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You could say building a successful personal brand online comes down to understanding one rule:
“It’s not about what you want to say; it’s about what you want people to know.”
It may sound simple but the difference between a successful and unsuccessful online personal brand for an entrepreneur can often be measured by not understanding the difference between a ‘statement’ and ‘proposition of value’.
Here are the top 5 steps to take to ensure the success of your personal brand:
1) Assess your position
Before you can begin to define your online brand and position yourself, it’s important to understand what works. For example, say that you would like to start a business by selling designed goods in online marketplaces. A reasonable move would be to look at successful sellers on sites from Fab to Etsy and identify how they do it: Look at the voice they use, the social media channels they operate on, even the colors and fonts they employ. Do the same with sellers that don’t resonate with you and the contrast between the two will more clearly reveal how you would like your message to be received and the methods to achieve it.
2) Create the foundation
Just as the services or goods you provide are unique and valuable, so too must be your personal brand. The most important process in personal branding is defining what makes you unique and why should anyone pay attention to what you have to say? More importantly, try to understand what it is about you that would be of value to both your target audience and your peers. If you can define who they are and what they are looking for, you can then begin to structure a truly authentic brand message. It’s not easy having a clear vision of yourself, so it might help to ask your friends, family and your fellow entrepreneurs how they perceive you and what are your strengths. Authenticity is central to personal brand success.
3) Extend your reach
Look at the social platforms you operate on and refine them in line with your message. If you don’t have a blog, maybe you should think of creating one. If you do, optimize its brand message. More importantly, identify areas important to your audience you aren’t active in and get involved. The key here is to be both consistent and individualized. Your message needs to be standardized across your digital footprint, but tailored to suit the unique environment of each social platform. What works for Facebook doesn’t work for Twitter. Don’t forget there are plenty of services out there to help you customize your personal brand content exactly as you want it. Don’t be afraid to play around and see what works, but always stay on message and maintain your authenticity. Just like you as a person, you’re building something greater than the sum of its parts.
4) Leverage your worth
So you’ve defined and built your personal brand, optimized the message and are now spreading it online. Now what?
The key to leveraging any brand is targeting not only the right audiences, but linking with the like minded. Get involved in the forums your audience participates in. Connect with trendsetters, thought leaders and of course your fellow entrepreneurs in your niche. Comment on blog posts that resonate with your personal brand, and always follow up with those who post on yours. Building connections and a community comes from being not only authentic and topical, but most importantly being seen as creating value, not noise.
5) Establish your leadership
For your online personal brand to be truly distinct and widely recognized, you need to lead. Build authority by bravely spreading your thought leadership wherever you can. Contribute guest articles on relevant blogs, lead discussions on forums and use your social media channels to invite opinions and debate. Remember, to be heard on the Internet you first need to be seen.
Of course, this process never really ends: Continually focus on how best to optimize your personal brand, keep making those connections and always ensure that what people hear about you is authentic and on message.
What are your thoughts on these steps to help you build your online brand? Have any tips that I may have missed? Add them to the comments below

Become a freelancer and sell your services to online clients. One can make thousands of dollars each month by doing online jobs. Freelancing-Sites now provide the platform where freelancers can look for potential clients. To get jobs at these sites, one has to sign up for an account which is 100% free. Creating a professional looking portfolio is the second step. These steps take minutes to complete. After making a portfolio, one has to browse the freelance-market to look for available jobs. Clients [aka Online Employers] from all over the world come to these markets and create job-listings. These listings contain all the information about the work which the client wants to be done.
Freelancers can browse all these listings and if they find some interesting job, which they can successfully complete, they apply for it by posting a Proposal or Bid. However, a new comer need to know lot of things if he wants to become a successful freelancer. I have written this tutorial for this very purpose. It contains lots of useful tips. I suggest you read all of it. I have tried to answer questions that a new comer will have in mind.
Why do jobs on the internet?

Even in financially strong countries, such as USA and UK, the unemployment rate is now above 8 percent. Global recession is making people to look for alternative job opportunities. What will be better than an opportunity that can let people work at home? Many companies, especially smaller ones, cannot afford to hire permanent employees and pay them each month, a fix amount of salary. So a simple solution for these companies is to outsource their work to freelancers [aka Online Employees] using Freelancing-Sites [these are secure and trusted websites].
Employers can hire as many employees, as needed. There is no long term commitment. Users are hired on short term agreements. It can be a few hours, days or weeks job. Once the work is completed and the employer pays the agreed amount of money to the employee, their agreement comes to an end. Once this happens, both parties are then no longer bound to any further commitments.
With this opportunity, people can work independently at the comfort of their home. They can use their Knowledge and Experience to do short term projects for different employers to create a solid income source. Lack of office-job opportunity is just one of many reasons why one can choose to work online. For example: assume that there is a mother of 2 who wishes to earn income for her family but she cannot leave her children alone to go to an office. For some people, leaving children with a baby-sitter is not a feasible option. So what can this mother do? How can she stay at home with her children and at the same time earn money online? Internet has now made it possible for people like her to make a real, legitimate and stable income at home. I personally know many people who can easily do an office job but they choose to work independently as a Freelancer.
Another example of someone wanting to work at home are disabled people. Freelance-markets provides them with simple jobs that they can easily do.
How many jobs are available?
There is no shortage of work. Each day, thousands of new job-listings are made.
Following are links to top freelance sites. Open them in separate windows and signup for a free account. Create your portfolio and apply for few jobs. This will help you understand how things work. I suggest you to come back and keep on reading this tutorial to gain more knowledge.
1. Elance
2. oDesk
3. Witmart
4. 99designs
5. Guru
6. ifreelance
7. Peopleperhour
8. Crowdspring
9. Project4hire
Choosing Employees on Merit
In freelance-markets, job is awarded on merit. A employer from Canada can choose to hire employees from India, Nigeria, Philippine or any other country.
However, each employer has his own criteria for choosing employees. Below are mentioned few signals which helps clients in choosing the best candidate:
Number of Ratings
Each freelance-site has a ratings system. Assume that Rubaka hired Aslam for a job. Aslam completed the work and sent it to Rubaka. After verification Aslam is paid the agreed amount of money. After the payment both Aslam and Rubaka needs to give each other a rating/feedback.
Aslam has to rate Rubaka based on factors including: how quickly she replied to emails, explanation of required work, payment release time etc.
Following are few factors that Rubaka will consider while she give ratings to Aslam: quality of work, time to complete the job, honesty etc.
If a person completes one project, he will get one rating. Clients give 10 out of 10 ratings for a job well done. Some employers consider ratings the main criteria when hiring employees. The more ratings a person has, the more will his chances be to win a project.
Professionalism
Some clients hire freelancers even if they have zero ratings. They do consider ratings a criteria for choosing freelancer but they are willing to hire professional new comers. Assume a freelancer who had work for different companies and has lots of experience. If his presentation is good, he can impress clients. There is a communication system available at freelance-sites which can be used to send a message to the client, telling him about his experience.
Skills/Education/Profile/Experience
Clients love to hire a person who has past experience in the field of work which is related to their job. They can easily check freelancer’s profile to see details about his education, skills and experience. So having a professional looking profile is important.
No Office No Stress No Frustration
Office jobs can be very stressful. There is always a stress to complete work in the given time or else the boss will get upset. One has to listen to all people who are working above him.A boss then his boss and so on. Reaching the office in time in another headache. One also has to worry about his companies financial status. If a company loses profits their office loses employees.
When applying for a job at freelance-site, one has complete freedom to choose the time period in which he is willing to deliver the completed work. No one can force a person to do work quickly. There is no office so no traveling is involved. That’s a big relief.
Solid and Stable Income Source
Freelance-sites had been operating for years and they are growing bigger every day. Forget about recession and start this career to generate a stable and reliable income source.
Full-time or Part-time
A freelancer can work whenever he wishes too. He can choose to do work each day making it a full-time job or he can work on weekends to earn some extra cash. I personally know people who are making a good living online, working as a full-time freelancer.
Winning a Project

After joining a freelance-site, the first goal is to win a project. New comers have zero ratings so not many clients will like to hire them unless a freelancer does something special to impress a client. Winning the first job is tough: very tough indeed. However, some new comers get lucky when some new client hires them due to his lack of experience.
Some new comers who joins these markets are not serious contenders. They are searching internet for ways to get rich quick without doing any work. They are simply wasting their time as we all know that there is no such thing as free money on the internet. Unless a person is willing to do full time or part time online jobs, there is no way to make money online. Secondly, one should know that getting these jobs is no easy task for beginners. New comers have to look for work in these markets for several hours each day. This can go on for weeks without any success.
Competition
Freelance-markets are getting crowded-up by more and more new comers. Each day thousands of new comers join these sites in hope of getting a job. For each project, that a client posts, several freelancers apply. These freelancers contain new comers and also the ones who have high ratings. Sometimes for a single job listing, 100+ freelancers apply!
Staying at Home and Lack of Outdoor activities
Can you sit in front of PC for several hours each day? It is easier said than done. To do online jobs one has to stay at home in front of his PC for several hours each day. If one chooses to enter this field of work then he should create a time-table where he will have some time for exercise.
Recap: what are freelance-sites?
These are websites where clients and freelancers get to do business. They provide a platform where clients can hire freelancers. Every hour, hundreds of clients create new job-listings. To apply for a job, freelancers have to submit a Bid or Proposal. They can do this by clicking few icons and then filling up a simple form. The whole process takes just few minutes to complete.
Apply only for new projects and take things slow and steady. After registration process completes, bid on 2-3 projects just to see how things work. Mention experience, educational credentials and skills in your profile. If a writer has written articles before, which are posted on the internet, then he should post links to the articles in his profile.
For users who have no special skills but have good command over English Language, they can choose to do writing jobs. Look for copywriting projects and read the description. See what kind of work is in demand and how much money is being paid. This is one way of getting experience [by exploring freelance-sites].
Data entry jobs require no skills. One just needs a PC and Internet connection to do this work.
Users having both skill and experience have the best chance to succeed. They just need to work on their Presentation skills. After applying for a job one needs to impress the client which can be done by good presentation.
What if one has skills but no experience?
Open job-listings and look at the descriptions. Get yourself familiarized with the different kinds of job requirements. Try to understand what work is in demand and how much money is being paid. Try to estimate the time required to do a particular job. One can gain experience by just reading project descriptions.
What about users who have no particular skill but have good Command over English language?
Such users can do writing jobs. Copywriting category has sub-categories like: 500 words article writing, press releases, website content etc. Find what the difference is between these sub-categories. Jobs in each sub-category pays differently.
What about data entry?
To do data entry jobs one has to learn few very basic things. There are numerous types of jobs posted under this category. Search and read descriptions of different data entry projects to get familiarized with this work.
Why am I not winning a project?
Unfortunately, winning the first project can be a pain. With all the competition, one needs to work really hard to get his first project. After bidding, some sites allow freelancers to send a message to the client. This one message can make all the difference.
What to write in the message?
It will depend on the type of job required and who the client is. There is not a single message that can be sent to all clients. As one gains experience, he will learn about what to write in these private messages.
Ratings
In the beginning, the goal should be to earn ratings, not money. Ratings give you power to do less work for more money.
Beating the Competition: Each project is bombarded with bids so what can one do to beat the competition?
Stay online a lot. Keep refreshing the freelance site’s homepage or the page where new projects are posted. Look for newly posted projects. New projects gives a window of opportunity to freelancers to be the first one to bid and get noticed by the client.
After bidding quickly prepare the message [to send to the client]. [Note that some freelance-sites do not allow freelancers to send messages. The communication can only start if a client starts the conversation]
If the freelancer have done similar job before then that needs to be mentioned in his message to the client. Freelancers can also send a sample of work. If it is a logo design project then do some brainstorming and come up with a Unique Idea. Create a sample logo and send it along with the message. If required, mention educational credentials. Do something that will make him notice you in a good way. For example: tell the client that you can do this work in 1 day even if you have to work for 12 straight hours.
Don’t waste Bids: You get limited bids on monthly basis: use them wisely.
All freelance-sites offer free membership. One can join for free. These sites do have paid memberships which has some benefits including, allotment of a lot more bids each month. Start as a free-member. Earn money by completing a job then use this money to upgrade membership.
Can you send contact information to employers in private messages?
No one is allowed to exchange any contact information including emails, phone numbers, Chat ID etc.
Learn English
People with no skill and experience can do data entry jobs but the pay for this work is minimum. Writing jobs pay good but to do them, one needs to have good command over English. Find free online courses. Spend few month to improve your writing skills. This can help freelancers to do jobs in copywriting category.
How much can one earn?
Pay for the following jobs is good:
*Programming [PHP, C++, ASP etc]
*Designing Logos, Sites etc
*Making Apps
*SEO
*Copywriting
Pay for Translation jobs is good too. Jobs that pay low are usually posted under data entry category.
I cannot tell how much you will earn as it depends on what kind of job you are doing and how much work you are willing to do in a day. But know that many people are making a living online via this work.
This information is more than enough for anyone to get started. You are welcome to post comments and best of luck.

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