Personal brand does NOT mean you are a self centered narcissist.
Personal branding is intentional use of your time, voice, channel and platforms.
Marketing 101: building a personal brand
- what does personal brand mean
- why should you care
- how to distinguish it against the company you work for
- how to do it w/ support from your boss
- how to build yours
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Personal brand does NOT mean you are a self centered narcissist.
Personal branding is intentional use of your time, voice, channel and platforms.
How you invest your time = How you will spend your life
Social media can become passive and addicting without true meaning and intention.
Don’t waste your life reading other people’s highlight reel, make your own.
Similar to building a brand strategy: know what you stand for as a person
What lights you up? (Your mission)
What value do you want to bring to the table? (Value props)
How do you deliver it? (Voice and tone)
Reminder on brand strategy 101 ⬇️ https://t.co/ZpqfEU4XEh
How to build a brand strategy from 0-1: a beginning guide
— Amanda Goetz (@AmandaMGoetz) August 10, 2020
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You can stray from these but this is the core of what you talk about.
For me, everything I do relates to 1 of 4 things:
1. Empowering and helping women
2. Building companies
3. The ups and downs of parenting
4. Marketing
Who you build your brand with will dictate how your content pillars will perform.
Thirst traps grow your audience faster (IG algorithms love a thirsty photo) but your audience won’t be engaging with the content you want to post.
Just like brands, you can’t be everything to everyone, everywhere.
Decide where you will invest your time based on the above decisions (your content, audience, form of delivery)
This seems silly for personal channels but it goes back to intentionality.
I started my twitter journey with a goal of tweeting 3-5 times a day.
these are not mutually exclusive. In fact, the best brands encourage the individual nature of the person w/ the mission of the co (hello @morningbrew @AviationGin )
The holy grail is when your company aligns with your personal mission. 🔥
Be up front / honest with your boss. An increase in SM presence can cause an eyebrow raise.
Share the why, how and “what’s in it for them” https://t.co/j1UbPJsN14
When I see an exec at a company start to tweet more, I immediately assume they are planning their next move.
— Austin Rief \u2615\ufe0f (@austin_rief) October 24, 2020
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Tip from Alex: Repeat Yourself
Reason: Your main benefit shouldn’t be expressed subtly. Repeat it three times. Make it known.
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Tip from Blake: Write short, snappy sentences.
Reason: People have short attention spans. And big blocks of text are super hard to read. Make it
Example: Every blog from @Backlinko
Use these 30 copywriting tips to convert readers into customers 🧵
Tip from Alex: Repeat Yourself
Reason: Your main benefit shouldn’t be expressed subtly. Repeat it three times. Make it known.
Example: Apple’s M1 Chip
Tip from Blake: Start with goals for the copy.
Reason: You need to know what you are writing, for whom, and what action it should lead to. No guesswork.
Example: My content engine at https://t.co/jYMMlbgFCw
Tip from Alex: Use Open Loops
Reason: Open loops peak a reader's interest by presenting an unsolved mystery to the reader. Our brains are hardwired to find closure. Make your product the final closure. Example: Woody Justice
Tip from Blake: Write short, snappy sentences.
Reason: People have short attention spans. And big blocks of text are super hard to read. Make it
Example: Every blog from @Backlinko
The emergence of many new hypocrisies typically heralds an emerging new cultural synthesis.
Are you disturbed that you agree with one of those viewpoints? Or perhaps that other people you respect do?
1/x
Let me offer a framework for thinking about things like this, something called an “Omega Event.”
It was first described to me by Erik Martin, one of Reddit's first community managers:
In governance, Omega Events exist due to the fact that no system of beliefs, no worldview, no set of rules, can account for everything that will ever happen.
Eventually someone (or some group) will do something that lies outside the scope of all existing rules, and you will have to make decisions again from first principles.
Sometimes the Omega Event emerges from the confluence of many unrelated factors. When it does, it is wholly different from anything you’ve encountered.
Are you disturbed that you agree with one of those viewpoints? Or perhaps that other people you respect do?
1/x
\u2014 HYPOCRISY \u2014
— emily (@emnode) January 9, 2021
\U0001f4cdFree market conservatives outraged that a private social media company can decide who has access to its service.
\U0001f4cdSo called liberals overjoyed at the prospect of powerful corporations taking control of the content and information we're allowed to see.
Let me offer a framework for thinking about things like this, something called an “Omega Event.”
It was first described to me by Erik Martin, one of Reddit's first community managers:
In governance, Omega Events exist due to the fact that no system of beliefs, no worldview, no set of rules, can account for everything that will ever happen.
Eventually someone (or some group) will do something that lies outside the scope of all existing rules, and you will have to make decisions again from first principles.
Sometimes the Omega Event emerges from the confluence of many unrelated factors. When it does, it is wholly different from anything you’ve encountered.
