Welcome to the final week of the #LeadWithYourBrandChallenge! Each week in January, Jayzen is breaking down the Lead With Your Brand system into its five steps. Every Tuesday, listen to the podcast & learn about the next step to build your personal brand and help you toward your next Career Breakthrough!  There are even free downloadable worksheets with each step to help you in the process.Step Five : Promote YourselfYou have heard the old saying, “if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it really make a sound?” The same thing is true about your brand. You can do all of the work to put it down on paper and be thoughtful about your actions and your choices. But, if no one is hearing about it, nobody knows about you.There are three ways to really think about this. One is your advertisement. This is what you say about yourself. You control this message. What is your elevator pitch? How do you show up on brand and what do you say in a meeting or on a conference call.Second, is all about your influencers – your SuperFans.  Who are the people that are your brand ambassadors? These SuperFans love you and talk about you when you’re not in the room. What have you done lately to make sure that you are top of their mind?The final element is word-of-mouth. There is no easy solution to this. You must show up on-brand with your actions and behaviors every single day. This is what people say about you when you’re not in the room. This should be an amazing tailwind that helps your brand moving further and faster in the right direction. Without self-management, it could wind up being a headwind that is causing drag on your brand.Jayzen is thrilled to welcome Rick Elmore to the show.  A former player in the NFL, Rick has gone on to be the founder and CEO of Simply Noted - one of the coolest new companies in business!  In this digital age, Rick and his team are recapturing the incredible impact of handwritten notes, only now on a massive scale using the latest robotic technology.Guest BioRick ElmoreFounder and CEOSimply NotedRick Elmore is an entrepreneur, sales and marketing expert, and former college and professional football athlete. As the Founder and CEO of Simply Noted, Rick developed a proprietary technology that puts real pen and ink to paper to scale handwritten communication, helping businesses of all industries scale this unique marketing platform to stand out from their competition and build meaningful relationships with clients, customers, and employees.Founded in 2018 and based in Tempe, Arizona, Simply Noted has grown into a thriving company with clients of various sizes across the country including in hospitality, real estate, insurance, nonprofit, franchise, B2B, and others. Rick has served as the company’s CEO since its founding, for more than three years, and has over a decade of sales and marketing industry experience.Links To learn more about Lead With Your Brand and the Career Breakthrough Mentoring program , please visit LeadWithYourBrand.comTo book Jayzen for a speaking engagement or workshop at your company, visit Jayzenpatria.comPlease connect on Linkedin and all platforms @jayzenpatria