Ryan Stephens Marketing

If you’ve read this blog for any length of time you know that I’m not a fan of resumes, and that I’m a huge proponent of showcasing your ideas via a blog.

When anyone asks me how to enhance their job search I tell them to stop submitting their resume to the black hole that is online job sites (Monster.com, etc.) and starting cultivating their brand online. (There’s much more to it than that, obviously, but I won’t get into that right now).

The point is that while some of you reading this post have already built up your online presence or have taking the initial steps, many of you haven’t, and worse yet you don’t know how to get started.

And that’s where the team over at Brand Yourself.com comes in…

By providing a step-by-step road map the Brand Yourself team (a bunch of good guys FYI) make it very easy to have an online web presence up and running in a very short amount of time. There’s no excuses anymore.

Once you’ve signed up their system will take you through the process of building your very own website, LinkedIn profile and Twitter account. It will teach you how to optimize each to ensure you’re getting the most bang for your buck. Finally, it will show you how to promote your brand/content in the right places effectively.

Another neat feature is their reputation feed that makes it very easy to monitor your brand and stay up to date on industry news, and current trends.

My Verdict: I think this is a valuable, pretty inexpensive service for people looking to bolster their online brand, but aren’t sure how to get started. However, for people that already have good command of how to create a blog and feel they have a strong social media presence it probably doesn’t make as much sense.

If you’d like to give it a try and see what you think the Brand Yourself team has graciously given me 25 free premium memberships for one month to give out to my readers. That should give you more than enough time to acclimate yourself to the features and determine if it’s worth it for you to use the service.

If you’d like one of the memberships please leave your name and the best way to contact you in the comments below, and I’ll send you the promo code. *Please do not e-mail me your request or information as it will likely get lost in the shuffle.*

Finally, these guys provide a lot of value so be on the look out for (and I’ll link to it here once it’s live) their upcoming ebook, “From Tweet to Hired,” which features industry professionals like Gary Vaynerchuk, Brazen Careerist’s Ryan Paugh, Millennial Branding’s Dan Schawbel, myself and more.

Disclosure: – I received free access to the site in exchange for contributing to their upcoming ebook. They asked that I share my experience of their system with my audience, but there was no formal obligation to do so. I wouldn’t recommend anything that didn’t make sense for my readers or something I didn’t believe in.

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