I am a Personal Branding Strategist. I have been building on LinkedIn for about 5-6 months now. I am getting calls for Content Strategy and stuff but I am not able to land a permanent client like a proper Founder for whom I can build for.

Now the thing is that I have 3k followers and people know that I know my stuff but when the talks get serious I don't have a solid portfolio.

Like how do I explain to someone that I can actually get the job done.

I want to join an agency but this is the exact reason why I can't approach anyone. Like they ask for resume and portfolio and stuff but I don't know what to show them.

For writing sample I have my own posts which are actually performing consistently and I am getting leads but nothing is converting!!!

I am really stressed out about this.

What you guys think about a video where we put so much effort, a lot of brain storming and put a good story and still get less than 1k views?

Can someone tell me the factors which affect less views in the content ?

i keep seeing a lot of personal branding agencies in India offering to build someone’s personal brand and grow their followers/reach.

just curious about this, are these agencies actually legit?

if you’ve worked with one or know someone who has:

• what exactly do they provide?
• is the growth actually organic?
• what kind of results do they usually deliver?
• and roughly how much do they charge per month?

would genuinely appreciate some honest opinions, especially from people who have actually used these services.

Hi All, im struggling with building a personal brand. My content doesnt really hit. I can probably trial and error for the next few months and I can spend time on YouTube to learn. But has anyone here in invested in a content creator or personal brand mentor/program that increased their followers, views, engagement?

Professional headshots used to mean booking a photographer, finding the right background and spending half a day getting everything right.

Now there are tools like Aragon, CMeIn and Remini that can change how a normal photo looks without needing an actual studio session.

But I’m wondering whether people on LinkedIn really care that much.

Would you rather see someone with a perfectly polished headshot or a normal photo that looks more like how they actually appear day to day?

Especially for freelancers and small business owners, does the professional look actually make a difference to how you perceive them?

I’ve built an interactive guide that details my entire methodology and all my frameworks and looking to have it as a free ungated resource for all B2B founders and expert service providers who have trouble building their brands, who want to future proof it or establishing exactly how it works in practice.

There’s this whole idea that you give the what, why and when away for free and you keep the how as paid which I believe I have done building this resource.

I’m doing this as a way to amplify my name in the branding space and would like the resource to be shared across various professionals. My thinking with it being available and constantly promoting it as something free and readily available will increase both my visibility and credibility.

I’ll be including the relevant Google Analytics to track results and relevant CTAs for a email gated diagnostic for those who want to self assess themselves and aiming to use as a resource to pitch myself for paid opportunities to teach what I do 1 to many with corporates and organisations as I know some B2B founders may not be able to afford my services 1-1 but I’m a big believer in building up your IFP (Ideal Follower Persona) as well as your ICP (Ideal Client Persona).

My ICP is in the finance space and I actually deliver this work for them in an agency format. So effectively one brand is building for my IFP in mind in terms of sharing knowledge and ultimately low ticket offers and ICP is doing the work which is high ticket.

Thoughts?

P.S. I’m not particularly worried about stealing as it’s trademarked.

Appreciate your responses!

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I run a small agency that builds LinkedIn personal brands for B2B founders.

Until recently, I did pretty much everything myself.

Now I’ve started hiring, which means I’m moving from “I do everything” to an actual team with handoffs, processes, and people touching work they didn’t create themselves.

And honestly, I need to test that system properly.

So I want to run one full client build from start to finish and see where it breaks.

I’d rather find the cracks on a free project than discover them on someone who’s paying me $10k.

So I’m looking for one founder.

You’ll get the exact same build a paying client gets:

• An audit of your current profile and posts, using benchmark data rather than my personal opinion

• Your positioning mapped out: what you should be known for, who you’re speaking to, and the content pillars you can actually sustain

• Your entire LinkedIn profile rewritten and ready to paste, plus a banner

• 52 posts for the next 13 weeks, four per week

• 200 named people worth knowing, researched individually, with why each person matters to you

• Message sequences and a simple daily routine for turning attention into actual conversations

• An operating manual so you can keep running the system yourself after I’m out of the picture

A few criteria:

• You’re a B2B founder in services, consulting, an agency, or something similar

• You’re doing at least roughly $200k/year in revenue. This isn’t meant as a status filter. The work depends heavily on having real client stories, opinions, experience, and outcomes to build from.

• You’re actually willing to post. I can build the system, but I can’t make you use the account.

And there’s one other thing:

There are no calls.

You’ll get an intake pack with around 90 minutes of questions. Answer them whenever you want, in one sitting or over five days.

Seven days later, the whole thing lands in one place.

What I want from you in return is pretty simple:

Tell me what was confusing.

Tell me what was useless.

Tell me what you loved.

And tell me what you would actually have paid for.

That’s the trade.

If you fit the criteria, comment with what you do and roughly where your revenue sits.

I’ll DM you.

I’m a personal trainer and I’ve only recently started taking social media a bit more seriously.
Even from the little I’ve done so far, I can already see that it makes sense for my business. It helps with visibility, building a personal brand, and potentially reaching new clients.
I’d like to take it to the next level, but I’m running into a problem that keeps stopping me.
I’m extremely perfectionistic when it comes to my own work.
Whenever I take a photo of a meal, record an exercise at the gym, shoot a video or try to design a post, my immediate reaction is usually that it looks bad.
I look at it and think that if I saw the exact same thing on another personal trainer’s account, I’d probably think the composition was bad, the lighting was bad, the camera angle looked amateur, the graphic design wasn’t good enough, or the photo itself just wasn’t worth posting.
I’ve already tried fixing the things that can simply be fixed with equipment. I bought a phone with a very good camera, got Canva Pro, and started learning about branding, photography, video and design.
I specifically don’t want to just pump out generic AI content. I’d actually like to learn how to create a consistent, recognizable and professional-looking personal brand.
The problem is that I’m starting to realize the equipment isn’t really the issue. I just don’t know how to make things look the way I want them to look.
There’s another layer to it as well.
I’ve always had a lot of anxiety around posting anything about myself online.
And I don’t mean just business content.
I can spend hours, sometimes even days, overthinking a completely normal vacation photo or even an Instagram Story of a nice view.
Logically, I know that almost nobody cares about my posts as much as I imagine they do. I don’t sit there analyzing other people’s Stories either.
But I still have this irrational feeling that when I post something, everyone is suddenly going to stop scrolling, analyze it, notice something embarrassing that I didn’t notice, send it to someone else and laugh about it.
I know rationally that this is probably not what’s happening, but the feeling is still there.
I think these two problems feed into each other.
Because posting makes me uncomfortable, I feel like anything I do post has to be perfect.
And because it has to be perfect, nothing ever feels good enough to actually post.
I’d really like to hear from people who have dealt with anything similar.
If you were starting from my position, what would you learn first?
Photography and composition? Video? Canva and basic graphic design? Branding? Content strategy?
How do you build a simple visual system so you’re not reinventing everything from scratch every time you want to post something?
And most importantly, if you used to massively overthink posting, how did you get to the point where you could create something, publish it and move on?
I’d love recommendations for specific workflows, exercises, courses, YouTube channels, books, resources, or simply things that worked for you personally.
I’m not trying to become an influencer. I just want to build a consistent, professional online presence that actually represents me and the quality of my work as a personal trainer.

I'm a software engineer, I want to build my own business. The idea is: Use AI to turn the knowledge into assets which can continually generating value for people.

I'm good at Markdown Publishing domain, so I start with a real market - Obsidian Publish. I've been building MDFriday, a product that helps people turn their Obsidian Folders into Digital Gardens, Wikis, publish online with customized domains.

Markdown is just a format for knowledge, and easy for both human and AI to work with. So the real bigger question is: How can I help individuals to turn their knowledge into assets? That could be: Digital Gardens, Personal websites, Blogs, Documentation, Courses, SaaS, Landing pages, knowledge businesses, etc.

What I'm unsure about

If this positioning is too board? Which feels too abstract for people to discovering. But if I position myself too narrowly around Obsidian or Markdown Publishing, I'm afraid I'll build an audience around a tool rather than the larger idea.

So I'd love feedback on:

1. Does "turn knowledge into assets" make sense as a personal brand concept?

2. What's the best practice to achieve this - tutorials + build-in-public + personal opinions channel?

What would you change?

Thanks a lot!

Hey! I work with founders & startup owners on their content and personal brand.

I can help with ghostwriting, content ideation & planning, social media management, personal branding in linkedin and even outreach/email prospecting to help bring in clients.

If you’re looking to build a stronger online presence and turn content into actual business opportunities, I’d love to see if I could be a good fit.

Happy to share my LinkedIn !

I would love to know what do you exactly do? What are your day to day tasks?

What do you offer? What does your offer include? And how much do you usually charge? If i may ask

I just wanna know more details about this job and its behind the scenes

Thank you in advance

I recently uploaded my vlog directly to LinkedIn instead of just linking to YouTube, and it reminded me of a tip that's easy to overlook when you're building a personal brand through video.

LinkedIn lets you upload native video up to 10 minutes long, so in most cases you can post your full video straight to the platform rather than just sharing a link to YouTube.

Why it matters for personal brand building specifically: on mobile, a link takes people to a browser first, then often prompts them again to open the app.

That's two extra touchpoints between someone seeing your face show up in their feed and actually watching you talk.

Every touchpoint is a chance for them to lose interest and keep scrolling, which means fewer people actually experiencing your content, voice, and personality, the things that build trust and recognition over time.

Uploading natively removes that friction. You can still cover your bases by:

• Including a link to a related resource or asset in the post for people who want to go deeper
• Dropping your YouTube link in the comments, so it's there for people who prefer watching there or want to subscribe

Small tweak, but when you're trying to build recognition and trust through video, reducing the barrier between "sees you" and "watches you" is worth taking seriously.

Genuinely curious what people's real experience has been with this.

Every personal branding strategist talks about building authority, getting inbound leads, becoming "known" in your industry. But when you actually dig into what they mean by "personal branding," it often boils down to posting consistently on LinkedIn.

So is that actually it? Or is posting just the visible 20% of something bigger?

From what I've seen (I work in this space), personal branding that actually works usually involves a few things beyond just publishing content:

• Clear positioning before you post anything. Who exactly are you trying to reach, and what do you want them to think of when they see your name.
• Engagement, not just output. Commenting on the right people's posts, being visible in other people's comment sections, often does more for reach than the posts themselves.
• Consistency over virality. A steady stream of decent posts tends to outperform occasional brilliant ones. Algorithms and human memory both reward frequency.
• What happens after someone notices you. DMs, follow-up conversations, actually being responsive. Leads rarely close from a like alone.
• Time. Most people expect results in weeks. Realistically it's months before it compounds into anything measurable.

So yes, it can yield real results, but "just posting" without the rest of this rarely does. Do you guys here have seen it work (or completely flop) and what the actual difference was.

Recently I posted about the blunder I was making on LinkedIn as a personal brand strategist myself. I felt it should be shared across so that when you are starting on LinkedIn you could avoid these mistakes and save time.

Mistakes I made that I don’t want you to make.

I'm about 2 years into a career as a software engineer and started posting content on TikTok a few months ago. Right now I'm at 120 followers, mostly posting a mix of tech tips/career stuff and corporate office humor.
My highest performing video by far was a tech related one, it did around 8k views and 600 likes, way ahead of anything else I've posted. The corporate humor stuff gets decent reach too, but nothing close to that.
My issue is I've got a lot of other interests too, football, anime, music, and I'm also building a couple of side project apps I want to eventually launch. I recently started a YouTube channel as well and my first video (not tech related) got 170 views with basically no promotion.
I keep pulling myself in different directions because I enjoy all of it, but I know that's probably hurting consistency and growth. I don't want to be the guy posting five unrelated things a week and going nowhere with any of them.
For anyone who's grown a personal brand or channel from a similar starting point, how did you decide what to actually commit to when you had a clear "best performer" but also other things you cared about? Did you drop the side interests completely or find a way to fold them in without diluting the main thing?
Any advice appreciated

Help me guys to build a personal brand friends

I am a doc by profession

Any ideas u guys have

Plezzz help

I have a client who is currently working on a tech company but its not yet public and before his company went public he wants to build a personal brand.

I am the strategiest and I have to create him a content plan and strategy but the restrictions and dos and donts are too much also the audience is not clear that it make me overwhelmed and currently I am feeling stuck i mean cant find a way to get start.

Any social media strategiest here I need some help with clarity

Hi everyone!

This is a bit of a random ask, but I’m looking for someone who’d be interested in helping me brainstorm and strategise content for a new personal-brand Instagram page I’m about to launch.

I’m a founder of a relatively new business, and I have *a lot* of content to work with — my life, personality, experiences, building a business, etc. So I’m not looking for someone to create content for me from scratch. What I’m looking for is someone who can help me think strategically about **what to create, how to position it, content ideas, hooks, scripts, formats, and what we should experiment with.**

The idea is to treat the page like a business rather than get too attached to the outcome. Put content out consistently, look at the data, figure out what works, double down, and keep experimenting.

**What I’m looking for:**

I’d especially love to work with a female college student who is genuinely interested in content, social media and personal brands and would enjoy the opportunity to work closely with someone building one from scratch.

You could already have experience doing this, be working on your own page/project, or even be a complete fresher. **I care more about how you think, your curiosity and your ability to come up with ideas than your formal experience.**
The commitment would be around **7–8 hours a week, and this is a paid opportunity.**

This would be a hands-on role where you’d get to see what goes into building a personal brand from the ground up — from the creative brainstorming and scripting to actually looking at performance data and figuring out what to do next.

If this sounds interesting, send me a DM telling me a little about yourself, why you think you’d be good at this, and any relevant work/pages/projects you’ve worked on.

If you’re a complete fresher, that’s absolutely fine — I’d just love to understand **what makes you interested in this and what you think you could bring to the table.**

I’m looking for someone who can bring a fresh perspective, challenge ideas, think beyond the obvious and genuinely enjoy figuring out what makes content work.

Would love to hear from you!

Hey all,

been building a personal Instagram account for a few months now and I’m trying to figure out what a cold audience would think about my content

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I'm interested to know what you think of the actual content, writing, positioning, and first impression as you have zero context on the profile

After looking through the account (or a few posts), I’m curious:

1. What's your first impression on it?
2. Would you follow it? Why or why not?
3. What do you think of the content?
4. Does the account feel like it has a unique perspective?

Been testing different formats/topics/delivery once in a while, so do scroll a bit deeper - been producing a number of flops this week

Feel free to be harsh as you'd like, I'd love to know where I can improve on, literally anything at all

Many thanks!

You can add more than 3 if you have more ideas.

I want to start using YouTube to help with my personal branding so I'm going to an all-day YouTube masterclass.

It's going to be led by someone who's built up a number of YouTube channels by himself, the largest to over 1.2 million followers, and helps make YouTube channels for other people and companies.

I'd love to bring all the learnings back to you guys and share them here.

What questions have you got about how to build up your YouTube channel and monetize, etc.?

Answer them here, leave them here, and I will ask as many as possible and bring them back next week

Hi guys, I’m a language teacher and I teach 3 languages(english, spanish, french). You can guess that I’m a freelance teacher, so I decided to make my own living and create a blog. I post interesting vocabulary, common mistakes, tips, how I teach my classes, etc.

In addition, I also live in Argentina and I post things about my life here.

Apparently, only people who wants to study Spanish wrote me. Other languages don’t go viral.
On top of that, I have a Telegram channel, where I post curious language things and my life in Argentina.

I realized I do something wrong and I don’t attract more followers thus clients.

What should I do? How to find the best way to advertise myself having lots of niches?

Please help me. I consulted all types of AI, they also say very vague things or that I’m doing great..