#394: How To Brand Yourself (So You No Longer Have To Sell) With Julie Broad

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Julie Broad is the author of The New Brand You and is a personal branding expert. She joins me on today’s show to give a framework of how to build our own personal brands within the micro niches that we all sell within.

What you will learn in this episode:

Julie explains both how to and why we need to work on our personal brands along with –

• The 3 step process to building a bulletproof personal brand
• Why your personal brand is the biggest leverage point you have in sales
• How being a known “industry expert” makes it way easier to influence potential customers

Time stamps for audio version of show:

Podcast: Download (Duration: 40:50 — 56.3MB) | Embed

• [00:42] – Intro
• [02:04] – How does having a strong personal brand effect your ability to do business?
• [05:39] – When did you realise that a strong personal brand = business comes to you directly?
• [07:58] – Is your personal brand the biggest leverage point that you have to make closing deals easier?
• [10:59] – Is experimenting the best way to work out how to improve your personal brand?
• [14:23] – What happens when you try and fake it?
• [16:51] – What platforms we should use to build our brand?
• [24:47] – Does it make it easier to influence people when they see you have a strong personal brand? 
• [36:38] – When should we start working on our personal brand (HINT: Yesterday!)

Resources mentioned:

• HaveMoreInfluence.com – Julie’s homepage
• The New Brand You – Julie’s latest book

Transcript:

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