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https://www10plusbrand.com https://www.10PlusProfile.com 1-888-288-4533 Sign up for 10 Plus Brand’s Newsletter: https://10plusbrand.substack.com/embed 10 Plus Brand’s Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@10plusbrand 10 Plus Brand Inc.’s founder, CEO Joanne Z. Tan started the first episode of #10PlusPodcast on July 5, 2019. Since then, we have produced hundreds of episodes on brand building and digital marketing tips, which are always thought provoking and cutting edge, as well as in-depth Interviews of Notables and Influencers, and 30 Seconds of Anything on various current affairs. Over various podcast platforms and social media, there are hundreds of thousands of downloads. Our 10 Plus Brand Newsletter, distributed by Substack, has tens of thousands of subscribers, and counting. The high quality content covers various subjects of current events, technology, AI, brand building and marketing, life experiences, Joanne Tan’s poems and memoir, culture and the arts. 10 Plus Brand is a full service digital agency, we build brands and market brands for B2B companies, startups, consulting and executive coaching firms, as well as individual personal branding for leaders. We won multiple prestigious awards year after year, as ”the best of the best” in brand consulting, brand coaching, branding, and digital marketing. Specifically, we create high quality, customized content, based on brand strategies, positioning, structures, and storytelling, for websites and social media. We have a proprietary process for decoding brand DNA, building SEO architecture, and amplifying brand messages with ghost writing authoritative and original blog posts, to elevate successful businesses to be powerful brands. We also deliver quality brand promotional videos, custom-coded websites, email newsletters, LinkedIn and social media thought leadership profiles, and LinkedIn badges related content creation. Results: Some of the B2B companies that we served have scored 25% increase in clientele three years in a row and counting; most of our clients have obtained more right-fitting customers, increased business volume and revenues as well as their brands’ stature and influence in their fields. Joanne Tan, a global brand strategist, brand marketing consultant, branding expert, creative director at 10 Plus Brand, Inc., regularly shares tips and cutting edge information about brand building, DNA decoding, brand building, brand marketing, brand development & management, brand messaging, business and marketing strategies, go to market and product market fit analyses & tactics, market analyses, analytics, AI Experience Design, SEO, social media marketing, influencer marketing. 10 Plus Brand Inc. is a full-service, multi-media branding and brand-marketing agency. We are recognized both as the global champion as well as in specialty areas such as one of the best digital marketing, advertising, SEO agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area and nationally. It serves clients in all 50 states in the US, and throughout the world. 10 Plus Brand combines AI enabled digital content marketing with human intelligence to multiply a brand’s influence with repurposed articles, ghost writing, original content, advertising campaigns, blogging, website development, design, content, and SEO, brand promotion videos, photos, logos, brand look and feel, SEO, SEM, PPC, AI experience design, etc. Joanne led the agency’s evolution over the past 10 years from a photographic studio (“Poem And Art Studio”) into a video, content, website and visuals production company (“Joanne Tan Visual Branding, LLC”), which was later expanded and renamed as “10+ Visual Branding”, and now as a corporation - “10 Plus Brand, Inc.” that is fast growing as a full service branding, digital marketing, SEO, video production & advertising agency. 10 Plus Brand’s main ”flagship” website is https://www.10PlusBrand.com, that features samples of their various deliverables for small businesses, mid market, technology companies, funded entrepreneurship, or venture capital VC backed startups, non-profits, law firms, accounting firms, investment bankers, business consulting firms, post M&A companies needing rebranding or in private equity (PE) portfolios, and B2B and B2C companies. 10 Plus Brand also has a ”subsidiary” website that focuses on LinkedIn profiling only - https://www.10PlusProfile.com. 10 Plus Profile Teams develop individual brands, professional or business brands with LinkedIn profiles on both individual & company pages. They further revise bios, resumes for public & private board members, C-suites members, executive coaches & business consultants, commercial insurance brokers, attorneys, CPAs, and other B2B service providers & professionals. Joanne Tan applies her proprietary multidisciplinary process, and many skills, talents, & backgrounds: (1) a law degree that trained her with both analytical skills & the ability to outline vast amount of information to its gist. (2) professional journalist editor and page designer. Also trained in architectural design, which enables out of box thinking. (3) MBA training in marketing, accounting and other areas of business such as insurance and organizational behavior. (4) Award-winning professional photographic artist, oil painter & poet. (5) Liberal arts education at Brandeis University. (6) Mentor, coach, director. 10 Plus Brand will offer online courses & workshops on brand building and brand marketing. Founder, CEO, Brand Strategist Joanne Tan leads several cross-functioning teams to deliver customized brand presence to inform, inspire and empower. As a “Commander in Chief”, Joanne leads these Teams: – highly skilled & talented writers & editors with JD or MBA degrees; digital content marketing & SEO experts; – Experienced video production crew, scriptwriter, director, videographer, photographers, graphic designers, motion graphic designers; producer & director of brand promotional videos, ads, TV commercials; – Skilled website custom coders, designers and web developers, experts in SEO, PPC, Google Core Web Vitals. ”First, we are brand builders. We use our proprietary process to decode brand DNA. Second, we are content creators. Third, we are digital marketers.” Says Joanne. ”First, we are brand builders. We brand, rebrand, and refresh existing brands for businesses, B2B services, technology companies, funded or VC-backed startups, corporations, mid-market companies, non-profit organizations, private equity portfolio companies during restructuring or pre and post M&A. We also develop individual business brands for business leaders, experienced and growth-minded professionals, notables and influencers. Second, we are content creators. After we decode a brand’s DNA, we create brand messaging and tell brand stories, verbally and visually, to construct a brand’s persona and elevate its stature on websites and social media with original content, blogs, podcast, videos, vlogs, custom website design and development, LinkedIn business pages and personal profiles, webinars, and PR content. We also deliver social media marketing & advertising campaigns. 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Wednesday Aug 27, 2025
Wednesday Aug 27, 2025
Even the most brilliant minds stumble on one of the most common mistakes in naming. For 15 years, Joanne Z. Tan has witnessed this pattern while helping leaders and companies with corporate identity, renaming, branding, and rebranding.
Create business names that are both "user-friendly and owner-proprietary", said Joanne Z. Tan.
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Think about it:
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What’s Amazon got to do with the river? Nothing.
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What’s Apple got to do with the fruit? Nothing.
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What’s Axion got to do with house cleaning products? Nothing.
That’s exactly the point. A strong business name doesn’t have to describe the product or service—it needs to be short, crisp (2–3 syllables), easy to remember, and owner-proprietary. Names like Apple, Nvidia, or Google work because they’re simple and open for the brand to define.
Done right, naming gives you control of your own story without letting others reframe it. Done wrong, it can box you in for years, and make you lose control of its ownership.
How do you get it right? That’s a deep, tailored process. Joanne Z. Tan, with nearly two decades of experience in brand identity and corporate naming, unpacks these ideas further in her upcoming book Brand Building and Thought Leadership Coaching in the AI Age.
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Is it time to reinvent, rename, rebrand your organization?
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Sunday Aug 17, 2025
Sunday Aug 17, 2025
There is nothing morbid or fearful about the thought of death. It is the final equalizer. “Begin with the end in mind,” said Stephen Covey.
PRETEND that your doctor told you that you have two years to live (God forbid). What will you let go or stop doing? What will you regret that you never did? What will you start doing right now?
Sometimes the easiest way to reset a computer is to turn it off and back on again.
In life, we can leverage the thought of mortality to reset our priorities. We can simplify and clarify what’s important. It lets us see what we missed.
The reminder of our own mortality makes us humble, grateful, peaceful, and focused. It helps us let go of distractions, keep our eyes on the horizon, stay true to ourselves, and rejoice in living.
It makes us appreciate our relationships and simple things that we’ve taken for granted.
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Stay tuned for my next one-minute “Sip of Solace - Thought Leadership Coaching Tips”.
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Monday Aug 11, 2025
Monday Aug 11, 2025
Aging is a blessing. Who knows, perhaps the best time to pursue your dreams starts in your 60's! Stay healthy, curious, and active to reinvent and rebrand yourself. "Boomers will be late bloomers", said Joanne Z. Tan, brand builder and thought leadership coach.
Hint: What 66-year-old Jamie Lee Curtis said about her best years...
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Saturday Aug 09, 2025
Saturday Aug 09, 2025
As AGI (artificial general intelligence) is fast approaching at super human level, not just entry level jobs will be replaced, but traditional leadership roles as well. To beat AGI, leaders need thought leader coaching to develop solid, authentic, and original thought leadership. Joanne. Z. Tan shares how.
This episode combines all 3 parts previously published. It includes why thought leadership is needed in the AI age, what is thought leadership, what is thought leadership coaching, and why the time is now to develop it.
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Saturday Aug 09, 2025
Saturday Aug 09, 2025
Everyone is feeling some anxiety while AI is disrupting everything with lightning speed. How to stay calm AND at the same time make your loved ones happy?
Hint: You need to be DOING something, such as...
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Friday Aug 08, 2025
Friday Aug 08, 2025
What are the 5 ways for a thought leadership coach to accelerate your thought leadership journey?
This Part 3 is the third and last 4-minute segment of a 3-part "Five Ways to Build Thought Leadership in the Age of AI".
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What is a thought leadership coach? -Thought leadership coaching is a specialized professional service that helps leaders such as CEOs, founders, executives, coaches, board members, and experts become recognized as authoritative voices, influencers, and thought leaders in their fields.
A thought leadership coach can help leaders in at least five areas:
(1st) Discover new ideas that set you apart, to strategically position them as thought leaders;
(2nd) Build a personal brand or professional brand;
(3rd) Content strategy and content creation;
(4th) Amplify and distribute thought leading content on media outlets, to foster trust and recognition, and increase visibility by engaging the target audience.
(5th) Performance coaching
The humbling fact is that no one can become a thought leader on his or her own. In the age of AI, human to human interdependency is needed more than ever to develop EQ, team building, relationship skills, and other qualities mentioned in Pt. 2.
The time to reinvent yourself is now.
Control your destiny with self leadership.
If you need an initial consultation, please use the contact form on 10PlusBrand.com
(The above is an introduction to Joanne Z. Tan’s upcoming book: “Brand Building and Thought Leadership Coaching in the AI Age”. Joanne will share parts of the book in her newsletter on Substack, you can get a sneak preview of the book by subscribing at: https://10plusbrand.substack.com/embed )
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Friday Aug 08, 2025
Friday Aug 08, 2025
What are the 5 ways to build thought leadership?
This Part 2 is the second 3-minute segment of a 3-part "Five Ways to Build Thought Leadership in the Age of AI".
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Thought leadership in the AI Age is multifaceted, multi-disciplinary, and multidimensional. It is a combination of at least five elements, based upon a whole-person approach:
First, Vision, Principle, Character. Perhaps the most important characteristic of thought leadership is to “stand for something.”
Thought leaders lead with vision, foresight, and a commanding view of a bigger picture. They are driven by purpose, mission, and goals, and so are their organizations.
Second, Originality. You cannot be a thought LEADER by recycling AI generated ideas.
Thought leaders must be innovative thinkers. They bring unique insights to their teams and organizations. They encourage others to think differently, and foster a culture of innovation by making it safe to experiment and fail.
Third, EQ.
AI can’t replace human-to-human connections. Teamwork and collaboration, based on EQ and intrinsic motivation, has become an important facet of thought leadership.
Fourth, Curiosity.
Fifth, Inter-disciplinary.
(In the 3rd and final segment, you will learn how a thought leadership coach can help, in at least five ways.)
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Thursday Aug 07, 2025
Thursday Aug 07, 2025
Thought leadership building: Why do you need it? What is the ROI? Why now? Will AGI replace CEOs?
This Part 1 is the first 3-minute segment of a 3-part "Five Ways to Build Thought Leadership in the Age of AI".
To be called a thought leader is more than a marketing or promotional technique. Thought leadership is really another way of building relationships per co-author Cindy Anderson: “Thought leadership is not a marketing campaign. It’s not an ad. It’s not a news article. It’s a long-term relationship building, brand-building approach.” Find out what, why, and when.
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Sunday Aug 03, 2025
Sunday Aug 03, 2025
Jensen Huang on why AI will be indispensable, how he uses AI, synthetic data and AI generated knowledge in 10 years to be 99% on all AIs, and his own American Dream.
This Part 3 is the third and last 10-minute segment of a 3-part recording of Jensen Huang’s entire 30-minute talk in Stanford on July 26, 2025.
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Part 3 Summary: Jensen Huang advised young people to learn how to reason and break things down to first principles. To know what the first principles are: “Go to school!” In answering the concerns about human collective intelligence of managing the collective intelligence of AGI, Jensen Huang stated that “... human generated knowledge and human generated data would today be 99%, in about 10 years it will probably be 1%. The vast majority of human knowledge will be generated by AI. It will be AI generated data that the other AIs learn from,...it’s going to be synthetic generated intelligence. …that's just intelligence, it is not a big deal, It's just data…that the amount of AI generated knowledge is to be incredibly high.”
- (Comments from Joanne Z. Tan:) I respectfully disagree with Jensen Huang regarding synthetic data: I wrote an article (link below) seven months ago, analogizing the danger of synthetic data to Norman Rockwell’s famous painting, “The Gossips”. What may start as a story about a “cat”, may end up being about an “elephant” after being passed through 15 people. It is therefore important to label data either as originating from a source or as synthetic, before being used to train AI and becoming untraceable, to avoid misinformation that can cause catastrophes like a financial market meltdown. Here is my article:
- https://10plusbrand.com/2025/01/13/synthetic-data-ai-toxic-assets-financial-crises-2008-1987-joanne-z-tan/
- This point is echoed by a prominent expert in the AI fintech industry, who was also a chief data officer at both state and federal government levels, in the “Interviews of Notables and Influencers”. The subheadings about synthetic data speak for themselves: https://10plusbrand.com/2025/04/07/ai-future-synthetic-data-ai-mistakes-ai-governance-crypto-regulations-knowledge-economy-tammy-roust-interview-joanne-z-tan/
- (At 46’21”): “Untagged synthetic data pose systemic risks; model collapse; The real danders from AI hallucination”
- (At 49’56”): “Need for auto tagging of synthetic data when it is being generated and used; the danger of group think” and “We need to have a human consensus mechanism & AI governance committee to correct AI’s mistakes”.
Jensen Huang said this about AI: “You want the smartest friends? You want the most productive friends?...go engage AI as fast as possible, because they’re super, super smart and they're going to help you solve problems.”
“It's also the case that we want second opinions, and third opinions. I use multiple AIs at the same time solving the same problems. And I take the answers from one and I give it to the other one. I'll make the second one judge the first one: What do you think about this answer?...And I ask each one of them to produce, you know, based on everything that you’ve now learned, why don’t you reflect on what I told you and what I gave you, and then give me a better answer. And so you notice I'm interacting with AI the way I interact with people, I want them on my side, I want them to work with me.”
- (Comments from Joanne Z. Tan:) The above sounds like circular reasoning to me. If nothing is done to label synthetic data used by all AI models, what makes their second and third opinions any more reliable?
- Without holding AI accountable by resorting to “first principle thinking” that Jensen Huang has applied over and over, what makes AI smarter or credible?
- Assuming that Jensen Huang’s preference for human control over AI tools is not hijacked by AI yet, AI is threatening human intelligence with this “double whammy”:
- By automating tasks, AI will take away the OPPORTUNITY for humans to learn the basic skills that train their minds to advance to higher level positions;
- By relinquishing analytical and critical thinking to AI, human mental acuity will be degraded. Without doing the thinking ourselves to practice and strengthen the skills, humanity will lose reasoning CAPABILITY by relying on AI.
Finally, Jensen reflected on the American melting pot, amazing opportunities, and the rule of law for both immigrants and Americans. He said it is a combination that is “SO delicate, … it depends on so many things working together, …. It is not a guarantee, … I really hate to see us squander that… I hope that we continue to protect that.”
Regarding the competition between China and the US, he said “competition is great, but conflict is less good.” He cautioned that what is going on between governments and countries ought not to be conflated with how individual American Chinese who are pursuing the American Dream are treated.
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Saturday Aug 02, 2025
Saturday Aug 02, 2025
“AI is about solving these cognitive, reasoning, planning, and search problems.” “And it comes down to one thing: Do you have more ideas than you wish you could pursue if you were more productive? Do you have more dreams, and they can come true, if you had more time? And if you have those things, productivity is going to result in your growth. But if you don’t, then productivity is going to result in more idle time.”
This Part 2 is the second 10-minute segment of a 3-part recording of Jensen Huang’s entire 30-minute talk in Stanford.
Part 2 Summary:
Jensen Huang continued a belief system or vision has to come from first principle thinking, first principle computer science or physics or economics. "First principle reasoning, added to it, was inspiration.” He states that principled thinking was really important in arriving at . “Then you gut check that literally every single day,... continuously re-evaluate our strategies and our decisions.”
Jensen Huang explained how Moore’s Law is evidenced in computation, AI advancement, and the dramatic cost reduction. Then he observed that Nvidia’s computing platform can enable changes in algorithm, architecture, system, silicon, and fundamental computation - all at the same time.
Jensen explained about a prediction he made a decade ago, and it helped Nvidia to reinvent and reframe itself from a chip company to building entire data centers.
He predicted that AGI will take less than two years to achieve superhuman levels.
Learn why Jensen Huang believes that AI will not take over human intelligence, but help us with tasks and free us to pursue more dreams, hopes, aspirations, and ideas. “I think we will be busier than ever.”
(Jensen Huang’s remaining 10-minute talk, with Joanne Z. Tan's summary and comments, continues in Part 3.)
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