As a social media manager…do you have a personal brand?
Why or why not?
If you have one…feel free to add your logo here…or even a link to your website so we can check it out!
As a social media manager…do you have a personal brand?
Why or why not?
If you have one…feel free to add your logo here…or even a link to your website so we can check it out!
I do!
Love that graphic, Eddie!
I’ve tossed around the idea of creating a website and logo for my own personal brand, but for now I’m just letting how I show up on Insta, Twitter, LinkedIn and my Facebook Brand Page speak for my personal brand.
Cheers @jencoleict I did it as I have two similar but different audiences when it comes to who I work with. My company that does social media management, etc. & my personal brand that coaches other creators, etc. Similar in industry, but two totally different audiences & messages.
Creating a personal brand was the turning point for me. As much as I wanted to build a business that can scale and grow, I thought I needed to keep it generic and keep myself out of the brand. In my case, that was not working for me. Once I embraced personal branding and making myself the ‘product’, everything turned around in a big way.
That really makes a lot of sense, Amanda. You’ve done a fantastic job building that personal brand over the last several years and it’s so great to see you level up (literally all the time!) Keep rockin it, sister!
My personal brand is all about personal branding!
Though I do need to update Gritmon.com since I’m shifting what I want to do (less client work, more speaking/writing/etc.). Thankfully the things I want to move into are fully compatible with my existing brand!
I do & I did even back when it wasn’t even a phrase. I was working in a non-profit and listened to a speaker talk about how only a handful of people give to a cause - most people follow a passionate person and that is what actually started the connection with the organization. It was an AHA to me that people will follow & look for people they already trust no matter where they invest or partner their time.
That’s a cool story! I was kind of the same way back before it kind of became a buzz word. Back then (2011-ish) for me it was well-known Zumba Instructors who would travel the region and host “ZIN Jams” on certain weekends. (I was a Zumba Instructor considering that as a career path option for myself at one time!) Once I discovered that social media was a bigger passion, I started gravitating online to names like Brian Fanzo, Amy Schmittauer (Landino now!) and known folks in Wichita’s local scene. It was only a few years ago that I realized that a personal brand was something I should strive to achieve for myself, lol.
When I was first building my personal brand as a local journalist and then “social media person,” every local non-profit wanted a piece of me to bring attention to their cause. I got free tickets to so many galas, and only took the ones where I knew I’d actively be working with the organization as a volunteer. Even then, I stopped taking the free tickets after a while, because I wanted to give my (limited) funds to the organizations’ important work!
A few years ago I left all the boards I was on and sort of rescinded myself from public stuff locally, and then the pandemic hit…but now I’m working on ways I can help specific orgs again in ways both private (already doing a bit of that) and public, since it does, in fact, help them a lot.
I want a @jencoleict Zumba TikTok account!!!
You can get me exercising, and I can drink @julieriley8125’s shakes—I can be skinny and strong by the fall!
Website is in midst of a remodel/reorganization (after 10 years, it’s time!) but the logo and visual branding will remain the same.
I’m getting an error message that I cannot include links in the post, even though the original post said to add them. If you want to look, it’s at www . UnleashingTheNextChapter . com
Hi @kathryn1 – thank you for sharing! Sorry about the link prohibition, it’s a new user thing. You have to reach trust level 1 to share links. Check out How do trust levels work? for more detail.
I went ahead and bumped you up a level – it’s pretty clear you’re not a spam bot – so you can now share links, etc.
Thanks for hanging with us!
Before social media existed as we know it today, around 2000ish I was building a brand known for the “Training Guy”. There were a lot of discussion boards that corporate people were utilizing to find people to fit a need they had. For me, that was designing training programmes for their businesses. I was able to work with brands like Wal-Mart, Central Coast Bank & Circuit City.
It’s funny to look back & see what labels/titles were put on certain things & how those are still “things” just called something else. I was live streaming certain training programmes or hosting certain training programmes in 2004/05 but it wasn’t called that.