Thank You Blogger

In 2007, I was 22 years old and decided I want something out of the internet revolution.
I created this as my first blog. I picked interest in website design, social media and internet business consulting.
I started blogging. The likes of Seth Godin, Gary Vanerchuks, Chris Brogan and Matthew Mullenweg were my inspirations.
I didn't have a PC of my own. Internet Cyber Cafes were few and very expensive. But I struggled to patronise them.

I was always doing what was then called "overnight browsing. Spending hours learning about the internet and the world of online business. I came across several young entrepreneurs that I wanted to be like them.

Down the line, I taught myself how to build a website. Learnt a whole lot of things.
I started a few internet businesses that failed; Kukumart, R2Books, Genius Planet, Midbelt College, Eliaversity, Isaac Pitman to and several others that I can't remember as I type this.

Through it all, the passion is unquenchable. I have gathered a whole lot of experience. I have also made some money. I earned the respect of my peers as an internet savvy dude.

I owe this to Blogger for giving me the opportunity to discover my own path.

Today, I own several internet properties; Obalander, Temm Academy, Moikos.com and still planning to launch more.

Thank you Blogger. Keep inspiring and empowering dreamers to become achievers.

The best is yet to come!

Develop a Strong Personal Brand Online – Part 2

In the first part of my series on how to develop a strong personal brand online, I talked about the human elements of branding, and why you should consider building a strong personal brand. Let’s go into the technology of how this is accomplished. 

The Technology of Brands

My friend and interactive media strategist Adam Broitman calls Google a “reputation management system.” I love it. Essentially, what Google knows is what’s true, as far as the uneducated are concerned. So, how does Google come to accept you as the authority on something? There are a few measurements to that at present.

• Inbound links from other sources – if someone is linking to your website, you must have information of value, especially if that someone who’s doing the linking is important.
• Outbound links to quality material – this is actually more for human love, but certainly helps prove that you’re a lively presence.
• Readable, searchable pages – if Google can tell what you’re talking about at your website, you probably are trying to offer something to the world.
• Constantly updating content – Google values freshness over staleness (don’t we all?)
• Listed in directories – Google wants to know that you’ve submitted your site for inclusion in the more prominent search engines and website directories.
• Mechanical quality – Google has a lot of other things it values, like well-written websites that follow standards, and it’s a little bit of learning to understand them all. Hubspot makes a free Website Grader tool that would help you understand a bit.

Develop a Strong Personal Brand Online Part 1

Gary Vaynerchuk could tell you that his personal brand is worth millions, but he’s modest. My friend and PodCamp co-founder, Christopher S. Penn, often refers to branding by ZeFrank’s definition: “an emotional aftertaste.” ( See the The Show with ZeFrank episode here.) I have some thoughts on how one might develop a strong personal brand online, and what you might do with one, once you build it.
It turns out that I have so many thoughts, that I’m going to break this post up into 3. This will be the first part: Branding Basics.

Why Build a Personal Brand?

You might already know the answer to this question. There are lots of answers, actually, depending on you, your needs, the way the world has shaped you. Let’s look at just one answer.
The easiest answer is that you might want to be memorable, and you might want to transfer your real world reputation into the online world. A strong personal brand is a mix of reputation, trust, attention, and execution. You might want to build a brand around being helpful (what I hope my brand means to you), or being a creative thinker (Kathy Sierra, for instance) or being a dealmaker (Donald Trump), or being a showman (David Lee Roth), or whatever matters most to you, and also what you are capable of sustaining.
A personal brand gives you the ability to stand out in a sea of similar products. In essence, you’re marketing yourself as something different than the rest of the pack. Do you need this? I don’t know. Do you like to be mixed in with the pack?

Online Publicity

Publicity is the lifeblood of your business and in the online world you need to have a presence that’s both wide and deep. This means that the moment your company name is Googled you need to show up more than just your website in order to be taken seriously.

Online publicity that brings up your company name in relation to a wide variety of activities shows that:

• Your company is professionally active in the publicity of its profile and business.
• Your company has a serious presence on the web.
• Your company is active in many areas.
• Your company has a planned publicity campaign in place and is professional about its products and services.

In addition:

• Planned online publicity helps your company profile rise above the level of noise that’s on the web.
• Online publicity becomes an important aspect of your company’s reputation management.
• Online publicity becomes a vital aspect of your online marketing strategy.

Our online publicity services employ a wide variety of search engine metrics designed to allow your company name to appear in as many slots as possible on Google and other major search engines. You can use Online Publicity to promote your company name or you can use it to create momentum behind the launch of a new service or product. Either way what you are achieving is higher online visibility for your company and greater brand awareness, both of which should be part of your strategy for gaining greater market share.

We package Individuals who are Business, Music and even Intellectual icons online too.
One of our Clients is Arome Adaji (Visit his website at http://www.aromeadaji.com/). You can google out his name to see his brand visibilty online. You are the next online.

Contact us for your Personal Branding  or Corporate Publicity today!

Give Me Your Number

I met her and we immediately created instant rapport. We started discussing football, dabbled into politics, fashion, personal philosophies and finally internet.

All of a sudden, she started falling in love with my person just like i was with hers too. Just that she was the first to acknowledge that verbally.She asked me 5 questions in 5 minutes and i gave her answers that she expected. Got more interested in me.Asked me whether I was on facebook. Yes was my answer. Asked me if I have a website, i told her about www.geniusplanetnigeria.com
She asked of what i do for a living. I told her that I'm an Internet Business Consultant with GENIUS PLANET which specialises in in Web Design, Personal Branding and Social Media.

The conversation took another direction since i was now doing the asking and she was answering me to my satisfaction. I went personal to ask about her love life but not with the intention to start a relationship anyway. After all, I'm engaged already. She was a bit reserved and gave me tips about her love life. I also asked about her passion and she told me about her next project at hand. If you hear it you will know that she got some stuff in her. Her type is rare to find. I'm not talking about fake NGO here.

She is from a wealthy home; one of the families that are ruling Nigeria but unassuming and humble. She doesn't believe in class discrimination. No wonder she talked with me.

At last, we sealed a deal to build her personal brand online. What else do you expect? Give me your number of course. And I did exactly that. If she hadn't asked, I would have asked her of her number.

My conclusion:
Be personal,interesting and intelligent enough to end every conversation with a stranger who's interesting with this powerful phrase "Give me your number" This is the true test of a fruitful or result oriented conversation.What do you say?