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Valuable and Visible
Redefining Personal Branding by Leading with Impact Over Image

Vanessa Errecarte (Author)

9781394395002, Wiley

Hardback, published 30 April 2026

272 pages
23.1 x 15.8 x 2.5 cm, 0.476 kg

You’re tired. You’ve done everything right—and everyone else keeps getting chosen but you.

If you feel overlooked and don’t know where to begin, Valuable & Visible gives you a clear, simple way to change that.

Vanessa Errecarte, award-winning UC Davis MBA instructor and creator of one of the nation’s first MBA-level personal branding courses, teaches a different approach: A service-first personal brand, where your ideas make you memorable, your clarity builds credibility, and your ideas get you noticed and chosen before you ever have to chase them.

This is where most advice gets it wrong: The real problem isn’t a lack of talent or ability, it’s that you aren’t memorable yet.

In today’s AI-driven, digital world, where everything sounds polished and the same, distinction is what drives memorability. No algorithm hacking. No performance. No self-promotion required.

Everyone says personal branding is about you. Everyone is wrong.

The best brands don’t talk about themselves.
They help people think more clearly.
They simplify problems.
They share what they know.

Valuable & Visible helps you do the same.

Inside, you’ll learn how to:

  • Turn your expertise into ideas people remember and repeat.
  • Share your thinking in a way that builds trust and credibility.
  • Create visibility by helping others, not performing for them.
  • Become known for a clear point of view that opens real doors.
  • Create a pull effect to gain opportunities, clients, business and organizational growth, and more.

 

This is a redefined personal branding method—one built on contribution, clarity, and original insight. Because when people trust you, they remember you, and when they remember you, they choose you.

Introduction ix

AI Disclosure xv

Part I ESTABLISH Your Brand Vision and Audience 1

Chapter 1 Redefining Personal Branding 3

Chapter 2 Your Vision, Their Breakthrough 17

Chapter 3 Audience First, always 33

Chapter 4 Tell the TRUTH to Stop Their Scroll 47

Chapter 5 Add Relatability to the TRUTH 59

Part II PACKAGE Your Insights and Frameworks 73

Chapter 6 Name and Claim What You Stand For 75

Chapter 7 From Digital Renter to Digital Owner 89

Chapter 8 Frameworks and Your First Thought Leadership Piece 109

Part III INFORM Your Audience with Impactful Content 123

Chapter 9 Your Simplified Digital Funnel 125

Chapter 10 The Words That Power Your Funnel 139

Chapter 11 The FaceTime Effect 157

Part IV Cultivate a Presence That Grows and Scales with You 175

Chapter 12 Should I Charge for This? 177

Chapter 13 Surprising and Uncommon Marketing Strategies 191

Chapter 14 Your Working Brand Plan 203

Chapter 15 You’ll Never Be Ready. Start Anyway 215

Appendix: Fifty- Two Power Prompts for Story Lead- Ins 227

Notes 231

Acknowledgments 243

Author Bio 247

Index 249

Subject Areas: Business & management [KJ]

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