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Your Business Newsletter: What’s Your Brand Personality?

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The first is an attractive personality. In other words, your brand works when: You develop a distinct brand personality. You repeatedly use personality to establish associations with positive emotions. Three “brand personalities” come to mind: The duck. The duck is cute, and so is the gecko and the bunny.

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How to Blog for Your Business Using Personality

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Do you know how to blog for your business using personality yet remaining professional? No, seriously – there’s an ongoing trend to be personal with blogs. If you’re writing for business, you want to connect with your readers by using personal stories. I see it everywhere – blogs, email, newsletters.

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The Scariest Blog: No Personality

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For me it’s a blog or website without any personality. Storytelling and personalization is the key piece in content marketing as I see it. But there’s always more to the story than that: Why did he personally spend considerable time, energy and money creating what he did? What’s the scariest blog post you have ever read?

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Blogging with Personality and Tim Ferriss

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How much personality should you show on your blog without becoming an ego-blogger ? Apparently you can share a lot of personal stories and anecdotes, even become a little outrageous and contrarian, according to Tim Ferris , author of The 4-Hour Workweek and now The 4-Hour Body. Blogging Naked: Personality Is Included.

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Content Marketing Matters: What’s Your Brand Personality?

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The first is an attractive personality. In other words, a company’s brand works when: They develop a distinct brand personality. They repeatedly use personality to establish associations with positive emotions. They repeatedly use personality to establish associations with positive emotions.

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Get Personal: 5 Tips for Putting YOU in Your Blog

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How personal should you be? There’s an ongoing trend to be personal with business communications. Rohit Bhargava’s written a whole book about it, filled with examples of how companies are successfully using personalities to market their business products and services: Personality Not Included. Au contraire.

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Don’t Fall Prey to Auto-Feeds: Your Blog Posts Deserve a Personal Introduction

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You cannot personalize the content. This goes hand-in-hand with personalizing your status update. Here are 4 reasons why you should NOT automatically feed your blog posts into these social media sites: 1. If you want to make your status updates more appealing, post it in the form of a question and ask others to comment.