Brand Your Passion

As creatives we all have dreams. But sometimes, it’s hard to move forward and turn them from dreams into reality. We sit there thinking about what we want, envisioning the future, looking at what other people are doing and wishing it could be us, but there are things stopping us from moving forward. So we keep dreaming.

But at some point, it’s time to stop dreaming and start doing.

If you're ready to stop dreaming and start doing, this episode is for you! Let’s talk about it.

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Okay so you’ve had a new idea. Now you’re wondering, do I need to start a whole new social media page for this? Let’s walk through the series of questions you can ask yourself to figure out if that’s the best strategy for you and your business or not.

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The best way to grow your brand and your business is the way that’s best for you.

So one of the best things you can do for your business is get to know yourself.

What lights you up? How do you best work? When do you work best? What makes things easier for you?

When you understand these things, you can build a brand and business that works for you, and make sure everything you’re doing is as enjoyable and sustainable as possible. The dream, right? Well, let’s make it happen with these 15 self-discovery strategies.

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This week on the Brand Your Passion Podcast, we're revisiting one of the most popular episodes of the podcast ever, all about how you can use your brand strategy.

A brand strategy document is your go-to guide and reliable roadmap for your brand. I’m a massive advocate for how it can help you build an aligned brand that can grow, scale and achieve your wildest creative business dreams.

Your brand strategy is more than just a static document though. It’s a living, breathing, collaborative guide that changes over time as your business does.

But *creating* your brand strategy document is just step one. From there, it’s time to put all that magic into action. To do that, I’m here to tell you 20 tried and tested ways that creatives can make damn good use of their brand strategy.

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Get the Brand Strategy Kit for Creators here and start crafting your brand strategy today!

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Want to support the show & help me make the world a more creative place one brand at a time? You can pop something in my tip jar here

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Want to sponsor the Brand Your Passion Podcast? You can view the options & book in here.

Goals. You either love em or you hate em. Maybe you’ve set them before but it’s never really stuck. Or you’ve been so busy with your head down that you’ve never really come up for air to step back and set any.

Well wherever you’re at, its actually super useful to set goals of some kind for your creative business. There are loads of ways you can do it, you just need to find the one that works for you. Today I’m going to share 9 different goal-setting strategies with you and we’ll figure out together which one is the one for you!

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Read 9 key metrics all creatives need to be tracking

Read 8 Simple brand goals to support your creative business goals

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Want to support the show & help me make the world a more creative place one brand at a time? You can pop something in my tip jar here

Any amount is appreciated, as is sharing the episodes or recommending the show to your creative friends!

Want to sponsor the Brand Your Passion Podcast? You can view the options & book in here.

Whether good or bad, we all have habits. Usually they’re to do with our self-care: things like going to the gym, journalling, or doing your skincare. But habits can apply elsewhere in your life too, including in your brand.

Just like getting in the habit of moving your body will help you in so many ways, getting in the habit of working on your brand will help your business in so many ways too. So today I’m going to talk about the useful things that creatives can get in the habit of doing that will help build and grow your brand.

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Get the Brand Strategy Kit for Creators here!

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Tag me on Instagram @makerandmoxie and let me know you're listening.

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Want to support the show & help me make the world a more creative place one brand at a time? You can pop something in my tip jar here

Any amount is appreciated, as is sharing the episodes or recommending the show to your creative friends!

Want to sponsor the Brand Your Passion Podcast? You can view the options & book in here.

Building a brand can be a challenge, but it can be a little bit easier when you can learn from the people who have been there before you. The people who have tried things, made mistakes, had successes, and learnt lessons that they can pass on to others.

Over the past three years I’ve interviewed so many amazing professional creatives about their journeys and asked a bunch of them what the biggest lesson they’ve learnt about branding their passion was. In this episode I’ve compiled them all together so that you can hear them all in one place when you need a dose of inspiration, motivation, or ideas for what to do next.

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Want to support the show & help me make the world a more creative place one brand at a time? You can pop something in my tip jar here

Any amount is appreciated, as is sharing the episodes or recommending the show to your creative friends!

Want to sponsor the Brand Your Passion Podcast? You can view the options & book in here.

Creating content can be difficult enough on its own, but creating content that actually speaks to your ideal audience is a step further. But that’s what makes the biggest difference when it comes to building an engaged community and growing your audience! There’s no point in posting for the sake of posting - we want to make sure we’re posting stuff that our audience is going to enjoy and engage with, right? So how do we do that?

In this episode, I’m going to walk you through exactly how I do it and give you 8 different techniques for creating content that speaks directly to your audience.

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Want to support the show & help me make the world a more creative place one brand at a time? You can pop something in my tip jar here

Any amount is appreciated, as is sharing the episodes or recommending the show to your creative friends!

Want to sponsor the Brand Your Passion Podcast? You can view the options & book in here.

We’ve all experienced that horrifying moment when someone asks the dreaded question…”so what do you do” Panic sets in, thoughts fly like mad around your brain, and before you know it, a jumble of words are pouring out of your mouth. But it doesn’t have to be like that. In this episode, I’ll tell you how to perfect the elevator pitch for your creative business.

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Want to support the show & help me make the world a more creative place one brand at a time? You can pop something in my tip jar here

Any amount is appreciated, as is sharing the episodes or recommending the show to your creative friends!

Want to sponsor the Brand Your Passion Podcast? You can view the options & book in here.

This week on the Brand Your Passion Podcast, we're revisiting one of the most popular episodes of the podcast ever! In this one,  I talk to Ariel Bissett, a writer and filmmaker based in British Columbia who hosts multiple podcasts, runs an annual readathon called The Reading Rush, and has a YouTube channel with almost 200,000 subscribers, among many other creative endeavours.

She has spoken at VidCon, premiered videos at Buffer Festival, was an official Man Booker Prize Vlogger, has appeared in the New York Times, Variety, HuffPost, and Forbes, and has interviewed the likes of Michelle Obama, Bill Gates, and Margaret Atwood.

In this episode we talk about following your gut when it comes to your brand, creating authentic content that you love to make, finding a new audience when your brand shifts, and the controversial topic of not having a logo for your brand. We also get an exclusive story about how Ariel chose her brand font in the most hilariously on-brand way possible.

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Connect with Ariel

Instagram: arielbissett

Instagram: books_unbound

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Read the accompanying blog post.

Tag me on Instagram @makerandmoxie and let me know you're listening.

And sign up to the Moxie Musings newsletter for more goodness like this.

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Want to support the show & help me make the world a more creative place one brand at a time? You can pop something in my tip jar here

Any amount is appreciated, as is sharing the episodes or recommending the show to your creative friends!

Want to sponsor the Brand Your Passion Podcast? You can view the options & book in here.