Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Branding Yourself

Librarian Like a Rock Star: Using Your Personal Brand to Promote Your Services and Reach Distant Users appears in the Journal of Library Administration The business world has been using corporate branding and relationship marketing to build customer loyalty and satisfaction. In recent decades, individuals have applied the tenets of branding to themselves to create the idea of personal branding- marketing yourself as your own brand. By thinking in terms of personal branding and relationship marketing, distance education librarians can more effectively reach out to remote students and build long term relationships that are beneficial to both students and librarians (abstract)