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You are Special

The brand can be built on one core special quality and other qualities can be added on, in case of more than one special quality. You need a brand to highlight that specialty. It cannot be otherwise, you must have something that sets you apart from the rest. Or do you offer creative ideas, do you solve your customers' service related worries, do you anticipate problems for your clients and offer them solutions ahead? Or is your cost affordable, is your product good, are your dealings polite and pleasing, do you deliver on projects ahead of time? Do you have a distinctive mark about the way you do your job and serve your clients? But everybody is special. Let's not be romantic here.

Here are a few excerpts (some funny ones) that express who they are: In their efforts to improve social transactions they define clearly what kind of people they are going to be associated with and what kind of people they want to stay away from. The Internet is full of blogs and web sites of young kids expressing about whom they are and what they want. Not necessarily for the purpose of going into business, this is an age when young children have their own brands. Self expression is at its best now. This is an age of individuals.

" So I stay away from games that contain too much violence. O "I guess violent video games make you more aggressive.

" O "Wear polka dots so luck will shower all over you!

" Confident (that's how it's spelled in the blog) person, o "I am a cool.

" Hercules is the strongest God. O "I like Hercules because he was a hero.

But you need not be a prodigy to have your own brand. She is a child prodigy and has already been featured on the Oprah show. Akiana is another child artist and poet that has her own web site. His blog on My Space is helping him in his efforts to get noticed and invited to perform. At the age of 11 he has some laudable performances to his credit. Julian Sage Miyata is one such young singer that has his own blog. And song writing or anything else that they are good at, singing, the children also showcase their talents like painting. This is a message to other boys of the same age group having similar thoughts about violent video games so that they can become friends and maybe trade video games. The first statement is issued by a 12 year old boy on his blog.

But more than that the fact that such young people are going ahead to define themselves so openly is the characteristic that typifies the times we are living in, that's remarkable. So the children are using it. The Internet provides the easiest and cheapest option to build a brand. Almost every child that's web savvy tries to build his brand by creating a web site or a blog, it's not only the talented children that have brands.

Why can't you do the same, if children can create their brand simply to have an identity? Or the motivational speaker from having your own brand, athlete, singer, the artist, what stops you the businessman, when the process of branding sets in at such a tender age?