Comments on: On Personal Branding

By: Six Ways to Make People Like You » The Buzz Bin

Six Ways to Make People Like You » The Buzz Bin — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:53:25 +0000

[...] Section Two of Dale Carnegie’s timeless classic “How to Win Friends and Influence People” contained six principles to “make people like you.” Out of all four sections, this one seems to have the most application to social media community building, particularly for personal brands. [...]

By: msdanielle

msdanielle — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:15:13 +0000

oh you are feeding into the theme of this being an ego blog! (keep it coming)
i’ve seen really awesome sites that have zero seo and no ranking anywhere on the map for anything. these are usually design companies

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:04:56 +0000

I thought about this when I came up with my website, because it is all about branding. I realized I had two choices,

1) Personal Brand or
2) Generic Brand

When I thought about Personal Branding, I realized three things about how people react when meeting me for the first time,

1) I want you to meet my friend, Mark, he is deaf but he can lipread so be sure to talk to him face to face.
2) So you are that Mark everyone talks about.
3) You have a famous name.

The #3 is a blessing as well as a curse, my name gained fame when a certain ballplayer broke several homerun records and everyone was talking about it, using his name. So when they found out my name, that’s the comment I get, an immediate recognization.

This immediate recognization leads to # 2. This is what separates me from the ballplayer. Think about it for a minute, if your name was Brad Pitt or Angela Jolie, would you enjoy hearing everyone talk about you even though they are talking about a different “you”?

So when it comes to #2, it is a sense of pride and gratifaction that your name has another “meaning” or identity to it. John Doe must have over 1 million identities, or “meanings”

#3, this is the identity people associate me with when I am introduced to people for the first time. In a way, it is a stigma to my brand, just as the ballplayer has his own stigma to his brand.

Does the ballplayer want to be remembered for the steriod assumptions or his heroics? Do I want to be remembered for my deafness or my heroics?

So just as the ballplayer chose to close the door on the stigma, and be remembered for his heroics, I had to close my door on my stigma and choose a generic name, TheLocoMono for my heroics.

You posed a good question, ms danielle.

By: Seo Vibe

Seo Vibe — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:09:33 +0000

That works too

I’m sure you’ve seen blogs that have tons of traffic from linking efforts but the topic is vague and you have no clue who is writing it. On the flip side I see some spectacular branding efforts, everything is done right, but traffic never really increases and the seo is horrid… great brand with no promotion, not even the free kind.

So when are you going to add “not” in front of the “just another ego blog”? The blog has become more than that!

By: msdanielle

msdanielle — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:50:38 +0000

thanks for the input steph. i think i was always thinking a little bit of both when i built this blog. i never really separated the two, but was always more focused on creating quality content in order to bring quality traffic.

By: msdanielle

msdanielle — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:43:12 +0000

thanks! it was great meeting you ladies too. i’m really looking forward to seeing what you all have in store. i’m sure you girls won’t have any problems branding yourself in the blogosphere!

By: Seo Vibe

Seo Vibe — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:06:51 +0000

There are two distinct forces at work here.

#1 – It takes branding to draw the masses.
#2 – It takes the masses to create the traffic numbers and demographics.

#1 will make you a star but not neccessarily rich.
#2 will make you rich but not neccessarily a star.

I wont go into detail on more specifics of those laws but #1 does not always lead to #2 and vice versa. You don’t just need to make a name for yourself, you need to command a targeted demographic in sufficient numbers and its not as obvious as it seems (hint: targeted SEO will draw better demographics than branding in the long run). Keep that in the back of your mind when working on your brand. Great blog btw.

By: Jeff Kee

Jeff Kee — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:46:49 +0000

Well now you know who this Jeff Kee guy is..

Asian, nice ass, nice boobs (NOT), great dancer (somewhat), talks dirty (VERY), and is still young (22 on Oct 12th).

By: bloggystylegirl

bloggystylegirl — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:16:57 +0000

Ms. Danielle it being all new to us and meeting you I think you are well on your way. Alot of great was said about you. I think that it becomes a requirement in a way to have the branding and isn’t that what everyone wants is the branding recognition! Cheers!

By: ms danielle

ms danielle — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:31:56 +0000

that is interesting bc “JEFF KEE Companies” was one of the first things i saw on your blog when i first visited it. it made me stop and think, hmm who is this jeff kee guy?

i don’t think i’ll ever give up msdanielle.com…