This week on #SEOTalk we had Shivam Dhawan talking about Personal Branding.
Shivam was earlier featured on Slideshare with his wonderful presentation on Personal Branding and we were lucky to get him talk about his favorite topic on our chat. Well it was indeed a whirlwind of a chat and the hour flew past us pretty quickly.
Key Takeaways from the session
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1. Personal branding has been around, but it’s more ‘social’ and ‘mobile’ now
2. Personal Branding is more like Inbound Marketing
3. Personal Branding is based on 4 factors – Awareness, Trust, Reputation and Perception
4. Take care of your brand online as well as offline
5. You should spend efforts in creating a Personal Brand, it helps while promotions, switching jobs and many other places.
6. Write introductions in third person, so that search engine can index your name
7. Arbunize is developing a product to monitor brand impact
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Here are some interesting tweets from the event.
Personal Branding with Shivam Dhawan
Q. Why personal branding, why now?
@arbunize @absolutematt84 @MalharBarai @JackiePerez34 It has always been there, just that now it is “socialized” and “mobilized” #SEOTalk
— Shvm Dhwn (@shvmdhwn) September 30, 2013
Q. How do we see ourselves as brands?
@MalharBarai Well it is as same as carrying your family reputation. What you do defines you. #SEOTalk — Shvm Dhwn (@shvmdhwn) September 30, 2013
Q. How do we take care of our brand image?
@MalharBarai Online – Be careful of what you project, Offline Be careful of what you do #SEOTalk — Shvm Dhwn (@shvmdhwn) September 30, 2013
Q4. Is it worth spending an effort on?
@MalharBarai As entrepreneurs, social experts, media professionals, it is CRITICAL #SEOTalk
— Shvm Dhwn (@shvmdhwn) September 30, 2013
Q. Any tips that we could use?
@MalharBarai Some related to SEO… that I can give on this platform, like use your name in your social profile’s bio #SEOTalk
— Shvm Dhwn (@shvmdhwn) September 30, 2013
@MalharBarai Have a blog and write some authoritative stuff in the field that you work in. #SEOTalk — Shvm Dhwn (@shvmdhwn) September 30, 2013
@MalharBarai Write introductions in third person, so that google indexes your name – Shivam is a JEDI ;D #SEOTalk — Shvm Dhwn (@shvmdhwn) September 30, 2013
Q. How do we monitor our brand impact? Or measure our Personal Brand?
@MalharBarai I myself am in process of developing such solutions http://t.co/13jI573BB2 I also collected some resources to share #SEOTalk
— Shvm Dhwn (@shvmdhwn) September 30, 2013
@MalharBarai Personal branding – do it yourself Tools, Tips and Resources by #arbunize http://t.co/vQKuiJaayI #SEOTalk
— Shvm Dhwn (@shvmdhwn) September 30, 2013
@MalharBarai Other existing mediums are like http://t.co/0AWDGQEwh2 http://t.co/FMQIqf5p3Z #SEOTalk
— Shvm Dhwn (@shvmdhwn) September 30, 2013
@MalharBarai http://t.co/1DHqJXnxtc to search for a brandname that’s available on all networks so u can have a unified #identity #SEOTalk
— Shvm Dhwn (@shvmdhwn) September 30, 2013
And that was it!!
Your Turn
1. What are your views about Personal Branding?
2. How much efforts do you put in building your personal brand?
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