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Hey frens! Your LinkedIn profile is often your first real sales page.
Not because it needs to “sell” aggressively.
But because, within seconds, it should answer:
• Who are you?
• What do you actually do?
• Who do you help?
• Why should someone trust you?
• What should they do next?
Most profiles fail at this because they read like a job-history archive:
“Founder at X.”
“Consultant.”
“Marketing professional.”
“Helping businesses grow.”
None of that is wrong. It is just not memorable—or specific enough to create the right conversations.
A strong LinkedIn profile does three things:
It gives people context fast.
Your headline should be more than a job title. It should frame your expertise, your focus, and the value you bring.
It turns experience into a point of view.
Your About section is not a biography. It is where you connect your background, your work, and the problems you care about solving.
It makes credibility visible.
Case studies, outcomes, projects, proof points, media, talks, offers, portfolio links, and useful posts help people understand why they should take you seriously.
You do not need to be “viral.”
You need to be clear.
Especially if you are a founder, consultant, creative, fractional leader, or independent expert, your profile should reflect where you are going—not only the jobs you have held.
That is why I created my LinkedIn Personal Brand & Profile Makeover: a fast, personalised positioning, profile-copywriting, and content-strategy service.
It includes a profile rewrite, headline options, content pillars, post ideas, frameworks, and AI prompts—delivered with the aim of making your expertise easier to understand and remember.
First delivery is within 24 hours after onboarding is complete.
View the service here:
https://contra.com/products/eK6Mx3Fb-linked-in-personal-brand-and-profile-makeover #LinkedIn #PersonalBranding #ProfileOptimization #Copywriting #ContentStrategy #BrandStrategy #FounderBranding #SocialMediaStrategy
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I’ve earned over $1M on Contra, and now I’m opening up the profile behind that number.
The Contra Handbook is live.
It brings together how I present my work, structure my services and make it easier for a client to understand what they can hire me for.
And making it meant putting my own profile under inspection.
There was a typo in my title. 20 services that needed cutting down. 14 products with no reviews between them. Those changes are part of the course. You watch me work through them on screen, with the reasoning behind each decision.
Across eight modules, you work through your own profile too. Each chapter ends with something concrete to change, and the final module brings it into a 90-day plan.
You get the videos, written Handbook, profile scorecard, role specific guidance and access to The Ledger, the private course group.
If you’ve put real effort into your work and want your Contra profile to represent it properly, this is for you.
Hug earning Legend nice work 🔥🔥 I like your work structure ❤️❤️
I've got one open spot. 👀
Starting October, I have room for one new brand. Two ways we can work together:
🎨 Brand identity
Logo, colors, type, the whole feel. For brands that are done blending in.
📱 Social media on retainer
Monthly posts that look and sound like you, so you can stop stressing about what to post.
My sweet spot? Brands that are a little weird, a little bold, and don't want to look like everyone else in their feed.
If that's you send me a quick message
Only one spot, so first come, first served.
A good landing page shouldn’t make you work to understand it.
Been working on a new project where the goal was simple:
Make a complex product feel simple, clear, and easy to explore.
Less explaining.
Less clutter.
More visual hierarchy.
A clearer path to the next step.
Still working through the details, but this one is coming together nicely.
Full case study soon.
This pairs well with the Hire Hangar screenshot because the design itself demonstrates the point—you don't need to reveal the whole project yet.
Appreciated @Mehdi Hassan
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