THREE QUESTIONS YOU MUST ANSWER BEFORE YOU BUILD YOUR PERSONAL BRAND

SO YOU CAN STAND OUT AND SEE SUCCESS

Lindsay Ali

 

Are you building a brand on social media?  If not, you should be.  And if you are like me there are some things you really want to focus on in your brand that is not necessarily what you should be focused on first.

I know I wanted the logo the awesome pics, is cover photos and such.  I was obsessed with finding out how to do all those things.  And, I did, however, it stalled me with my business efforts and actually doing the money making activities.

So, here is some information on this from my friend and mentor Bill Pescosolido to help you get started in branding YOU…which is exactly what you should be doing in the online space.

When most people think about personal branding…

Things like a sharp logo, fancy title, catchy tagline, and professional photography all come to mind.

Hogwash.

These are the LAST things you need.

Which isn’t to say branding isn’t important, because it absolutely is.

After all, how else are you going to stand out from your competitors in today’s crowded marketplace?

That’s right—

1.  What do you stand for?

So, what do you stand for?

It’s a simple question.

If you want to create an online brand and you want people to get to know you, you’ve got to state loud and clear what you stand for.

• What’s important to you?
• What are you standing up and saying?

You need to be able to clearly articulate:

“This is what I’m about and this is what I’m going to do for you.”

That’s how you create a brand and a presence.

If you want people to follow you, and to like and trust you, they’ve got to know what you stand for.

If you want them to ultimately become a customer and to buy from you this is the first step.

I’ll give you an example.

One of the things my wife Michelle and I stand for is this: we don’t promote or endorse any product or service we don’t fully believe in ourselves.

It’s very important to us and we make that clear.

WE NEVER PROMOTE SOMETHING JUST FOR THE SAKE OF MAKING MONEY

We never promote a system, like Elite Marketing Pro, unless we personally believe in the system.

Speaking of which…

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We won’t create a course, or be an affiliate of someone else’s course, if we don’t firmly believe what is being taught is of the highest value, quality, and integrity.

We’re never going to promote a product launch or a book launch unless we trust the product.

We would never email our list if we ourselves hadn’t actually purchased and used the information, and we know and believe in the person behind it.

That’s one of the things we stand for.

In contrast, there are plenty of marketers out there who don’t give a flip and they’ll promote anything to make a buck.

We want to distinguish ourselves from those types of marketers because it’s just who we are and we want to stand behind anything that we’re promoting.

Plus, we want to separate ourselves from the people out there who will promote anything and everything and do it just for the sake of making some money.

Our brand, and our image, and our integrity are far more important than making a couple bucks.

Okay, I think you’re with me so far, right?

Let’s move on to the second question.

So in addition to knowing what you stand for from a brand-building standpoint, you also need to ask…

2.  What do you stand against?

What is it out there that you see that just repels you?

What is out there that you know is going on that you just can’t stand?

What do you stand against?

And this is almost as important as articulating what you stand for.

You must…

DISTINGUISH YOURSELVES FROM THOSE WHO YOU DISAGREE WITH

 

THEY WILL PROBABLY NEVER BUY FROM YOU ANYWAY

So why do you really care?

If they’re never going to support you, or be a brand evangelist, or be a teammate or a customer, then who cares?

What you’re doing is drawing a line in the sand and distinguishing yourself from a lot of the clutter and the noise out there.

That’s good because you’re separating yourself, you’re making yourself not blend in to the crowd.

You’re making yourself stand out and rise above certain things.

And that’s exactly what you want from a brand standpoint to be good at network marketing.

YOU DON’T WANT TO BE THE SAME AS EVERYONE ELSE!

If your brand is to blend in and be just like the next guy or gal, that’s…not a good brand.

You might as well name your company ACME or General Standard, Incorporated.

You’ll never stand out.

I’ll give you another example of standing against something.

Michelle and I stand for being in the trenches.

We’re…

• In the trenches every single day doing things to build our business.
• Always learning new stuff from a marketing standpoint
• Trying and testing those things that we learn
• Applying them into our own business and we share the results with others

And…we’ve had some pretty good results to boot!

It’s not like it came easy, it was difficult, but we worked at it and we’re in the trenches doing this every day.

We’re always investing in our learning and knowledge.

We’re investing in our skills and we get in the trenches and take action.

We actually do this marketing stuff.

So, because of this, we take a…

STAND AGAINST MARKETERS (OR ‘GURUS’) WHO TEACH THEORY

These marketers teach vague, vanilla concepts.

If you watch one of their trainings, you would walk away thinking…

• “I didn’t learn anything from that.”
• “I don’t know what to do with all this theory that they just taught me.”

We stand against those people who are just ‘fluff’ and teach theory.

They aren’t in the trenches themselves actually doing this marketing stuff.

That’s what we stand against.

And I see it a lot.

I see a lot of people who don’t have ANY idea what they’re talking about.

Yet they create some course on Facebook marketing, for example, and you watch it, and you think…

“GOD, THIS IS SUCH CRAP!”

But they sell a course for $297 and make a whole bunch of money.

Then they have a lot of dissatisfied customers because they only taught theory.

Bill recently did a training for the Elite Marketing Pro community about prospecting, and how to turn your leads into customers and distributors.

He gave strategies, tactics, and specific things to say.

First he explained how and why these work, and then he showed exactly how to do it.

And he could teach this training because…

He SPENT FOUR YEARS PICKING UP THE PHONE EVERY SINGLE DAY CALLING LEADS

Thus, he can teach training on prospecting and feel good about it, because he did it for so long.

He was in the trenches day after day picking up the phone calling leads, striking out, messing up, figuring it out, doing some calls better than others, making some drastically horrible mistakes and realizing that…

• “Boy, Bill, that was a knucklehead thing to do. Don’t ever do that again.”

Then he revised, optimized, and tweaked to the point where he could profile the different people he was speaking to.

He discovered three distinct categories, based on a couple of things they would tell me in the first few moments of our conversation.

Now, he could never have taught a training class like that if it was purely theoretical, and if he had, that training would’ve sucked!

That’s what I’m talking about and that’s what we stand against…

People who teach theory they learned in a classroom.

Don’t know about you, but…

I WANT TO LEARN FROM SOMEONE WHO’S ACTUALLY OUT THERE DOING IT THEMSELVES

Someone who built a rock solid business, and brand, and who made a lot of money—because that’s the result of a successful business.

I want to learn from someone who has done it, so I can do it too.

That’s what we believe in and we stand against the people that teach theory.

Now, after you’ve decided what you stand against, then weave that into your message.

That’s what’s going to build your brand.

Not a logo, alright?

Logos shmogos.

This is about REAL stuff.

Okay, the third and final question is…

3.  Who are you talking to?

You probably hear this a lot within the Elite Marketing Pro community.

You hear a lot about your “target market” and your “customer avatar.”

And the reason why I talk about knowing your avatar all the time is because it’s wicked important.

It is extremely important to…

IDENTIFY THE PAINS, STRUGGLES, GOALS, AND ASPIRATIONS OF YOUR CUSTOMER AVATAR

It’s very important too that you understand their “state” AFTER they’ve…

• Had a taste of victory
• Become stress free
• Have more time freedom
• Have more financial freedom
• Have the ability to do things they couldn’t do before
• Stopped worrying about bill collectors knocking at their door or the IRS chasing them down

This is going to be unique to your business, based on your avatar, your product, your service and your offer.

Does that make sense?

You’ve got to know them intimately.

You need to know more than, “they have three kids and a Chevy Nova and a 2,800 square foot house.”

That stuff’s just demographics.

You need to know their “before” and “after” state so you can position your product or service as the transition between the two.

The bottom line is this…

WHEN YOU REALLY KNOW WHO YOU’RE SPEAKING TO…

That’s when things will take off for you.

To recap, you’ve got to…

• Know what you stand for
• Know what you stand against
• Know who you’re talking to

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And if you found this content helpful, I would love to read your comments below!

 

That’s it! That’s what I have for today!

So…I like convos where it’s two way you know right? so I just spoke for a while so now it’s your turn.

 

Hey, thank you!

Thank you for jumping on this post!

Hopefully, I have added value to you here.  I would love to hear from you on this post and/or on the live stream!  Tell me what your experience is and what tools you use.

Until next time, have a great day!

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