Comments on: 4 Effective Personal Branding Strategies You Forgot

By: Brad Harmon

Brad Harmon — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:29:34 +0000

Great points! I refrain from the handwritten communications because my handwriting is atrocious, but I think you have to always keep you audience in mind.

I absolutely LOVE email - it is my preferred communication, but many people hate it. I have found that you can personalize emails with both content and timing to suit the person to whom you are communicating and have great success.

If someone prefers the telephone, I will call them and follow up with an email after the call with what we discussed. I still like to send birthday cards and holiday cards through the mail to my clients, but I will also send my well wishes to them electronically.

I think this approach tends to make my emails more welcome from someone that does not normally like emails. I get to keep my preferred method of communication and double my touch points with my clients without seeming a nuisance.

By: Jeffrey Tang

Jeffrey Tang — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:07:02 +0000

I hope these ideas help! Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:35:38 +0000

Great Post-I will be putting all of this into action! You do such a great job to new freelancers so keep up the great work!

By: nazimkhimani

nazimkhimani — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:21:23 +0000

Great post! Most great blogs have their brand. What exactly did you attempt to brand your site as?

By: jai kai

jai kai — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:05:51 +0000

Jeffrey
Excellent points on branding

I love going to networking events in my city to give away free stuff – face to face and let people know about my blog. It is a good way to promote your brand and has worked well for me.
Thanks for the post.

By: lorienos

lorienos — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:56:57 +0000

Jeffrey—Great post. I'm working on creating my brand right now and I'm going to start putting these plans into action. Thanks again!

By: Jeffrey Tang

Jeffrey Tang — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:04:13 +0000

Hey Denise :) I agree – dressing to impress is a great confidence and self-esteem booster. Thank you for pointing that out from the the viewpoint of a stay-at-home mom. Whether you're at home, at work, in public, or alone, your appearance does make a difference (if only psychologically).

Thanks for stopping by!

By: Jeffrey Tang

Jeffrey Tang — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:02:08 +0000

Oh, I've definitely seen some tweets that require work to decipher! Of course, some of it might be due to Twitter's 140 character limit, but then again, brevity is an important language skill too. Thanks for the input, Anastasiya!

By: Oscar - freestyle mind

Oscar - freestyle mind — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:01:04 +0000

“Flex Your Vocabulary”

I am lucky with this because English it's not my primary tongue so I have a huge foreign accent :D

By: Jeffrey Tang

Jeffrey Tang — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:00:44 +0000

Thank you for the gracious compliments, Kye – and thanks for commenting! And yes, I agree, sometimes the obvious ideas are the ones we forget the most.