A conversation with a good friend forced me to put into words some thoughts about “personal branding” I have been mulling over for a couple years:
Try to be famous and you might end up a reality TV star. Try to follow your passions with blind ambition, and you might end up in history books.
#ThoughtsInDraft
There’s no way to guarantee success with a Twitter campaign, but you can stack the odds in your favor by following some simple tips to vastly increase your effectiveness. Here’s how to get the most bang for your tweet…
[ via 5 Secrets of Highly Effective Twitter Users ]
You can go read their suggestions. (I might add, “6. If you write articles about twitter, include a link to your twitter account.” But, that is just me. I’m sure Inc. didn’t give Minda Zetlin a say in the matter.)
Personally, I’d stick with:
And a bonus biased comment: twitter is social, social is relationships, if you need a strategy to your relationships something is broken.
“Here’s the thing … it’s all about the relationships you have w/ your people. And people don’t have relationships with content. They have a relationship w/ you.”
[ via ElizabethPW on chrisbrogan.com ]
I *heart* this so much. Mostly because I have a relationship with Elizabeth, which began at a tweetup with Chris Brogan, from which we have quite a few stories, one of which is related to the brokenheartmanifesto, part of which reminds me of Elizabeth’s comment.
Yes, this matters.
A couple of things have been picking at scabs on my mind:
Before I start connecting all these dots, do you have any to add?
I saw this float down my screen today, and it struck a nerve, because I have the same problem:
At least 12 times yesterday someone asked me, “Do you know [name]?” or, “I was talking to [name] earlier, you know them right?” I had to shrug my shoulders and timidly reply, “I think so?” or, “They sound really familiar…?”. Only to discover five minutes later–once we got into the story a little further–that I *totally* know that person.”
I’m not OK with this.
The why is most easily summed up in Dale Carnegie’s words:
“Remember that a person’s name is to them the sweetest and most important sound in any language.”
The sound! It really does go that deep. As in, chemicals are released into your body when you hear your name. (I have a whole deeper level of thoughts about this. If you are interested, please ask.)
The how is a little more difficult. Even though there are about 170,000,000 results for “how to remember names”, the tricks haven’t helped much so far. But, @chrisbrogan is going to kick my ass if I make any excuses. So, it’s time to own this weakness.
Here is where I could use your help: I am not interested in a tip, or a list of tips. (I could read google results for 37.4 days to get those). But, if you could tell me a story about your own mini or major breakthrough with names, I truly believe that will help etch the skill into my mind. (Another one of those ‘whole deeper level of thoughts’ thing you can ask me about, if you want.)
When did you have a remembering-names-breakthrough?