By: Anand. S
Branded.me is a personal Website builder that helps you create a fully customizable Website within seconds.
Its functionality & features are pretty much in line with those of any of the major blog platforms you might have created a blog on.
This includes your own free subdomain (xyz.Branded.me), ready-to-use themes & theme changes, etc.
Even the premium version where you pay US $7/month follows the same blog platform model where you are get to use your own domain & email.
The innovative part here is that you can sign up using your LinkedIn account & automatically populate your new Website using information that’s already on your LinkedIn page.
So you could simply sign up on Branded.me using your LinkedIn account & use their personal Website builder to create your site within seconds by selecting a theme & importing information into it from LinkedIn.
Your Branded.me Website willl be mobile friendly & is automatically optimized for phones & Tablets. You can use one of their available themes like stacked, sidebar or cards, & switch themes at any time without having to do anything else.
The company recently teamed up with the .ME Registry to announce the results of a study linking personal Websites to career success.
The study shows 71% of respondents as saying that having a Website is either very important or important in helping build their personal brand. Also, 70% said that their Websites were either very important or important for attracting new opportunities. An equal 70% also said that employers reviewed their Online brand before they were interviewed.
The San Francisco, CA-based Branded.me was founded in July 2014 by Nick Macario, who is the company’s CEO.
Macario said in a statement “…we created Branded.me to empower individuals of all generations & skill levels to take control of their personal brand & we couldn’t be more excited to team up with .ME to bring the first research of its kind to market around personal websites.”
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