Question: “What makes a good personal brand?”
Personal branding has emerged as a crucial component of professional development. A strong personal brand can help you find new opportunities and advance your career.
But what characteristics define a strong personal brand? We’ll look at the essential elements of creating a strong personal brand.
The essential elements of your personal brand
Authenticity: Be authentic about who you are and what you represent. Readers can spot the difference.
Clarity: Create a clear and consistent message. You likely have your favourite accounts for things that interest you, such as sports or news. They have a consistent and clear message. Do that.
Consistency: Be consistent across all platforms and interactions.
Ensure you curate the message on each platform. Each platform has a different user and mindset.
Vision: Have a clear vision and mission, and align them with your goals and values.
Versatility: A good personal brand should be versatile and adaptable, able to evolve as you grow and change.
Theme: Create a colour scheme, pick fonts, and design a logo, banner, and bio for each platform you create. Use the same theme on each platform. People will come to recognize these.
It may be worthwhile researching colours, as each colour triggers different emotions.
Value: The number one element that will ultimately decide your fate is the value of your content. Value doesn’t necessarily mean informative; value means the content resonates. Perhaps, your value is being funny. How funny you are will ultimately decide your ability to prosper. Assuming you are implementing all of the elements on the list.
This list is the philosophy behind your personal brand. There are lots of tools and strategies available to action these.
Here are some of the tools I am currently using for content creation and implementation Read Here
Book Club
Rating 6/10
Good read and motivational.
Overview
The Mountain is You by Brianna Wiest is a self-help book that teaches you how to overcome obstacles and achieve your goals. Written in a relatable and easy-to-understand way, the book offers practical advice and exercises anyone can use to improve their lives.
Wiest uses the metaphor of a mountain to describe the challenges that we face in our lives. Just as a mountain can be daunting and intimidating, our problems can seem insurmountable. However, Wiest reminds us that we have the strength and resilience to climb that mountain and reach the top.
Quotes
"You have to make the decision to be stronger than the feelings that make you weak."
"The best way to move forward is to let go of the things holding you back."
"The more we choose to push through discomfort, the more we expand our capacity for growth."
Takeaways
Our mindset plays a crucial role in our success: One of the key themes in the book is the idea that our mindset can either empower us or hold us back.
Change is possible, but it takes effort.
Our challenges are opportunities for growth.
Thoughtful Tweets
Proof of Bricks
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I deserve to be held accountable for practicing what I preach. Building Brick by Brick is about acting small daily actions which ultimately build the larger vision.
It’s a metaphor makes progress or achieving a goal gradually, one small step at a time, often through consistent and persistent effort. It emphasizes the importance of patience, perseverance, and attention to detail in achieving success.
-Wrote Newsletter
-Working on A New Content Strategy
-Created 2 Long Form YouTube Videos
-Scheduled One Week of Tweets
-Recorded One Podcast
Amazon Reselling
Here is a video I made a few years back; it’ll give you a good understanding of the concepts around Amazon reselling
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Really enjoyed this newsletter and looking forward to the next one.
The accountability is a great section - someone needs to tell us when we mess up and those same people has to tell us when we win.
Really enjoyed this newsletter and looking forward to the next one.
The accountability is a great section - someone needs to tell us when we mess up and those same people has to tell us when we win.