Audiobranding and Its Importance to Your Personal Brand: New Ways to Communicate Our Messages Through Sound

Introduction

Nowadays the importance of audio gains points in the field of personal branding. Internet favors largely interactivity between transmitter and receiver, generating a feedback once nonexistent or very difficult to take place. In his radio theory, the German writer and poet Bertolt Brecht commented that radio, media-based audio transmission, should be able not only to send a message but also receive messages from listeners to know the effect that this had occurred. A radio that not only broadcasted but also was able to receive, something unusual for the time when he proclaimed his theory, between 1927 and 1932, but today takes a relatively large force through social media and the high degree of connection users (Brecht, 1927). In 1995, another visionary Nicholas Negroponte in this case, he dared to venture that we were moving into a world in which people would be permanently connected. It was undoubtedly the digital world well recounted in his text (Negroponte, 1995). Twenty years later, most people have a high technological dependence. A study by Nokia in 2012 revealed that each person looking at his smartphone 150 times a day, approximately every six minutes. Tomi Ahonen, a former manager of the company's mobile terminals, exposed in one of his lectures an update of this study, where it was shown that by 2014 smartphone users looked at him 221 times a day, about every 4 minutes and 18 seconds approximately. This technological dependence means that companies must be present in the mobile market, where customers will access more easily, so you can interact with them.

Traditionally it is said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but not only of image lives the Personnel Branding. The voice is a communication tool that transmits non-verbal communication. “Studies also show that although someone we like it at first, the attraction can disappear right away, how they communicate, especially because of his voice, because the most important is not what someone says but how he says” (Glass, 1994: 205-206). For this reason, the voice becomes very important in radio, so it is one of the four pillars of which Balsebre listed as elements of radio language, along with music, sound effects, all without forgetting the silence.

The information and communications technology (ICT) make it possible to communicate is at the reach of our hand and, further, to communicate through audio, or video, there is something available to media technologies high cost and inaccessible licenses. The live audio transmission, which by streaming or podcasting, radio programs or parts of prerecorded audio, hosted on the network and synchronized with users who have previously subscribed, known are some of the tools based on the audio will help to project our brand image on the Internet. There are specialized podcasts in areas or sections, in most cases, are related to the tastes of the creator of the same, but also include the existence of online radio stations in which the value of the brand is praised. It is specialized radios whose emission is done via the Internet and that allow us to strengthen our self-image or our brand or product. In this chapter we will take care to publicize some success stories, and review some of the platforms where our pieces to accommodate audio or podcasts, so that our potential customers can go to them.