Wear Your Personal Brand Colors with Pride

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  Yellow. It is the color of champions; the color that 198 of the world's best cyclists race for every July in the Tour de France.  It is the color of the 'maillot jaune' - the 'yellow jersey' - the ultimate prize in professional cycling. Cyclists dream of wearing this color and dread the prospect of losing it. It symbolizes power, tenacity, honor, and pride. It unites a team, a country, and even the world. The yellow jersey is an excellent example of the psychological and emotional impact of color. Companies use color in many different ways to evoke a reaction and to solidify a brand in people's minds. Whether it is Tiffany's robin's-egg blue box, UPS' brown trucks, Coke's red cans, or the Tour de France's yellow jersey, we immediately identify with these brands by their color. What's Your Personal Brand's Color? Just as companies brand themselves with color, your personal brand needs its own color. Your brand colors become part of the visual vocabulary that makes an … [Read more...]

Take a Break and Let Your Brand Recover

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I am an active person and when I am feeling stressed or anxious my cure is to jump on my bicycle and head for the mountains. My own personal brand attributes include "action" and "energy." So when I suffer from an injury, muscle strain, or cold it is hard to resist the temptation to just 'suck it up' and ride anyway. However, every athletic person will tell you that you need to let your body recover. Pushing yourself through an injury will only make things worse. By resting you actually bounce back stronger than before. I had to remind myself about this recently after a back injury was preventing me from my regular rides. Is Your Brand Suffering from a Set Back? When we decide to embark on the personal branding process we are so energized to do as much as we can to be our brands. We get feedback from others about our brand attributes, we start creating the online and offline tools to communicate our brand, and we consistently and constantly manage our brands in our daily … [Read more...]