{"id":480,"date":"2012-04-16T18:14:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T01:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debij.com\/blog\/?p=480"},"modified":"2012-04-16T18:14:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T01:14:44","slug":"branding-an-ongoing-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/debij.com\/blog\/branding-an-ongoing-saga\/","title":{"rendered":"Branding: An Ongoing Saga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Am I the only one who&#8217;s still figuring out who she is in this big world of Internet Marketing? I feel like the whole &#8220;who exactly am I&#8221; is taking forever!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that I don&#8217;t know what my strengths &amp; weaknesses are.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m <strong>honest<\/strong> &#8211; to a point sometimes that drives my friends crazy.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m <strong>intuitive \u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; it used to scare me, but I&#8217;ve learned to embrace the fact that I pick up on who people &#8220;truly&#8221; are really fast.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m a <strong>big kid<\/strong> &#8211; yes, I have as much fun in Toys &#8216;R&#8217; Us now as I did when my son was 2, and if I don&#8217;t know what something&#8217;s called, I just make up words to describe them (I&#8217;ll have to explain the whole &#8220;Tron Monster\/Big Creepy&#8221; thing sometime).<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m\u00a0<strong>aware<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; there&#8217;s a ton of things that go on in life that people don&#8217;t see, even if it&#8217;s right under their noses, and they&#8217;re actually shocked when they realize what they&#8217;ve been missing.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m a teacher &#8211; not in the &#8220;I have students&#8221; sense, but in the sense that if people don&#8217;t know something that I do and they ask me about it, I&#8217;m willing to take the time and explain it in 10 different ways if that&#8217;s what it takes for them to &#8220;get it&#8221;. \u00a0I hate it when I don&#8217;t know something and the only people I can find are those who can only explain it one way&#8230;and in a way that I still can&#8217;t understand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, so far all I know is that I&#8217;m a <strong>HIBAT<\/strong>&#8230;how awesome. Maybe I can put that at the top of my website and just let people guess what it means! LOL<\/p>\n<p>The issue for me is how do I turn what I know about me into a coherent brand? A way to express what it is I am, what I do, what I stand for&#8230;something that shouts &#8220;THIS IS ME!&#8221; Maybe I don&#8217;t need to shout at all. Maybe as I keep moving forward with what I&#8217;m doing it will start getting clearer to me (and anyone who might be willing to read what I have to say).<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I&#8217;ll keep moving forward&#8230;keep thinking it thru&#8230;keep doing the steps that the likes of Tiffany and Peggy and Ruth offer so that I can follow in their footsteps&#8230;and I&#8217;ll get there!<\/p>\n<p>Until then&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am I the only one who&#8217;s still figuring out who she is in this big world of Internet Marketing? I feel like the whole &#8220;who exactly am I&#8221; is taking forever! It&#8217;s not that I don&#8217;t know what my strengths &amp; weaknesses are. I&#8217;m honest &#8211; to a point sometimes that drives my friends crazy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[275],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-branding","tag-branding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/debij.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/debij.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/debij.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/debij.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/debij.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/debij.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"http:\/\/debij.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/debij.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/debij.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/debij.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}