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All statements about personal brand

34 statements about personal brand in 22 sources, by upload date.

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2025

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2024

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2023

  • 2023-10-13 · How to Make $10,000/Month Writing Online — Ali: Online writing uses the leverage of the internet to earn far more than traditional writing, Ali says, and builds a personal brand and audience along the way. — 00:01:52
  • 2023-10-13 · How to Make $10,000/Month Writing Online — Ali: Practising writing in public builds an audience, Ali says, so when you write the book you already have readers more likely to pay for it, unlike an unknown first-time author. — 00:04:06
  • 2023-10-13 · How to Make $10,000/Month Writing Online — Ali relays Cole's view that blog and website writing suits businesses and brands more than individuals building a personal brand, who should write on social platforms with a built-in readership. — 00:05:34
  • 2023-12-01 · How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) — recommendation: Ali calls working out what you want to be known for an important step in choosing a career; it need not be something you are good at yet, and can be a new skill, a reputation or a personal brand. — 00:06:08

2022

  • 2022-07-22 · How Much YouTube Paid Me For 10M Views — recommendation: Ali: Asked whether he would name a new personal finance channel after himself or a brand, Ali says he would use his real name, since people prefer to follow people rather than brands. — creator comment

2021

  • 2021-10-08 · The Best Book I've Ever Read about Making Money — Ali: When first growing his YouTube channel and business, Ali spent basically every waking moment outside work and university planning videos and content and working out business strategy. — 00:12:10
  • 2021-11-13 · How I Run this YouTube Channel - Day in the Life — Ali: At a YouTube convention the week before, Ali found fairly successful YouTubers trying to build brands distinct from their personal brands, such as merch, coffee or stationery companies, marketed by but not dependent on themselves. — 00:09:00
  • 2021-11-13 · How I Run this YouTube Channel - Day in the Life — Ali says creators get into it for the autonomy but then find themselves on a hamster wheel of content; he is so entrenched that he would love to build a brand outside himself. — 00:09:25
  • 2021-12-16 (said on 2021-12-03, implied) · How Much Money I Make as a YouTuber (2021)💰 — Ali: The Part-Time YouTuber Academy made about $2.59 million in 2021, over half the business's revenue: scary reliance on one golden goose, Ali says, but good because it is not intrinsically tied to his personal brand. — 00:30:03

2020

  • 2020-03-13 · The KEY Study Techniques for Exam Success — Ali likens this to advice for startups and personal brands: Tim Ferriss has narrowed his brand until he is the only one doing what he does, and being the only one in your category is much easier than competing. — 00:45:52
  • 2020-05-19 · How To Make Money Online - The 3 Levels — Ali: With a personal brand, an audience that knows, likes and trusts you, you can sell goods and services and even sell attention directly through sponsorships, as Ali does. — 00:15:09
  • 2020-08-04 · How to Make Money from your Passion — Sarah Dietschy's line "Sara Dietschy rhymes with peachy" came from a need: people did not know how to pronounce her name. — 00:08:09
  • 2020-08-04 · How to Make Money from your Passion — recommendation: Sarah Dietschy says the most important thing for a brand is that people know how to spell it and how to say it. — 00:08:09
  • 2020-08-04 · How to Make Money from your Passion — recommendation: Ali advises making your real name the brand: it has much more future potential than a brand name, which could typecast you, while your content evolves with you. — 00:09:37

2018

  • 2018-03-07 · Monthly Favourites #2 - Ali Abdaal — Ali is trying to build a personal brand with his YouTube channel: becoming known as an expert in your field by giving people useful content over time. — 00:08:04
  • 2018-03-07 · Monthly Favourites #2 - Ali Abdaal — Ali: Gary Vaynerchuk is CEO of the social media company VaynerMedia and wrote a book in 2009 on the importance of a personal brand. — 00:08:04
  • 2018-03-07 · Monthly Favourites #2 - Ali Abdaal — recommendation: Ali highly recommends Gary Vaynerchuk's Crushing It to anyone into entrepreneurship: it tells stories of people who turned side projects into businesses through a personal brand. — 00:08:35
  • 2018-03-07 · Monthly Favourites #2 - Ali Abdaal — Gary Vaynerchuk (quoted): Gary Vaynerchuk says he does not care whether people buy his book or find it in a library or pirate it: he cares about sharing the content, playing a long game of building a personal brand. — 00:16:11
  • 2018-03-21 · Q & A - 5,000 Subscribers! — Ali is inspired by YouTubers Gary Vaynerchuk, Casey Neistat and Peter McKinnon, who built audiences from the ground up by consistently giving value for free and built a personal brand and business on it. — 00:12:17
  • 2018-10-25 · iPhone XS Max Review - Is it worth it? — Ali: Posting more on Instagram builds memories Ali can share with his grandma and family in Pakistan, and, as a YouTuber, builds his personal brand for later benefits. — 00:08:25