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

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?

Advice for creating a brand for you and your business.

A great product is not enough. You cannot sell or promote anything without an original and distinctive brand. But how do you create a good name, a memorable logo and a recognizable category so that everyone understands what you are selling? In The Only Book You Will Ever Need on Branding you'll find out everything you need to know - fast. Using quirky illustrations to make its point you'll discover how to fast forward the success of your brand in a couple of hours. You'll Grasp the key concepts of branding, learn how to improve your existing brand and find out what other start-up books don't tell you

The author explains why the most successful brands--whether products, services, or organizations--create a culture of belief, in which the consumer develops a powerful emotional attachment to the brand as the best of its kind.

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.