Monday, February 21, 2005

Using Taglines for Memorable Personal Branding


My friend Wendy, owner of CIO Services, used to do a lot of tech support. Although she now focuses more on consulting, writing and speaking, she told me about an old tagline that always generated business.

"When you're ready to throw your computer out the window - give me a call."

It's funny. It's memorable. And it captures the common pain of computer frustration. Think about it: How many people have, at one point, wanted to throw their computer out the window?

Wendy told me that people ALWAYS called back after she said that tagline. And although tech support wasn't exactly the main part of her businesses, it certainly helped open the door! (Or window, as it were.)

Here's a great article from Ibiz Tips about taglines and personal branding.

LET ME ASK YA THIS...

What's your personal branding tagline?

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Scott Ginsberg
Author/Speaker/That guy with the nametag
www.hellomynameisscott.com

4 comments:

My favorite tagline is a quote:

Supposing is good, but finding out is better. - Samuel Clemens

It sums up nicely what I do. I find out (and write about) what users need to know to use products (software for molecular modeling, at my present company)

--Esther

Although I've been known to switch mine up a bit, I've always favored this one...

"Ideas that mean business... and MORE business!"

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