Fri 11 Mar 2005
Do you have any personal trademarks? What do people know you for? If you don’t have a trademark, should you? Could be something as silly as having a color you always wear, or as deep as being known as a fantastic listener. And you can have more then one. How would you go about building your personal brand?
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March 11th, 2005 at 9:52 am
Hm…at this point my signature item seems to be my children. Something about each one of them has defined me, and I think I am officially known as “that woman with all those kids from different countries”. So…my brand would have some sort of cool stripe with the varying skin tones..from deepest Black African to lightest Scandinavian.
How’s that? *Grin*
March 11th, 2005 at 9:58 am
The question is that how you want to be defined?
March 11th, 2005 at 10:13 am
It doesn’t matter how I want to be seen…I thought you were asking how I AM seen and how that would become a brand.
FWIW, I do not mind at all being defined as their mother. What I mind is being swallowed whole by it. Big difference and one I struggle with, as you well know.
March 11th, 2005 at 10:19 am
My brand would be called “Earth Tones” and the look would be stripes and dots of varying skin tones in a rectangle shape…the product?…um…bandaids in different flesh tones…paper in all tones…markers in all tones…crayons in all tones…wrapping papers and bags and bows in all the tones with stripes adn dots…a few children’s bibs with the stripes/dots…and maybe I would sometimes focus on one color and have a special line for the “Black girl” where the shirts have a little Black girl with a wild ‘fro coming out from the material…little Black girl would be on the panties and the socks and the hem of the pants…maybe?
I dunno…just off the top of my head.
March 11th, 2005 at 10:56 am
Would you please stop me now?
The shirts for the Black girl line would have attitude…sleeves are striped or polkadots or both…bodice is one color…the little Black girl is saying things like “Braids are cool” or “don’t touch the ‘do” or “sand is SO out”…
maybe there is one called “little Asian boy”…funky tshirts that are a lite brown with the binding being the cool stripes or something…that have a little boy on the front..he is saying “it’s an Asian thang” or “made in China” or “made in Taiwan” or “the eyes are cool”
How about a little Black boy tshirt…he has the wild fro sticking out all around and he says, “go with the ‘fro” or “the Blacker the berry..” or “future beautiful Black man”…
STOP ME NOW!
March 11th, 2005 at 11:01 am
Not sure……does it come in a purple bag?
March 11th, 2005 at 1:52 pm
Hmm…I am really defined as a mom. Amazing how that emcompasses your entire life after a while. (not that I mind at all) I am often told by friends that they try to be more like me when they parent. (Odd…because I can certainly point out my faults without the magnifying glass). But I guess that’s how I am defined…perhaps patient? Easy going? Don’t know, don’t care…it’s who I am naturally and I have no desire at this point in my life to change that.
March 11th, 2005 at 6:48 pm
Two comments others have made about me spring to mind.
From my mother: “You say the things that other people only think.”
From a former employer: “We probably weren’t paying her enough for her intelligence.”
Brutal honesty and underpaid intelligence. Those are my trademarks.
March 12th, 2005 at 3:56 pm
Instead of thinking about my current brand, I’m thinking of my new “line” I’m coming out with. For some of us, right now doesn’t matter. More important is what we want our brand to be. Here’s a holla to all the girls that are reinventing themselves.
March 13th, 2005 at 7:12 pm
My trademark is saying “Morning” as a general greeting. It’s nt something I want to be known for, I just am.