Product Description
Personal Branding for Entrepreneurs: Actions and insights to build Brand YOU, the foundation of your business
Author: Donna Rachelson
Format: Paperback
provides quick-fire, practical advice and real-life examples and success stories to help entrepreneurs build and market their own personal brands. In today’s fast-paced, interconnected world, you need to have a personal brand, apart from that of your company. If you haven’t already got one, you need to start cultivating it into something of your choosing before it becomes defined by those around you.
Learn what your personal brand is, why it’s critical to your success as an entrepreneur and what you need to do to grow, maintain and nurture it. Donna Rachelson , a specialist in branding and marketing, and the author of three books, distils and shares her insights from years of experience in helping entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses through the building of their authentic personal brands.
Jam-packed with easily digestible nuggets of information and easy-to-apply actions, and with contributions from seven other entrepreneurs from different industries and at different stages of their personal branding journeys, Personal Branding for Entrepreneurs is a must-have in any entrepreneur’s personal development toolkit.
Contributors: GIL OVED – Co-founder of The Creative Counsel, COO of LLH Capital, TV personality (known for his work on Dragons’ Den and Shark Tank) and passion-fuelled optimist MOGAU SESHOENE – Founder of The Lazy Makoti and author of The Lazy Makoti’s Guide to the Kitchen DES and SIMON STEADMAN – Co-owners of Ultimate Adventures, a self-drive 4×4 tour company and the official tour operator for the SA4x4 Overland Adventure magazine MICHAEL HEWSON – Founder and Director at Graphene Economics™, a specialist African transfer pricing advisory firm DR DORY NEU-NER – an Ophthalmic Surgeon KEITH BOTHONGO – Founder and Executive Chairman of the Bothongo Group, lawyer, philanthropist and South Africa’s first black property value.
About the Author
Donna Rachelson, the author of Personal Branding for Entrepreneurs, is a driven entrepreneur with a passion for helping women, entrepreneurs and corporate go-getters make their mark. She is an active advocate for diversity and firmly believes in the power of inclusion. She drives her agenda through the books she has written, talks, workshops and lobbying the ecosystem for change. Before becoming an entrepreneur and business investor, Donna held a number of marketing director positions in organisations including Nando’s and the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants, as well as marketing management positions at Standard Bank and AECI. She believes she can brand and market anything from chicken to explosives and chartered accountants. She has a fascination for personal and team branding and its impact on business growth. Donna founded Branding & Marketing YOU – a business focused on helping people develop and grow their personal brands as well as helping women get ahead in the workplace. She also plays an active role in Seed Engine (which includes Seed Academy and the WDB Growth Fund) as a director and shareholder where the focus is on supporting women and youth entrepreneurs to build and grow their businesses. Donna is the author of three previous books: The best-sellers Branding & Marketing YOU and Play to Win: What Women Can Learn from Men in Business; and Branding & Marketing YOU through Teams. She has a solid business education, including an MBA, and is a guest lecturer at GIBS. Donna was awarded the winner of the CEO Magazine Business Women of the Year and was named as one of the ‘Top 50 South African Women to Watch’ by Entrepreneur magazine in 2018.
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