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Why Your Brand Messaging Isn’t Reflecting Your Authority brand messaging

When you’re naturally thoughtful, conscientious, and highly attuned to other people’s needs, your instinct to write from that place can feel like generosity in your marketing. 

But that's actually the root of the brand messaging problems that many experienced experts are dealing with - 

And they h...

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When Your Brand Messaging Feels Weird at First, Don’t Panic brand differentiation brand messaging brand messaging strategy

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In this blog post, I told you about my eyelid surgery saga and how it connects to your messaging. Today I'm going one layer deeper. 

Because yes, the surgery worked. That part is true.

I could see muuuuch better, my doctor was thrilled, and everyone ...

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Why Your Messaging No Longer Reflects Your Expertise attracting clients brand messaging marketing advice

A few years ago, Botox gave me a weird little wake-up call. When I tried it on my forehead, I could no longer do my habitual eyebrow-lifting, forehead-raising thing.

Suddenly my eyelids felt soooooo heavy. Not tired-heavy. More like an, "I need to lift my eyebrows with my fingers to get relief" hea...

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Before They Say Yes: The Unspoken Fears Blocking Your Best Clients attracting clients brand messaging brand messaging strategy

Before people ever get on a call with you, your messaging has to make clear who your work is for, and who it's not for.

Recently, I was doing research for my friend Maggie. She was a stay-at-home mom until seven years ago, when she took a part-time role in her town’s library.

Now she’s about to be...

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How to Explain What You Do Clearly Without Over-Explaining brand differentiation brand messaging client story marketing advice

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I was confused on a client call last week. Weird thing to admit, right?

Sadie had brought a sales page that felt impossible to read through, but I knew the issue wasn’t bad writing. 

It was that she was trying to get her sales page to teach her audie...

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Why Your Messaging Isn’t Landing Even Though Your Copy Sounds Good brand messaging client story marketing advice writing copy

When you know your messaging feels technically fine but you can tell it still isn’t landing with your audience, the problem may not be your writing.

It's very likely that the strongest line on the page is buried halfway down, hidden under all the polished language you worked so hard to get right.

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