “the digital age will overwhelm us” and” with the shift to a service economy and increased mobility enabled by digital connections, no one would be putting in several decades at the same company, the way previous generations had”. With job security at an all time low we must now more than ever promote ourselves as a brand, and prove why our brand is worth more than other’s brand. intuit.com suggests “by the year 2020, 40 percent of the workforce will consist on freelancers and independent contractors”.

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To get back to the point, it’s important to think of branding as the DNA of your organization, and consider what people will say about you when you aren’t in the room. This is why branding also trickles its way down to the small things like how you present yourself at events, how you talk to people, and how you conduct business away from the

It is no longer reserved for media or political celebrities. Personal branding is becoming one of the essential aspects of your life. Whether you are seeking a job or giving one, personal branding has become the key element that either your potential employer or the employee will want to know about you. Whether you are aware of it or not, you have your personal branding. To make it worse, if you are not deliberately building yours, the world out there is busy branding you. It is, therefore, paramount that you take your time in branding yourself for a successful career and a profession. The following list of books will assist you in raising the value of the most valuable brand in the world, Your Brand! "The Psychology of Persuasion" by Robert B. Cialdini

When consumers hear the word personal branding, they will automatically associated personal branding with corporate branding (Gail (2010), When a company has established a good reputation and have endurance longevity, customers will keep that company on their mind and not concern with a particular product.  For

After reading Chapter 11 I have learned two things in my endeavor to create a brand for myself. One is: I have already made a deep brand with the employers, classmates, co-workers and friends I know now and second: My brand seems to be more casual than professional in any setting. I have noticed in my past, particularly at GameStop, I seemed to treat everyone with the same mannerisms and dialect regardless of superiority or association. To me, treating people the same and giving respect where it was earned was a big part of my identity. For example: whenever my District Manager would visit the store or call on the phone my first words were usually “What’s up, Jesse?” in a casual and friendly banter. While he enjoyed my carefree and positive

To be completely honest, the only social media I currently use is Facebook. I hadn't felt the need to use any additional social media prior to my return to college. However, I recently created an account on Linkedin. I picked Linkedin after doing some research regarding social media networks. I was looking for a site that was more of a professional social network as I already use Facebook as a social network. I was looking for something that I could use for "professional branding purposes", as a first impression for professionals to highlight my experience and background. I wanted to use it for networking purposes to organize professional contacts. My understanding is there is also an endorsement component which I'd like to look further

One of Zahra’s primary concerns should be to ameliorate the damage of McInnes’ actions on the integrity of the David Jones brand in the public eye. This is a critical organisational behaviour issue due to the correlation between projected brand image and firm cultural identity (Gioia et al. 2000). David Jones employees, of which 79.5% are female (David Jones Limited 2010) may feel alienated from organisation’s identity due to

When it comes to your business persona, your brand identity must match it. It's not good enough for you to do business well. It's not even good enough for you to deliver an excellent product or service. Your personal brand, that is what other people think of you, and your business persona must match.

The term employment brand denotes the way a firm’s prospective applicants, recruits, and current staff members perceive its employer. It is the standing of an establishment and its value proposition to current and future employees. According to App, Merk and Buttgen (2012) sustainable human resource practices can be linked to an employer brand through a package of economic, psychological

Since an increasing number of people focus on brand names instead of product, brands become important elements for customers to choose products (Carroll, 2008). When customers trust the brand, the benefits for the manufactures are generated. In the first place, brands can be used by products as the tool to identify and differentiate themselves from various products. Secondly, brands are helpful for companies to build a competitive advantage (Bick, 2009). Therefore, organisations take more attention to branding.

In society today, everything has a name for it. If the product doesn’t have a well-known name, it goes by name that a well-known product that is similar goes by. Branding has made its impact on society and it’s never going to go away. In this situation, all we can do from here is analyze more and more until we fully understand its presence in society and its effects. Branding has its biggest effects on consumerism, which makes us question consumerisms power in society. Has our society become one big, replicated consumer or can a consumer or even a person still be unique and individual? Branding creates competition amongst companies throughout the world and creates a competition for the consumers. Not only, it also creates issues, creates

The word ‘brand’ is derived from the Old Norse word brander, which means to ‘burn by fire.

“Define what your brand stands for, its core values and tone of voice, and then communicate consistently in those terms” (Mainwaring, n.d.). Personal branding is the message you intend to send to others that is a reflection of you, your values, and what you stand for. Branding yourself is vital in the business world today considering it can help you with, better opportunity discovery, better networking career advancement, and better success. It can also develop and define you as a leader. From “actors, musicians, athletes and models, the famous and near famous are all competing for market position in popular culture. Like products, celebrities even rename themselves to craft a brand identity” (Solomon, Marshall, & Stuart, 2016). Regardless

In recent times, branding has played a pivotal role in some brands’ success. This has been made possible through the ability of some marketers to capture the essence and minds of people (consumers), and put the trends and characteristics into the personality of a brand. Customers have always found ways to identify themselves with certain products, and on several occasions, branding campaigns