59 of 67 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Timely Book on Importance of Personal Branding, 13 April 2009
By Douglas Haider "WiFi Jedi" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Paperback)
This book is one of the few recent books that covers personal branding. I feel like this was a timely book in the fact that the importance of personal branding is growing day by day.
The first few pages of the book are riddled with strong references, including Marshall Goldsmith, Keith Ferrazzi, Tim Sanders, David Meerman Scott, and others.
I also thought that one of the main strengths of the book was that it was well structured. The author uses four distinct steps (discover, create, communicate, and maintain) as a part of personal branding.
The target audience of this book is Generation Y. Many of the examples reference college, internships, getting your first job, etc. I am glad that the book is targeting to a specific audience, but unfortunately I felt that the material was less useful to Generation X, Baby Boomers, and other generations.
That being said, the author tells an upbeat, yet pragmatic story about the importance of personal branding. It reads fairly quickly, and I'm sure almost everyone will pick up a few tips and tricks about how to improve their own unique brand.
40 of 47 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Exceptional Insight for Anyone Looking to Brand for Success, 30 Mar 2009
By Maria Reyes-McDavis "Social Marketing with Im... - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Paperback)
Dan Schawbel has hit the nail on the personal/professional branding game, on every page in his book. It's become an absolute necessity for any person, whether part of Gen Y or not. Professional, author, entrepreneur, blogger -- he's provided actionable steps to help anyone really leverage their most valuable asset -- their brand.
Good stuff, definite must read if you're serious about success.
Maria Reyes-McDavis
Social Marketing Techie
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59 of 71 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Awesome book on online social media, 9 April 2009
By Jeffrey Davis "cfpfinancalguy" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Paperback)
Whether you are a newbie to the job seeking scene, re-entering it or just feel a little lost about the vast world of online social media, this book is for you! In this book, Dan does a great job of showing you how to make the best use accessing the many avenues of internet media to further your current career or help you jump start a new one. I picked this book up because I felt overwhelmed by all of the online social media like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, blogs, etc and could not find a good source that would teach me what these are, how they are impacting our culture and why I need to get on the boat of understanding them so I don't get left behind. I also have a 14 year old son who is using this kind of media and I felt it important to 'be in the know' in order to protect him online. This book offers a complete solution to this -- all in one location and is an easy read. Good Job Dan --- and Thank You!
--- Jeff Davis (www.cfpfinancialguy.com)