Archives for “Branding”

PRSA Georgia Conference Presentation: The Personal Brand Era

Tweet Last week in Atlanta I had the privilege of speaking to the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Georgia’s Annual Conference. My topic was The Personal Brand Era. As Gary Vaynerchuk puts it, “we’re going through a gold rush of branding.  If you get talked about enough in all these social webs/blogs, you can [...]


Chron Post: The Personal Brand Era Cometh

Tweet The Personal Brand Era Cometh In August of 2007 Tom Peters wrote in an article titled The Brand Called You in FastCompany magazine: It’s time for me — and you — to take a lesson from the big brands, a lesson that’s true for anyone who’s interested in what it takes to stand out [...]


Tweet Reading Gwen’s post Leave it at the Alter about personal brands got me thinking. Perhaps our online personal brands are really pseudonyms for the Umbrella Corporation? A protective wrapper than includes a “a highly-trained security force capable of rescue, reconnaissance, and para-military operations” division. And one sub-corp that makes band aids for the kids [...]





City Slogans Redux


Tweet Brands are tricky things.  And Blue Ocean Strategy is about not going head to head with your competitors but rather about finding a blue ocean that creates NEW demand.  New territory.  It would be like dragging Edward Bernays along on the Lewis & Clark expedition and watching the fireworks fly. My first point is [...]


Maglite goes LED and I am OK with that Branding Shift


U2 as a multimillion-dollar, multinational media company


Google Base is Live – mostly links out


Repurposing old stuff – what will this do to your brand?


The color of the “Energy Capital of the World”


Houston – The Energy Capital of the World


Interesting Links at 6:00 AM



IBM *and* Lenova Thinkpad