Brand You: Turn Your Unique Talents Into A Winning Formula, 1st edition

Published by Pearson (14 December 2012) © 2013

  • John Purkiss
  • David Royston-Lee

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ISBN-13: 9780273779216
Brand You
Published 2012

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Title overview

The new edition of the UK’s bestselling book on personal branding shows you how to discover your talents, values and purpose so you can build a powerful personal brand both online and offline.

 

Whether you want to brand yourself as an entrepreneur, freelancer or corporate employee, this book will help by showing you how to:

- Identify your values and your unique combination of skills and experience

- Discover your purpose

- Build a strong brand identity

- Make sure employers, clients and customers remember you

- Network effectively

 

This new edition covers brand-building through social media, includes new exercises, case studies and examples throughout and is supported by its own website, www.brandyou.info

Table of contents

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • About the authors
  • 1.     Why Build Your Brand?
  • 2.     How Do Brands Work?
  • 3.     Personal Branding: The Essentials
  • 4.     Your Talents
  • 5.     Your Values
  • 6.     Your Purpose
  • 7.  Using archetypes to develop your brand 
  • 8.     Staying Focused
  • 9.     Explaining What You Do
  • 10.   Telling Your Story
  • 11. Aligning Your CV with Your Brand
  • 12.  Your Appearance, Voice and Behaviour 
  • 13.  Charisma
  • 14.  Getting paid
  • 15.  Becoming More Visible in Your Market
  • 16.  Building Your Network
  • 17.  Building Your Brand Online
  • 18.  Using Social Media to Build Your Brand
  • 19.  Getting Started with Social Media
  • 20.  Becoming Famous
  • 21.  Protecting and Extending Your Brand
  • 22.  Co-branding
  • 23.  Building a Team
  • Conclusion
  • Recommended Reading
  • Index

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