BrandLama

26/08/2026

Most small business sites get built once and forgotten. Yours should be doing something - getting found, getting booked, getting you paid.

Comment SITE and I'll take a look at what you've got now.

25/08/2026

Website Design, Logo Design, Branding & Content Creation.

Project price or a monthly plan.

You know the cost before I start, not after.

Comment "PRICE" and I'll send you the numbers.

17/08/2026

17/08/2026

The first three seconds are critical

14/08/2026

Why I'll never bill by the hour.

Early on, I did what everyone does: hourly rate, timesheets, the lot. It lasted about two months.

Because here's what hourly billing actually does. It makes the client nervous to email you. It punishes me for being fast, which is a strange thing to be punished for. And it turns every invoice into a small negotiation about whether something "should have taken that long."

So I stopped. Now it's a fixed price, agreed before we start. If I'm quick, you don't pay less and I don't apologise. If something takes longer than I thought, that's my problem, not your invoice.

The meter's off. Ask me anything.

13/08/2026

You already have fifty video ideas. They're in your sent folder.

"I wouldn't know what to talk about" is the most common thing I hear. And it's never true.

Open your sent emails. Every question you've answered for a customer this month is a video.

You've already written the script,probably several times, to several people. Now say it once to a camera and it answers the question forever, for everyone, including people who haven't found you yet.

The businesses "with nothing to talk about" are usually the ones answering the same five questions every single week.

13/08/2026

I made a mistake and I'm sorry if I offended anyone

12/08/2026

You don't have to be the one on camera.

Every business owner assumes video training means them, personally, presenting to a lens. It doesn't have to.

I train teams, not just owners. Maybe your apprentice is a natural. Maybe your office manager secretly runs a decent Instagram and has opinions about yours. The skill can live anywhere in the business.

What I teach - planning, filming, editing, posting - works the same whether it's you, your team, or a mix. The point is the capability sits inside your business when I leave, not with whoever you're renting it from.

Fixed project price or monthly. Never hourly. Tag your camera-natural in the comments. There's always one.

11/08/2026

A client refused to put their face on camera. So we didn't.

Not everyone starts with a piece to camera, and I've stopped pretending they should.

This client's first videos: their hands doing the work, their voice over the top. That's it. No face, no eye contact with a lens, none of the bits they dreaded.

Here's what I didn't expect.

The videos worked because their customers care about the work and the voice explaining it, not about seeing a face read a script. But, four videos in, they turned the camera round on their own. Nobody pushed. Watching the faceless ones perform made the scary version feel smaller.

If being on camera is the wall you keep hitting - go round it. Hands, voice, screen, before-and-after. The face can catch up later. Or never. The videos work either way.

10/08/2026

Film once. Post four times. Zero extra work.

Here's a myth that stops small businesses before they start: "I can't do TikTok AND Instagram AND LinkedIn AND YouTube...I don't have time."

You're not making four videos. You're making one.

The same video posts to all four platforms with small tweaks: caption changes, maybe trim the first second for TikTok, a slightly more grown-up caption for LinkedIn. Ten minutes of admin, not four filming sessions.

Pick one platform as home. That's where you check comments and actually show up. The other three are echoes. Free reach for content you already made.

The only real decision is which one is home.