20/09/2026
DON'T CALL YOURSELF A BRAND STRATEGIST.
When I started 3.5 years ago, I was often told to call myself a "marketer", because nobody understood what a "brand strategist" was (or what they did).
To most people it was a LOGO (still is). I stayed on my path anyway, because I am a brand strategist.
There's been a massive shift in the last 4 years, now people are talking about BRAND, there is also the rise of the PERSONAL BRAND, and founders are finally starting to see that this is something worth investing in.
That part I welcome with open arms! Here's the part I don't - NOW EVERYONE IS SELLING it.
Coaches, consultants, people from every imaginable industry, offering to build brands for founders with no training in it and NO experience of having done it before.
It's made worse by the fact that this industry has no standards. Even within the discipline the concepts move around, so ask 10 people what brand strategy actually means and you'll get 10 different answers.
No wonder founders are confused. When nobody can tell you consistently what you are buying, the only thing left to compare is price.
Even my own clients tell me afterwards that they had no idea it was this valuable.
The BRAND STRATEGY they recieved was so much more than they thought they were paying for.
It becomes the business DNA, built on psychological principles and it takes real skill to excavate who someone actually is and put words to it.
That is what turns a brand into an ASSET that makes money and works FOR the business.
I am so frustrated, because the ones who carry the COST and pay the PRICE are the founders investing in building their brand.
I have had so many come to me having spent money again and again on "brand", yet none of it was a brand.
They've wasted so much money, and worse, all those years they could have been building brand equity instead of starting over.
That is not okay, and I am taking a stance on it.
I've created a FREE resource for every founder considering investing in their BRAND, to help them ask the right questions and quality WHO they are considering investing in and making sure they stop wasting money.
Comment RESOURCE if you want a copy.