Comments on: How to Build — or Erode — Your Personal Brand http://battractive.com/blog/2009/06/29/how-to-build-or-erode-your-personal-brand/ Stand By Your Friends. Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:00:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Stacy Lukas http://battractive.com/blog/2009/06/29/how-to-build-or-erode-your-personal-brand/comment-page-1/#comment-17153 Stacy Lukas Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:38:52 +0000 http://battractive.com/blog/?p=774#comment-17153 Seriously. I think people try too hard to convince others that they're smart/funny/cool/whatever that the almost always come off looking like total jackasses. If you're really that cool, you don't need to tell me -- I already know. Kinda reminds me of rappers who are always rapping about how cool they are and how they get all the ladies and stuff and have to spend gazillions of dollars to shoot a video to show how big of an entourage of paid friends they have. They look like nothing more than egotistical, obviously-fake braggarts in the end. Seriously. I think people try too hard to convince others that they’re smart/funny/cool/whatever that the almost always come off looking like total jackasses. If you’re really that cool, you don’t need to tell me — I already know.

Kinda reminds me of rappers who are always rapping about how cool they are and how they get all the ladies and stuff and have to spend gazillions of dollars to shoot a video to show how big of an entourage of paid friends they have. They look like nothing more than egotistical, obviously-fake braggarts in the end.

]]> By: Dennis Stevenson http://battractive.com/blog/2009/06/29/how-to-build-or-erode-your-personal-brand/comment-page-1/#comment-17152 Dennis Stevenson Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:24:01 +0000 http://battractive.com/blog/?p=774#comment-17152 Imagine that you wanted to teach someone to be the brand you think you are (or want to be). What kinds of things would you do to show them what it looks like? Brand building is about giving away... If yo give it away enough, people will begin to associate it with you. At the end of the day you don't "create your brand" you influence and nurture it. Your audience ultimately decides what that brand is. Imagine that you wanted to teach someone to be the brand you think you are (or want to be). What kinds of things would you do to show them what it looks like?

Brand building is about giving away… If yo give it away enough, people will begin to associate it with you. At the end of the day you don’t “create your brand” you influence and nurture it. Your audience ultimately decides what that brand is.

]]> By: Boyink http://battractive.com/blog/2009/06/29/how-to-build-or-erode-your-personal-brand/comment-page-1/#comment-17151 Boyink Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:23:36 +0000 http://battractive.com/blog/?p=774#comment-17151 Same advice as college creative writing class: "Show, don't tell." Same advice as college creative writing class: “Show, don’t tell.”

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