Ghalib Hassam

Baghi

If you're a B2B founder who wants to get ahead of the competition, you must leverage your founder brand on LinkedIn. Here's why:

1. Thought leadership.

Being a thought leader has quickly become a necessity - it plays a massive role in decision-making for your target audience.

It comes down to influencing decisions and being the first name that comes to mind when clients face challenges.

Here's what you can talk about in terms of insights that are unique to you:

i) Strong opinions that aren't available anywhere else.
ii) Insights on your target audience's problems.
iii) Commentary on industry practices.

The goal is to become the go-to expert in your industry.

2. Pain point content.

Address your target audience's problems in your content.

You need to consistently share insights around their problems and share content that shows them how you'd solve these issues.

Here's what you can talk about:

i) What problems are they facing?
ii) Why do they face these problems?
iii) How does you solve these problems for them?

The source material of this content comes from your subject matter expertise and existing customer data (sales calls\discovery calls)

It's okay to challenge the status quo and shake things up.

Present bold ideas that disrupt conventional thinking and set you apart as an thought leader.

3. The high cost of not leveraging you founder brand:

Each day without a strong LinkedIn presence is a day you're overlooked by potential clients seeking expertise.

And in today's digital world, visibility equals credibility. If you're not present, why should clients trust you?

What people fail to realise is that each day you stall, the space gets more and more crowded.

Every industry leader you admire didn't get there by chance.

They took bold steps to stand out.

And the risk isn't in putting yourself out there - it's in staying hidden while others dominate the space that could have been yours.

Founder - LinkedIn Strategist for B2B Founders

The Founder Lore Podcast

In this podcast, we sit down with founders who have leveraged their founder brands on LinkedIn to not only grow their businesses but also share their experiences in real time.

Each episode dives into the human side of entrepreneurship - the challenges, the breakthroughs, and the lessons learned along the way.

We go beyond the surface-level success stories and explore what it really takes to grow, lead, and scale while staying authentic.

Founder & Host

Mentoria Digitals.

Supporting the agency with:

1. Operations.
2. Processes.
3. Client delivery.

Strategic Advisor

Talent & Truth

Content And Strategy Manager

Kurogo

1. Working with Content Writers and Senior Team to execute positioning strategies effectively through high-quality content.

2. Manage and coordinate the output of the Content Writers and Social Community Executive to ensure all work is aligned with our clients’ strategies and is delivered to a high standard and on-time.

3. Crafting positioning strategies that align with clients' end goals.

4. Creating and running reports with our clients on the performance of their personal brand, alongside Content Writers and Social Community Executives.

Account Manager

I build busy CEOs\Founders' personal brands and position them as an authority in their market.

I've worked with CEOs\Founders from the DACH, MENA, and the UK.

With a well-positioned personal brand, you can:
 
- Grow a community.
- Get inbound leads.
- Attract talent.

Here's what I do:

- Communicate with CEOs\Founders and their marketing teams.

- Come up with a strategy that is aligned with their Personal Branding goals as well as their business\company goals.

- Form a community of professionals (networking is key)

First, you create demand for you and your services.
Second, you capture that demand in the form of a growing network, more leads, and attracting talent to your company.

All inbound.

Personal Brand Manager.

notus

This internship\part-time job was my first step into the world of Marketing\Personal Branding.

I learned a number things, but mainly:

• Copywriting - Creative.
• Account management for clients.
• Content Strategy.

Personal Brand Manager

Bahcesehir University

Didn't have the best of experiences:

- Tried to change their old ways of marketing but the top-level execs weren't flexible.

- Eventually decided it was better for me to look elsewhere to get to where I wanted:

Becoming a Demand Gen marketer.

BAU Global Representative.

‣Marketing the university along with its campuses abroad in the BAU Global network.
‣Reporting directly to the head of international relations.

Marketing International Student Assistant/Masters Student Assistant

ZTE Corporation

Intern

Account Manager @ Kurogo | We create thought leaders through personal branding

I grow B2B founder brands on LinkedIn through content.

Most of my clients are struggling with:

1. Can’t justify the time spent on LinkedIn.
2. Don’t know what to write about.
3. Not sure what the end goal is.

And so, I take them through a process that grows their LinkedIn and opens them up to new business opportunities:

1. Define how you want to position yourself against competitors.
2. Map out the core topics to write about.
3. Define the end-goal for LinkedIn.
4. Create content that attracts your target-audience.
5. Measure progress monthly.

Using this process, I’ve helped my clients:

📌 FOUNDER 1: Grew from 8K → 21K followers within 10 months.
📌 FOUNDER 2: Landed 5+ new business opportunities through LinkedIn.
📌 FOUNDER 3: Grew from 3K → 10K within 8 months.

If you want to become a thought leader in your industry and generate new business opportunities,

Click ‘Book an appointment’ at the top of my profile to see how I can help you.

Results for a client. Not bad for an all-time 'low reach' era on LinkedIn.

Built purely on thought leadership and giving value to the audience.

i build your founder brand with you, not for you (2hrs/month) | linkedIn GTM strategist

2 weeks ago, a started a new side-business. Here's an update:

For context:

I’ve started a physical business where I’ll be training students for IELTS. 

Questions I asked before launching:

- What is a proven problem in the market?
- Has steady demand... ideally till the end of time ;)
- Aligns with what I’m naturally good at.
- Can scale over time.
- And can eventually run without me.

So here’s how I’ve been approaching it:

1. First, I set up an Instagram account to start creating content, mostly educational posts, awareness pieces about what’s happening in the industry, and the gap I’m trying to fill.

2. Then I made a short introductory video, talking about my background, what I’m building, the kind of problems I’m solving, and where the business office is based.

3. I ran a small Instagram ad (just $30) targeted at my regional area to test the waters.

4. That ad started about 150 conversations, which was more than I expected for such a small test.

5. Meanwhile, I set up a small office + classroom to attend to people if they decide to visit.

5. After that, I hosted a mock class. A few people showed up, not a huge number but that's okay since there are bigger players in the market and I want to build a name first.

6. I cross-post with my other instagram account (18k) to borrow some credibility from it & so people can see I've done some stuff already (working with international agencies, building a remote career, my podcast, and running a business on LinkedIn)

Since then, I’ve been doubling down on two things:

1. Creating content to build digital presence.

2. Collaborating locally: I’ve partnered with a nearby café (pretty popular in the area) to host a free in-person event/workshop for this upcoming Tuesday.

The goal of the free workshop is to nurture the old leads, attract new ones, and make this business a familiar, trusted name in the region.

Would love to hear from someone who has built a similar business before just to bounce some ideas.

Content Path

LinkedIn content and social selling for B2B leaders.

- Building deep thought leadership content strategies
- Turning LinkedIn profiles into high converting landing pages
- Creating visual content (video, infographics, carousels, images, etc.)
- Identifying ICP-fit people who engage with your content
- Implementing social selling systems to connect with leads

Co-Founder & CEO

Cold Email Studio

Helping 150+ B2B SaaS companies scale outbound sales.

- Worked with 100+ VC backed SaaS businesses
- Worked with 40+ YCombinator startups
- Building outbound sales strategies
- Managing outbound sales campaigns and automations
- Building personalisation at scale through automation

Avra Talent

Advisor

Simpleweb 

- Building software for 100s of startups, scaleups, corporates and gov.
- Building SaaS products.
- Investing in startups.
- Mentoring startups.
- Running a Founders Academy.

Escape the City

Escape the City is one of the UK's most successful job board platforms and education businesses.
- 7,000+ employers including companies like airbnb, monzo, uber, transferwise, crowdcube, seedrs, virgin galactic
- 500,000+ registered candidates
- 2,000+ Alumni from 3 month Startup and Career Change accelerator programmes
- 35,000+ tickets sold to Esc events

Responsibilities:
- Leading and managing teams
- Building company vision and strategy
- Hiring, onboarding, offboarding and performance management
- Building company dashboards and setting KPIs across the team

Founding Partner & CMO

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Portfolio Manager

Department for Business and Trade

Economist

✨ AI + Content Marketing + Outbound Sales ✨

In the past 15 years, I’ve built and scaled multiple 7 figure businesses.

I’ve run GTM agencies, built SaaS products, and led teams driving real growth.  

But the biggest shift I’ve seen?  

B2B buyers don’t respond to cold outreach like they used to.

The best B2B companies are winning with content-first, relationship-driven growth.  
Because buyers want to trust the person behind the business before they buy.

- They see a founder sharing expertise on LinkedIn.  
- They engage with content that speaks directly to their challenges.  
- And when they’re ready, they reach out—because they already know who can solve their problem.

That’s how B2B buying works today.

But here’s the problem:  
Most founders either don’t have the time or don’t know how to consistently create content that drives leads.

So they outsource to ghostwriters who chase impressions instead of business outcomes.

That doesn’t work.

Positioning yourself as a thought leader requires more than posting daily.
It’s about building authority through a clear strategy, consistently showing up with expertise, and using social selling to turn engagement into conversations.

That’s why I launched Content Path with my co-founder Pierre.

We help B2B founders turn LinkedIn into a revenue engine—with a system that works:

- We build your content strategy.  
- We create high-quality visual content that cuts through the noise.
- We identify the ICP-fit people engaging with your posts.
- We help you turn those warm leads into business conversations.

This is how LinkedIn content drives revenue.

If you’re ready to own your audience, build trust, and generate leads—let’s talk.

DM me or visit www.contentpath.co.

Mikey H.

The challenge isn’t working remote across 4 continents. 

It’s staying aligned without killing flexibility.

We just started, but we already have a big team…

Designers, editors, strategists, all working async, all moving fast.

The biggest challenge?

→ Keeping everyone aligned without adding friction or killing the freedom that makes remote work powerful.

So we ditched the clutter and focused on a minimal stack that scales with us, not against us.

I broke it down below 👇

This is the system we use to run ContentPath globally.

The one that helped us scale without meetings eating our calendars.

Curious, what’s one tool your remote team can’t live without?

LinkedIn Content & Social Selling for B2B businesses.

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