Branding David

I have seen many blog posts similar to the title I placed on this post, where people, deciding to find ways to cash in on the Internet, especially when they are having career problems, decide to become Internet Marketing specialists, and tell other people how to make money from the Internet.

Starting on day one, they act as though they have more insight and expertise than the millions of people before them, spewing out information that is mostly incorrect in hopes of building a brand for themselves and earning some sizable pay checks.

It might sound great to most, but for someone like me, that has put over three years into making this my business, I am slightly offended, and a little annoyed by these people.

Of course I understand what they are doing, as I was once looking to find ways to make it big online and make big money, but I understood that you had to learn before you can teach and that you had to put in your dues before withdrawing money from the Internet.

Just because the barrier for entry into blogging or building websites is so low, that doesn’t mean you can skip a bunch of steps, so please, if you want to make your career Internet Marketing, I really hope that you will take the time to learn, practice, study, and try out various things before bestowing your “wisdom” on the general web going public, as your mistakes and misinformation negatively impact all of us, despite that not being your intention.

One of the things I am realizing in building and promoting this site is that most companies and a large section of the general public don’t understand branding well enough and even less so when it comes to building brands on the web.

They assume that if they just throw money at people that they will grow their brand or that buzz words will spellbind us all into buying their products, but if you are talking about branding a product, person, or company, what really works? What would be the online branding tip that you think everyone should know?

Leave a comment with your answer or write a post on your blog and let me know about it, and the best tip by November 1st will win a 6 Month Access Pass to Performancing Hive, a great private forum for web developers, designers, bloggers, internet marketers, and real experts in the field of online branding. This is a $60 value, but definitely worth more than that with the amazing people trading secrets, advice and tips on there.

While not a requirement of the contest, I would also love for everyone to sign up for my RSS feed and my newsletter. The newsletter will start early in the new year, and will include tips, thoughts and other advantages over top of what you will see here on the blog.