Entries Tagged 'Personal Brand' ↓

Polish your interpersonal skills to develop your own personal brand.
If you can deal effectively with difficult people think how successfull you can handle easier people.

I am not difficult, I aim to be impossible! and that is also true of many outstanding entrepreneurs.

For young businesses part of the brand are the awards and prizes you have won along the way.

CMI have 11 National Management and Leadership Awards where you can nominate yourself or a colleague.

Even your local  awards, training and trade memberships may add value to your personal or business brand.

Mr Bridge calls a spade a spade and in the latest edition of his magazine ‘Bridge’ he goes further.
‘Not only am I a person I am a brand and brands need promotion’ so on that basis check out this free magazine and support this brand.

It is great to be celebrating the centenary of an Iconic brand that has done so much for our British culture.
Unless you are ‘going to camp’ it may be worth avoiding Harewood House from 31st July to 7th August 2010 when it will be over-run with celebrating Rainbows, Brownies and Guides.

I do not know how old the American cousin organisation is, but if they are also celebrating I hope they all have a grand time.

Brand Literary Magazine’s  last issue was Autumn 2009 and it looks like it will not last as long as it’s Swedish names sake (112 years and still counting.)

A shame such a name should be consigned to the great publishing house in the sky. Where is Robert Maxwell when the industry needs him?

Brand still has Facebook and myspace pages but is that a good thing?

Jean Louis Dumas the 5th generation of his family to run Hermès, the world renown fashion house, has died at the age of 72.

He helped grow the business into an organisation worth tens of billions and put his family in the top 300 of the worlds rich list.
Some brand value!

UPS FedEx

Golfer Lee Westwood can still ’sport’ his UPS logoed shirt at the ‘St Judes Classic’ in Memphis, home of FedEx, after a sponsorship fiasco was settled.

You are what you wear but not in this sport

10 million copies of ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People’ have told readers to put ‘First Things First’.
Also you are encouraged to lead to a known end and be proactive even innovative within your own Private Space.
I will not breach copyright any further but recommend this book to you, your colleagues and customers (as a marketing give-away).

Stephen R Covey 7 Highly Effective books from Amazon.

The Unauthorized Guide to Doing Business the Philip Green Way: 10 Secrets of the Billionaire Retail Magnate by Liz Barclay

The Unauthorized Guide to Doing Business the Duncan Bannatyne Way: 10 Secrets of the Rags to Riches Dragon by Liz Barclay

The Unauthorized Guide to Doing Business the Alan Sugar Way: 10 Secrets of the Boardroom’s Toughest Interviewer by Emma Murray.

The Unauthorized Guide to Doing Business the Bill Gates Way: 10 Secrets of the World’s Richest Business Leader by Des Dearlove.

The Unauthorized Guide to Doing Business the Richard Branson Way: 10 Secrets of the World’s Greatest Brand Builder by Des Dearlove.

The Unauthorized Guide to Doing Business the Jamie Oliver Way: 10 Secrets of the Irrepressible One-Man Brand by Trevor Clawson.

Build a Brand in 30 Days: With Simon Middleton, the Brand Strategy Guru. ‘If your customers don’t know you exist or what you stand for you have a big problem.’

Brand matters in Business to Business marketing and Investment as much as consumer sales. Businesses trust one supplier above another even when there is a cost differential. Brand matters to investors who ‘develop an instinct that goes beyond numbers’ according to Simon Middleton.

Do you like Simon’s sobriquet the Brand Strategy Guru? If you think it’s cocky buy the book by clicking on the cover above. If it’s arrogant click on his name above.