I'm the web strategist in Astanford-Online Branding Founder of Insego Insego. I love what I do, although sometimes I like to forget all of it and just read a good book.
Branding is managing the thoughts and feelings people have about you. You do that by:
1. Keeping things simple: One simple idea that is clear and consistent in delivering superior service is enough.You can't be everything to everyone. Care to be unique.
2. Making it happen. Be someone who constantly gets things done.
3. Being confident. Always. Confidence plays a massive part in the success.
Your brand is the perception people have about you. It’s what they think about you. We can’t control other people thoughts. But we can influence them. How you present yourself in real life and online influence people opinion about you as a brand.
Your brand comes from within yourself. First you need to know how you want to be perceived, it is a first step in creating a brand called You. Remember what Brian Tracy says?
You Become What You Think About Most of the Time.
Ps. I talked with Kevin yesterday about the personal branding, this converasion was my inspiration to write about it here. Thanks for the great talk, Kevin.
From toothpaste to travel, there’s one thing that influences purchase decisions more than any other source: word of mouth. And while we talk a lot about the usual stuff, our friends, family and careers, we talk a surprising amount about products (and services). This infographic done with WOMMA, looks at how much we talk.
Insego's contest for bloggers to start
Expats have a lot in common, one thing being that they value the personal expat experiences. So we would like to encourage expat bloggers to share the blog with Insego members.
If you are a blogger, please share the knowledge you have about topics you feel would be helpful to other expats.
In addition, sharing your expat blog on Insego will help draw more traffic to your blog, and the feedback you receive from like-minded readers could also be of a benefit to you.
To help you kick-start your expat blog as an addition to Insego, we would like to introduce to you a contest for all of our bloggers. For those who score in the top 3 each month, which is determined by how often a new blog post on Insego receives views and comments during one month, these 3 winners will be awarded a prize. Blog posts must be posted on or after the 1st of every month to Insego in order to be in the contest. Winners will be announced on Insego at the end of every month and awarded as follows:
1st place -
€50 VVV gift certificate or Amazon.com gift certificate2nd place -
€25 VVV gift certificate Amazon.com gift certificate
3rd place -
€15 VVV gift certificate Amazon.com gift certificateYou can check how your blog is performing on the leaderboard page here: http://insego.com/leaderboards
This contest starts 10.10.11 and ends 30.03.12
About Gift certificates from the VVV:
They can be used at participating stores, restaurants and cinemas, including Praxis, De Bijenkorf and Free Record Shop. For more information about the VVV gift certificates, visit http://www.vvvcadeaubon.nl/
If you have questions about this contest please contact Kate Maholo-Janssen here or at insegonetwork@gmail.com
September 24, 2011Which news aggregator is right for me?
My favorite is Zite, but I love Pulse and Flipboard too.
