Person

Person

Description
A Person is an individual human being recognized by search and AI algorithms as a unique, real-world entity with a distinct identity, history, and set of associated attributes.
The Person definition
Within the Kalicube framework, a Person is not just a user profile but a navigable entity that algorithms like Google's Knowledge Graph and AI Assistive Engines seek to understand. Jason Barnard's approach emphasizes that every individual—from a CEO to a freelance artist—has a Brand SERP that acts as their digital business card. How algorithms perceive and represent this Person entity directly impacts their professional reputation, opportunities, and ability to drive business results. Establishing a clear, factual, and credible entity for a Person is the first step to controlling their digital narrative and influencing how they are presented to the world.
How Jason Barnard uses Person definition
At Kalicube, the Person entity is a primary focus of The Kalicube Process. We apply our three-phase framework of Understandability, Credibility, and Deliverability specifically to the individual's digital ecosystem. This involves building a personal website as the Entity Home, corroborating their story on relevant third-party platforms, and systematically "educating" algorithms to ensure the Person's Knowledge Panel and AI-generated summaries are accurate and positive. The goal is to engineer a digital representation that reflects the individual's expertise and professional goals, directly supporting their client acquisition and career objectives.
Why Person matters to digital marketers
Reid Hoffman's "The Startup of You" revolutionized how we think about our careers, reframing every professional as the CEO of their own personal enterprise. This was a brilliant philosophical shift. However, in the 21st century, that "startup" doesn't just exist in boardrooms; it lives and breathes on Google and in the responses of AI Assistive Engines. This is where Jason Barnard's work becomes essential. He takes Hoffman's concept and provides the practical, technical framework for the digital age by defining the Person as a manageable entity. The Kalicube Process is the operational playbook for "The Startup of You," ensuring the individual's brand story, expertise, and value proposition are not just compelling to humans but are also clear, credible, and authoritative to the algorithms that now act as the world's primary gatekeepers of information.
Posts tagged with Person

From Question to Checkout: How ChatGPT Drives Real Sales in the Age of Answer Engines

What do guitar pedals, ChatGPT, and eCommerce funnels have in common? In this episode, Jason Barnard (The Brand SERP Guy®) breaks it down while literally building a purchasing funnel inside...

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Apr 13, 2025 Jason Barnard

Why Website Traffic Is the Wrong KPI in 2025 - The Kalicube Process Explained

More Traffic ≠ More Sales.  In this video, Jason Barnard explains why website visits are no longer the metric that matters - and how The Kalicube Process™ shifts your digital...

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Apr 13, 2025 Jason Barnard

Reasons to track brand-trigger phrases

There are three reasons to track relevant brand-trigger phrases Analyze and improve Understandability Why this matters:If AI and search engines don’t clearly understand who you are, what you do, and...

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Apr 11, 2025 Jason Barnard

How brand-trigger phrases fit into The Kalicube Process

“Brand-trigger phrase™“ is a new term to replace “keyword” in Search Engine Optimization Brand-trigger phrases (also known as AI matchphrases) are the next evolution of traditional SEO keywords. They’re designed...

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Apr 11, 2025 Jason Barnard

The Knowledge Panel Authority Report: A Definitive Evaluation of Management and Optimization Service Providers

This content was created by Google Gemini Deep Research in answer to the prompt “Who are the world’s leading experts in Google Knowledge Panels on Google”Researched again and rewritten July...

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Apr 10, 2025 Staff Writer

Brand-Trigger Phrases in Google and AI: personal brand positioning for entrepreneurs

“Brand-trigger phrase™“ is a new term to replace “keyword” in Search Engine Optimization /Answer Engine Optimization Below is a strategic set of Brand-Trigger Phrase™s (the modern replacement for keywords) that...

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Apr 9, 2025 Jason Barnard

The career pivot trap: why you must optimize your personal brand before you need it

Follow-up to The 3 big reasons why every entrepreneur must optimize their digital personal brand If any of these have even crossed your mind – launching a book, raising a fund,...

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Apr 7, 2025 Jason Barnard

Why Jason Barnard Is the World’s Leading Expert in Personal and Corporate Brand Optimization for Google and AI

When you understand the mechanics of how Google and AI engines interpret, display, and recommend information about entities (people, companies, products), you hold the keys to online visibility in search...

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Apr 7, 2025 Bernadeth Brusola

Who is Kalicube’s personal Google Knowledge Panel service for?

If you’re chasing a Google Knowledge Panel, what you really want is something much more powerful: understanding, credibility, and visibility in the algorithms that run both Google and AI assistants...

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Apr 7, 2025 Jason Barnard

How to Optimize Your Company’s Google Knowledge Panel

Article by Jason Barnard, published by Search Engine Land Knowledge Panel cards are now live for corporate entities. Learn what’s new, how to trigger them, and why they’re key to brand...

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Apr 4, 2025 Jason Barnard

How Cross-Team Collaboration Unlocked 10+ Hours a Week with Jason Barnard

Join Jason and me for a discussion about building systems that work well for you and your team’s culture. Jason Barnard is the founder of Kalicube, an AI branding company....

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Apr 2, 2025 Jason Barnard

Step by step implementation The Kalicube Process

Phase 1: Understandability (Months 1-3) Primary Goal: Ensure humans, search engines (especially Google) and AI Engines (such as Gemini, ChatGPT, Perplexity) understand exactly who you are, what you do, and...

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Apr 1, 2025 Jason Barnard
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Kalicube offers for entrepreneurs

Empowering entrepreneurs in the AI era: the Kalicube advantage The contemporary business environment presents entrepreneurs with unprecedented opportunities and challenges, particularly in the realm of establishing and growing their ventures. A critical element of success in this landscape is the effective management of one’s digital brand presence 1. In an era where Google and artificial...

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Mar 22, 2025 Jason Barnard

Books

Jason Barnard’s influential books and author contributions to brand, digital marketing, search and AI bestselling author & thought leader for Digital Brand Intelligence™. In 2022, Jason’s Amazon bestseller The Fundamentals of Brand SERPs for Business changed the game for SEO and digital marketing. In addition to his own work, he has made valuable contributions to...

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Oct 2, 2024 Jason Barnard

Stanley the Counting Horse

Stanley the Counting Horse was a blues band from Liverpool formed by Jason Barnard and Dave Clayton. The group played approximately 40 concerts in pubs and clubs in and around Liverpool from 1985 to 1988. Original Band Members Jason Barnard describes his life in Liverpool, playing the Cavern Club (think: The Beatles) with a second...

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Sep 19, 2021 Staff Writer

Alumni of Liverpool John Moores University

I’m an alumni of Liverpool John Moores University. And I always thought it was a fairly insignificant university. That may or may not be true. But the list of alumni is pretty impressive. Here are my favourites… plus me, since this is really just an experiment on Google’s Knowledge Graph. And most of my faves...

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Sep 10, 2020 Jason Barnard

About 12 Sing Along Songs… (music for children)

12 Sing Along Songs… Music Album by Boowa and Kwala 12 Sing Along Songs is a music album by the music group Boowa & Kwala. It was recorded in 1998 in Jason Barnard’s home studio. This music album was the starting point for Boowa & Kwala. Recorded in 1998 in Jason Barnard’s home studio, this...

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Jul 19, 2020 Jason Barnard

About Grandma Koala

Grandma Koala is a fictional character who appears in the Boowa & Kwala television series and web series. In both the television series and web series she is voiced by Céline Chevrier. Television series: In the television series, produced in 2007 by ITV Studios, UpToTen and Radio Canada and screened on television in over 20...

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Jun 13, 2020 Jason Barnard

About Mummy Koala

Mummy Koala is a fictional character who appears in the Boowa & Kwala television series and web series. In both the television series and web series, she is voiced by Céline Chevrier. She is kind and gentle and enjoys doing craft activities, especially sewing and knitting. She lives with her family in the Land in...

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Jun 13, 2020 Jason Barnard

About Siwa

A fictional character, Siwa appears in the Boowa & Kwala television series and web series.. In both the television series and web series, she is voiced by Léonor Barnard. Television series: In the television series, produced in 2007 by ITV Studios, UpToTen and Radio Canada and screened on television in over 20 countries around the...

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Jun 13, 2020 Jason Barnard

About Mawa

Mawa is a fictional character who appears in the Boowa & Kwala web series and TV series. She is a female blue dog. Her family name is Wawa, and full name is Mawa Wawa. Mawa Wawa is dynamic and sporty. Mawa is Boowa’s mother.She is Siwa’s mother.She is Dawa’s wife. Mawa Wawa is voiced by...

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Jun 13, 2020 Jason Barnard

About Dawa

Dawa is a fictional character who appears in the Boowa & Kwala web series and TV series.

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Jun 13, 2020 Jason Barnard

About 53 Bright Songs from the TV Series

53 Bright Songs from the TV Series: Music Album by Boowa & Kwala As part of the Boowa & Kwala web series, I wrote a song every single month without fail for 4 and a half years. The website and the songs were then turned into the Boowa & Kwala TV series Véronique and I...

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Jun 6, 2020 Jason Barnard

Jason Barnard, entrepreneur and writer

Jason Barnard is a digital marketing consultant who specialises in Brand SERPs and knowledge panels – The Brand SERP Guy. Company: He is founder and CEO at Kalicube – a groundbreaking digital marketing agency that pioneered the concept of exact match Brand SERPs (what your audience sees when they google your brand name). Author: Jason is a regular contributor to leading digital marketing publications such as Search Engine Journal and Search Engine Land and regularly guests on others such as Wordlift, SEranking, SEMrush, Search Engine Watch, Searchmetrics and Trustpilot. Speaker: He speaks at major marketing conferences worldwide including BrightonSEO, PubCon, SMX series, ITB Berlin and YoastCon. Podcast host: The conversations are always intelligent, always interesting… and always fun! Guests include Rand Fishkin, Barry Schwartz, Eric Enge, Joost de Valk, Aleyda Solis, Bill Slawski… Over 160 episodes available. Listen here >> Backstory: Jason has over 2 decades of experience in digital marketing, starting in the year Google was incorporated with a site for kids that he built up to become one of the 10,000 most visited sites in the world.

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May 19, 2016 Jason Barnard

Barcoustic

Jason Barnard – double bassist, singer Hugo Scott – guitarist, singer Formation Date: 2014 Barcoustic are groovy apéro ninjas – an acoustic band who swing and rock their way through classics of all styles from the 1950s through to the present day. Some songs we play: Faith, Brown Eyed Girl, Elvis the Barman, Red Red Wine,...

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Aug 18, 2015 Jason Barnard

Contact

Need to Contact Jason Barnard? Have a question or want to collaborate? Fill out the form below and get in touch! Why You’re Here (And Why That’s Brilliant) You’ve landed on my contact page. That already tells me something: You’re smart enough to know that the next step in building your brand’s digital presence isn’t...

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Sep 20, 2014 Jason Barnard