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Learn the five classic personal-branding mistakes 🖐️ Copying someone else’s branding voice, platforming FOMO, niche over engineering, your own perfection paralysis and finally all this “me-me-me” content! Flip them all into marketing momentum. Expect real world fixes and examples you can action in your business before the next coffee break ☕

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Chapters ⏰

  • 00:00 - Welcome & promise to smash cookie-cutter marketing advice

  • 01:17 - Chat with Mark sparks today’s learn-from-my-mistakes theme 🧡 Thank-you Mark.

  • 03:29 - Mistake #1: Copying someone else’s voice (Gary V fan-boy story).

  • 07:08 - Mistake #2: Platform FOMO. Trying to post everywhere at once.

  • 08:28 - Mistake #3: Niche over engineering (moon-lit journaling vegans).

  • 09:53 - Mistake #4: Perfection paralysis. Drop your Bare Effing Minimum.

  • 11:36 - Mistake #5: Me-me-me content. Shift the spotlight back to your audience.

  • 12:46 - Quick-fire fixes: Tweak one thing at a time + set tiny momentum goals.

  • 13:45 - Laugh at the bloopers and inviting you to share yours.

  • 14:05 - Wrap-up, land acknowledgement + reminder that consistency beats polish

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