How Can a Personal Brand Website Help Professionals Build Their Business?
Rina Barreto Shankar
Global Brand Growth Consultant - Health & Wellness, Sustainability,, Travel & Tourism Brands I PERSONAL Brands ??Founder @Cheree Tree Concepts - A Brand & Business Growth Agency
If you're a Professional, Senior Leader or an Entrepreneur a personal brand is more important now than ever before. Among all the brand assets you create, a personal profile website is powerful in establishing your reputation, building trust, and helping you stand apart from competitors.
Simply put, it is your expertise, experience, and personality on your personal digital space. It gives you the power to communicate to a specific target audience, and build trust. It allows you to gain full control over your narrative and generate quality leads.
Showcase Your Expertise Online
- Professionals like doctors, architects, artists & musicians, interior decorators, leadership caches, & subject-matter experts in the fields of Sustainability, Wellness, Brand Building, Landscaping, Career Counselling, and Study Abroad consultants, all need a personal brand presence.
It helps you showcase your work, establish your credentials, share client testimonials, and talk about your achievements.
2. A Personal Brand Website Attracts Clients and Opportunities
A website helps professionals and solo entrepreneurs establish themselves as experts, with their work easily accessible to potential clients.
SEO (search engine optimization) is a large part of the power that personal websites have in attracting the right target audience. Carefully planned with the right website experts, your website can gain tremendous visibility and have a hyper-local or a global reach based on your target market.
A personal brand website optimized with keywords (like “architect portfolio,” “portrait photographer,” "andrology expert", "building sustainable homes" etc.) helps professionals get found by clients locally and globally.
- Generating Leads and Building a Client Base: A well-designed website with smartly placed calls to action can generate new business inquiries and bookings within a few months of your website launch
- Building Long-Term Relationships: A personal website allows professionals to stay connected with clients, even after a project/interaction is completed. It allows you to share useful content on your website through blogs on topics within your industry
3. Showcasing Your Unique Value: Your Personality Matters in Branding
A website allows professionals to convey their unique approach and values, helping clients make a personal connection. It facilitates rapport-building through video content that you can share on your website.
- Creating a Lasting First Impression: Design, content, and tone on a personal website help set the professional apart, not only for visual artists, architects, and photographers but also for doctors, yoga teachers, fashion designers, or, bakery owners.
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An experienced personal website developer will even guide you with the professional photo shoot that will be required to create a great first impression and come across as truly impressive through your visual presence. Visual appeal is an important part of personal brand building as a professional or business founder and how you look on your website can determine an instant like/dislike reaction from a potential customer.
4. Standing Out in a Crowded Market
A well-structured website demonstrates professionalism, helping experts to express their unique skills, mindset, brand proposition, service excellence, and client views on your expertise.
A well-designed, impressive website can also attract the attention of the media and get you that much-needed PR article in a local magazine or a global media platform.
It helps you attract investors, partners, and other shareholders who can elevate and amplify your brand.
Key Elements of an Effective Personal Brand Website
- Must-Have Sections: Bio, Services, Portfolio, Testimonials, Contact Details
- Optimizing for Mobile
- Search engine Optimisation(keyword integration to make the website easy-to-find and accessible to your audience)
- Social Media links that allow your audience to find more of your content on other online platforms
- Guiding them to your physical premises and ensuring that you are minimizing the effort required for your clients to reach you
To Conclude: Make Your Mark with a Personal Brand Website
A personal website builds credibility, generates new clients, and showcases expertise globally. An experienced Brand Consultant will guide you in developing a UI/UX design for your website, consult your website developer, and, guide you on your personal brand image across multiple channels online as well as on-ground. Your website needs to have the same tone, look, and feel as the rest of your personal brand. It will boost your career and propel business growth!