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What is the best way to protect your creative time? Pretend you’re on a call with Beyoncé. 📞📞😍 Imagine getting on a creative call with Beyoncé. ☎️ Would you protect that call with your life? Would you be prepared? After mentoring dozens of creative founders, here are my top 4 tips to protect your creative time, innovate, scale, and get into your zone of genius: 1. Schedule It: Block creative time like Beyoncé is calling you for a meeting. 2. Set Boundaries: Tell your team to avoid disruptions. 3. Digital Detox: Turn off notifications & disconnect. 4. Create a Sanctuary: Have a distraction-free creative space. Get prepared with notes, visuals, & also references. You never know when @beyonce will call ya! 😻😻 How I help? Founders need to protect their creative space to stay innovative & scale their business. I help them do this with weekly 1-on-1 meetings, ensuring they have the dedicated time and strategies to focus and grow. 🙌🏾 Book a 45 min session with me here: https://lnkd.in/dm9xd9y7 (Currently 60% off for the month of May)

Ever feel lost in the sea of brands out there? Don't worry, you're not alone! The key to standing out is simple: focus on who you're helping. Think about it – your brand isn't just about you. It's about the people you serve. Who are they? What do they need? What keeps them up at night? When you really get to know your audience, magic happens. Your brand becomes a perfect fit for them, like their favorite comfy sweater. It's not about being everything to everyone. It's about being exactly what your people need. So, how do you start? Talk to your customers. Listen to their stories. What makes them tick? What are their dreams and fears? Once you understand them, your brand will naturally fall into place. Your words, your look, your vibe – it'll all click because it's tailored to the folks you're helping. Your brand is like a friendship. It grows and changes as you get to know each other better. So don't stress if it's not perfect right away. Keep listening, keep learning, and keep serving. Ready to discover your unique brand? Start with who you serve!! Appreciate you being on the show, Lauren Bayne!!

Your audience doesn’t want to watch your happy dance. They want their own. Here’s where most brands lose their way: They cast themselves as the main character, the hero in plate armour. But your audience doesn’t need another hero. They need a win. And they need a guide. A seasoned traveler who knows the dangers of the path ahead. Someone who sees their struggle, understands the stakes, and hands them the tools to win. Picture this: Your product? It’s the sword gleaming in the torchlight, ready to slay the beast under the bed. Your expertise? A weathered map, edges curled and ink smudged, leading you out of the dungeon. So stop shouting, “Look at me!” Start asking, “How can I help you?” Because in the greatest stories, the guide doesn’t bask in the spotlight. They arm the hero, cheer from the shadows, and watch the real victory unfold. 🖖 I’m Joshua Parsons. I write & automate content that stands out and sells more.

If you love laughing a lot and helping your clients feel and look their best, we should be friends! Hi! I’m Cassandra and I’m all about helping you expand your expertise with the power of video + your unique ability. And if you’re new around here, be sure to say hi below and check out my deets for ways to step into your star brand easily and joyfully! #personalbrandingtips #growyourbiz #growyourbrandonline #businessstrategycoach

Ever heard of 'Theater of the Mind'? It’s the idea of taking control of your inner narrative to reframe adversity as an advantage, turning challenges into opportunities for growth. At The Borden Group , we guide our clients in using this mindset to strengthen their personal brands and communicate resilience. Dive deeper into Theater of the Mind by checking out one of our latest blogs on how to harness your internal theater for personal brand growth: https://lnkd.in/gPhuq4NF How do you reframe challenges to fuel your personal growth?

How do you get your brand to stand out from the crowd and turn potential customers into paying customers? Building brand authority and instilling confidence and trust through your creatives is key. Here's a quick clip from a series of videos Louis Ayre and I have been working on. Be kind and show some love, it's our first time on camera! 😅

It’s a big day. °Small World's first industry report is out. It's called Entertain or Die. A 51 page report of brand-building secrets that looks at the best and most entertaining brands of today. Brands like Liquid Death, Duolingo and Crocs. Brands whose desire to entertain above all else is giving them an unfair creative advantage. What can you expect in the report? ⭐️ 35 brand examples.   💡29 unique creative tactics. 🤹♂️8 Entertainer Archetypes to help you plan your brand tactics. 🎙️5 interviews with the likes of Mid-Day Squares and Vacation Inc. 📊1 proprietary Entertainment Index ranking the world's greatest entertainers. -- Amazing response, thanks everyone. We've whipped up an EOD microsite so you can download the full report: www.entertainordie.com.

55,231,200 blinks. -- I met Marty Neumeier for the first time on August 22, 2017, when he strutted out of Philadelphia International Airport. The 30-minute drive to the 3-hour dinner that followed were one big blur. That was 7 years 84 months 2,557 days 61,368 hours 3,682,080 minutes 220,924,800 seconds or 257,744,000 beats of my heart ago. Today. An introduction became a partnership of co-founders who designed a program of masterclasses to teach professional misfits how to think about brand in meaningful and impactful ways. We named it LEVEL C. It was founded on #expertise by the guy who did the work had the original ideas learned from the fails doubled down on the successes wrote the book(s) put his sh!t out in the space and let it ride only has 19,651 followers on LinkedIn only has 3,232 followers on Instagram doesn't have a YouTube channel still influenced millions of professionals actually changed business everyone channels and quotes but can't be copied... ...and the guy he picked to foundbuildshapegrow it with him. We've been at this unreal party for a while. But things change. We can't dance to chamber'd echos of...noise. We don't drink kool-aid. and We won't waste another Saturday night. We're hungry for a different party. A #real party. So... As we reflect on 7 years that changed our lives and those in the Level C tribe, we're scoping a new party and letting ourselves celebrate the **next** 7 years. I think they call that...the pre-party...? -- BTW—it wasn't 55,231,200 blinks of an eye over 7 years. It was just 1.

Today, I went out and from an elevated position, I could see a market beneath. So many banners, sign posts, all screaming the same thing, “Buy from me!” The market was bustling in both activity and designs. The funny thing is, I got home, and couldn’t remember not one of the signs! It means that none had a lasting impression. Begs the question, 📌Why are we all striving to be Different yet Blending in? We want to be remembered but we’re speaking in the crowd. 📌The problem is in thinking it can only be done one way. This simple scenario has challenged me, For everything I’ll be doing, it has to be Impactful and Unforgettable. 📌Exploit your uniqueness. ❓What’s a word you’re commonly described with?

What’s harder than creating a reputation as a fun brand? SUSTAINING a reputation as a fun brand! When you start to gain traction for being genuinely fun to engage with, the pressure can begin to mount. People are expecting you to continue, if not EXCEED their already lofty expectations that you’ve set for them. Suddenly it all becomes clear why Phoebe Waller Bridge never released a 3rd season of Fleabag. My advice for sustaining your definition of fun, even when it feels like the pressure is on? If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. If things are working for your audience, your brand, and your teams responsible for writing the content (often an overlooked stakeholder imo), then don’t look to shake things up just because you’ve got eyeballs on you. Those eyeballs are there because something is working. Don’t panic, clam up, and go all professional and corporate-ised on us. Lean into the sillies, and reflect the personality that created those connections in the first place xoxoxo