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&lt;div style="font-size: 11px; font-family: tahoma,arial; height: 26px; padding-top: 2px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;and finally (put your headphones on): Gary Vaynerchuk: Building Personal Brand Within The Social Media Space&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="font-size: 11px; font-family: tahoma,arial; height: 26px; padding-top: 2px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;and finally (put your headphones on): &lt;/span&gt;Gary Vaynerchuk: Building Personal Brand Within The Social Media Space&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  <extract-formatted>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'm working on a new startup / brand and have been doing a lot of reading lately on branding.&#160;This morning I was truly blown away by a presentation called The Brand Gap by Marty Neumeier, which sums up the modern age of branding in 162 genius slides. I liked it so much I bought the book.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As much as I wanted to feature Marty's slideshow alone (it is arguably all you need) there are other sources of inspiration out there, and I have compiled four additional presentations - including one video from&#160;Gary Vaynerchuk - which will help focus minds on the most important factors when trying to establish a brand.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;These presentations can be digested in half an hour or so, and I found them all really helpful. Remember that even if you're 80% on track, there's still 20% scope for improvement. And besides Gary V is always worth tuning into. Enjoy...&lt;/p&gt;</extract-formatted>
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&lt;p&gt;As much as I wanted to feature Marty's slideshow alone (it is arguably all you need) there are other sources of inspiration out there, and I have compiled four additional presentations - including one video from&amp;nbsp;Gary Vaynerchuk - which will help focus minds on the most important factors when trying to establish a brand.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;These presentations can be digested in half an hour or so, and I found them all really helpful. Remember that even if you're 80% on track, there's still 20% scope for improvement. And besides Gary V is always worth tuning into. Enjoy...&lt;/p&gt;</extract-unformatted>
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