Let’s Work on YOU Inc. | “Branding Yourself” w/ The Cool n’ Fly Guy

Sunday, January 29th, 2012 at 2:00 am

Think big and start branding yourself like the big dogs! Fortune 500 companies have this branding aspect of business down to the core. They know how important it is to have a recognizable brand to the eyes of the people. The name, the logo, it is always the same to maintain the brand. If you plan on making money like these GIANTS, then you must begin to think like them.

How Do You Start Branding Yourself?

It’s not as difficult as one would think to truly brand yourself effectively. It just takes for you to put your name and face out there consistently until it is recognized. When a person hears your name and sees your face they relate it to whatever you promote or market. This is what you want through branding yourself. You want for people to come to you when they think of whatever you are marketing.

The Best Ways of Branding Yourself Online

When it comes to branding yourself online, there are 3 things you can and absolutely should do.

Shoot Videos and post on sites such as Youtube
Write articles to post in article directory sites such as EZine Articles
Have your own self-hosted website/blog at Yourname.com

In my opinion, each of these are equally important. Depending on who you speak to you may hear differently. When you have your own self-hosted website or blog, you have a lot more control over what you post and how you post it. You own the site so you can pretty much do whatever you want. Oh yeah, and your personal site or blog is where the money is really made at! With that, I’m sure many would say that your own site is most important for branding yourself online.

The thing with the other two ways of branding yourself online is that they are on established sites with tons of traffic. You want to use these sites to draw traffic to your personal blog. Not only can you draw traffic to your blog from these sites, but the traffic is for your favorite four letter word, FREE! That right there is priceless.

What Branding Yourself Can Do 4 Your Business!

When you finally decide to wise up and start branding yourself, you’ll notice your results make a complete 180 degree turn. The people will begin to see someone they recognize and trust, therefore placing you ahead of the competition that is NOT doing any sort of self-branding. If you know anything about the buying habits of human beings, then you know that we generally have to see something a few times before we even pay attention to it for one. Then we have to see it a few more times before we make a purchasing decision. Outside of that, if we feel a lack of trust for a product or service, then we won’t buy. If we already know these customer buying habits, then it only makes since to market accordingly.

When you are branding yourself customers are seeing you on a regular basis. When they see you regularly they have a tendency to develop trust. This is a winning situation for you to be in! Do what you need to do to take your online business to the next level. Look at ALL the big dogs and see they are branding themselves, so YOU need to be branding yourself!