Put work first and reputation second.
If I could reboot my business and personal presences online, you would find a stark separation of church and state.
When you create a finite promise, you often have to live with it. That’s a hard commitment to live up to for any individual.
Jimi Hendrix Image by jbhthescots Music biz marketer Corey Biggs interviewed me five times for the book to help artists brand and market themselves. Based on those interviews, I have accumulated several branded experience marketing tips. While I have simply protested the personal brand movement in the past, it’s better to offer useful guidance to individuals. This is particularly true […]
Image by Alice Popkorn Only one kind of branding matters, and that’s the customer experience. I love ad agencies and individual marketers that preach the ultimate importance of visual and personal branding, respectively. They’re wasting their time. You can manufacture as much messaging as you want, but if your brand promise doesn’t meet the customer experience then your efforts will […]
Two x Two Faces by J.D. Hancock There have been a couple of recent posts acknowledging the decline of authenticity on the social web. In reality, authenticity as it was preached in the mid 2000s for all intents and purposes is a lost art. Today, we have formulaic gestures, and acts and boasts of authenticity instead of people being people. […]
Image by Vincent Teeuwen Why is it that we as an industry wants brands to become people and people to become brands? This manifests itself with a corporate brand online talking like a human being, but without identifying the people behind the communications. It seems like a disaster waiting to happen. When brands act like people — cursing, drinking, or […]
A point/counterpoint post by Geoff Livingston and Olivier Blanchard, respectively. Cross posted on The BrandBuilder Blog. Everyone in life wants to be loved on a personal basis, and received well professionally. When feelings of inadequacy arise — self esteem — it’s natural to look for solutions to improve a sense of worth. The most disturbing (and the least talked about) […]
by Beth Harte and Geoff Livingston The anti-social media guru meme received a death wish from Shel Holtz last week. As early co-authors of two top 25 posts that put some early flames to that fire, we couldn’t help but take notice. And we thought to ourselves why just stop with the anti-social media guru meme, there are so many […]
Personal-Professional Mix in Social Media with Geoff Livingston from Kivi Leroux Miller on Vimeo. Kivi Leroux Miller, author of the Nonprofit Marketing Guide, interviewed me last week on the balance between infusing personality into your online communications and personal branding. During the conversation, we talked about how several nonprofits are handling this, including the National Wildlife Federation, the Humane Society […]
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