Is Your Personal Brand Good Enough To Be Called the Best?

If you think it is, then marketing and personal branding guru, Dan Schwabel and his team are looking for you. Each year they launch a contest in search of seven individuals who express personal branding better than anyone else does.

The judging team presents the winners with gold, silver and bronze awards, website emblems and an automatic induction into the Personal Branding Hall of Fame. It gets even better for the first-place gold winner.

In addition to the other prizes, he or she will receive a Personal Branding post, their picture on the front page of the site and a feature story in an upcoming issue of Personal Branding Magazine. The magazine is one of the best sources of branding news and information- and half of its profits go to the American Cancer Society.

What are the criteria? Entries are submitted through a short (and free!) application process and judged on three key areas: branding value, how well you differentiate your personal brand and how successfully you market it. Now is the perfect time to get a head start before the 2008 winner is announced. Polish your brand and create a winning entry for the 2009 award season that will open in November.

It’s a nice incentive to begin building your personal brand. If you’re serious about making a name for yourself and just getting started, there are some great tips to help you identify the Seven Keys to Building Your Personal Brand. Imagine how great it would feel to and what it would do for your business to be named the best at being recognized.