--- title: "How to Build a Brand as the #1 Expert in Your Market" description: "How to Build a Brand as the #1 Expert in Your Market. StorySelling. Business storytelling. Archetypes. 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For example, I started my career in the mortgage industry teaching continuing education classes to financial planners. I didn’t know everything there was to know about financial planning, but I sure knew a lot about mortgages and how to navigate the housing market. The more learned, the more I taught, and the more I taught, the more I learned. I became an expert in the housing market at a very young age and taught my first continuing education class when I was 23 years old. I've found that the best way to learn something is to teach it. That’s because when you teach something you’re forced to really think through the issue, clarify the main point, and present it in a way that’s super simple and easy to understand. This approach forces you to really study the subject inside and out, think through all the nuances, and figure out a way to clarify it for your target audience. So, if you want to be an expert in anything, I suggest that you start studying that subject with the intention of creating a little course or article about it. This way, you uncover and simplify the main points for yourself and for your target audience. So, here's my ridiculous question of the day: *What is the subject that you want to be known for and how can you start taking the approach outlined above?* ** ** ** [** ](mailto:?subject=How%20to%20Build%20a%20Brand%20as%20the%20#1%20Expert%20in%20Your%20Market&body=https://thestoryseller.com/blog/how-to-build-an-expert-brand) ![Gibran Nicholas](https://thestoryseller.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Gibran-cropped2.jpg?width=130&height=130&name=Gibran-cropped2.jpg) ##### Gibran Nicholas Gibran Nicholas is the best-selling author of *The StorySeller Adventures*, and the founder and CEO of Momentifi, a financial information and content marketing platform providing daily coaching and expert marketing content to thousands of housing and financial professionals. With more than ten thousand graduates, Gibran’s StorySelling coaching system creates top producers in all industries. He became a millionaire at twenty-five and lost everything two years later, only to regain it all, plus invaluable life lessons, over the next decade. He shares with you many of those lessons in his book, daily emails, blog, and weekly podcast. Gibran’s primary focus is to help you and your team use archetypes and StorySelling to stay inspired, find more meaning in your work, and grow your business. Gibran is a lifelong student of business, politics, religion, and the human experience. He lives in Alpharetta, Georgia, with his wife, Mandy, and their three children. 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