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Perhaps one of the worst things you can do about your personal brand is to veer away from its authenticity. The second that someone senses that you are inauthentic with your brand, that is the moment that they lose interest in you. Your perception of people's eyes is important. That is why it is wrong to think that the barrage of marketing ads will mitigate an inauthentic brand. Woe to you if the...

A personal brand is both about the front end as well as the back end. The front end is critical because it is what forms the perceptions. However, that front end is just about 5% of the personal brand, using the analogy of the proverbial iceberg. In other words, if your focus is only on the front end of your brand, you are doing it wrongly. Here is why

Creating a personal brand can be a fun activity. It is also a very delicate activity. Everyone with a heartbeat does have a brand and therefore they can create one. However, with the increasing changes in society, people are becoming increasingly selfish and self-absorbed. Consequently, the creation of personal brands is riddled with so many misconceptions. One of these misconceptions is that a pe...

In moments of uncertainty, we can always revert back to our aspirations. In fact, uncertainties can help create aspirations that basically spell the opposite of what we are experiencing. The fact is that we can grow and can get the fuel to our development and growth from our aspirations. When we keep reaching out and having a picture in our minds of our dreams and desires, we are fueling our growt...

There are quite a number of misconceptions that people have in relation to personal brand building. We all know that brand building is increasingly becoming one of the most important things that individuals can do. However, the idea of having a brand is not to have a brand just for the sake of having one. Brand building has to be done correctly, otherwise, there is no point in having a brand in th...

The world has changed so much in the past several decades. It is interesting to note that one of the most important needs of a human being is to work. When the industrial age came, we thought that we all would work there. So we skilled ourselves by the multitudes. Now, we find that there are fewer traditional jobs and there is a flood of qualified people. However, there are people who are doing un...

📣 In crafting personal brands, people easily make some common mistakes that can be avoidable. It is better not to have a personal brand than to have one with glaring issues. A personal brand should passionately reach out to an audience with authenticity and should offer value and solutions primarily because you care. In other words, you are putting the audience first. If this is not the reason fo...

A personal brand done well will go a long way in creating value and distinction with your audience. It will help your targeted audience to know who you are and to know how to refer their friends and loved ones to you. A personal brand poorly done will cause the opposite effect. It is even worse than not having a brand at all. When you claim to have a brand, you are held and treated with a higher s...

The greatest mistake you can make with your personal brand is to pass on the message that you do not care about. Once that vibe goes around your audience, once they realize that you are selfish, then you are done. People normally come up with marketing gimmicks that prey on unsuspecting members of their audiences. They use the greed and fear pillars to lure them. This is the ultimate degree of sel...

The greatest casualty of upheavals and uncertainty is dreams. Even though our dreams are one of the most powerful things we possess, one of the strongest assets we have, they are also delicate. Every time our worlds are shaken, our dreams are affected. We tend to bench them and start operating in the survival mode, thinking that the dreams are auxiliary and lofty, and yet those dreams could mean h...

Nokia has been used as an example all over the place about the importance of moving with change and swimming with the currents. The truth is that we also can be exposed to the same danger that Nokia had and totally miss the opportunity that is available to us through changes that are happening. As such, our personal brand has to stay current and has to be flexible and responsive to the trends. Lis...

Momentum is a friend. A friend to everyone. Whether nature of humans. It brings in great rewards. Someone said that one ten units of effort will give you one unit of results. However, due to momentum, one unit of effort will start giving you ten units of results. This is also true with personal branding. Therefore, one big mistake that people make with their personal brand is inconsistency. Listen...

Success in anything is a result of concentration. Failure at anything comes about because of broken focus. In building a successful personal brand, one of the biggest mistakes that people make is to have a broken focus. They start something and immediately change to something else totally different from what they were passionate about a few months back. That kind of outlook will not help with buil...

You have probably heard the phrase, "all hat and no cattle"...it is a devastating phrase if it is applied to personal branding. In fact, for the most part, that phrase applies to personal branding. Of the mistakes that people make about their brands, one of the greatest of them all is what Jesus referred to as "whitewashed tombs". Having a semblance of finesse at the outside, but rotting on the in...

We can make many mistakes in life and get away with it. One of the things that we should not make a mistake about is our personal brand. Why? Because chances are that you and I might not necessarily get away with it. Perhaps the greatest thing about a brand is how well it has been crafted and built. When the audience perceives that no cost has been spared in building a brand, they get to respect i...

As a personal brand becomes increasingly important in our day and age, one of the greatest mistakes we can make with it is to lack clarity. A personal brand has to be on the cutting edge of value addition and productivity and that cannot happen for as long as we are not clear at least in the eyes of our audiences. Listen to this.

Knowledge applied is power. Clarity of just about anything is important if we are to be on the cutting edge of anything. That is why personal branding is important in personal development. There are very many mistakes that are made with personal branding. What we need to realize is that we all have brands. We all are brands, whether we are individuals or organizations. Therefore, the very first mi...

The world today has seen changes. Long gone are the days where people, individuals actually, mattered less. The world today provides opportunities for individuals to be relevant. I believe that more and more people will be engaged in life to the degree that they have a personal brand. It is no longer about academic papers for they form just but a fraction of a personal brand. It is therefore impor...

There is nothing that catalyzes growth and development like when you go head to head with someone that is much, much, much more experienced than you are. You see, if you keep playing a solo game, doing your own thing in obscurity, you will always be doing what you know and what you think is enough. Consequently, you can never reach your potential. However, when you expose yourself, especially when...

Exposure is a great thing. It introduces you to many advantages. One cannot get exposed unless they intentionally decide to pit themselves against the industry greats. Soon enough, you will learn that there is a need for professionalism. You will see the importance of honing your craft so that it can be an internationally recognized entity. If you do not pit yourself against the very best in your...

When you are doing your own craft in obscurity, there is no knowing what you are doing right or what you are doing wrong. There is no knowing if that if the best that you can ever do However, when you start doing it as you gauge yourself against other movers and shakers in your niche and industry, you start to realize that there is so much to learn from them. In essence, they form a benchmark agai...

A rubber band is an interesting tool. Perhaps in all its usefulness, no one ever used it when it was not stretched. The same thing happens with our potential in life. It is possible to have potential unutilized for long periods of time. Until a catalyst in the way of going against a titan in your niche or at least gauging yourself against them that you are now stretched to the core. This is import...

We grow in different ways. Perhaps one of the greatest catalysts of our own growth is the realization that we are not as good as we thought we were. This only comes about when we go against the greatest and the best of the best in our industry. We realize that our efforts in our own growth are not good enough. All of a sudden we learn to arm ourselves with new motivation, urgency, focus, and deter...

We can be doing our own thing in obscurity and actually see some great progress. We can improve when we race against ourselves and push ourselves beyond our own limits. However, there is totally different feedback that comes to us when we pit ourselves against a giant or a titan in our industry. All of a sudden we realize how far we need to go. We realize what we are missing. Someone said that fee...

One of our greatest psychological needs in life is growth. It is a permanent thing when we are young. We grow even when we do not want to, at least physically and mentally. It gets to a time where growth is no longer automatic, but intentional. And at times we find ourselves pushing ourselves in our own way in order that we can grow one aspect of our lives or another. Whereas that is beautiful, th...