Posts for Brand-Yourself.com Blog


What is Instagram? (And How to Overcome Its Biggest Shortfall)

From Brand-Yourself.com Blog
April 10, 2012 at 7:50 pm
Today Facebook bought Instagram —an app that lets you take photos, make them look amazing and post them online from your phone–  for a staggering 1 billion dollars. Instagram ... (more)

BrandYourself Wins Top Startup Award at SXSW

From Brand-Yourself.com Blog
March 16, 2012 at 9:07 pm
Hey everyone, For those of you who’ve been following, we competed last week as one of the finalists in the annual SXSW start-up accelerator competition. SXSW is the largest ... (more)

Want to Control What People Find When They Google You? Win a Free Premium BrandYourself Account For Life

From Brand-Yourself.com Blog
March 8, 2012 at 6:41 pm
1) Announcing our new product and investment round. I’m excited to announce that we’ve officially launched our new product: the only do-it-yourself platform that makes ... (more)

What We’ve Been Up To

From Brand-Yourself.com Blog
February 25, 2012 at 7:48 pm
For those of you paying attention, we haven’t posted anything in 4 months. Why? We’ve been using all of our resources to finish our new product, which is finally ready ... (more)

Make Search Engines Your B*tch: Part 2: Intro to Personal Serach Engine Optimization

From Brand-Yourself.com Blog
November 2, 2011 at 2:27 pm
About This Series: Today, Google is the first place we turn to learn more about another person.  It’s your responsibility to make sure you make the best impression possible ... (more)

Make Search Engines Your B**ch Part I: Diagnose Your Google Ranking

From Brand-Yourself.com Blog
October 24, 2011 at 12:42 pm
About This Series Have you ever Googled somebody’s else’s name to find out more about them? How about Googling your own name? Today, Google is the first place we turn ... (more)

What is Personal Branding? The Beginner’s Guide to Building Your Online Brand

From Brand-Yourself.com Blog
October 18, 2011 at 1:38 pm
Why Personal Branding? We were all taught that a firm handshake, professional attire and a strong resume were the necessary pillars of a good first impression, right? Well today ... (more)

Job Seekers, You’re Being Googled! Do You Know What To Do?

From Brand-Yourself.com Blog
October 13, 2011 at 10:48 am
The Online Reputation Checklist You have seven seconds to make a first impression, and your time starts the moment your name is typed into a search bar. To put this in perspective, 80 ... (more)

Facebook and Google: How to Get You Facebook Profile to the Top of Search Results!

From Brand-Yourself.com Blog
October 7, 2011 at 11:59 am
Trevor Elwell recently released this post on Social Media Today.  This article will provide you with the knowledge that you need to get your Facebook profile to rank on the first ... (more)

How To Have “The Talk” With Your Kids: Part I- Privacy & Safety

From Brand-Yourself.com Blog
October 3, 2011 at 12:19 pm
Let’s face it- your children are going to be on the Internet whether you want them to be or not.  Unfortunately, there are a lot of bad things out on the Internet that children ... (more)

Google Yourself

From Brand-Yourself.com Blog
September 27, 2011 at 12:30 pm
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4 Lifestyle Designers That Will Change Your Life

From Brand-Yourself.com Blog
September 26, 2011 at 10:22 am
Today we wanted to provide a list of people to follow that provide great information on living an independent lifestyle by running an online business and building out your online ... (more)

4 Lifestyle Designers That Will Change Your Life

From Brand-Yourself.com Blog
September 22, 2011 at 1:51 pm
Today we wanted to provide a list of people to follow that provide great information on living an independent lifestyle by running an online business and building out your online ... (more)

Music and Brands: Get Music On Pandora

From Brand-Yourself.com Blog
September 20, 2011 at 11:21 am
Editor’s Note on How To Get Music On Pandora Editor’s Note: To continue our Music and Brands series, I would like to share an article written by our friend Alex Munro. ... (more)

Review of Job Searching with Social Media for Dummies (Read to Get a Free Copy!)

From Brand-Yourself.com Blog
September 15, 2011 at 11:09 am
Job Searching with Social Media for Dummies Joshua Waldman is one of our friends in the personal branding field and the founder of Career Enlightenment, where he helps frustrated ... (more)

Personal Marketing Plan- Good Luck Getting Hired Without One

From Brand-Yourself.com Blog
September 13, 2011 at 12:10 pm
Personal Marketing Plan What is a personal marketing plan? Well, it’s just that!  It’s a marketing plan that you create to promote your most important (and probably ... (more)

Job Hunting Tips For First-time Job Seekers

From Brand-Yourself.com Blog
September 9, 2011 at 11:02 am
Editor’s Note: Since most of our readers are based in the U.S. I have replaced the term “CV” with the word “Resume”- though for our readers across ... (more)

How To Pull Off the Lorenzo Von Matterhorn: Create A Website That’s Legend-(Wait For It)-Dary

From Brand-Yourself.com Blog
September 6, 2011 at 1:14 pm
The Lorenzo Von Matterhorn The purpose of this article is to show people how to pull off the Lorenzo Von Matterhorn, or if you’re a personal brander, how to go about building ... (more)

Job Search Tips: 3 Powerful Ways to Get Noticed Online

From Brand-Yourself.com Blog
September 1, 2011 at 2:23 pm
This post was originally featured in the Careerminds blog. For more job hunting strategies, visit www.careerminds.com/blog The other day we talked about the importance of standing ... (more)

Blogger or Tumblr: What Our Followers Are Saying

From Brand-Yourself.com Blog
August 30, 2011 at 11:14 am
Those of you who have been following us on Twitter know that the last couple of days we’ve been talking about whether people like Blogger or Tumblr more as a quick and effective ... (more)

How To Get On Google- 3 Common Problems Faced By Personal-Branders

From Brand-Yourself.com Blog
August 24, 2011 at 1:05 pm
This post was originally written for Social Media Today, you can still view the original post here: Beginner’s Guide to Showing Up On Google How To Get On Google and Why ... (more)

Want to Look Better in Search Engines? We’ve Got Your Back

From Brand-Yourself.com Blog
August 23, 2011 at 3:00 pm
BrandYourself’s New Product You may have noticed that over the last couple of weeks we have stopped letting people sign up for our current product.  Many of you have asked what’s ... (more)

Career Insurance: Don’t Keep Your Eggs in One Basket- Diversify Your Income Streams

From Brand-Yourself.com Blog
August 18, 2011 at 11:42 am
Move Your Eggs for Career Insurance When you rely and depend upon a single employer to provide you with a salary and benefits and everything else you need for a financially and ... (more)

What’s In YOUR Sippy Cup? Personal Branding Problems Faced By Mommy Bloggers

From Brand-Yourself.com Blog
August 16, 2011 at 2:11 pm
Building an online brand is hard. You need to SEO your name, find the right audience, and constantly produce fresh content that your followers will find interesting. Now, picture ... (more)

Follow Friday: Females With Feverishly Fierce Brands

From Brand-Yourself.com Blog
August 12, 2011 at 12:19 pm
Here at BrandYourself we (unsurprisingly) love brands!  Brands come in all shapes and sizes, they can become popular for a variety of reasons, they can be in literally any subject, ... (more)