Last week’s podcast was received really well. Thank you for all the kind and encouraging words from new and established readers/listeners. I was very encouraged and pleased with how well everyone thought it went. Thank you!

Eric Pratum
Of all the people that I’ve established relationships with online, Eric is the one that I’ve known the longest. I found his website EricPratum.com when I first started learning about personal branding and online networking. Since then our relationship has developed to the point that we now communicate multiple times a week, if not multiple times a day. He’s someone that is enjoyable to talk to and knows his stuff.

In today’s podcast, Eric shares his story about how he ended up with his website and how social networking enabled him to get his job at Grizzard. (Pronounced like Gri-ZARD, it does not rhyme with gizzard…which I may or may not have thought at one point.) Also there are a lot of good pointers about using personal branding for your career. For those of you who think that personal branding is only for us crazy lifestyle designers or online marketers, think again. Eric presents some compelling reasons for people in ANY type of job to be mindful of their personal brand.

Plus, he uses the phrase “snake oil salesman” at one point. (You know you want to hear that!)

By the way, if you aren’t following him on Twitter already, you should do so: @EricPratum

Mentions
Here are the people mentioned in this week’s podcast:

• Derek Johnson (@thederekjohnson) – Tatango Blog & Big Ideas from a Young Mind
• Mitch Joel (@mitchjoel) – Six Pixels of Seperation
• Chris Pirillo (@chrispirillo) – Chris Pirillo
• Logan Cullen (@LoCul) – My Blahg

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