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Santa’s Personal Branding Expert

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Hear about Santa’s personal branding expert on The BIGG Success podcast. Click PLAY for some fun holiday sounds.

You may not know it, but Santa keeps a personal branding expert on his staff. The funny thing is we knew about this expert’s colleagues for years before we heard of him.

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Do You Want to Be Famous?

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If you want to be famous, you need to build a personal brand. To help you develop that brand, we share five simple questions to ask.

We discuss how to achieve fame through personal branding on The BIGG Success Show. Here’s a summary of that discussion.

The famous artist, Andy Warhol, famously said, “In the future, everyone will be world famous for fifteen minutes.”

The future is here! Andy Warhol turned out to be quite a prognosticator!

Now, you may raise an objection. You may say you don’t want to be famous. But before you cast this information away, think about one thing:
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Become a Celebrity CEO and Watch Your Business Grow

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As a small business owner, you can become a celebrity CEO to gain an advantage over your competition. As your personal brand grows, so will your business. Made possible by FinancialFreedomTool.com

We’re BIGG fans of small business, so we’re happy to be celebrating #SmallBusinessWeek. To kick it off, we talk with Ramon Ray on The BIGG Success Show today.

He writes for Entrepreneur, Inc., Small Business Trends, Business Insider, and more. He joins us today to talk about his latest book, Celebrity CEO: How Entrepreneurs Can Thrive by Building a Community and a Strong Personal Brand*. Here’s a summary of our conversation.

What is a celebrity CEO?

Ramon says that small business owners have the ability to go very narrow and serve a niche market. Few of us are going to be Oprah Winfrey or LeBron James.

But we can all have a narrow lane where we are well known. That’s a celebrity CEO. It’s Ramon’s story. He’s not known to the whole world, but he’s well known in his little market, in his little world, in his small lane

Want to hear what Ramon’s wife said when she learned that the title of his new book was Celebrity CEO? Listen to the show. Simply click on the PLAY button above.

Why does branding even matter?

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Donald Trump and the Titanic

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Donald Trump and the Titanic: What do they have in common? Click PLAY to hear George & Mary-Lynn share the surprising answer on The BIGG Success Show podcast.

Donald Trump gets our vote for the best personal brander ever. Of course, the Titanic is the most noted shipwreck of all time.

What do they have in common? Our answer may surprise you.

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The Biggest Mistakes People Make Using LinkedIn-Part 3

The Power Formula for LinkedIn Success Book Cover | BIGG SuccessWe’re wrapping our conversation on The BIGG Success Show with LinkedIn expert Wayne Breitbarth, author of the book: The Power Formula for LinkedIn Success: Kick-start Your Business, Brand, and Job Search

We’ve been talking about the five biggest mistakes people make when using LinkedIn.

In Part 1, Wayne told us about:

Biggest Mistake #1: Failure to dedicate sufficient time to their LinkedIn efforts.

Biggest Mistake #2: Underestimating the importance of crafting a dynamic, keyword-filled personal profile.

In Part 2 we discussed:

Biggest Mistake #3: Failure to recognize the importance of having lots of trusted professionals in your LinkedIn network

and not getting recommendations.

Biggest Mistake #4: Using LinkedIn to advertise your products and services.

In this segment, we learn about the final mistake that businesses/brands are making:

Click a player to hear Wayne talk with George & Mary-Lynn on The BIGG Success Show podcast. (Duration 7:45)


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Biggest Mistake #5: Lack of a consistent company wide message and policy.

  • How LinkedIn is powerful for companies and why consistency is key
  • Why your employee’s profile is either helping or hurting your brand
  • Ideas on how companies can create that consistency about their brand with their employees
  • How to create a strategy when using Groups to help promote your company
  •  Why it is essential to have a company page on LinkedIn and what it search engine keywords your company profile should contain.
  • What you should be doing to maintain your LinkedIn personal page and your company page.
  • Should recommendations go on your personal profile or company profile?

Visit Wayne’s website to get free weekly LinkedIn tips  along with a free chapter of his book .

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