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Personal branding is crucial as it is the digitization of reputation. A study showed that 74% of Americans trust someone with an established personal brand. This trust factor applies to various professions, including doctors, lawyers, financial advisors, and more. Having a personal brand helps establish trust with colleagues, employers, and peers.
Finding your uniqueness and using it to serve others is key to personal branding. Exploiting your uniqueness involves being clear about the problem you solve and aligning it with your passion. This clarity helps in creating a personal brand that is impactful and trustworthy.
Procrastination comes in various forms, including classic procrastination, creative avoidance, and priority dilution. To overcome procrastination, it's important to focus on multiplying time by spending time on tasks that create more time in the future. This involves shifting from a one-day paradigm to considering the significance and long-term impact of activities.
To make a meaningful life, it is important to not just focus on making a living but to also chase your passion. Making money alone can lead to burnout, so it is essential to identify what fires you up and what breaks your heart. Your passion and what breaks your heart are indications of the problems you were created to solve, and living in your passion will bring real fulfillment. However, it is important to earn your way to living in your passion.
To monetize a personal brand, it is crucial to identify what people would buy from you and what business you want to be in. There are five primary ways to convert an audience into revenue: through products, ads and affiliates, information, deals, and services. Each of these avenues has its own advantages and challenges, but services offer the fastest path to cash, as they involve offering your expertise and time to help others. Additionally, building a strong reputation and focusing on your uniqueness are key to becoming a leader in your space.
Ask yourself this question…
WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK OF WHEN THEY THINK OF YOU?
Like it or not, that answer is your PERSONAL BRAND.
The rules have changed, and it's no longer an option not to have a personal brand.
More than ever, your BUSINESS BRAND and your PERSONAL BRAND are becoming the same. With the explosion of options on how to promote yourself and your business, you need to be SMARTER THAN EVER to get the attention you need to succeed.
If you're success-driven, chances are you've already figured out that you need to grow your brand and use it for maximum effect.
THE BIG QUESTION IS "HOW?"
My guest and friend, RORY VADEN, will give you those answers this week.
He is also a New York Times bestselling author of TAKE THE STAIRS and PROCRASTINATE ON PURPOSE, a Hall of Fame speaker, and co-founder of the BRAND BUILDERS GROUP, where he and his team teach and implement personal brand development. He's helped several people, including me, LEWIS HOWES, ERIC THOMAS, TOM AND LISA BILYEU, LUVVIE AJAYI JONES, and many others take huge leaps forward with building our personal brands.
Some of you may not fully understand personal branding, and that's where we start, digging into why TRUST is closely linked to personal branding, no matter how big you are or how big you want to be.
Rory also explains how to start personal branding with practical advice you can easily implement almost immediately built around this KEY TAKEAWAY…
THE GOAL IS TO FIND YOUR UNIQUENESS AND EXPLOIT IT IN THE SERVICE OF OTHERS.
Many of you want to find ways to monetize your personal brand, and Rory gives you some insights using his D.A.R.E.S. (Digital, Automated, Recurring, Evergreen, Scalable) strategy.
Rory will also explain what a BRAND DNA HELIX is with 6 QUESTIONS every brand builder should ask themselves.
One of the most important keys to a personal brand is figuring out how you can monetize it. Rory lays out those avenues by getting you to think about P.A.I.D.S. (Products, Ads and Affiliates, Information, Deals, and Services).
We'll also spend a lot of time discussing how to find your UNIQUENESS. Nobody talks about this enough, yet it's so critical to your personal branding success.
We'll wrap up by talking about the three forms of PROCRASTINATION, multiplying your time, and why our brains aren't wired for success.
You owe it to yourself to start THINKING about and ACTIVATING your personal brand.
And Rory Vaden is the guy to help you do that.
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