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🗓️ 28 November 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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In the final episode of her Crafted Entrepreneur identity series, Cayla Craft discusses the critical importance of building a clear and authentic brand identity. She highlights the dangers of trying to appeal to everyone, explaining how it can dilute your message and create distrust. Cayla emphasizes the need for consistency and coherence in brand messaging to build trust and attract the right audience. She shares insights into balancing multiple passions within a brand, setting boundaries, and the value of saying no to opportunities that don’t align with your vision. Cayla also addresses the possibility of pivoting a brand, advising listeners to do so with intentionality and clear communication. The episode offers practical steps for creating a brand that resonates deeply with its audience while staying true to your personal and professional goals.
Key Moments:
The Pitfall of Being Everything to Everyone: Cayla explains how trying to appeal to everyone online creates mixed messages, lowering trust and confusing potential clients about your brand identity.
The Importance of Clear Brand Identity: She emphasizes focusing on authenticity, consistency, and clarity in brand messaging to ensure people know exactly what to expect from you.
Psychology of Trust: Cayla shares how the amygdala, our brain's alarm system, triggers distrust when people encounter inconsistency in brand messaging, underscoring the importance of coherence.
Balancing Passions Within a Brand: Using examples, she demonstrates how to weave diverse interests into a cohesive brand narrative, ensuring they align with the audience's expectations.
The Value of Saying No: Cayla highlights the importance of declining opportunities that don’t align with your brand vision to avoid burnout and attract the right audience.
Staying Consistent and Listening to Feedback: She encourages maintaining consistent messaging while regularly seeking and acting on audience feedback to refine and enhance your brand.
Pivoting with Intention: Cayla assures listeners that pivoting a brand is possible, but it requires clear communication, intentional messaging, and a solid plan to ensure audience alignment.
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0:00.0 | The common pitfall that a lot of us entrepreneurs fall into is we try to be everything to everyone. |
0:26.6 | Welcome back to crafted entrepreneur. |
0:32.7 | This is the final episode in our identity series. |
0:37.1 | And today we're going to kind of wrap it all up with a really pretty bow. And I'm so excited because, |
0:39.5 | I mean, I've heard from so many of you how this series has helped you so much. I think |
0:44.8 | more series are on the horizon. So please DM me at Kayla.craft on any social media profile |
0:52.8 | that you're on and let me know what other series |
0:54.8 | do you want me to go dive deep on? Because I've absolutely loved creating this for each and |
1:02.2 | every one of you that listen in. So, all right, we are talking about how to truly step into who God made you to be |
1:14.3 | and also create that brand online |
1:18.6 | and keep the two separate. |
1:21.6 | So the way to create an extraordinary brand |
1:25.7 | is number one to be authentic, right? It's to really show people |
1:31.1 | what it's like to work with you. If you're a personal brand, if you have a service, what is it like? |
1:38.0 | If you have a product, truly, what is it like to take the product? That is the authenticity piece. |
1:45.9 | And it's also just, know being consistent we've talked about that in the last two episodes you've got to be |
1:51.5 | consistent but the common pitfall that a lot of us entrepreneurs fall into is we try to be |
1:59.6 | everything to everyone and when you do that online with your brand, |
2:05.4 | you really just lose because there's too many mixed messages that you're giving. So I want to talk |
2:13.4 | today about how overextending your brand can actually hurt you. And then let's figure out |
2:19.0 | how to set you up for success. So that way your brand identity has clear messaging so people |
2:25.5 | know exactly what they're going to get from you. So we're going to start it off with a visual for you. |
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