11 Brilliant Resources to Help You Get Started With Personal Branding
October 31st, 2008The personal branding space is really starting to heat up and so I thought it might be helpful to provide a list of influential people and helpful tools to obtain knowledge and tips for developing your personal brand. (Listed in no particular order)
8 Personal Branding Leaders
Dan Schawbel
- Personal branding expert and author of Me 2.0
- Blog: Personal Branding Blog
- Twitter: @danschawbel
Luke Harvey Palmer
- Executive personal branding consultant in Australia & Founder of Buzzle
- Blog: The Chief Brand Officer
- Twitter: @lukefrombuzzle
Chris Brogan
- Advises businesses, organizations, and individuals how to use social media to build relationships and deliver value
- Blog: Chris Brogan
- Twitter: @chrisbrogan
Gary Vaynerchuk
- Owner of the Wine Library and wildly popular blogger/speaker
- Blog: Gary Vaynerchuk
- Twitter: @garyvee
Jeremiah Owyang
- Sr. Social Media Analyst at Forrester
- Blog: Web Strategy by Jeremiah
- Twitter: @jowyang
Neil Patel
- Internet Marketing Consultant and Founder of Serph, Crazy Egg, and KISS Metrics
- Blog: Quick Sprout
- Twitter: @neilpatel
Hajj Flemings
- Brand strategist, specializing in personal branding and author of The Brand Yu Life
- Blog: Hajj Flemings
- Book: “The Brand Yu Life”
- Twitter: @hajjflemings
- Conference: Brand Camp University
Rob Cuesta
- Global leadership consultant and brand strategist
- Blog: The Personal Branding Blog
- Twitter: @robcuesta
3 Personal Branding Resources
- TweetTrak - Use this free service to track keywords on Twitter. Very helpful to track your own Twitter @ name to keep track of any replies or notes about you.
- Google Alerts - Similar to TweetTrak but in a broader sense. Google Alerts can track virtually anything said on the web or blogs and email them to you as they happen or in daily/weekly doses. You might use this to track your own name or general topics such as “personal branding”.
- Google Reader - A great tool to assemble and organize your favorite blogs. Google Reader lets you categorize your RSS feeds with tags which makes it easy to quickly get updates on a particular topic or category of information.
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November 1st, 2008
I appreciate being included in such a distinguished group of personal brand strategist and social media expert. This post will be a valuable tool/resource for many to be able to follow subject matter experts will quality content.
November 2nd, 2008
Thanks, great blog. I’m going to invite all these great personal branders to Twitter!
November 3rd, 2008
Brett, thanks for the note. Great group of people to be amongst here. Looking forward to the launch of Tasty Nectar’ Hope you are well.
November 3rd, 2008
My apologies…I just noticed that this post was by Dave, not Brett (as in Tilford – another great piece of the Tasty Nectar puzzle).
November 3rd, 2008
@Hajj The pleasure is all ours my friend.
@Martin Definitely! I know Rob Cuesta just joined a few days ago so he would love the add.
@Luke Thanks Luke. I’ll make sure Dave knows he wasn’t overlooked!
November 3rd, 2008
Yeah! You launched! Gonna go play around for awhile. Way to go boys.
November 7th, 2008
Have you read @magsmac’s post about personal branding? Yours pretty much reminds me of hers:
http://www.magsmacncheese.com/personal-branding-cat-got-your-tongue/
November 8th, 2008
Brilliant list. Thanks for sharing.