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The strategic use of person marketing can turn your name or a person’s name into a powerhouse brand. Michael Jordan has his own brand of Nike shoes and apparel.


People can also be thought as a product. Person marketing consist of activities under-taken to create, maintain, or the change attitude towards a particular people.

Grow your business with person marketing.


People ranging from entertainers, and sport figures to professional such as doctors, lawyers, and architects use person marketing to build their reputations and increase business.






Businesses, charities, sports, teams and other organization also use person marketing. Creating and associating with well known personalities often helps your organization to achieve its goal better.


People as brands


Donald Trump has put his well known name on everything from skyscrapers and casinos, to bottled water, magazines, and reality TV programs.


Donald Trump has made and lost fortunes as real estate developer. But Trump’s genius is in brand building, and he is the brand. Say to yourself "i am the brand"


Thanks to tireless self promotion. “The Donald” has established the Trump brand as symbol of quality, luxury, and success. You too can self promote yourself and turn yourself to a successful brand.

Recommended Readings for 2016

Marketing: Real people, Real choices by Michael R. Solomon
Marketing: Real people, Real choices by Michael R. Solomon (7th Edition)

This books are must read to get yourself started for 2016.

Marketing your name is one of the key strategy in brand development. People marketing involves activities undertaken to create, maintain, or change attitudes or behavior toward a particular places, cities, states, regions, and even entire nations to attract tourists, new residents, and companies, offices and factories.


Ideas can also be marketed, whether its the general idea of brushing your teeth or the specific idea that Crest toothpaste established “create smiles everyday”


Here, we narrow our focus to the marketing of social idea. This area has been called social marketing, defined by the social marketing institute as the use of commercial marketing concepts and tools in programs designed to influence individual’s behavior to improve their well-being and that of society.


Social marketing programs include public health campaigns to reduce smoking, alcoholism, drug abuse, and over eating.


Social marketing efforts include environmental campaigns to promote wilderness protection, clean air and conservation. Still others address issues such as family planning, human rights, and racial equality.


But social marketing institute encourages the use of a broad range of marketing tools. Social marketing goes well beyond the promotional “p” of the marketing mix to include every other element to achieve its social change objectives.
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It is never easy becoming a leader as an entrepreneur it obviously determines motivation and self confidence. As never say never attitude. Urgency is energy, what you don’t know, you can learn.

how gut instinct affect your lifestyl

As a leader they are some instincts you need to be aware of, which is gut instincts.

Gut instinct is another leadership quality you have to rely on, it operates in different strategy, which means your team will be telling you a different thing but your gut instinct will be telling you something different entirely.

Gut instinct can often be right and there is a whole range of leaders who can trace their success in business to this key.

Recommended Books to develop your Gut Instinct

Gut Instinct
Intelligence of human nature and Gut instinct
5 rules of trusting your instinct

For example, gut instinct is brilliant at predicting market trend. I am very aware that when leadership ideals are stated in simple, bald words-be decisive, obey your gut instinct and so on- these injunction can often seem rather empty, despite the fact that they may be true. It doesn’t take to work out that a leader needs to be decisive, so just starting the fact isn’t particular useful.

But I’ve always felt that when you hear these qualities discussed by figures your respect, or they emerge from stories and anecdotes you hear, they have a way of becoming more concrete, more persuasive and, in practical terms, more helpful.

This is the reason why, in this promarketingbrand blog, I haven’t set out to write some generalized theory of good management and leadership, but show these principle at work through my own experiences and through the words and deeds of a whole range of people I particularly admire. Please subscribe to this blog for your own passive income generation.

Take communication, for example which is a quality many entrepreneurs and business people think they are brilliant at it, but most are not. All my experience has taught me that leaders have too much sure that the way they communicate both internally and externally, really works. And, not surprisingly, to communicate you need to get close to your team. Your team is your strength.

“If you insist on perfection make the first demands on yourself”.

As, of course, this inevitably leads me on to talk about people. I would totally start with Sir Terry Leachy, the CEO of TESCO, when he talks of hiring the best and making them champions and with Fred Smith, the founder of FedEx, who use a sporting analogy to make the same point. “If you want to win football games, you can’t hire eighty pound skinny lads to play!

In regards to people, my watchwords would be teamwork and how you create it and nurture it. For the business leaders I’ve spoken to, it’s an overwhelming priority.

Communicating your message, to your customers, your investors and your team is a vital skill you must learn.

One of your most important assets is your reputation. Having a good reputation is like a line of credit at the bank that a company can draw upon if it has a problem.

No dreams, no future, as an internet marketer, entrepreneur, investor, you must keep your dreams flaming by setting accomplish able goals.

Entrepreneurs may seem special cases. After all, they’ve invented something and not many of us can claim to have that. But actually anyone can learn from them because they demonstrate often in a particular highly developed form.

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Instructive article indeed. However,most website are dead on arrival because they were not built with the customer in mind.Other aspect that need mention is user exeprience,site reputation and conversion funnel

thanks for your comment

Bglow001:
Can I build my buisness website only with the knowledge of Wordpress? Or will I still need the service of a web developer? Please I need to know.

you will need it..

1. Make sure your design works across a series of pages: internet website usually has more than one page, and not every page works the same way. That means that your design for the page template has to be flexible enough for audience to browse through.

Some pages might have graphic headlines, text and supporting images. Other pages might include, a submit form or some other kind of internet technology.

2. Keep some parts of the template constant: it is important to remember that some design elements won’t change as you move from one page to the next. Logos are another design element that should stay in one place.

what you don't know, you can learn

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Consistency makes your site easier to access and follow. Identifying the location of your constant element first helps you determine how much space you have left over for everything else.

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One of the key issues to understand about the role of advertising is that it plays a critical role in brand development and management. All of us have our understanding of what brand is. After all, we buy brands everyday.

My little definition of brand is a name, term, sign, symbol, or any other features that identifies one seller’s goods and services as distinct from those of other sellers.

Advertising plays significant role in brand management. A brand is in many ways the most precious business asset owned by a firm. It allows your firm to communicate consistently and efficiently with the market.

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A brand can be put at a serious competitive disadvantage without effective communication provided by advertising. For every organization advertising affects brands development and management in five strategic ways.

1. Information and Persuasion: Target audiences learn about brands features and benefits through the message content of advertising and other brand promotional tools. Advertising has the capability to inform or persuade target audience about the value a brand has to offer. Analyst agree that branding is crucially important in the multi-billion cell phone market as Verizon, Sprint, T-mobile, compete for 250 million subscribers.

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In much way, marketing and advertising a cellular service brand is much like marketing and advertising brand of bottled water.

2. Introduction of new brand or brand extension: Advertising is absolutely critical when organization introduce a new brand or extension of new brand to the market. Brand extension is the adaptation of an existing brand to a new product area.

3. Building and maintaining BRAND loyalty among consumer: loyalty to your brand is one of the most important assets your firm can have. Brand loyalty occurs when a consumer repeatedly purchase your brand and tell his or her family and friends. This loyalty can result because your brand name is prominent in your consumers memory

While brand features and benefits are the most important influence or building and maintenance of your brand loyalty, and advertising plays a key role in the process as well.

Advertising and integrated brand promotion often provides an extra incentive to consumers to remain brand loyal so advertising and integration of brand promotion is one the key factor that determines your costumer’s loyalty to your brand.

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Direct marketing can tailor communications that will help build and strengthen lasting and positive relationship with your brand and your costumers such as “online marketing” other promotional tools can offer similarly valuable communication(affiliate link)

4 Creating and image and meaning for a brand: Advertising can communicate how your brand addresses certain needs and desires and therefore plays an important role in attracting customers to your brand that appear to be useful and satisfying. Advertising can help you link your brands image and message to your customer’s social environment and to the culture, and this way actually delivers a sense of personal connection for your consumers and other prospect.

5 Building and maintaining brand loyalty within the trade: It might not seem if wholesalers, distributors, brokers, product promoters, would be brand loyal but they will favor one brand over other given the proper support from a manufacturer. Advertising with other brand promotion is an area where support can be given. Marketers can provide the trade with sale training programs, collateral advertising material, point of purchase advertising displays, premiums, traffic building special events.

Also, remember that trade buyers (retailers, wholesalers, distributors, brokers, content markers) can be a key to the success of a new brand and brand extensions. Marketers have little hope of successfully introducing a brand if there is know cooperation in the trade or promotional channels. Research also shows that retailer acceptance of a brand extension is key to the success of a new products.

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The role of advertising in Revenue and profit generation for your brand

Many believe that the potential purpose to marketing can be state quite simple as to generate revenue. Marketing is the only way or path for you to generate revenue for your brand.

Creating sales as part of the revenue generating process is where advertising plays a vital role, so therefore, advertising communicate persuasive information in the “marketing mix” related to the product, its prices, its distribution. Advertisement communication highlights your brands features, prices, emotion, or availability and then attracts target audience. Therefore, advertising make a genuine contribution to the marketing goal of revenue generation. Notice that advertising contributes to the process of creating sales revenue. But advertising is not alone held responsible for sales; sales occur when a brand has a well-conceived and complete marketing mix

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I love internet, do you? After reading this inspiring content am sure you will love even than I do, lolz, read on.

websites creation and design

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The internet is part of our daily routine, our must do. It’s actually hard and impossible to imagine life without it. It is also hard to imagine any company or business owners trying to do business without the internet.

This internet article is designed to give you your first peak into the wonderful world of internet advertising and branding development and design. At the end of this well packaged internet article you will be creating your online ultimate brand presence. Let’s go together and grow our brand online.

1. The interactive team: when you design your company or business brand, even your products ads for the internet. You will need a professional art director and a copywriter. You can get one here. But you need some other people as well. Seriously, you can"t do it alone. You will need a programmer for technical expertise.

I know you don’t want the technology to overwhelm your creative thinking, but at some extent you will need to know if your ideas are technically feasible. You will need a producer on hand. The producer makes sure that everyone is on the same “page” and keeps track of the many details involved in completing the project. Let’s move on.

Designing for the Internet

This is the four stage process that must be considered before your brand can come online and attract loyal customers.

No matter what accomplishment you make, somebody helps you. Life is inter-connected, nobody gets to his destination without connecting with relevant people.

Stage 1: Research and planning

Anytime you see a great ad campaign, never forget that there is a great strategy behind it. ( Linked to strategy , does this sound familiar it showed) good ad starts with good strategies. Successful Internet ads and sites started the same way. Almost everything started with research and planning. It is a common saying that anyone that fails to plan has already plan to fail.

Designing a Website: The Sitemap

If you asked to build a house? How would you start? Would you just order for brick, lumber and plumber from the building supply store? Install the heating system and then build the walls? Lay the roof before the foundation? Probably not. You would like start by researching and asking some questions. How big will the house be? How many bedrooms will be there? Will the dining room be formal or just an extension of the kitchen? Will there be one bathroom or two? If you didn’t ask questions, then you wouldn’t know what to build or how to build it.

Designing a website online is like building house. The things to do first are to put down your idea on a paper, look at the site-map shown below. Just as a blueprint tells a construction manager how many rooms the house will have, where house doors and windows will go, the sitemap helps a creative team to decide how many pages will be needed and how clients and visitors will move through them. Creativity is finding how things or expressing old truths in new ways. The map helps them make the wise decisions about how the site will look and work. Like I said earlier, “no matter what accomplishment you make, somebody helps you”. You can start designing your website right away.

Step 2: concepts

After you have an approved site map, you’re ready and set to start developing design concepts. Because of the way Internets sites are built, you have to develop concepts for both the content and the page template. Let’s think of it as developing the “look and feel”.

Some art directors prefer to use a computer with design software while others prefer to create their concepts as a simple sketch, the idea is the same. It is very important to capture the basic concept than it is to come up with a completed design.

Remember that you are looking for interaction, not just a reaction. In traditional advertising, your ad is considered successful if you encourage a reaction in your audience. Janine Carlson, director of strategic marketing and principal at Icon communication, illustrated that the greater challenge facing online marketers; “you can’t be satisfied with getting a reaction. You have to spark and be interactive. One is simply-second exchange with your audience. The other opens the door for an ongoing relationship. And that should be the goal for anyone working in advertising and marketing company.

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Some people think that the greatest investment is on properties and equipment, but it’s not really that. The most valuable investment you can make is in another person or entity.

If you intend to extend your life through project it will one day vaporize. Ask yourself who am I investing to produce better leadership that will lead my company and business in the future.

Investing on people is the greatest investment you can ever make. Don’t die with your knowledge pass it on because they are the instrument of posterity and people that will keep your legacy alive in the future.

Physical buildings, products, monuments are not guarantee to perpetuate or decide your legacy and vision after you are left this world.

No matter how talented you are in doing business, you not truly successful, worse still you will soon vaporize if you don’t reproduce another business guru as good as you are or even better than you.

Knowing quite well that he/she will push your legacy and exploits further to another generation.

Inspire them to be what they were created to be, your ultimate goal should be how to train them to become leaders and to lead people to independence when you are gone because you won’t live ever.

You have to know that your success and effectiveness as a leader is rated by the weaker degree your follower’s dependency on you. The less they need you, which mean you are doing a good work.

It is clear that it’s not all that people call success that are truly success, it’s because successful people are people who make succession plan.

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One of the importance of leadership in business or anywhere is preparing those who will fill the position of leadership in the future and carry on your work and legacy. Your success is rated to the extent your successors go.

Your success and achievement in business and other things are failure if your vision dies with you.

Your success and achievement is made to be trans-generational.

You are not called to maintain followers; you are created to raise successors that will take over after you are gone. There is no star that shines permanently, your shining is for a season, when you no longer shine, and it is your successor you put forward.

To a great extent, select few trusted people share your knowledge, skills, experience and your resources with them. Correct them when they do wrong, give them responsibilities and trust them to make them believe that you have a future with them.

Finally, what do you think is the best investment?… please your contribution is needed for others to take advice and use their discretion in utilizing them for their own benefits.

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The demand for petroleum products will constantly be on the increase due to the larger volumes of consumption by the mega manufacturing industries, banks, eateries, government, & private housing estate, shopping complexes, schools, homes and care.

How to start and succeed in oil and gas business

1. Vision: the first thing you need to succeed in life and business is not money but vision. This means you have a clear mental picture of what you want your oil business to look like. For instance, if you have plans to become like one of the giants in the oil and gas industry, one thing you must know is that Rome was not built in a day.

The giant companies, like capital oil and gas, Zenon, started very small but today they are major forces to be reckoned within the industry. The most important thing is to have a vision of where you are going to and how to take calculated steps to get there.

2. Planning: this is the process of establishing one’s goal and suitable course of action of achieving those goals. You can only succeed with quality planning, without planning business success becomes a mirage. Planning helps you to determine the following:

How: planning determines how you should go about your business operation. The “how” is what defines your method of services or operation to satisfying your clients. It also determines your system of packaging that will make your business run smoothly with the last tension.

The first major step in planning is the selection of goals for business. Once goals are determined, the next step is to organize methods for achieving those goals in a systematic manner.

Planning essentially produces a picture of desirable future for your business. The worst thing that can happen to anyone is jumping into business ventures without proper planning and paper planning.

Planning helps us to develop a great level of mental and physical tenderness which is expressed in an inner peace from the knowledge that we are putting forth our best efforts.

Where: This means the most suitable location for your oil business to thrive. For instance, if you start your oil business in a place with less traffic of people you will definitely do the buying yourself or in an area where people don’t reside. Choosing the right location in your oil business it will guarantee a remarkable success for you.

When: Here, we are talking about timing. Every business success is determined by the proper usage of time. If you rise up early to start selling product you will be having advantage of dealing with those customers that are early workers who will be patronizing you, that means exchanging good cash for your products. So, timing is very important. There are also certain seasons when the prices of products rises and falls at such times wisdom demands that you flow with a competitive market price.

Whom: Working with the right people is a great factor for success in your business. You must determine who should work with you by putting down certain measures that will prove their integrity and honesty. Working with the wrong type of people is the beginning of failure in business. You must employ basic physiological principles or test to identify the right team.


There are different temperaments that determine or define true personality of individuals. For simple analysis, let consider three types of person.

1. The yesterday people: These are the people that are concerned about your past and never seeing any bright future for you. They tend to limit and under estimate your ability to succeed. Watch out for these types of people who only celebrate the past. Past success is an upgraded failure in the present. Ignore them; keep moving forward to achieving all your dreams. Don’t look back.

2. The today people: These are the people who speak positively things to you. They motivate you to succeed. They also believe in your ability and see bright future for you. They are also very particular about your plans and tend to advice you in the right direction. However, they could give positive criticism for possible corrections. These are the kinds of people you need in your team in order to succeed in your endeavors.

3. The tomorrow people: This group is further divided into two groups. The positive tomorrow people and the negative tomorrow people. The positive tomorrow people are always celebrating your success of yesterday, today and for the future. They speak positive things into your future because they believe in you and in your ability to perform and succeed.

There are the types of people you also need in your team. They are very supportive and co-operative. While the negative tomorrow people tend to speak negative things concerning your dreams and on their own part they live on procrastination never achieving anything worthwhile. Avoid these of people as much as possible.

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The process of acquiring a very high sense of information seeking and capability to follow through to actualization is called motivation.

A person is motivated when his dreams become very real to him. He develops a strong urge to follow this dream. This will drive you to seek any relevant information that will lead to its actualization.

Motivation starts with the desire to be free, to be free from dependency on others, to be free to live the lifestyle you dream of and to be free to explore ideas.

Total freedom is not desirable or possible, but the struggle to achieve that ideal is the basic for motivation.

The three basic elements that motivation is built ON

1. Motivation starts with a need, vision, dream or desire to achieve the seemingly impossible. Creativity is associated with ideas, projects and goals, which can be considered a path to freedom.

2. Developing a love-to-learn lifestyle, become involved with risky ventures and continually seek new opportunities.

3. Develop the ability to overcome barriers and to bounce back from discouragement or failure. Achievers learn to tolerate the agony of failure. In any worthwhile endeavors, barriers and failure will be there.

Bouncing back require creative thinking as it is a learning process. In addition, bounce back requires starting again at square one.

A loss of any one part of motivation is on the rocks. For example:

1. If you like to be creative and love to learn but cannot face up to failure, you will not go back and try again. Persistent is associated with bouncing back.

2. If you have a unique idea but do not like taking risks, idea is all you will ever have.

3. There must be something in your life that turns you on. Remember, money is not a goal; it is a reward for achieving a goal.

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Only you can determine how high and how far your personal brand or business brand can go.

You are the pilot that determines the attitude, speed and direction of your personal brand with personal brand examples of great entrepreneurs, benchmark the best brand and develop your brand.

Only you can determine how high your personal brand can go and overtake your competitors. You are the pilot of the aircraft in your personal brand.

Focus on your strength and work on your weakness, be eager to learn, and do proper planning (plan on papers). You are the architect of your personal brand success and failure same to applies to your lifestyle.

You must envision your steps because if don’t know where you’re going, no one can possible can, and if you don’t have clear vision you will possibly fail.

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Think and come up with new ideas, this is an important area for you as it determines your rate for expansion in your personal branding and daily lifestyle.

personal branding.

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Be determined to take risk in business e.g. starting business which has equal chance of success and failure.

In addition, beware of the importance of planning and make right decision, and control all aspect of your business operations. You cannot afford to vacate the driver’s seat of the vehicle of your personal brand for someone else who will destroy it.

Only you can envision the next stage you desire to get in all areas of your personal brand.

Be a self starter, do it now, when you don’t how to do something, START. Beware of paralysis of analysis. Be a person of action.

Steps that motivates1. Think success: possess an attitude of openness and faith that you can have what you want if you can simply envisions it. To attain success in your personal brand you need to think and dream big and have a clear vision of what you want to achieve.

2. Focus on your strength and work on your weakness: you cannot know everything, so to be effective, you need to study your strength and focus on it. Seek assistance in areas that you are weak.

3. Take action when confronted with unfamiliar business situation: when you recognize an opportunity take advantage of them as long as they are window good. Don’t wait for people to act first, be a self starter.\

Implementation and accomplishment of new ideas is a key characteristic that determine how far your personal brand can go. Now is the time to reach that goal.

Except you passionately champion the cause you truly believe in, no one will follow you. It is when you take action, that others will follow you. You are the main. Influence in the equation of your business.

Identify the next level you want to reach. Develop the mental picture and make it so vivid or clear.

Initiate these practical steps that will help you get your personal brand desired destination. “SMART”

S- Specific

M- Measurable (measure your success and loss).

A- Attainable (set achievable goals either long term or short term goals).

R- Relevant / Realistic.

T- Time (set goals and measure your time it’s been accomplished. Time is money).

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Finally, you must be motivated when you are doing business either internal or external.

Internal motivator: self motivation, learn to motivate your self

External motivator: motivation from parents, relations, friends and guardians.

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