Personal branding is marketing oneself and one's career as a brand. With more freelance and contract work, personal branding is important to differentiate oneself. Building a personal brand starts with optimizing one's LinkedIn profile and leveraging one's network. Companies also need LinkedIn pages to build communities and brand visibility. Key ways to increase LinkedIn page followers include having employees follow the page, promoting the page on other social networks, ensuring a complete profile, adding the page link to emails, and regularly sharing engaging and useful content.