On Personal Branding

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@ManNamedKim

WHY I BELIEVE…

• Experience – 16 years

• Practice – Failed, failed and failed

• Results – SALES records

@ManNamedKim

“I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – M. Jordan

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• Consistency

• Frequency

• Authenticity

@ManNamedKim

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• Consistency

– Know your brand

– Craft your brand message

– Stick to your brand

@ManNamedKim

Brands are like belly buttons…You need to know what you’ve got, and you can’t change it.

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• Frequency

– You must do it

– A lot

– All the time

– Every time

@ManNamedKim

We become what we do.

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• Authenticity

– It isn’t ALL about you

– Be interested and interesting

– Quid pro quo

@ManNamedKim

Above all else…seek to be chronically helpful!

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• BONUS!!! (in case I didn’t already say this…)

– Work the TOP

– Be involved and volunteer

– Serve on committees, boards, do the grunt work…

@ManNamedKim

Above all else…seek to be chronically helpful!

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QUESTIONS?

@ManNamedKim

Because NOT asking would be dumb…

Or the end. You choose.

THE BEGINNING…

@ManNamedKim