Insights

Personal branding doctrine, in practice.

Articles and field notes from MCG, applying Identity Positioning™ to the problems that actually show up when building a personal brand.

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Research, Field Notes, and Doctrine.

Three kinds of writing live here. Research publishes aggregate findings from identitypositioning.com, MCG's technology hub. Field Notes come from the work itself. Doctrine explains the published frameworks behind every engagement.

Doctrine · · Isaac Mashman

What Is Personal Branding?

The definition from the Manifesto, the four laws, the six tiers of the Hierarchy, and how to direct your own personal brand.

Doctrine · · Isaac Mashman

Using the Power of 3 to Grow Your Personal Brand

A practical, repeatable system for compounding effort in a personal brand: three actions a day, applied consistently, and why that beats waiting for a single breakthrough.

More articles are being brought over from MCG's prior site, and brand-new ones are being written, and will appear here as they're ready. Follow along with the Insights feed.

Research

The Publication Source for Identity Positioning™ Data.

identitypositioning.com has no blog by design. What its audits, surveys, quizzes, and benchmarks show is published here as MCG research: aggregates only, a minimum sample of 25, and dates and sample size stated every time. The first annual report, The State of Personal Branding, is in preparation.

Engagements

Your name is already being interpreted. The question is who are they, and what are they thinking?

Engagements are accepted by application and seats are limited each quarter. Tell us who you are, what you are building, and the position you intend to hold.

Speaking fees available on request. Speaking for non-profits and charities is free of charge. You can also email contact@mashmancg.com (opens in a new tab) directly, or play Identity Quest™ (opens in a new tab) first.