Small Business Branding: The Personal Connection
Business is becoming more and more competitive. Small business is the fastest-growing segment of business in most parts of the world.
And thanks to the Internet, your competitors are no longer just the businesses down the street. They are the businesses in the next town, in the next country and even on the next continent.
So, as the leader of a small business, how do you succeed in a dynamic world of increasing complexity with a much larger set of competitors?
The answer seems too easy to be true: Be yourself.
To succeed with your small business and keep it on the right track, use your personal brand—your unique promise of value. In the world of small business, the corporate brand is the personal brand of its leaders.

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