{"id":13702,"date":"2013-03-26T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shareaholic.com\/?p=13702"},"modified":"2014-04-07T11:46:47","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T15:46:47","slug":"personal-branding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/personal-branding\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Maintain Your Personal Brand Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Slide1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-13707\" alt=\"quick tip 10\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Slide1.png\" width=\"576\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Slide1.png 720w, https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Slide1-640x400.png 640w, https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Slide1-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Slide1-400x250.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The blogosphere is <i>crowded<\/i>. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2012\/06\/22\/data-created-every-minute\/\">Every minute of the day<\/a>, 347 WordPress users publish a new blog post<\/strong>\u2014and that\u2019s not taking into account the usage from any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/best-blogging-platform\/\">other blog platform<\/a>. For bloggers, this means it\u2019s becoming harder and harder to stand out from the crowd and showcase your unique viewpoint.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that can help you be noticed by your current and future fans is to develop a personal brand. Like a company, you can develop a brand to set you apart from your \u201ccompetitors\u201d. Through your tone, your interactions with fellow bloggers, the content you create on your blog and the content you share on social media, you can separate yourself from the pack of other bloggers out there. Though it is essential to being successful blogging, creating a personal brand for your blog actually requires a ton of upkeep.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, we\u2019re here to help. Use <a href=\"https:\/\/shareaholic.com\/channels\">Shareaholic Channels<\/a> to discover the latest and greatest in our network of 200,000 websites and blogs in almost every category you can think of instead of searching through the internet jungle and hoping to find an awesome blog to follow. Use that content to fuel your own blog post creation or share it on social media as an extension of your brand with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/tools\/browser\">Shareaholic Browser Extension<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I personally browse Channels first thing in the morning then use <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bufferapp.com\/3-new-powerful-ways-to-use-buffer\">Buffer<\/a> in my <a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/shareaholic-for-google-ch\/kbmipnjdeifmobkhgogdnomkihhgojep?hl=en\">Shareaholic Chrome Extension<\/a> to schedule out my favorite posts of the day\u2014that way I\u2019m still sharing great content throughout the day without having to manually tweet every post I like.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you want to be the next Martha Stewart or land a social media gig with your blog, you should think about building your personal brand\u2014just make sure you\u2019re using the right tools to save yourself time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blogosphere is crowded. Every minute of the day, 347 WordPress users publish a new blog post\u2014and that\u2019s not taking into account the usage from&hellip;&nbsp;<br \/><a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/personal-branding\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":13707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[521],"tags":[402],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}