I know there are PR agencies that get paid for a "personal branding promotion" that get you in a top X list of Forbes for some amount of money. The founder of

I know there are PR agencies that get paid for a "personal branding promotion" that get you in a top X list of Forbes for some amount of money. The founder of Helbitz, Salvatore Palella, was one of them. He paid an agency and they push Forbes magazine to have its photo in the cover.