In the modern workplace, clearly defined hierarchies are on the wane, few of us have 'jobs for life' and many of us have portfolio careers or are self-employed. In these self-reliant times, it's essential to be remembered for the right reasons. Brand You helps you develop a powerful personal brand, both on- and offline, and shows you how to: Discover your talents, values and purpose Become more visible in your market Make the most of your networks Build your brand online using blogs, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter Attract people who want what you do in the way that you do it This new, extended edition is the definitive guide to personal branding and is packed with new material on social media, charisma and discovering your mission, as well as new exercises and examples. It is supported by valuable extra tools. To succeed in today's fast-paced environment, you have to know yourself and be able to communicate your brand to the outside world. This book will show you how. Highly recommended.- Gemma Greaves, Marketing Director, The Marketing Society. A must-read for everyone, from trainees to board members.- Sanjay Shah, Chief Financial Officer, The London Clinic.

Best-selling brand expert Marty Neumeier shows you how to make the leap from a company-driven past to the consumer-driven future. You’ll learn how to flip your brand from offering products to offering meaning, from value protection to value creation, from cost-based pricing to relationship pricing, from market segments to brand tribes, and from customer satisfaction to customer empowerment. In the 13 years since Neumeier wrote The Brand Gap, the influence of social media has proven his core theory: “A brand isn’t what you say it is – it’s what they say it is.” People are no longer consumers or market segments or tiny blips in big data. They don’t buy brands. They join brands. They want a vote in what gets produced and how it gets delivered. They’re willing to roll up their sleeves and help out – not only by promoting the brand to their friends, but by contributing content, volunteering ideas, and even selling products or services. At the center of the book is the Brand Commitment Matrix, a simple tool for organizing the six primary components of a brand. Your brand community is your tribe. How will you lead it?

An inspiring and practical guide to help corporate professionals start, run, and grow a side-hustle into a full-time personal brand business as a coach, consultant, or creator.

Discover the Secrets of Personal Branding. Hi, my name is Mark and I am going to reveal to you my proven, step-by-step method of Personal Branding. In this book, I am going to outline many of the methods and secrets that I've used to create a successful personal brand. Have you ever used Google to look yourself up? Go ahead and take a moment to enter your name into the search engine. I’ll wait. Are you back? Great! What pops up first? Do you even show up at all? What does the world have to say about you? What do your social networks have to say to anyone else who might Google you? For a lot of us the result is an uncontrolled mess of descriptors and identifiers that lacks the necessary cohesion to arrest an audience. Others of us find that we are invisible. This is just one example I use to convey to you the necessity of personal branding. It might seem daunting. It may seem downright terrifying. But I know that if you are willing to trust yourself to me, I can lead you on your journey to reinventing your personal identity and transforming it into a strong and memorable personal brand. I won't lie, building and maintaining an exemplary personal brand isn't easy. If it was, brands such as Cocoa Cola and Disney wouldn't be such an anomaly. Nor would people like Oprah and David Beckham. But I promise to make it simple. Don't believe it can be simple? Maybe you will be convinced by the countless personal testimonies successful people have been kind enough to contribute to this book. Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn… Why Personal Branding is very important? How to improve your personal brand by observing corporate brands Personal Branding success stories Understanding your targets How to become the master of your niche Personal Branding Blueprint How to define what makes your special How to tell your story How to avoid personal branding mistakes Building your personal brand in your current job for more success Online and Offline Tips, Tools and Techniques for building your personal brand Killer Social Networking Mistakes Much, much more! Order your copy today! Check Out What Others Are Saying… "Solid information presented in a professional yet entertaining manner." Grady Harp "I have never thought of associating "branding" with an individual, after I read this book I realized how important branding is to everyone. This book shows that personal branding could help in every aspect of the career, to win a job, to get your boss's approval, to seal a deal... there are case studies in this book to prove all these. The author also introduces useful offline and online tools for branding yourself. I particularly like how the online tools were introduced in detail. For non tech-savvy guys like me, having a guide to creating a blog, managing the server issues, using LinkedIn and all sorts of technical matters surely saves lots of time." Moore Ronson "Mark Cijo paints a good picture for you on how to market yourself, how to get your message out there, how to gain the accolades that you deserve." William D. Curnutt aka Pastor Dan "My favorite part of this book is when the author highlights four successful brands and shows how you can apply the techniques of their success to your own personal branding. I hadn't thought so deeply about how to an analytical approach to my self presentation online, and I loved both the information and the advice on how to track my progress." Carla Davis Tags: personal branding, you branding, self branding, self packaging, self promotion, brand you, the brand called you, personal identity, personal branding for dummies, personal success

Steve Adubato's entire professional life has been about branding--learning it, living it, making mistakes at it, teaching it at several universities, while discovering how to find the fine line between shameless self-promotion and smart, strategic branding--first for himself, then for others, and now for readers interested in an honest analysis of the good and bad in practiced branding. In You Are the Brand Adubato profiles the brands of more than thirty people and companies and skillfully analyzes and dissects their strategies.

A successful personal brand is based on authenticity. In Digital You: Real Personal Branding in the Virtual Age, branding pioneer William Arruda guides you to discover the questions that will help you uncover your brand and the methods to master delivering your unique brand value, both in person and virtually. Branding isn't about being famous, Arruda says; it's about being selectively famous.

Learn insider secrets for career success from THE personal branding strategist. Celebrity entertainers, star athletes, and corporate icons didn't accidentally wind up at the top-they branded their way there. Now you, too, can leverage the power of a personal brand, harness your potential and take charge of your career. Using strategies from the playbook of the Mad Men of Madison Avenue, advertising guru Catherine Kaputa serves as your personal branding coach in You Are A Brand! 2nd Edition: In Person and Online, How Smart People Brand Themselves for Business Success. Kaputa has expanded her 2007 award-winning classic to include new chapters on crafting your own "elevator speech" and leveraging the power of social media. This updated edition explores strategies and tactics to tap into the power of words, learn the principles of visual identity, think in terms of markets, and execute a self-brand action plan that is unique and memorable. Combining today's hottest business concepts with the realities of the modern workplace, You Are a Brand! 2nd Edition highlights the self-branding odysseys of savvy professionals and budding entrepreneurs-Catherine Kaputa will coach you to take charge of your career through the one-of-a-kind brand that is YOU.

Celebrity Branding You(r) laser focuses on one of the most profound, yet simple, business concepts that will revolutionize your business. By Celebrity Branding yourself as the expert in your fi eld, you are able to distinguish yourself and your business in such a way that you can eliminate any competition that you may have. While prospects may shop other alternatives for your product or service, in the end the only way that they can get you and your unique style and talent is to buy from you and your business. This method of growing a business not only offers the advantage of brand identity but also creates the highest level of relationship building with a personality-driven brand. This book is written in a very specifi c style to allow you as a reader to walk through the process of Celebrity Branding step-bystep, until at the end you will understand all of the elements required in order to Celebrity Brand your business. Whether you are a one-person business or a multimillion-dollar operation, Celebrity Branding You(r) offers the opportunity to create a unique brand that cannot be copied. If you have ever wondered if you could do it... If you have ever wondered if you could be the celebrity expert in your fi eld... This book gives you the opportunity and the tools to make it happen. There is simply no excuse to wait any longer, and we encourage you to take action now, buy the book and start the process of Celebrity Branding You(r)."

With globalization and the continuous evolution of technology, it is easy to get lost in the shuffle. Personal branding is no longer a buzz word, it has become essential to achieve the desired success, promotion and/or clients that you desire. You! Branding Yourself For Success will provide you with the necessary tools to be visible and occupy a space in the mind of your target audience.

Description of Book: Branding & Marketing YOU through Teams is the 2013 successor to author Donna Rachelson's best-selling Branding & Marketing YOU - first published in 2011 - which focused on personal brand development. This book, which has already garnered critical acclaim is based on interviews conducted with teams at Microsoft, Sanlam, the MTN-Qhubeka cycling team, Gift of the Givers, Demographica and the Protea Hotels Group. The fascinating 'conversations' that result, provide fresh and valuable insights into what makes teams effective and how they contribute to brand development. The book is written in a very conversational, accessible style and will be of interest to anyone in business or private life with an interest in marketing, communications, branding or reputation management. About the Author: Donna Rachelson, MBA, branding and marketing specialist, is the author of the best-selling Branding & Marketing YOU. In response to demand for how brands and teams can thrive together, she's now crafted Branding & Marketing YOU through TEAMS, to reveal the secrets of harnessing their combined power. She's held marketing director positions in blue chip organisations including Nando's, the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA), marketing positions at Standard Bank and AECI, and is currently a guest lecturer at GIBS (Gordon Institute of Business Science). Donna is CEO of the company, Branding & Marketing YOU, which helps individuals, teams or businesses 1) develop branding and marketing strategies 2) execute those strategies, and 3) market themselves in an innovative and impactful manner. She's coached people across more than twenty blue chip clients, including Microsoft, Discovery, Deloitte, Standard Bank, Nedbank, Basil Read, Anglo American, McKinsey and SABMiller. In her spare time, Donna enjoys assisting NGOs to market themselves. She loves spending time with her family on adventures, running, skiing and chocolate. Strictly in that order. Her motto, which drives her commitment, is 'Making a marketing difference every day'. Endorsements: ..". should be read, not only by marketers, but by everyone who is in business and wants to know how to make teamwork work." Chris Moerdyk - Marketing Analyst "I recommend this book to my team and other teams. It not only contains amazing stories of great teams in South Africa that we can all learn from, but it inspired me to carry on raising the bar." Monica Singer - CEO, Strate ..". explores the concept of leading teams, exposes some of the local talent we should celebrate, and offers telling insights." Jeremy Sampson - Visiting Professor, University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business and Group Executive Chairman, InterbrandSampsonDevilliers ..". a timely and insightful experience-based book..." Thebe Ikalafeng - global African advisor, author on branding and reputation leadership and founder of Brand Africa. "This is a must-read for all leaders!" Allen Swiegers - Chief Operating Officer, Deloitte Southern and East Africa "Donna Rachelson has achieved that rare thing - a business book that is useful, interesting and accessible to anyone who wants to learn more about marketing..." Mandy Collins - business writing course co-ordinator, Allaboutwriting