In my research and readings on personal branding I have come to realize that having one and making it better is the key to career growth. What your brand is and what it demonstrates is what your leadership will only ever see. Your leader is the key holder to your success in any career, so their perception of you needs to be what you want it to be. If you want them to see you as a doer than you have to do, if you want them to see you as a closer than you have to close.......
If you don't form your brand to exactly what you want out of yourself than it is your fault. Leaders don't take excuses and frankly they shouldn't. To be better than your competition and gain whatever it is you want from your career you have to constantly be striving for that.
To do this you have to use the tools at your disposal. Form your social media around your brand do not let the social media tools form you. Before posting anything ask yourself, does this project what I want people to think about me and my brand. This is where I need work, I am a passionate person so sometimes I speak or post without question. This comes back to bite me sometimes and I have to work twice as hard to undo what I have done.
To do this I need to reevaluate how I use social media. I need to use Facebook more wisely and only project positive characteristics in my personal life. This may take removal of friends that really only comment negative things on my wall, or it may take starting over to make sure the past is the past. I also need to increase my usage of LinkedIn. I need to connect with networks that I want to be associated with and make sure my post are spot on with what I want my followers to see about me.
By limiting my post and making them more specific to what I want from my brand, I can ensure that from now on my social media content is nothing but success. Thank you all for reading and I hope that you know I may be using this blog again to enhance my social media presence.
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Podcast
My podcast focuses solely as my blog does. A look at gaining success in business through learning from the successful. Executives, mid level leaders, and ourselves have to be confident in our competencies before we can be promoted. To continue to success we must always learn and evolve.
http://www.castmate.fm/embed_frame.php?s=1&i=10810&u=nickr&sa=1
http://www.castmate.fm/embed_frame.php?s=1&i=10810&u=nickr&sa=1
Sunday, February 14, 2016
Creating a professional social media brand....
As you have learned my brand strategy is based around performance and knowledge in the market place. What I have done to create a professional appearance that compliments my brand strategy on social media is simple. First I have established an audience, second I post relevant accomplishments, and lastly I follow professional networks that enable me to build my knowledge further.
To establish an audience takes time, but to do this you must connect to business partners and customers. Use the social media platform to your advantage. Seek out your customers and connect because they may post compliments about you. By connecting with business partners and leadership this gives them easy access to your audience and the good things they have to say about you.
Pay attention to what you post. Make it relevant to your brand and where your focus is. If you post personal comments or degrading comments your audience may link these to your brand. By only commenting positive, relevant building comments, this is how your audience will perceive you.
Finally follow professionals and networks that compliment your focus. If your focus is success and business knowledge like mine, you want to follow the same. For example, I follow business moguls that have accomplished financial success through hard work and focus. I also follow business networks that post best demonstrated practices that can help me build my success and competencies.
On LinkedIn I follow Entrepreneur Media, Sales Management Executives, and What Inspires Me to name a few. These networks constantly give incite to business success and business practice. Pick a couple in your professional social media page that will do the same.
To establish an audience takes time, but to do this you must connect to business partners and customers. Use the social media platform to your advantage. Seek out your customers and connect because they may post compliments about you. By connecting with business partners and leadership this gives them easy access to your audience and the good things they have to say about you.
Pay attention to what you post. Make it relevant to your brand and where your focus is. If you post personal comments or degrading comments your audience may link these to your brand. By only commenting positive, relevant building comments, this is how your audience will perceive you.
Finally follow professionals and networks that compliment your focus. If your focus is success and business knowledge like mine, you want to follow the same. For example, I follow business moguls that have accomplished financial success through hard work and focus. I also follow business networks that post best demonstrated practices that can help me build my success and competencies.
On LinkedIn I follow Entrepreneur Media, Sales Management Executives, and What Inspires Me to name a few. These networks constantly give incite to business success and business practice. Pick a couple in your professional social media page that will do the same.
Friday, February 5, 2016
Building your knowledge from experts.....
Hello Readers,
As bloggers people tend to write about their expertise and experiences in areas they are passionate about. I write about my expertise in growing my business, because I am passionate about just that. My business is my career, and my career is what I am passionate about. In mid level management I can confidently blog about what has helped me get this far, while also write about what I am personally working on to get to the executive level. To gain expertise people must always be learning. A great way to learn your passion and become better at it is to learn from other experts. Vlogging has given people the ability to do this at any time of the day.
A vlog that I use to build my knowledge of business is Chris Ducker. Chris uses his blog to discuss popular topics in the business world. By watching these I can learn about relevant business topics such as social media, process, or promotion. This enables me to use these tools and topics to build my personal brand in business.
One of his vlogs about using social media is based around SnapChat and using it to grow your business. By using SnapChat to grow your business you can effectively promote your business because the chat has to be viewed and opened to see it. Secondly he explains that you can track this by the amount of opens by users which allows your business to gather information technology. Finally he explains that only 2% of businesses use this. All these things can help you to effectively reach an audience that you are targeting.
Chris Ducker: 3 Reasons to Start Using SnapChat
As bloggers people tend to write about their expertise and experiences in areas they are passionate about. I write about my expertise in growing my business, because I am passionate about just that. My business is my career, and my career is what I am passionate about. In mid level management I can confidently blog about what has helped me get this far, while also write about what I am personally working on to get to the executive level. To gain expertise people must always be learning. A great way to learn your passion and become better at it is to learn from other experts. Vlogging has given people the ability to do this at any time of the day.
A vlog that I use to build my knowledge of business is Chris Ducker. Chris uses his blog to discuss popular topics in the business world. By watching these I can learn about relevant business topics such as social media, process, or promotion. This enables me to use these tools and topics to build my personal brand in business.
One of his vlogs about using social media is based around SnapChat and using it to grow your business. By using SnapChat to grow your business you can effectively promote your business because the chat has to be viewed and opened to see it. Secondly he explains that you can track this by the amount of opens by users which allows your business to gather information technology. Finally he explains that only 2% of businesses use this. All these things can help you to effectively reach an audience that you are targeting.
Chris Ducker: 3 Reasons to Start Using SnapChat
Friday, January 29, 2016
"Learn Everywhere...even other blogs"
There is so much information out there in the world today for readers to try and interpret.
When it comes to being successful in the business world, what and who do we listen to? To build confidence around our business knowledge as new professionals, we must learn from others who came before us.
To do this we can use social media to our advantage. One thing I have come to understand in this rat race is that most successful people enjoy sharing their secrets. This is because successful people like to bread success in everything they do. They have confidence in their process and they know that they have the keys to real perfection.
Below are five of the most top rated business blogs in the world according to Blogrank (http://www.blogmetrics.org/business). By using successful guidance that is followed internationally we can grow our knowledge of what it takes to be successful and set goals around it.
Seth's Blog. http://sethgodin.typepad.com/
Shoe Money. http://www.shoemoney.com/2015/04/24/it-all-goes-back-in-the-box/
Chris Brogan. http://chrisbrogan.com/
Successful Blog. http://www.successful-blog.com/
Logic + Emotion. http://www.successful-blog.com/
When it comes to being successful in the business world, what and who do we listen to? To build confidence around our business knowledge as new professionals, we must learn from others who came before us.
To do this we can use social media to our advantage. One thing I have come to understand in this rat race is that most successful people enjoy sharing their secrets. This is because successful people like to bread success in everything they do. They have confidence in their process and they know that they have the keys to real perfection.
Below are five of the most top rated business blogs in the world according to Blogrank (http://www.blogmetrics.org/business). By using successful guidance that is followed internationally we can grow our knowledge of what it takes to be successful and set goals around it.
Seth's Blog. http://sethgodin.typepad.com/
Shoe Money. http://www.shoemoney.com/2015/04/24/it-all-goes-back-in-the-box/
Chris Brogan. http://chrisbrogan.com/
Successful Blog. http://www.successful-blog.com/
Logic + Emotion. http://www.successful-blog.com/
Thursday, January 21, 2016
The grind doesn't have to be this way!
Hello all,
My name is Nicholas Redington! I am a mid level management employee for a Fortune 500 company, and want to discuss both my experiences along with yours in the business world. The world of business can be inviting to a young demographic, but cutthroat when you enter the lions den. My idea for this blog is for you, and I to discuss topics that will allow us to escape the mid level management positions and enter into the executive level. My personal branding strategy from this blog is to gain valuable incite from each of you to better my executive presence within the corporate world.
Nick R.
Following:
Ethan Bagdanov- https://ethansblog2016.wordpress.com/
Morgan Beeler- https://morganbeelerblog.wordpress.com/
Travis Sanders- http://www.travissanders.net/fine/real/estate/blog
Morgan Smarr- https://mbpingel.wordpress.com/
Vickie Doane- https://extraordinarilyordinary2016.wordpress.com/
My name is Nicholas Redington! I am a mid level management employee for a Fortune 500 company, and want to discuss both my experiences along with yours in the business world. The world of business can be inviting to a young demographic, but cutthroat when you enter the lions den. My idea for this blog is for you, and I to discuss topics that will allow us to escape the mid level management positions and enter into the executive level. My personal branding strategy from this blog is to gain valuable incite from each of you to better my executive presence within the corporate world.
Nick R.
Following:
Ethan Bagdanov- https://ethansblog2016.wordpress.com/
Morgan Beeler- https://morganbeelerblog.wordpress.com/
Travis Sanders- http://www.travissanders.net/fine/real/estate/blog
Morgan Smarr- https://mbpingel.wordpress.com/
Vickie Doane- https://extraordinarilyordinary2016.wordpress.com/
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