New D.I.T. announced for January.
New Do-IT-Together club starts Wed, January 20, 2010 in West Los Angeles with live video stream so attendees can attend from anywhere!
Do-It-Together Club for Entrepreneurs
Business and career success is NOT a D.I.Y., solo effort. Get sales skills, presentation skills, personal branding and social media training in a 2-hour workshop every month PLUS MUCH MORE! NEW SESSION STARTS JANUARY 20, 2010.
Join our live 2-hour workshop – live by Ustream. Call for location: 1-888-GO-NANCE
This is not a one-time “content blast.” It’s a learning process backed up with a system that I personally designed to get you on track to success with customers, prospects, employees, suppliers, and investors. It will change the way you speak and work forever – and get you where you want to go in business and life.
Workshops $400/mo. PLUS BONUSES value: $2300, now just $149/mo.
You get the 6 monthly workshops, PLUS 6 broadcasts, 2 site visits, 6 webinars, 6 study guides, 6 workbooks and 2 personal coaching sessions! Unlimited download archive access for video, webinar, audio + e-books.
PLUS Nance’s entire Communication Leadership Library of books and training video/audio. This is $2300 value for just $149/month for 6 months.
Act Now – New club starts Wed, Jan 20, 2010 in West LA!
For a quick look at the event look at our Do It together Video!
Sign up on our site!
If You Suck, Your Personal Brand Does, Too
Personal branding is not shameless, endless self-promotion. It’s not direct messaging me with your faux request to “take this IQ test and see if you’re smarter than me.” It’s not directing me to your website with every post. It’s not seeing yourself as the epicenter of everything to do with your industry, category, talent, idea, or area of expertise. It’s not starting every conversation with “I…”
Maybe you shouldn’t be personal branding quite yet. Here’s a quick self-assessment to tell you if you need 
to keep your personal brand really personal right now.
- You don’t shower everyday.
- You’re been house-bound since Oprah’s announcement.
- You’ve been blocked for stalking or spamming.
The list could get pretty long, but you get the idea. You can’t be fundamentally anti-social, greedy, jealous, boring, self-centered, creepy or anything else that ensures you’ll be someone’s ex-husband (or ex-wife) someday (or again) and do yourself proud in personal branding. You have to lift the other end of the couch, not sit on it, while your roommate is moving out – unless he’s trying to take your couch.
Consider what’s real for you. Maybe you don’t have even a smidgeon of the mensch gene, that is, you’re a person with little or no empathy for others. You don’t connect with people in person. You don’t consider public service anything but a way organizations sucker people into doing free work for freeloaders. You’d 
like to compete in the Special Olympics because you’re not in any way challenged, so the odds are really good you’ll win.
Social media merely amplifies your personal brand
In that case, you just might quietly get into group therapy before letting us all know the real you. Seriously, you aren’t doing anyone any good – especially yourself and the company you represent – by using social media to broadcast just what a lout you are. Of course, if this cautionary post doesn’t apply to you, then print it out (wear gloves so it can’t be traced) and put it on the desk of someone who it applies to.
What brought all this on? A recent YouTube video on personal branding by Carlos Mandelbaum poked holes in my personal branding bubble.
Plus, perhaps like you, I have found too many of my friends do too little to report, yet they report way too often on Facebook. For example, a whole lot of people tell me when they’re turning in for the night or that they’re coloring a girlfriend’s hair before baking brownies in their hometown in Kansas (I live in LA, so no brownies for me; hence, I don’t want to know). A lot of the chatter reminds me of flying to Hong Kong from Los Angeles, lying next to a stranger (business class seats go all the way down). For 20 hours I knew everything about this woman, in real time and in the mini-series she relayed of her past.
Preparation is key
Before you make another social media move or affix your name badge at the next mixer, be ready with no 
less than 3 entries for these categories:
- Unusual facts or advanced tips that can help a person move forward in your area of interest.
- Experts in your field that you can learn from and connect with, along with a question you want to ask them.
- Reasons why you want to serve and lead your tribe.
