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Heather Russell Writing
The Journal

Journal theme

How You Are Described in Your Absence

Your reputation is already being described. The question is whether the words are yours.

Branding is description

For an individual, a brand is simply the consistent way you are described when you are not present — on a profile, in an introduction, in a proposal.

One sentence first

Before any profile is rewritten, settle a single sentence: what you do, for whom, and what is different about how you do it. Everything else borrows from it.

Consistency without repetition

LinkedIn, a bio and a website should sound like one person without repeating the same paragraph. Each carries the same idea at a different length.

Begin in writing

Tell Heather what you need.

You do not need the perfect terminology. Write what is happening and what you are working toward.

Write to Heather