Personal Branding

Ramp built a fake Gen Z influencer called the Kumar Method, grew him to a million followers, and nobody knew a brand was behind it until they chose to reveal it. That is a legitimate masterclass in B2B brand building. The play: go anti-finance to reach people who aren't in finance yet. Don't market to the people who already know you. Market to the people who will need you later. Genius. But they left a lot on the table. The biggest miss: they let people read the Kumar Method lead magnet before asking for an email. One gate before access would have captured hundreds of thousands of addresses. Instead they probably got 20,000. People will give you their email for real value — just ask. Second miss: the reveal was too quiet. If you've been sitting on a secret that took a million followers to build, you don't just drop it. You coordinate. You seed it to every creator and podcast you know. You make the reveal as big as the build. The actual playbook for anyone thinking about this: → Know exactly who you're speaking to before you build the character → Gate the lead magnet from the start → Make sure the character has somewhere to go after the reveal → Treat the announcement like a campaign, not a footnote The Kumar Method strategy is brilliant. The execution had gaps. Learn from both. https://www.trueframe.xyz/blog/kumar-method #B2BMarketing #ContentStrategy …more

In the Army, we had a saying: amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logistics. The same is true for personal branding. Everyone has ideas. Most people don't have a system. I've been using Radi8 to bring some operational discipline to my content — planning, scheduling, and keeping my brand context consistent across everything I publish. For someone who's spent their career helping enterprise tech companies tell better stories, it's been a useful forcing function to apply the same rigor to my own. Check it out if you're building your brand in the B2B space. 🎯 …more