The Unmistakable Brand

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You are asking one post to do the job of ten

One stage doing all the work Picture this. A creator in your space launches an offer and sells out in 48 hours. The offer isn't dramatically different from yours. The audience is similar. The price is similar. The result is completely different. The answer almost never comes from the offer itself. It comes from what happened in the weeks before the offer went live. That creator moved their audience through every stage of the buyer journey first. You published into a room that wasn't ready....

27 days ago • 2 min read

The Answer is: YES you should!

Branding Letter #3 Should you build a personal brand as a founder? At our Content Coworking Session (every Friday in Valencia 👀), I hear this question almost every week: Should I build a personal brand as a founder? The answer is YES, you should. But how you do is decided by your business model, not by whatever framework is trending right now. So before you post anything else, ask yourself: what's my actual business model? If you sell high-ticket or relationship-driven Consulting, A retainer,...

6 days ago • 1 min read

You're posting and nobody's buying. Am I right?

Branding Letter #2 You built the road that is leading nowhere... Every call starts the same way. “I’m posting a lot of content.” Good, what’s it for? “Well, I’m doing a bit of this, a bit of that.” Then the real ask comes out. Can you help with my positioning? 8 out of 10 conversations go exactly like this, and it took me a while to see the actual problem underneath it. It’s that nobody’s treating offer and content as two halves of the same system. They’re not two separate jobs Think of it...

13 days ago • 3 min read

They follow you. They love you. They never buy. Am I right?

Branding Letter #1 Why they like you but never buy You post consistently and engage like crazy.... Then you mention your offer. And all you get is silence… That gap has a name. We call it the Applause Trap: your audience rewards your content with attention but never rewards your work with money. And the frustrating part is it's a system problem. One you built. Liking and buying are different brain states When someone likes a post, they're in consumption mode. Relaxed. Scrolling. Not...

20 days ago • 2 min read

Friends gif. David Schwimmer as Ross is holding the door open for Paolo as he walks out. Ross looks away from Paolo and says, "I think I speak for everyone when I say..." and shuts the door in Paolo's face.

When you try to speak to everyone, you end up reaching no one

Here's a quick test. Take your last 5 posts and remove your name. Could any other creator in your space have written them? If yes, you're in the identity trap. From the outside it looks fine. The numbers are decent. Engagement is okay. But nothing sticks. Nobody thinks of you when they see an opportunity. You sound like everyone else. Why this keeps happening The root cause is almost always fear. Fear that saying something specific will push people away. So you sand everything down. Safe is...

27 days ago • 2 min read