How to reach more ideal clients as a designer

I could offer tips on spotting these red flags during calls, which might save you a few headaches. But that won't address the issue of attracting these "bad fit clients." Let's explore how, after identifying your ideal client, you can ensure that the potential clients who book a consultation call truly align with your ideal client profile. In essence, we'll discuss how to qualify your leads effectively.

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What's the difference between a target market, a niche and an ideal client?

You know you need to define your ideal client or customer. But those avatar exercises don't really seem to work and then you're also supposed to niche down while you don't want to tie yourself down too much and then there's also a target market you need to focus on. Yep, that's quite confusing.

So in this blog, we're diving into what a target market, a niche and an ideal customer is, how these relate to each other and how these come into play on your marketing.

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5 approaches to brand differentiation

If you are in a market where you have a ton of competition, where everyone offers the same kind of services, with the same features and benefits and offers the same transformation for their clients how can you stand out? In this blog, I walk you through 5 approaches to brand differentiation

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How to find focus and direction in your business

I am just going to say it: you need to start with your brand’s strategy before design or marketing. If your marketing is to get your message out, and your visual brand needs to represent or express your brand's message how do you do any of these 2 things if you don’t know what your brand's message needs to be to build that emotional connection with your potential customers? In this blog, I will walk you through what brand strategy is and how you can use it to create an emotional connection with your audience

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How to create an emotional connection with your audience

I am just going to say it: you need to start with your brand’s strategy before design or marketing. If your marketing is to get your message out, and your visual brand needs to represent or express your brand's message how do you do any of these 2 things if you don’t know what your brand's message needs to be to build that emotional connection with your potential customers? In this blog, I will walk you through what brand strategy is and how you can use it to create an emotional connection with your audience

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How to craft your brand message

Step 9 of the Brand Foundation Series. Where the previous posts in the series talked about your vision & mission, your why & your values, beliefs and how you can make your business stand out, defining who your ideal client is. How to do market research on your audience and research on your competitors, creating your ideal client profile. The 9th step will look into crafting your brand messaging

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How to create your ideal client profile

Step 8 of the Brand Foundation Series. Where the previous posts in the series talked about your vision & mission, your why & your values, beliefs and how you can make your business stand out, defining who your ideal client is. How to do market research on your audience and research on your competitors. The 8th step will look into creating your ideal client profile

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How to perform competitor research

Step 7 of the Brand Foundation Series. Where the previous posts in the series talked about your vision & mission, your why & your values, beliefs and how you can make your business stand out, defining who your ideal client is. How to do market research on your audience. We will now look at how to perform research on your competitors

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