Tuesday 15 May 2012

Personal Branding



Emerging as a brand comes effortlessly for few, but with hard-work, determination and self-packaging personal branding has become an easy-tool to enhance your business, and gain more publicity.

For example, Sachin Tendulkar, world-famous for his batting ability is a strong brand associated with cricket. ‘Consistency, good performance and his dependability’ have carved a niche for this Master Blaster in the field of cricket. His extra-ordinary abilities in batting have led him to be appreciated not only by cricketers, but also by different international sports persons across the globe.

In a very similar manner, you need not depend merely on your profession to brand or market yourself. By simply broadcasting you’re area of expertise, you will be able to position yourself in the professional sector and attract more and more potential customers.

When you gain this type of identity you will be able to place yourself on a platform, whereby you will feel much more confident, assured and self-reliant.

“Your identity is contingent to your strengths, abilities and capacity to perform.”

‘Social media’ plays a very strong role in personal branding, & various social networking websites like Twitter, Face book, LinkedIn, Blogs, TravBuddy, & MySpace have helped to raise a global community for new businesses, and to empower former businesses.

These sites are means by which an individual can create their own public space that is accessible to the public; a place which helps to directly interact and communicate with the audience.

Personal Branding DOES NOT LIMIT success achieved in one’s profession, but also signifies one’s overall worth/ability as an individual.

It helps to create a better perception of yourself to others. This makes it easier for people to locate you & become aware of your business abilities.

In today’s times it is very important for an individual to separate themselves from the crowd and create a niche for themselves which will also increases their visibility and preserve their reputation.

Personal branding is important for businesses in this fast-paced society, as each one is trying to out-do the other, and leave an imprint on the corporate world. Professionals, entrepreneurs, investors and businesses are all trying to grab hold of the maximum number of eyes.

The ‘brand’ can directly interact with consumers all across the globe & receive immediate feedback about their likes/dislikes, etc, thereby making the world a much more global place whereby communication is far easier.

Personal Branding helps to make an individual acquire ideals like creative, responsible, innovating, consistent, motivating, innovative and innovative; and aspire to uphold them. One becomes their own ‘brand’ and ‘self-image’ is raised.

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