Ryan Lilly, #Networking Is People Looking For People Looking For People Quotes
Fortune follows those who can create ideas by connecting old ones. Strong personal brands are created when connection and creation connect.
Contributors and distributors tend to do better at personal branding than takers and fakers.
Sensible brands lend themselves to all of the senses.
For a case study in personal branding. Google “Jarod Kintz.” He’s kind of a big deal.
If your personal brand were at a trade show alongside several thousand others, how would you fare? Now scale that to the global economy.
Carve-out a niche, craft a personal pitch, push-out content and your brand is enriched.
Metal business cards are a good investment. Especially if you were to meet Magneto. He would have no other choice but to be attracted to you.
Beautiful mosaics are made of broken or torn material. The most spectacular personal brands are compilations of the same.
The most honorable part of a network are the hubs, not the nodes that lead to nowhere.
A brand precedes, parallels, and leaves a path behind. What your brand will say, is saying, and has said matters more the deeper we go into the globalized, digitized, connection economy.
Never underestimate the collective strength of your weakest connections.
A personal brand is determined by what you have created, whom you have connected, and how you have made those people feel.
Soylent Green is made out of people. So is your personal network… but let’s hope its non-toxic because you drink it every day.
Personal brands are determined by a track record of actions, not a track record of plans.
The only personal branding consultant who can ever hope to have a clear understanding of you and your value can be found in the mirror.
Corporate & personal branding both require storytelling to be captivating. Stories provide context, meaning & the opportunity for relationship.
Build a valuable brand by branding what is valuable about you.
Deciding which relationships to pursue can be difficult. Especially if you’re trying to get hired by the Magic 8 Ball factory and that little triangle thing isn't floating right.
A personal brand, once local and temporal, is now global and forever. That’s the blessing and the curse of the internet with regards to your reputation.
The greatest irony is that people with Rolodexes are no longer LinkedIn. And if that pun doesn't make sense, don’t ask anyone in your Rolodex to explain it.