Branding and Personal Branding Is There A Difference?

Well let's start off with the basics.  What is branding?

Here is what wikipedia has to say: The American Marketing Association defines a brand as a "name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one seller's good or service as distinct from those of other sellers. The legal term for brand is trademark. A brand may identify one item, a family of items, or all items of that seller. If used for the firm as a whole, the preferred term is trade name.

Now you might want to know what is personal branding?
Once again here's what Wikipedia has to say:  Personal branding is, for some people, a description of the process whereby people and their careers are marked as brands.

There has been a lot of discussion on the Internet lately of why it has become so popular to Personally Brand pages that are being shown or advertised on Traffic Exchanges.

Know rap your head around this,  user name job123, is advertising a long drawn out page that happens to be very popular. OK you have seen this page half a thousand times now and have no way to distinguish between job123's page or anyone Else's.  Reflect upon the results of the advertising,
job123=0 Program owner =100%. Here's the next fact, you
have now either read the page or were to bored by the long drawn out page to actually look at it, but somehow you have decided you are going to join. So you either type in the site address or click the link the next time you see the page.

Final results are the program owner just got another sign up and poor job123 did all the work with nothing to show!

Let's look at the same situation but this time use Personal Branding and Social Marketing.

Job123 has made a splash page for the same opportunity, He has made it so that it stands out and stops you from clicking away to the next page and it has interested you to find out more. Now Job123 has also added his real picture and Name!  Joe is in a traffic exchange and you have recognised him from his picture and you ask him about that page and the opportunity, Why you were already interested in it but the difference is you know who Joe is! Joe has now accomplished generating a referral for the opp, but more importantly he has associated himself to the promotion....

So what we have is setting himself out as being different from everyone else promoting that opportunity. This is the power behind Personal Branding and Social Marketing.

Here We Go Tools That Work!

Everyone I just got to tell you about a traffic tool that you just got to get in on. Yes this is a shamless promotion for one of my favorite traffic exchanges. I have a question for you: Do You Dance? If you don't you should.

Faith Brooks has a real winner here!

The Traffic Dance is fast approaching 10000 members. Just think of the exposure you are going to receive here for your ads.  In fact the race is on to see who is going to refer the 10000th member. 

The site has everything a social surfer could want. The chat system there has the absolute cooest smiley's and you can choose to whisper to another member privatly or in chat in either the members chat or team chat. OMG did I say team!
The Dance has team surfing as well!

The site features personalized splash pages to not only help you bring in referrals and earn money but to also let everyone know who you are. When your page shows in the rotation so does your picture at the top of the surf bar!

If you surf for prizes than The Traffic dance is diffenatly for you. There are random prize pages that reward you with cash, credits Text ads,or banner ads.... In fact I pay for an extreamly affordable upgrade there each month from the cash I win at the site now talk about paying for it's self!

Traffic Dance even has a special Social Coordinator!  You can get mugged by bartendermo the bestest mugger in TE Land LOL. I've been mugged and my coffee has never tasted better than when I'm using My Traffic Dance Mug!

The Professor loves to dance so what are you waiting for come on down and dance! Have fun! Collect some cash and get your sites seen at the The Traffic Dance