Personal Branding to become well known, well paid and wanted

Oct 12

The Sweet Success Of A Juicy Personal Brand

By Lauren | Branding , Insight , Marketing

Janine Allis, Steve Baxter and Glen Richards

Ask a successful entrepreneur how important having a strong personal brand is for their business, and you’ll get a range of responses; from absolutely essential, to complete avoidance.

I had the privilege of asking three powerhouses of entrepreneurship at the Gold Coast Business Week about their approach to personal branding in business and there are some vital, and interesting lessons in their answers…

Jul 14

How to build your personal brand to rocket launch your business

By Lauren | Branding , Insight , Marketing

Moon Lander, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington D.C

There are only 12 men who have stepped foot on the moon, including of course, one of the Worlds most well known personal brands, Neil Armstrong with his small step that was a giant leap for mankind.

As we celebrate 50 years since this incredible event, it reminds me that launching your personal brand, is the same as launching a rocket into space…

Mar 04

10 Free Personal Brand Building Tools

By Lauren | Personal Branding

Building a personal brand takes time.

Fact is, it’s going to take 3 years consistent effort before your brand really takes off with constant media interviews and event managers asking you to speak.

Building a personal brand requires tenacity and dedication (along with a touch of insanity) to become a stand-out, in demand brand.

First you’re going to have to choose the #1 thing you want to become well known, well paid and wanted for to gain the clarity of purpose with a set direction, otherwise you’ll get distracted and overwhelmed.

Once you’ve done that, you will need to be really active if you want to rocket launch you, your brand and your business and you’ll need to have some useful tools to help you grow your brand and to track and measure your progress.

Here are 10 FREE Personal Branding tools to help you stand out and really get your brand out there...

Jan 16

Personal Branding Boosters

By Lauren | Personal Branding

If you really want to rise above your competition and stand-out, you are going to have to rocket launch the level of trust people have in you.

People buy services based on their confidence in your ability to deliver what you say you can do, and they need evidence.

Trust is a funny thing though.

Arthur Ashe, triple Grand Slam Title winner once said, “Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time”.

But what if you don’t have time?

Dec 29

Personal Branding Legacies From Celebrities We Loved And Lost

By Lauren | Personal Branding

2016 has taken some real talent from the planet, but they have left lessons we can learn from to enhance our own personal brand.

Dec 23

3 Personal Branding Predictions For 2017

By Lauren | Personal Branding

Personal Branding Predictions

Personal branding, once a bit of a buzzword for clever marketing companies, is coming of age as entrepreneurs at all levels become aware that they need a brand to communicate all of their areas of expertise and knowledge.

In 2016 social media channels made it even easier to connect with huge growth in 'live' and instant engagement, capturing raw content and seamlessly embedding it into native advertising.

So where can your personal brand propel you to in the coming year ahead?

Nov 23

The Fastest Way To Overcome Marketing Overwhelm

By Lauren | Core Message

Marketing overwhelm...Every twelve seconds your latest tweet gets old…Your Facebook page needs a post at least four times a day…Post a blog at least once a week…Go to at least one decent networking event this month…Update your headshot on Linked-In every six months…And are you on Instagram and SnapChat yet???

OMG!!!

Marketing is exhausting!

The pressure to keep up with everything you ‘should’ be doing to promote your business is ridiculous.

But there is a simple solution...

Nov 17

Branding Trumps Clinton

By Lauren | Insight , Personal Branding

Across the Globe many have been shocked at the election of Donald Trump.

Most have asked “How did he do it?”

Amongst the many answers offered by political pundits (and I am most certainly not one of those), including the suggestion of a Worldwide backlash against ‘the system of government’ there is another factor at work which I believe created the massive groundswell behind Trump.

Of course, it’s, branding.

And Donald Trump got it right, from the very start...

Oct 05

How Many Facebook Pages Is Too Many??

By Lauren | Marketing , Social Media

How many Facebook pages should you have to build your personal brand and can you use your private page to build your profile?

I have a private facebook page, a business page and a public figure page...

Here's what I have found...

Sep 26

The Secret Science Of Networking

By Lauren | Insight , Personal Branding

Exchanging business cards at conference

Networking is one of the most popular ways to promote you and your business but if you don’t understand the science behind it, you could be wasting your time.

In fact, if you don't know how the human brain works to block out anything that even remotely sounds like a sales pitch, you might as well give up networking and stay home.

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