Did you know that your Most Important Brand in the World Has Your Name On It?
Now you know you are a brand- a personal brand with your name on it. And to you and your loved ones, you are the most important brand in the world.
Want to be a great brand that stands out from the rest?
The following case study shows the steps to develop and reinvent your personal brand.
At the very minimum, you should have an original brand logo. Think of the greatest brands in the world: Apple, Google, Nike- what do they all have? A brand logo! The logo should mean something that is both connected to the brand essence and relevant to its target market.
Often, adding heart and soul to the logo is accomplished by complementing it with a brand promise or slogan- McDonald’s? Love ko to… Nike? Just Do it! VCoach? Serves!
A few years ago, using the “Paint” program in Windows, I made my personal brand logo. The logo was a result from a story about what I believe in and what I do…
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Can you change brand logos somehere down the road? Of course! So simply dive in and the real personal brand with your name on it will come out.
Below is a picture of my brand logo, brand and brand positioning. You dont need to show the story like I did in my own logo development. For this part of the exercise, just make a brand logo and a brand positioning mantra.
The key objectives of this brand logo/ mantra exercise are:
1. Make students aware that they are professional/personal brands that can succeed or fail like any other brand and that it is their urgent and personal responsibility to make their personal brands more successful using marketing principles
2. Inspire students to align their professional and personal brands to what they want it to be in the future (vision/mission), and not be limited by what they are doing or where they are right now.
3. Make students determine their unli-rice that 1 thing that differentiates us in a customer- relevant and superior way vs our peers and competitors in the minds of our target customers,
The key messages from the coach to the students are:
1. The most important brand in the world is YOUR brand as your brand has the largest impact on your quality of life (and the lives of the people who are affected by your brand’s success or failure).
2. Marketing principles that are applied to common brands like Colgate, Ateneo or President Duterte , Trump or Aquino also apply to your personal brand.
3. The time to start building and adding equity in your personal brand is NOW. Just like what I did to my brand, You can choose to adjust the various elements of the brand in the future.
To create your brand positioning/ mantra please select a combination of Pls. follow the Adjective, Noun, Your Name, Verb.
Samples of Adjective- Noun- Name-Verb combinations
Unli Rice Mang Inasal Eats
Vision-Driven Coach Bong Serves
Adventurous Creatives Reyn Delivers
By the way, I strongly recommend you create the logo in Paint or similar program. Then you can insert the logo in a Powerpoint file. Once all the brand elements are on the Powerpoint slide, then click (Save as, Other Formats, JPEG) and voila, you have a picture that you can upload on FB.
In case there are problems with posting on-line, dont panic or worry. We shall resolve this during the class discussions. Just have your logo ready to be projected during the discussion.