Welcome to the Blog:
Resources to help tell your best brand story,
rooted in strategy. Think of this like the foundational lessons
needed for building your best brand yet.
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Is your email list getting bigger but your engagement getting smaller? A bloated list can hurt more than your open rates. It can cost you money, impact deliverability, and make it harder to understand who is actually paying attention to your brand. Learn how to clean your email list by re-engaging inactive subscribers, removing hard bounces, clearing duplicates, and creating a healthier audience that is actually interested in hearing from you.
A $110,000 launch doesn't start on launch day. Here's the full six-month strategy behind the most recent BrandShift Method launch, from cold audience content to conversion event to cart close.
Why can one business charge $32 for something another sells for $9? The difference isn’t always the product or service itself. It’s positioning. Your brand positioning shapes how people perceive your value before they ever see your price, and strong positioning can make your rates feel like an obvious fit rather than something you have to justify. Here’s how to recognize the gap between your price and your position, and what to do about it.
Ready to raise your rates but worried about losing clients? Raising your prices doesn’t have to mean making one huge, uncomfortable leap. The Stair-Step Method gives you a practical way to increase your rates gradually while protecting existing client relationships and getting new leads onto your new pricing immediately. Here’s how to raise your rates with more confidence, strategy, and room to grow.
A $110,000 launch doesn't start on launch day. Here's the full six-month strategy behind the most recent BrandShift Method launch, from cold audience content to conversion event to cart close.
Think your leads are going cold? They're probably not. Here are the 6 sales conversation patterns killing your closes… and what to do instead.
Keeping your Flodesk account and subscriber list clean is a simple but powerful habit that protects your deliverability, strengthens your brand reputation, and ensures every message reaches the people who actually want to hear from you. In this post, I explain why regular list hygiene matters for open rates and brand trust, show step-by-step how to remove inactive subscribers, merge duplicates, and update tags and segments, and offer best practices for re-engagement and GDPR/anti-spam compliance. I also include a ready-to-use Claude skill you can download and install to automate these tasks on a monthly schedule…so you maintain a healthy list without it taking over your to-do list.
If you’ve ever fallen in love with a font that isn’t in Squarespace’s default library (lol, same), today is your day: Squarespace now lets you upload your own custom fonts — no CSS wizardry required.
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Brand Strategy
Using the 12 Brand Archetypes to Catapult Your Brand
Every brand has a unique personality, a vibe that sets it apart—and that’s where brand archetypes come in. Archetypes are the storytelling framework that helps you connect deeply with your audience by embodying traits they relate to and admire. So how can you use this to catapult your brand?
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STRATEGY
Is what sets a ho-hum brand and an obsess-worthy brand apart.
LET’S STRATEGIZE YOUR BRAND:
Brand Archetypes
The Brand Archetypes are a powerful starting point for building your best brand ever. Rooted in marketing psychology, all of my Brand Archetype content is geared towards activating a strong strategy through mood board, colors, and fonts that connect with what your dreamy clients want. I recommend starting with the overview content and then diving into your specific Brand Archetype to learn more. Happy falling down a brand rabbit hole!!
The Explorer brand archetype is bold, independent, authentic, and driven by freedom, growth, and discovery. But choosing an Explorer color palette is about more than picking earthy greens or adventurous colors. Your visual identity should reflect who your brand already is. Explore three distinct Explorer color palettes and learn how to use color strategically to express individuality, independence, motivation, and a love of discovery.
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Brand Archetype Mood boards
LEt’s dive a little deeper
Brand Archetype Colors
The Explorer brand archetype is bold, independent, authentic, and driven by freedom, growth, and discovery. But choosing an Explorer color palette is about more than picking earthy greens or adventurous colors. Your visual identity should reflect who your brand already is. Explore three distinct Explorer color palettes and learn how to use color strategically to express individuality, independence, motivation, and a love of discovery.
This brand archetype fears being boring, (as does their audience), so using engaging and energy-filled colors will show your audience that you know how to have a good time. Each of these palettes represents some of the key characteristics of the Jester brand archetype: energetic and spontaneous, entertaining and captivating, and clever and humorous.
Heroes are bold and strong, so they deserve color palettes that are just the same! Hero brands use inspiring and sometimes intense design to catch the eye of their audience and draw them in and keep them interested in what they have to offer.
Magicians and their tricks are both eye-catching and impressive. They draw you in with their promises of miracles and impress you when these seemingly impossible claims come to fruition. The color palettes for Magician brand archetypes catch clients' eyes and then keep them enticed to witness the magic. Each palette below caters to slightly different characteristics that the Magician shows: their imagination and confidence, their strategy and charisma, and their spirituality and ability to captivate.
Outspoken in what they believe in, Rebels are bold and noticeable. They don’t necessarily try to stand out, but because of their disruptive nature, they tend to be seen.
Historically, royalty and power have been associated with colors such as gold, purple, black, and silver.
Using this as a starting point we can build out color palettes for the Ruler that convey the following different characteristics and traits of this powerful brand archetype: responsible and sophisticated, dominant and a leader, and polished and successful.
More strategy resources for you
Brand Archetype Fonts
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BRANDING
3 Logo Variations Every Brand Needs
Deciding on all of these elements and putting them together is exactly what brand design is all about. Your logo is one part of this equation, and for it to operate successfully it needs to be flexible and versatile. After all, it’s going to be used in a multitude of different ways. Learn the three logos you need to build brand obsession every time.
WHO DOESn’T LOVE A QUIZ?
Discover your celebrity
brand persona
Ready to take your brand to the next level? Knowing who you are and what you stand for is the first step in connecting with your dreamy clients. Take the Celebrity Brand Persona Quiz to match with your celeb and unlock your brand potential. Then go build that brand obsession, baby.
Raising your rates isn't just about increasing your revenue. It's about buying back your time. When you charge more, you can reach the same income goal with fewer clients, fewer projects, and less capacity tied up in client work. This post explores the real reason to raise your rates and how better pricing can create more room for the life and work you actually want.