What Nobody Told Me About Personal Branding Until I Lived It
October 14, 2025 5 min read

What Nobody Told Me About Personal Branding Until I Lived It

Every day, I look for my one mission that is to help people and brands find their clarity. That’s what connects Sahil Gandhi, the Brand Professor, and me. Together, we’re building something larger than a set of companies. We’re building an ecosystem that helps individuals and organizations go from invisible to unforgettable. Our new personal branding ebook, “Become Someone From No One,” is the written version of that mission. It’s a field guide for those who want to shape their identity, amplify their voice, and show up in the world with purpose.

I manage Ohh My Brand, our personal branding agency built for modern professionals who want to lead with clarity. We help founders, creators, and executives build credibility, craft narratives that align with their values, and establish thought leadership that feels human. Every brand story we create begins with introspection and ends with impact.

Meanwhile, Sahil leads Brand Professor, a brand strategy consultancy that’s redefining how businesses approach branding. He brings logic and structure to creativity  turning vague visions into sharp positioning and coherent brand identities. Together, we make sure no founder wastes time chasing aesthetics before defining strategy.

And then there’s Blushush, our Webflow and creative design agency, the place where strategy meets execution. It’s where we translate clarity into design, building websites that are beautiful, intentional, and conversion-driven.

These three ventures form a connected ecosystem: voice, vision, and visibility. Our book simply brings this philosophy to paper  proving that becoming “someone” it’s about defining yourself with clarity and courage. Having said that, let’s unravel in this blog, something that nobody told you about personal branding.

The Silent Struggle

When I started my professional journey, I believed skills would speak for themselves. I worked hard, delivered results, and expected recognition to follow. But reality was different. While I stayed in the background, others with less experience seemed to rise faster.

That was my first hard lesson: the world is beyond fair to only and always rewards the most talented. It rewards the most visible. Nobody told me that until I experienced it firsthand.

Finding My Brand Purpose

The turning point came when I stopped asking why others were moving ahead and started asking myself what I stood for. That is when I uncovered my personal brand purpose. It mattered more about building a fake persona or chasing attention. It was about clarity, about knowing what I wanted to be remembered for.

Purpose gave me alignment. Every decision, project, and story began to fit into a larger vision of how I wanted to be seen.

The Breakthrough of Storytelling

Once I had purpose, I needed connection. Facts alone were not enough. When I started sharing my struggles and real experiences, I noticed something powerful: people engaged more with my failures than my successes. That was the moment I discovered the strength of personal branding through storytelling.

The human side of a story builds trust faster than achievements ever can. That was when I understood that a brand without storytelling is just crowded clamor.

Frameworks That Simplified the Journey

As I continued building my brand, I realized that intuition was not enough. I needed structure. Over time, I developed frameworks to built personal brands that helped me and later my clients package their stories effectively.

These evolved into bestselling frameworks for personal brands, practical tools that simplify branding for anyone, whether a student, freelancer, or founder. In Become Someone From No One, which I co-authored with Sahil Gandhi, we share these frameworks along with book frameworks for LinkedIn brand building, because LinkedIn is the modern stage for professional credibility.

The book also includes a content system from book based strategies, showing how to repurpose stories into consistent content for blogs, social platforms, and thought leadership.

Why Writing Changed My Perspective

Through this journey, I realized why authors make better personal brand strategists. Writing requires clarity, discipline, and emotional depth. These same qualities fuel effective branding. By thinking like authors, professionals learn to build brands with structure and long-term impact.

That is why I support professionals with ebook writing services. An ebook also creates authority and positions an individual as a thought leader in their industry.

Services That Fuel Personal Branding

Along with the insights in the book, I provide professional services that turn strategies into action. These include backlink building to enhance authority, content & storytelling to create authentic narratives, conversion rate optimization to turn attention into results, guidance as a personal branding consultant, targeted LinkedIn marketing, and my expertise as an SEO consultant.

These services are designed to make someone visible and also to make them unforgettable.

Why We Wrote Become Someone From No One

Sahil Gandhi and I decided to write Become Someone From No One because we saw too many people struggle with invisibility. Founders with amazing ideas could not attract investors. Freelancers with exceptional skills undervalued themselves. Influencers burned out chasing algorithms without purpose.

We wanted to share a roadmap, a practical system that merges storytelling, frameworks, and execution. The book is a lived experience turned into actionable guidance.

Living the Lesson

Today, I understand what nobody told me when I began. Personal branding is about looking polished. It is about clarity of purpose, authenticity of storytelling, and discipline of execution. It is about creating a narrative so strong that people remember you for the right reasons.

Become Someone From No One is the book I wish I had in my early years. Co-authored with Sahil Gandhi, it brings together everything we learned the hard way so that others can skip the struggle. Purchase your own copy of our ebook and make the most of it.

Your story deserves to be heard. The only question is whether you are ready to tell it.

Bhavik Sarkhedi

About the author:

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Bhavik Sarkhedi is a verified personal branding expert, award-winning digital marketer and SEO consultant. His work has been featured in esteemed publications such as The New York Times, Forbes, HuffPost, and Entrepreneur.

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