Personal Branding Tip 162 · Relationships
Tell the Story You Always Repeat
Pick the story you tell friends most often, a funny mistake or a childhood moment, and if the context fits, tell it to your audience this week.
Take It With You
Download the card for a feed, a story or a link, or share it straight from your phone. Please keep the MCG mark on it.
Why It Works
Sharing stories from your own life is one of the best ways to build rapport through your personal brand.
Where It Comes From
- Source
- Personal Branding: A Manifesto on Fame and Influence, subchapter 4.14, The Art of Storytelling
- Category
- Relationships: The people who know you, and the people they know.
- In the Series
- Tip 162 of 365. One tip leads each day, in order, and the cycle begins again after the last.
Relationships
More on Relationships
Tip 166 · RelationshipsEnd With an Invitation to ReplyClose your next post or episode with a direct question for your audience, then answer every person who responds.
Tip 170 · RelationshipsPair I With You in AsksWrite your next call to action in first and second person together, such as “I would love for you to follow me here.”
Tip 183 · RelationshipsPitch Your Idols as a PeerRewrite your next outreach: drop “biggest fan”, name one specific thing they did, say what you do in a sentence and make a clear request.
Engagements
Your name is already being interpreted. The question is who are they, and what are they thinking?
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