Brand Materials
A ten-part series tracing the foundations of brand strategy, from purpose and positioning to voice, personality, and emotional connection.
Each entry is designed as a self-guided workshop: a place to ask sharper questions, refine your message, and shape a compelling brand.
Brand Purpose: Where Passion Meets Profit with Ikigai
Behind every enduring brand is a reason for being. Explore how to uncover yours with the Brand Ikigai approach—where passion meets profit.
Defining Your Ideal Client: From Generic to Magnetic
Generic brands compete. Focused brands connect. Discover how to define your ideal client and craft messaging that makes the right people lean in.
Brand Values: The Difference Between Competing and Leading
Without values, brands race to the bottom. With them, they build trust, belonging, and authority. This post shows you how to put them into action.
Brand Vision: The Difference Between Drifting and Leading
Without vision, brands drift into reaction. With vision, they build rhythm, authority, and weight. This post explores how to shape a brand vision that leads.
Brand Mission: Grounding Your Work in Meaning
Mission grounds your brand in meaningful work. This post shows how to craft a specific, human brand mission that builds trust, authority, and connection.
Unique Selling Points: From Option to Only Choice
What makes you irreplaceable? This entry shows how to distill your unique selling points into a clear, compelling statement that makes you the obvious choice.
Brand Archetypes: Structure, Soul, and Strategy
Archetypes offer structure, soul, and familiarity. This guide introduces the 12 core archetypes and shows you how to apply them to shape a brand identity that feels grounded and compelling.
Finding Your Brand Voice: From Personality to Point of View
Voice is more than tone. It’s memory, identity, and connection. This post helps you define a voice rooted in perspective, so your words feel cohesive, human, and unmistakable.
StoryBrand: Helping Your Audience Feel Seen
A clear story helps people see themselves in your brand. This entry introduces the StoryBrand Framework, a client-centered narrative that builds trust and belonging.
Emotional Branding: Building Authentic Connection
Connection begins with feeling. This guide shows how emotional branding moves beyond features into experience, making your brand memorable not just for what it offers, but for how it makes people feel.