“Taming the Gorelephant” – a Personal Branding Guide to Tools, Sites and Tactics

There are a lot of cool services out there that can make your personal brand grow – they are the treats for the Gorelephant.

 

Just like peanuts and easily as common, are blog posts, comments, articles and other online listings you can make on a daily basis.  The Gorelephant likes those kind of things – after all, fresh food (read content) is king!

 

As an essential service, the Gorelephant likes to be fed from the large banana tree – those are the major traffic sites – like YouTube, Wikipedia, Facebook and MySpace.

 

To lay down a path for the Gorelephant to calmly walk where you want him, there is Digg, Stumble Upon, Furl, Del.icio.us and more – the list is growing faster than the traffic you can bring to the blog you keep or site you want to spotlight for your own personal brand.

 

Next, you have the socially business-esque networks – which are kind of like the zoo – you can come in and find out about how you tamed the Gorelephant – if you pay at the gate and/or hand in all your info and sign up – the numbers are too many to list, but the usual suspects are:  LinkedIn, Fast Pitch, Xing, Ryze, Sales Spider, Naymz and others.

 

Finally, there is one service to tie them all together – one place where the Gorelephant has no restrictions – other than it must know one thing about you – your name.  For less than $10 a month, QAlias gains you top page on Google and Yahoo for your personal brand id – your name.  It also brings all your links into one central place, noone has to “Zing-Rise-Furl-Link-Digg-SpaceFace or anything else” unless they want to.  Here you get the penthouse view – and the elevator to bring all the things you wish to represent you – to the top.

Andy “Google Me” Greider is a marketing consultant and new business director with Carroll/White and radio show host of business growth solutions show, Uniqueness is Power. Andy is also Brand Manager with qAlias, plus he is a Self Promotion maven, serial entrepreneur, author, blogger, and inventor of the Gorelephant, first eImpressions and networthing.