Your Personal Brand

Hi there! I hope you’re having a great end to your February. End of February – wasn’t it just Y2K?! If you didn’t get that last reference, I probably have cowboy boots older than you. As we covered in our last newsletter, Social Selling is made up of four things: 1)   Your Personal Brand 2)   Your Deep Network of Relationships 3)   Your Sales Intelligence 4)   Your Social Listening Today, we’ll dig into Your Personal Brand a bit.  I often tell my audiences that people who refer to themselves as “gurus” usually do so because they can’t spell “charlatan”.  And self-proclaimed gurus typically like to make their supposed area of expertise sound complicated, deep and mysterious. I choose to take the opposite approach. Let’s remember the KISS Principle….Keep It Simple Sweetie. In the old days, your Personal Brand was called your reputation. And it took time to develop, and it usually …

Make Them Smile

The top 20% of your clients probably wouldn’t mind it if you picked up the phone, called them and told them that you care about them and asked them if there’s anything you could do for them today to make them smile. The bottom 20% probably wouldn’t mind it either. Perhaps just start with one client.