Learn From Well Branded Student Meagan Burns - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Learn From Well Branded Student Meagan Burns - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career I came across Meagan Burns, a Junior at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, when she followed me on Twitter.  After checking out her web presence, I was struck how well shed successfully hit on the fundamentals of personal branding. Shes also built a seriously awesome online presence. You should take a page out of Meagans book. Heres why. Visuals I was immediately drawn in by Meagans Twitter background choice. Talk about visually branded. Her Twitter profile visuals are also consistent with the background of her personal site,  MeaganBurns.com. Are you using unique, consistent visuals to reinforce your personal brand? Bio Meagans Twitter bio reads: Im a SVA Graphic Design Student living in NYC. I love typography and bright colors! Its refreshing to find a two-sentence bio that hits the facts and shows the human side. Shes a student, shes studying Graphic Design, she lives in NYC, she loves typography, and lets face it I love bright colors she has personality.  Are you using bios on your web profiles to effectively give a taste of who you really are? Web Portfolio Meagan does killer work. But her presentation of her work is what really caught my eye. Its obvious that she really cares about what she does.  Do you have a web portfolio that powerfully showcases your accomplishments, and conveys the effort you put into displaying it? Reachable Meagans contact info, web profiles and downloadable resume are right at the top of her site. Shes made herself ridiculously easy to reach. How easy are you to reach? If I wanted to,  how  easily can I find your contact info, profiles and resume online? What You Can Learn From Meagan Meagan is an excellent example a young careerist blazing her own trail on the web. Over 75 million people a day do people searches in Google. If you dont capture their attention in the first five seconds, youve probably already lost them to another website. So take this page out of Meagans book and be sure to: Use unique  visuals  consistently across the web to strengthen your brand. Craft a short  bio  that reveals your personality. Develop a  web portfolio  to showcase what youve done. Make your  contact info  and  resume  dead simple to find. Meagans full bio: Im a Junior at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and I couldnt be happier. Ive learned the ins and outs of typography, color, and most importantly the good, the bad, and the plain old ugly. I am fluent in the Adobe Suite, know HTML, CSS and am currently learning flash. Ive been designing websites on my own for about 7 years. My typography skills are borderline obsessive; poorly done type makes my eyes hurt and I get way too passionate about typefaces. Most importantly, I am an extremely flexible designer who knows the importance of understanding the client and audience. Check out Meagans work at  MeaganBurns.com. Author: Pete Kistler is a leading Online Reputation Management expert for Generation Y, a top 5 finalist for Entrepreneur Magazine’s College Entrepreneur of 2009, one of the Top 30 Definitive Personal Branding Experts on Twitter, a widely read career development blogger, and a Judge for the 2009 Personal Brand Awards. Pete manages strategic vision for Brand-Yourself.com, the first online reputation management platform for job applicants, named one of the Top 100 Most Innovative College Startups in the U.S.