Developing your Personal Brand

Having a good reputation is an obvious key to success, but many people don't take the time to nurture it. Or they don't know how.If it is helpful to think about reputation as a personal brand. Developing your own unique brand is considered not a luxury but an essential for future employability and success.

Due to my little experience I have identified the DNA that makes up a good brand. This DNA, the basis which guides the development of a brand, also applies to individuals as well as to products and organizations.

DNA is, coincidentally, an acronym. To get you started on your journey o ongoing individual brand development, contemplate these three concepts, which form a similar acronym:

Dependability

A good brand is consistent. With a good brand, there are never any unpleasant surprises. You can count on a brand to help you quickly sort through an unlimited list of options to identify "a sure thing". In the good old days, there was a sales adage that went like this: "Nobody ever got in trouble for purchasing IBM." If you aren't old enough to recall exactly what that meant, it alluded to the fact that IBM was not always the "best" or "most

innovative" or "most anything" for that matter, but it was a dependable brand.

Novelty

So what makes you different?It's not enough to be as dependable as everyone or anyone else. Brands always have substantive identifiable differences, perceptually if not in fact in the mind of the marketplace. Being a generalist isn't a bad thing, but being a generalist without any discernible specialized skills, abilities, or talents isn't a great thing, either.

What makes you different (or better)? while weird may work for celebrities, it is seldom a discernible attribute for the world of commerce. Fora difference to be valuable to the brand, it must be valuable to the customer.

Attitude

This is the most nebulous part of a brand. It is more than a combination of Novelty and dependability. I call it the brand's predisposition to the world. it is about the vibe a brand puts out. Attitude is how the brand "you" or "organization as the case may be present itself to the world. I believe that all brands have a boldness about them. Even if a brand is quiet, dependable, and safe, those attributes are expressed to the marketplace bodly definitively.

What is your attitude? Have you considered it and identified it? Is the attitude of your brand something that draws others to it, or puts them off?

DNA. Dependability. Novelty.Attitude

As a first step towards marketing yourself better, take sometimes soon to write out the DNA of your brand.

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Olufemi