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Overcoming Imposter Syndrome While Building Your Personal Brand

Alfred Tanuwidjaja
2 min readDec 28, 2024

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It starts and ends with you

Photo by Andrea Piacquadio

A common challenge my clients face when building their personal brand is not being authentic. They often copy the content their competitors create, thinking it will work for them too. But this approach doesn’t work because everyone has a unique journey, and no two products or services are exactly the same. So, how do you stand out and connect with your audience? By being yourself.

You Are Your Personal Brand

Let’s start with the basics: your personal brand is a direct reflection of who you are, as a person, before anything else.

If you’re a calm and collected person, everything you create around your product or service — your website, colors, logo, and content — will reflect that.

If you’re loud and funny, your brand will reflect that too.

Even if you’re selling a service or product similar to your competitors, your approach will still be unique. Think about this example: there are ten apple sellers in the same market, and they all post about their apples. Do you think their content is the same? Of course not.

  • David harvests his own apples and sells them locally.
  • Michelle is tech-savvy and uses social media to sell…

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Alfred Tanuwidjaja
Alfred Tanuwidjaja

Written by Alfred Tanuwidjaja

I write about life lessons picked up along the way as a filmmaker and photographer. www.alfredtwj.com

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