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19/08/2026

I explained this yesterday. And today again. 😅

One of my favorite ways of explaining strategic branding is this:

👉 Building a brand is a lot like building a house. 👈

Before you choose the wallpaper, the furniture or the very specific shade of sage green for the kitchen, you need a foundation strong enough to hold the whole thing up.

In branding...
that foundation is your brand strategy.

It helps you decide what you want to stand for, who you want to reach, what you want to be known for, and what associations you want to build in people's minds.

Brand design comes later.

The logo, colors, typography, imagery and overall look and feel are incredibly important, but they'rm the part people can see. They bring the strategy to life, but they don't replace it.

So if your business feels difficult to explain, your messaging is all over the place, or you're not quite sure who you're trying to attract…

Maybe don't start by changing the wallpaper.

Check the foundations first. 🙂

23/06/2026

Last month, my friend and social media fairy godmother Georgiana Dăscălescu told me to stop being subtle and just tell people I was running a webinar.

So I did.

That very obvious post brought in the highest number of sign-ups.

Apparently, being direct works. Shocking... someone go alert the strategists!😅

So here we go again:

👉 I’m running Beyond Pretty Logos tomorrow, June 24th, at 6pm Paris time.

It’s a free strategic branding webinar for purpose-driven solopreneurs who feel like their brand is a little scattered, a little outdated, or quietly having an identity crisis in the corner.

I’ll talk about why your posts might not be landing, even if your work is excellent, and what needs to be clear before your logo, website, content, and marketing can actually do their job.

And one more thing:

🚨 This is also the last time I’m running this webinar this year. In autumn, we’ll move on to a different topic, still branding-related, of course.

👉 Comment or DM me CLARITY and I’ll send you the details.

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And because sharing is caring, you can also send this post to a friend who keeps saying: “I don’t know how to explain what I do.” We’ll make room for them too. 🫶

22/06/2026

Your brand doesn’t always need to be “wrong” for it to stop feeling aligned.👀

Sometimes your business simply grows beyond the identity you built in an earlier chapter.

If your brand feels too small for the business you’re building now, join my free webinar on June 24th.

We’ll look at what needs to happen before your visuals, websites, content, and marketing can actually work together.

Link in bio.

17/06/2026

A website is not just where your brand "looks good."

Or "just a calling card", like I saw someone writing about their website earlier today.

What it is instead is this⤵️

When done efficiently, a website is a business tool where your business model, offers, positioning, and messaging need to work together.

But very often I see websites without a specific goal, or that are just fancy presentation brochures of a business.

When you don't have enough clarity in your business and brand fundamentals, you also don't know what to ask either your preferred AI or a freelancer to create for your website.

Want to understand the brand fundamentals that should come before visuals and marketing tactics?

I'm covering this in my free branding webinar on June 24th.

Comment CLARITY and I'll send you the details.

16/06/2026

This is one of the biggest patterns I see with purpose-driven founders ⤵️

Smart people having a hard time explaining what they do.

They’re not confused because they don’t know what they do, but rather because they know too much ... and it’s difficult to understand what to prioritize.

Their business has evolved.

Their clients have changed.

Their offers have become more refined.

Their work has more depth than it did at the beginning.

But their positioning is still trying to describe an outdated version of their business.

That’s when explaining what you do starts to feel surprisingly difficult.

You either say something too broad... and it sounds generic.

Or you explain everything... and people quietly disappear into the fog.

And this is exactly why I believe strategic branding has to start before the visuals.

Because a beautiful design can only amplify the message that already exists.

If your message is unclear, the design has to work overtime.

But if your market positioning is clear, everything becomes easier to build: your website, your content, offers, sales conversations, and even your visual identity.

Clear positioning gives the right people a proper place in a noisy market.

If you want to understand how to approach branding strategically before jumping into visuals, I’m hosting a free branding webinar on June 24th ⤵️

Beyond Pretty Logos:
The Strategy-First Branding Method for Solopreneurs to Build Authority and Win Clients Without Creative Overwhelm.

Comment CLARITY and I’ll send you the registration link.🤗

28/05/2026

A big part of my strategy work is helping my clients articulate what they already intuitively feel: that something in their business is “off,” even if they can’t fully explain it yet.

After Tuesday’s branding webinar, I reached out to the participants who showed up live for their feedback.

As a strategist, I believe market research sits at the heart of solid thinking.

And what better way to do research than talking to the very people experiencing what you created? 🤓

Here are five ideas that stayed with me after reading their feedback:

🔸 their “content problem” might actually be a clarity problem underneath

🔸 some knew their WHY, but hadn’t spent enough time thinking about the HOW. Some skipped their WHY.

🔸 something in their business had been feeling “off” for a while, even if they couldn’t fully name it before

🔸 they are creating content consistently, but not always seeing the traction or client conversion they hoped for

🔸 their business keeps evolving as they gain more clarity around their niche and positioning

One participant told me she made a messaging tweak on her website that she had been procrastinating on for months.

That made me ridiculously happy to hear. 🤩

Moments like these are exactly why I love this strategy work so much.

It keeps showing me that when we feel stuck, we don’t need more information, more trends, or more content ideas.

Instead, we simply need enough clarity to finally see what’s actually happening underneath.

Finally, if you’re reading this:
a collective, heartfelt THANK YOU to the 10 people who showed up live! 🧡

Maybe 10 people don’t sound like much in the world of “scale bigger, faster, more!” online business culture, but if this webinar helped even one person see their business differently, made them feel that branding is more accessible, or gave them the clarity to finally move forward, then this work matters. 🧡

If you missed it on Tuesday, would you like me to let you know when I run this webinar again?

25/05/2026

My good friend and occasional work collaborator for all things Social Media Management, .cameo , advised me to…

🗣️🗣️🗣️ Make a post where I tell people directly I’m running a strategic branding webinar tomorrow, May 26th. 📢

▶️▶️▶️ This is that post.

***

What Geo told me:

“I know you love writing and you put a lot of work into your content, but look, I, for example, wouldn’t have realized that you were promoting the webinar if you hadn’t told me.

Because when I have such busy periods like now, I don’t really read long texts. And your CTA might get lost like that.

And what I’ve noticed over the years on social media is: the more obvious, the better.

People scroll way too quickly, so I try to step outside my point of view (or my client’s) and stop assuming our audience is sitting down to carefully study what we’re creating.”

I think Geo has a point.
What do you think?

***

PS: free branding webinar for purpose-driven solopreneurs stuck in creative overwhelm.

▶️ Happening tomorrow, May 26th, 4pm Paris time – bring a friend. 🙂

23/05/2026

One of the questions I ask founders during my audits is:
“If I were more ___, my business would grow faster.”

➡️ People usually answer: focused, organized, consistent, etc.

Then I ask:
“If I had more ___ my business would grow faster.”

➡️ And most answers sound like: time, money, clients, etc.

Those are usually the problems sitting closest to the surface.

But beneath the lack of time, focus, consistency, or clients, there is often something deeper: confusion.

Confusion about:
✍️ what their business really stands for
✍️ whom it is trying to help
✍️ what makes it different
✍️ what deserves priority

Most founders don’t realize how much that lack of clarity is already costing them.

It can feel like overwhelm, friction, or constantly second-guessing your direction.

And sometimes, it even looks like a “bad hire”: you hire a social media manager, a copywriter or a designer, but they don’t “get” your business.

Or it looks like spending hours creating generic content with AI, while paying with something more precious than almost anything else: your time.

Because confusion is expensive.

Every unclear message costs you attention and every disconnected visual costs you trust.

Every unclear direction creates more revisions, more second-guessing, and more wasted effort.

And when you’re building a business with limited resources, that wasted effort becomes expensive very quickly.
At that stage, clarity is not a luxury, but the difference between building intentionally and constantly reacting to chaos.

This is one of the ideas we’ll unpack in my free webinar on Tuesday, May 26th, where we’ll approach branding strategically as a clarity and trust problem, not just a visual one.

And if you know another founder stuck in the cycle of unclear messaging, disconnected marketing, or constant second-guessing, bring them too. :)

🎯 Register via the link in bio.

Branding / strategic branding / small business strategy / brand strategy

18/05/2026

Everyone wants more visibility and growth, better tools and easier and faster ways to create content.

So do I. But… 🤓

Back in March, I attended the Da Nang Nomad Fest where I noticed that the AI and social media workshops were full.

But while listening to the questions in the audience, I kept thinking that…

➡️ When you don’t know what you don’t know, no AI in the world can do that thinking for you.

Most of these workshops teach tactics and tools that work broadly, barely scratching the surface of how to use them strategically.

But our businesses aren’t broad.

They’re nuanced, layered, and deeply tied to the people building them.

And if the foundation underneath your business is shaky, no amount of shortcuts will strengthen it.

Because access to information is no longer the hard part, the real challenge is knowing:

🔹 what actually matters for your business,

🔹 what to ignore from the overwhelming quantity of available information,

🔹 and how to turn scattered information into clear decisions.

That’s where clarifying the foundational pillars is crucial.

AI can help you create faster, but if you don’t know what to ask it and what to do with what it gives you... it cannot define your positioning, voice, differentiation, or direction.

That still requires human thinking. Critical thinking.

And I think that’s why so many businesses feel “off” right now: they’re producing more and more content without first clarifying:

🔸 WHY they exist

🔸 WHO they’re here for

🔸 HOW they want to be perceived

🔸 and WHAT actually makes them different

So they keep tweaking visuals and rewriting captions… while the real issue continues sitting underneath.

That’s exactly what I’ll break down inside my free 75-minute webinar:

💫 Beyond Pretty Logos:
The Strategy-First Branding Method for Solopreneurs to Build Authority and Win Clients Without Creative Overwhelm. 💫

So if your business has started feeling scattered, harder to explain, or heavier to grow lately, join me - details below.

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