Social media is like a blank canvas for both personal and work life. Depending on how you use it, you can draw attention to your expertise and establish a solid reputation in your industry. There's no doubt that there's an important place for personal branding on social media.

2019 has been a blowout year -- with exciting initiatives inside the PR and marketing sphere. It's been a wonderful year for new tactics and tools, as well as new studies with powerful insights into how we form our strategy.

Personal branding has risen in popularity over the past few years -- and with that popularity, we've also seen mistakes pop up. Which begs the question, how can you create a personal brand while avoiding the biggest pitfalls along the way? Let's discuss that question.

Today you can't have a robust business without a solid personal brand. But it's not always easy to know where to start. That's why I wanted to share with you a list of 15 personal branding experts whose content will help you to develop and polish your own brand.

Say you need surgery. Would you go to a doctor who hasn't updated his techniques for the last 10 or 15 years? Of course not! New and better techniques have since come out and you want someone familiar with those. The same is true with your PR strategy. You want to be sure that you're using the latest PR trends and techniques.

Personal branding puts you in front of your brand instead of behind it. It's not about dressing you up and giving you a script. It is about taking you -- the person you really are -- and showing your audience what you're all about. 

A dependable B2B content marketing strategy has become a mainstay in many businesses. But many companies are hitting a wall -- not notching all the results that they want. What should they do?

Say you notice a water spot on your ceiling. Would you demand an entire, new roof? Of course not. You would take the time to examine where it has come from and how to patch it. The same can be said of content marketing in B2B. Many businesses are noticing issues -- but these issues are easily fixed by examining your strategy and finding ways to improve it.

Fifteen years ago, if you had told me that PR and social media were going to work together and that we would use social media for PR, I may have chuckled.

Ironically, despite the ballyhoo and effusions, PR is facing its own PR crisis. It turns out PR folks (myself included) aren't master communicators when it comes to our own profession. A recent study showed that a significant number of executives don't believe that PR delivers good value for their brand. What can we do to combat this?

Before you panic, let's look at this as a doctor would a patient. Let's discover what the problem is, decipher the root cause, and prescribe the best remedy.

Influencer marketing strategy, although being fairly new to the B2B marketing mix, has changed a lot since its first use, particularly in the B2B space. What's different in the B2B marketing strategy? How can you use it to its best advantage in your own strategy?