{"id":6563,"date":"2013-04-20T19:04:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T23:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=6563"},"modified":"2013-10-17T15:27:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T19:27:46","slug":"personal-branding-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2013\/04\/20\/personal-branding-one\/","title":{"rendered":"One Thing I Think I Know About Personal Branding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6566\" alt=\"NoMessage\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/NoMessage.png\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/NoMessage.png 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/NoMessage-300x112.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>There is no demand for my message.<\/h1>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Personal branding isn&#8217;t about packaging myself up into a pretty box and showing only the good and glowing. <strong>The whole me<\/strong>, not my tidy little message, is what people want and will see, whether I attempt to control it or not.<\/p>\n<p>Establishing a message for myself, deciding on a pretense, trying to make you think <strong>what I want you to think about me<\/strong>, is not of benefit to me. And it&#8217;s not of interest to you. You don&#8217;t care about what I want to pretend to be.<\/p>\n<p>My personal brand, it is my Marketing, and it&#8217;s not something I do <em>to<\/em> you. Marketing is something I do <em>with<\/em> you. <strong>It&#8217;s about creating great conversations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what&#8217;s really in demand. <strong>Connection.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My message, my pretense, can only prevent me from reaching that place with you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6566\" alt=\"NoMessage\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/NoMessage.png\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/NoMessage.png 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/NoMessage-300x112.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>There is no demand for my message.<\/h1>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Personal branding isn&#8217;t about packaging myself up into a pretty box and showing only the good and glowing. <strong>The whole me<\/strong>, not my tidy little message, is what people want and will see, whether I attempt to control it or not.<\/p>\n<p>Establishing a message for myself, deciding on a pretense, trying to make you think <strong>what I want you to think about me<\/strong>, is not of benefit to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[205,206,204,181,109,203],"class_list":["post-6563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-branding-2","tag-connection","tag-control","tag-conversation","tag-message","tag-personal-branding","tag-pretense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}