Brand & Positioning Strategy
Clarify your audience, differentiation, message, voice, and the ideas you want your brand to own.
I help brands become easier to find, understand, and recommend by people, search engines, and AI.
I'm Rebekah Barton. My work sits at the intersection of brand positioning, SEO, generative engine optimization, content strategy, publishing, and digital visibility. I turn what makes a brand genuinely different into a story both humans and algorithms can understand.

I spend my professional life figuring out why some brands get found, understood, trusted, and recommended while others disappear into a sea of sameness.
My background spans SEO, brand strategy, AI-era discoverability, editorial content, podcasting, travel writing, and creator work. That mix gives me a useful perspective: your positioning cannot live in a strategy deck. It has to survive a Google search, an AI answer, a website visit, a social profile, and a real human deciding whether you're the right fit.
Alongside my full-time leadership work, I take on a limited number of independent consulting projects for brands and professionals who want sharper positioning and stronger visibility.


Consulting engagements are tailored to the problem rather than forced into a generic package. These are the areas where I can help most.
Clarify your audience, differentiation, message, voice, and the ideas you want your brand to own.
Build visibility across traditional search and AI-driven discovery, with a practical roadmap grounded in how people actually find and evaluate brands now.
See what Google, ChatGPT, other AI systems, social platforms, and third-party sources collectively communicate about you — then identify what is missing, inconsistent, or weak.
Turn expertise into useful, authoritative content that earns attention, supports discoverability, and creates a coherent brand narrative.
That matters because modern visibility is not one channel. Strong brands create consistent signals everywhere someone — or something — might encounter them.
Strategy informed by hands-on work in organic search, generative search, content architecture, and recommendation visibility.
A writer's understanding of hooks, clarity, voice, narrative, and what makes people care enough to keep reading.
Not theory for theory's sake. I care about what a team can actually publish, implement, measure, and sustain.
Visibility, SEO/GEO, brand positioning and content strategy for accounting and tax professionals.
Read my CountingWorks articles ↗Co-hosting conversations about growth, technology, AI, marketing, and the future of accounting firms.
Listen on Apple Podcasts ↗Travel, aviation, hospitality, theme-park and culture coverage, including work for Islands.com.
Read my Islands stories ↗My creator work is where my professional obsession with storytelling meets the things I genuinely love: Disney, Star Wars, fashion, travel, collecting, family experiences, and the occasional deep dive into why a tiny detail has a much bigger story behind it.
I'm open to select gifted partnerships, experiences, commissions, and brand collaborations that are a natural fit for my audience and content.



If the answer is unclear — or simply isn't what you want it to be — that's a problem we can work on.
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