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The Next Level of Personal Branding Event Recap

Tuesday evening’s “Personal Branding” event was absolutely amazing. Dani Tifft, Next Level’s Membership Master, tells me that we had 40 people in the house. For an event held right after the 4th of July, I think that is pretty darn cool.

I thought I would use this week’s post to create networking connections as that is what we do here at Next Level Executives.

First, please follow me, Dani, and NextLevelTweets on Twitter so you can be kept in the loop on the day to day happenings of NLE life. See my recent post on why Twitter is a powerful personal branding tool to get the full scoop on why you need to be tweeting.

Second, you should give serious consideration to forming or joining a networking group if you are not already participating in one. Of course I am a little biased toward Next Level Executives but whether you choose NLE, BNI or some other networking organization is not the point. The value of meeting with other business people on a regular and consistent basis is key to your reaping the rewards of deep business relationships.

Third, register today to attend PodCamp Boston. Whether you left Tuesday’s event with your head spinning or you think you have this stuff down, you need to go to PodCamp. There will be a healthy mix of social media experts and newbies alike. Trust me on this. Go.

Okay, enough of the hard sell. Let’s connect you with some of the other attendees.

I’d be remiss if I did not begin with our tremendous guest speakers:

  • John “The Job-Guy” Bates will forever be remembered as an unflappable presenter as he handled the PowerPoint craziness with incredible grace and style. The big takeaway for me from John’s presentation is that the market doesn’t care what you think you are good at or what you want to sell. Find out what the market wants to buy and what it is will to pay and position yourself there. Connect to John on LinkedIn.
  • Dan Schawbel rocked the room with both his tremendous accomplishments for someone of such a young age and his comprehensive Web 2.0 personal branding content. To paraphrase Dan’s overall message, “look social media and Web 2.0 are here to stay and you ignore it at your own peril.” The good thing according to Dan is that engaging with this new medium is not overly difficult and it can be a lot of fun so “just get started.” Connect to Dan on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

And now for the most important connections…YOU. Without you the event would have been quite lame. While you may have come for the excellent content, I suspect you also came to meet some new and exciting people. One quick look at the list of attendees below lends me to believe you found just such a group.

Notice the following things about this list:

  1. Most of the attendees are business owners or control people
  2. Clicking a name or a business name performs the Google search that gave us the numbers we provided at the door. Note: We did an exact search on the names provided via the registration page. Chances are this is NOT how people would search for you or your business.
  3. Some people have websites and blogs next to their names. Give these links a click and explore. If there is no website or blog next to a name it means one was not provided during the registration process.
  4. We failed to capture social media contact info during the registration process. While I have it for most people I thought it would be fun to use this blog post to engage you. If you would like to connect to the people on this list please leave a comment with your contact points. Examples: NLE Community, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, your blog page and so on.

I am also very interested to hear your thoughts on the event. How did it go? Was it a success or did we drop the ball? Do you feel the event was valuable to you and your business? Are you sorry you missed it if you were unable to attend?

Lastly, don’t forget to Tweet about the event over on Twitter. Below are some of the Tweets so far:


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5 Responses to “The Next Level of Personal Branding Event Recap”

  1. Debra Murphy Says:
    July 11th, 2008 at 4:08 pm

    Mike - all my social media connections are listed on my Masterful Marketing website/blog (they are combined in the link you gave above). Looking forward to “social networking” with the folks there.

    Thanks for organizing the event.

  2. peter caputa Says:
    July 11th, 2008 at 4:41 pm

    Great job on the event, Mike and Dani! Dan and John delivered informative presentations. And the networking was great. And unlike almost all other events, you guys did a great job helping people connect before, during and after the event. Well done. Register me impressed.

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    July 23rd, 2008 at 7:29 am

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