How to Empower Your Digital Persona
Admire Kamutimbe
ICT Consultant: Helping modern leaders deliver value via digital touchpoints
Allow me to introduce you to a side of yourself that you may have been neglecting—the digital version of you. Embracing your digital self can be trans-formative. It opens doors to countless individuals you could never meet in person. The beauty of these digital connections is that they often share your interests, thanks to advanced algorithms.
This broader exposure is crucial for success in our commercial endeavors. As more people get to know you online, they begin to like you and what you represent. This likability eventually turns into trust. This Know-Like-Trust factor has revolutionized commercial sales processes, creating fortunes for digitally savvy individuals. I want to see this happen for you too.
Your digital presence is as real as your physical one. It allows people to see a representation of you based on what you share online. It attracts or repels those who experience you digitally. I've noticed that people are particularly interested in experiencing you digitally, especially if you're an artist. They quickly ask if your art?is available on digital platforms like Sound cloud?or YouTube. If you say yes, they pull out their phones and experience you. If you're not there in person, they click the link to your account or channel and explore it themselves.
Your digital form is critical for your commercial viability. I've seen individuals who excel in managing their digital footprint and link it to their commercial efforts.
So, what does this digital form entail? It involves tapping into the real you and summarizing what makes you unique—your mission, vision, core values, and the specific energy or "vibe" you want people to feel when they encounter your digital assets. This includes colors, fonts, and above all, the message your digital form conveys across various platforms.
Core Parts of Your Digital Form
Messaging
-Mission
-Vision
-Core Values
Vibe
-Energy Type: e.g., Exciting, Energetic, Adventurous
Visuals
-Symbols
-Fonts
-Colours
-Photos
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Touch Points
-Search Engines
-Email Platforms
-Social Media
-SMS
-Telephonic
While this is just the basics, it's essential to highlight one's digital form. Whether you're aware of it or not, society evaluates this side of you and makes significant conclusions. Being part of a specific platform signals to society that you're keeping up with the times and can be trusted with their audience. Businesses have learned to develop and nurture this audience, reaping enormous benefits—from community-driven interventions that save entities from bankruptcy to championing new product introductions and achieving awareness and visibility.
Before diving into the merits of being digitally involved, consider what happens if you don't invest in these platforms. It's possible to live without this technology, but you'd need equivalent efforts to access opportunities. It's doable to be off-grid regarding modern digital platforms' usage.
The basic form of a logo that identifies you digitally has become your profile photo, and on some platforms, your profile video. These are linked to unique addresses like cellphone numbers or email addresses. Our generation often overlooks email services, which is a flaw. Email is a crucial channel that we must invest time in crafting a suitable use-case for our commercial and personal interests. Every major digital service you engage with today requires your email address. This makes your digital form vital, and as you grow digitally, you must also create a use case that allows you to collect others' email addresses and leverage them to promote yourself, your products, services, and communities.
Today, whatever digital form you choose to work with—be it email, social media, or SEO—you'll quickly realize there are many options. Sometimes, it's overwhelming. However, through reviews, you can quickly figure out the best options and your starting point.
Once you decide where and how you want to show up and start showing up, individuals with an ear and eye for what you're publishing will gather around and consume your content. They will return repeatedly and want to see you grow. They support you in ways you share with them.
This simple mechanism creates the Know-Like-Trust factor required in modern markets. People buy from those they know, like, and trust. I call it the KLT factor. It's one of the manageable demand-driving methods for commercial services, products, and initiatives.
With this understanding, you see why attending to your digital footprint is crucial if that's the chosen way of presenting yourself to the masses. On the same note, I've learned of influential individuals who live entirely off-grid from modern digital platforms but have a system that exposes them to high volumes of people.
From there, simplified touch points must be carefully designed to make people want to follow through with your call to action.
Developing your digital form is not enough; it must be supported by building that avenue into a substantial platform?(that becomes a marketing asset), followed by maintenance and innovation to ensure your content keeps up with times and trends.
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