For Those Who Are an Overnight Success and For Those Who Aren’t a Video Series From Chris Brogan
These videos are from Chris Brogan’s Over Night Success Series. There are 9 videos total covering topics such as Grinding vs Clocking – Time and the Overnight Success, Pity Party, Small Talk is Big, Belief Systems, The Competition, What it Takes, No Excuses & A Call to Arms. These videos are great even if you aren’t an over night success, even if you aren’t a success. 
These 3 are my favorite (although it was hard to pick)
Take time off – I’ve said it before you need your down time but I’m always happy to point out when others say the same thing. :-)
Don’t believe the hype – I included this one because Chris says – by over night success I mean 10 years of hard work.
Here’s another bag of money – on excuses. We all make excuses that become between us and our goals. Decide what your priorities are. Stop making excuses.
Monitor your brand
Carie Lewis has a great guide to monitoring your brand using iGoogle, it’s easy, free and most of us already have a Google account, plus it pulls all the information into one place.
She includes 5 different categories:
- Brand – mentions of your name, including acronyms, misspellings, etc
- Current – issues that people are talking about that involve you right now
- Detractors – people you know don’t like you but talk about you
- Competition – people in the same space as you
- Staff – prominent people in your org, like your CEO
And includes a great list of places you should monitoring:
- Google Alerts – I hope you know what they are and are already using them!
- Filtrbox – a paid monitoring service to make sure we catch everything
- Tweetmeme – tells you the most popular tweets about a subject
- Twitter Search – shows tweets containing a certain keyword (we don’t use this anymore because we use Tweetdeck separately)
- Technorati – shows blogs that mention certain keywords
- Blogpulse – another blog monitoring tool
- Digg – shows most popular articles on the web
- Boardreader – shows forum posts by keyword
Some additional readings
- 100 Personal Branding Tactics Using Social Media
- Top 10 Free Tools for Monitoring Your Brand’s Reputation
- 9 Free Tools To Monitor Your Online Presence
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