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  • Why Customized Brand Communication Strategies Outperform Template Business Plans

    Why Customized Brand Communication Strategies Outperform Template Business Plans. A blog from Brand Communications and Optics Strategist Loren Weisman.

    Customized Brand Communication Strategies…


    Key Takeaway List

    • Customized brand communication strategies deliver better results than template business plans by aligning with each brand’s unique goals, resources, and identity.
    • One-size-fits-all business plans often fail because they ignore the specific context and realities of individual organizations.
    • True brand strategists develop solutions from the ground up, considering actual budgets, authentic narratives, and growth trajectories.
    • Effective communication strategies include personalizing every message, marketing tactic, and channel for the brand’s real needs.
    • Brands deserve strategy planning that recognizes their objectives, target audience, and genuine market relevance; now and in the future.
    • Red flags in business consulting include recycled templates, defensive advisors, and empty promises of instant results.
    • Transparency in communication models, scalability of budgets, and honest dialogue are foundational to brand credibility and sustained business growth.
    • Individualized approaches empower brands to establish authority, create authentic connections, and outshine competitors using generic methods.
    • Growth comes from honest, detail-driven strategies, not from copy-paste business formulas.
    • Choosing a consultant who listens, tailors, and adapts plans according to real brand needs leads to long-term success and lasting brand value.

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    Customized Brand Communication Strategies

    Why Customized Brand Communication Strategies Outperform Template Business Plans.

    When building a business, advice is everywhere. Much of it is polished and packaged as the next big thing. However, not every strategy works for every business. Many approaches marketed as universal fail because they don’t align with the actual needs, resources, or identity of the brand.

    The difference between success and struggle often hinges on customized brand communication strategies rooted in a genuine understanding of each organization’s circumstances and goals.

    Too often, self-proclaimed experts push their template business plans on anyone willing to pay, disregarding individual business realities. These plans may look great on paper, especially when designed for large budgets, but they often collapse under the weight of more modest beginnings.


    Customized Brand Communication Strategies tend to be more focused on you.

    Just because a consultant created a winning campaign with a $2.5 million budget doesn’t mean that approach will work if your available funds are $2,500 or $25,000. A true strategist builds solutions from the ground up, understanding not just the numbers, but also your narrative, bandwidth, and trajectory.

    With customized brand communication strategies, every detail… from messaging to marketing is developed with real communication and clarity. Template business plans rarely consider these specifics.

    Instead, they force businesses into boxes, ignoring what makes each venture unique. Brands deserve planning that acknowledges the details: what’s being built, who it serves, and what makes it relevant today and in the future.

    If you keep hearing the same recycled templates, identical coaching lines, or feel boxed in by one-size-fits-all advice, it’s a sign to ask tough questions. Is this plan tailored just for you, or is it a repeat from someone else’s playbook? Are you receiving authentic brand honesty, or just another version of what worked for someone else?



    The strongest growth comes from transparency: asking how models are created, whether budgets truly scale up or down, and demanding real answers from those who offer business advice. Consultants and strategists who cannot personalize, who become defensive when questioned about their methods, or who promise instant wins are waving red flags. True customized brand communication strategies always align with your message, not merely with what’s trending.


    FAQ: How can I tell if the strategy I’m being offered is truly personalized for my brand?


    Authentic planning requires due diligence. This includes not only checking the success of a strategist’s previous clients but also how they listen and adapt to the specific numbers, bandwidth, and story of each business.

    Planning for growth means choosing honesty over hype and building structures that fit the real world, not the world as defined by someone else. Transparency is not just an industry buzzword; it’s the foundation of brand credibility and lasting business growth.

    In today’s landscape, where anyone can claim expertise or sell a formula, the businesses that excel are those that invest in authentic, individualized planning. Copycat strategies leave brands vulnerable, while customized brand communication strategies empower them to rise above the noise, create connections, and achieve long-term authority.

    If what’s being pitched feels disconnected or overly generic, keep asking questions. Align planning with your goals, budget, and mission. Choose to work with those who listen, tailor, and build for what is truly needed. Anything less is just another template plan and another missed opportunity for real brand growth.


    Top 100 Loren Weisman Quotes: Considerations for Branding, Communication and Marketing


     
    Customized strategies outperform standard plans.
    Customized Brand Communication Strategies

    Loren Weisman is a Brand Communications and Optics Strategist who specializes in illuminating authoritative intelligence and amplifying authentic experts.

    Weisman is the host of the brand communications and optics podcast Wait What Really OK.

    Why Customized Brand Communication Strategies Outperform Template Business Plans

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  • Top 100 Loren Weisman Quotes: Considerations for Branding, Communication and Marketing

    Top 100 Loren Weisman Quotes: Considerations for Branding, Communication and Marketing


    Top 100 Loren Weisman Quotes: Considerations for Branding, Communication and Marketing


    To get a little more of an idea of me, where I come from, what I believe and how I work… I am sharing 100 of my quotes from the last few decades that have appeared either in some of my books, on my website or articles. I hope this gives you a sense of me, my views and my approach. Here’s to hoping you might find one or two of them helpful. I hope some of these quotes can be a resource you return to whenever you need a boost in mindset or strategy.


    Ten Themes of the Top 100 Loren Weisman Quotes: Broke these quotes out into the ten themes or topics below…

    Foundations of Brand Messaging & Strategy Authenticity, Authority & Differentiation Storytelling and Content Creation Messaging, Delivery and Engagement Clarity, Truth and Professionalism Personal and Professional Growth Integrity, Honor and Ethics Communication, Respect and Relationships Optics, Perception and Social Media Endurance, Harvest and Long-Term Vision


    Foundations of Brand Messaging and Strategy Quotes Top 100 Loren Weisman Quotes


    1. The foundation of transparent messaging is often framed by your words, your story and your actions. Consider making them strong, true, authentic and yours.

    2. I believe in the discovery, validity and security of a brand and its messaging being built on a foundation that is stabilized for enduring growth. Regardless of the field or product, when these key elements are reviewed and addressed, the accountability, authenticity and authority can shine that much brighter.

    3. For me, a first step, with any business, venture or visionary is to bring them through a personalized organizational strategy plan in order to create the right foundation for all to be built on or corrected.

    4. Perceptions, comparisons, compliance and connotations of the messaging and optics of a brand can matter a great deal. Consider taking the time to choose a sound foundation for the name, the content and the tone for a secure, stable and persevering performance.

    5. Consider focusing on your messaging before you focus on your marketing. A skip to marketing when the messaging is not in place, can create more expensive marketing costs, confusion with the public and their perceptions as well as a lack of continuity and clarity.

    6. I think the messaging has to come before the marketing and the discovery of the brand. This can allow the foundation of what it will be built on, to be understood as much as possible by as many people as possible.

    7. I believe Messaging isn’t marketing. To me, Messaging comes before marketing.

    8. When marketing is not grounded in a foundation of authentic messaging with authority, integrity and ability, it can end up costing worlds more, saying worlds less and sounding the same as so many others.

    9. Shortcuts on the foundation of your discovery, compliance, brand, website, uniformity, competitive, comparative as well as your core messaging are a dangerous and often become the most costly route to go.

    10. Premature promotion and distribution before professional protection and organization can lead to loss of control, ownership and profits. Consider creating the sound foundation before you start building the floors above it.

    11. Consider building your foundation so strong and secure that everything placed on top of it can be supported and set up to thrive and succeed that much more.

    12. Brand before liftoff. For the best launch, the farthest reach, and the most results, consider building the brand foundation and fueling it while it is still on the launching pad. In many cases, designing a brand after you take off is like fueling a rocket after its lifted off.

    13. When you run across the operational touch points, the strategic touch points, the core time frames, and the messaging simultaneously; It can allow for a sound foundation to be heard above the unison and harmonies of so many others saying the exact same thing at the same time.

    14. Consider Discovery and blueprinting before building… Messaging before marketing… And engaging before selling.


    Authenticity, Authority and Differentiation Quotes Top 100 Loren Weisman Quotes


    15. The authenticity in your story, the authority in your delivery and the personalization of your presentation can make you that much more real and able to reach that many more people.

    16. Authenticity in the direction, delivery, authorship and performance of a business or brand can create a greater path of awareness, presence and profit.

    17. I believe that mostly authentic is impossible. You are authentic or you are not.

    18. The authenticity in your story, the authority in your delivery and the personalization of your presentation may help you appear that much more real.

    19. Consider exchanging the claims, promises and guarantees for authentic, humble and engaging content.

    20. Consider nourishing your audience with authentic content that highlights your authority instead of feeding them junk click bait in attempts to grow a false popularity.

    21. No one can create your brand for you. No one can create your story for you. To be authentically created, this has to be done with you, not for you.

    22. If you say the same things as everyone else… share the same links as everyone else… post the same quotes as everyone else… and put up the same pictures as everyone else… Why should anyone think you are any different than everyone else?

    23. If you are… saying the same things as everyone else… sharing the same links as everyone else… posting the same quotes as everyone else… and putting up the same pictures as everyone else… Why should anyone think you are any different than everyone else?

    24. Consider being drawn to individuals showcasing and sharing authenticity, authority, experience and knowledge, while being less concerned with who someone is standing next to.

    25. Amplify with your authority instead of constantly shouting only publicity. A sell only goes so far. Your experience, knowledge and authenticity can create the endurance to engage and sustain a connection.Your mistakes aren't learning experiences if you aren't learning from them.

    Your mistakes aren’t learning experiences if you aren’t learning from them.


    Storytelling and Content Creation Quotes Top 100 Loren Weisman Quotes


    26. There are hundreds of ways to tell a story and thousands of ways to tell different parts of a story. Still, be sure you have your story and the foundation of its messaging solid, situated and clear before bringing it to a public containing a large number of people with short attention spans that tends to read only headlines.

    27. Spread your story and messaging out, over time, and over different types of media in short segments that invite people to learn more with out force.

    28. Creating authentic messaging with your story allows for the strategy, products, and security to come together correctly and create a melody that may be heard over the same old harmonies sung by everyone else when they use hype scripts instead of true life.

    29. In painting a palette with a wide array of information, before painting the picture of your brand… it can allow for the tone, temperature and clarity of your brand, messaging and process architecture to all come together in harmony at the same time.

    30. By thinking about gearing the message across the existing customer, the familiar with you but has not converted person and the individual that has no idea who you are… (your three audiences) with the same content, you may be able to build a greater bond, better relationships, and an endurance audience.

    31. By keeping your intended messaging personal, humble and professional when it comes to the perception elements, it may not make your message clear to everyone, but it can offer a better chance to engage that many more people with a greater understanding.

    32. Consider posting content that plants authentic seeds for an enduring harvest instead of posting empty hype that lasts only for a moment.

    33. Is that content for the present, past and future? Consider simultaneously strategizing your content creation to deliver a resonating endurance impact for the present, future and past.

    34. Content without continuity and connection can leave you with fewer conversions, sales, and engagement. Consider not trying to create something to go viral and instead start building an authentic connection rooted in endurance and engagement.

    35. Your story, shared with authenticity can do more to sell you than any sales pitch, marketing piece or ad.

    36. Instead of trying to shake 20 hands, get 30 business cards and adding 40 people to your LinkedIn, consider taking the time with authentic introductions and conversations that are grounded in connection quality over racing for the quantity of stale and rushed connection attempts.

    37. For your own professionalism, reputation & appearance, it really is ok to NOT post every video, picture, event or show on social media. On the contrary, holding back, waiting or not posting certain things altogether can help much more than hurt.

    38. Would you be worried for someone to see or hear… that picture, video, blog, quote, audio or rant… tomorrow, next week, next month, next year or in five years? Then perhaps, don’t post it today.

    39. You can do something nice without posting it on social media. Sometimes, consider giving from the heart, sharing with authenticity and helping without the spotlight.


    Messaging, Delivery and Engagement Quotes Top 100 Loren Weisman Quotes


    40. When your messaging strategy has the foundation that allows the message to be delivered in an array of ways that best represents your vision while allowing each person to have their own authenticity in sharing it, the reach has the chance to expand greatly.

    41. Methodically messaging in a harmony of honor, humility, authenticity and authority may create more resonation for your story to be heard by that many more connections.

    42. Sometimes the messaging and story are right where they need to be, but the issue is in the performance and delivery of that story and that message. The melody, tone, dynamics and tempo can be everything in a delivery.

    43. Consider the invitation elements of your messaging in your sharing, pitching and marketing. Does it invite people to want to learn more or confuse, over making them feel like they don’t know anything at all.

    44. Consider synchronizing your messaging and online connecting styles with your methodology, morals and beliefs, not someone else’s.

    45. Are you network messaging or network marketing? In these times, it seems people may be more enticed by an engaging message over the usual marketing pitches.

    46. The more you engage and connect, it may allow you to find that many more authentic engagements and connections.

    47. When messaging is authentic, compliant and aligned, then strategically and ethically mobilized for distribution… It can cost a lot less to market and has the chance to resonate with a lot more people.

    48. If you cannot get your point and your story across without using a PowerPoint, it may be time to revisit your messaging.

    49. If you are not presenting your message with confidence and self-belief, why should anyone have confidence or belief in your message?

    50. Are you selling with soul or do you come off like you are selling your soul? If people only see you selling your expertise all the time, without experiencing elements of you sharing the expertise and knowledge you have, then what reason are you giving them to trust you or buy?


    Clarity, Truth and Professionalism Quotes Top 100 Loren Weisman Quotes


    51. Differentiate your opinions from facts. Honor your audience with messaging that clearly defines when you are sharing truth and when you are sharing an opinion.

    52. Consider that when you state only what you can prove and differentiate your opinions from facts, it may allow you to stand on a stronger foundation over those stating whatever they want with no care for the truth.

    53. In humility, subjectivity and in the ability to see a series of elements from a distance; it may help you to focus your messaging in order to create a much stronger of an impact.

    54. Instead of claiming to be the answer, consider stating that you may be an answer.

    55. I do not believe in my truth and I do not believe in your truth. I believe in the truth.

    56. I believe an effective content strategy has to mix your authenticity, your story and your authority along with commentary and subjective opinions when sharing other peoples content.

    57. Staying with statements that are still assertive, but placed in a subjective format can help in debate, conversations and communication. It can open many doors for authority, while applying humility and honor for another person’s views.

    58. As a brand communications and optics strategist, I focus on the authenticity, authority, optics, psychology and perceptions of a brand, persona or product.

    59. The most effective brand messaging strategy is not to create the messaging that makes the most sense to you. It is creating the brand messaging that makes you, your brand and your products make the most sense to others.

    60. Do your morals, honor, and ethics only come across in your words? Or do they also show up in your works, your actions and your deeds?


    Personal and Professional Growth Quotes Top 100 Loren Weisman Quotes


    61. If you are ready to face the fears, take the steps, do the work, be more than you thought you ever could, and attack the dream, what is keeping you? Lose all the excuses and replace them with all the reasons for success. Be the change for yourself. Commit to the dream or quit. There really is no middle ground.

    62. Be the person you would do anything for. Be the person you will not let down. Could now be the time to respect yourself and your dream? Don’t both truly deserve that respect?

    63. It’s time to respect yourself and your dream, both truly deserve that respect. Be the person you would do anything for. Be the person you will not let down.

    64. I do not think you need to commit yourself 24/7 to building your dream. I do think you should commit to making every hour you work on your dream to be as effective and productive as possible… So you may be able to have the life you always wanted before, during and after your dream comes to fruition.

    65. Motivation without animation can be a core factor in the early extermination of a vision or venture.

    66. If you are working yourself to death, how can any investor feel safe, confident and secure investing in you?

    67. When you treat your business or dream like a living, breathing baby… You may make better decisions and wiser choices.

    68. Either be a good parent to your career or just give your dream up for adoption.

    69. If your dream is all about winning an Oscar, a Grammy, an Emmy, or another award, give up and quit now! Why dream for accolades, awards, recognition or celebrity status? Considering dreaming to learn, achieve, grow, sustain and succeed authentically.

    70. I see many more successes and wins from those working to be better over those trying to be the best. Consider removing the hype, the hate and the ego in your growth to truly grow to your potential and beyond. 71. Choices made in fear to fix the moment can poison the future.


    Integrity, Honor and Ethics Quotes Top 100 Loren Weisman Quotes


    72. Please stop overselling what or where you are, especially in today’s industry. It is easier now than ever to be found out as a big-talking beginner or a liar. On the other hand, honesty and transparency can be a major strength; consider using it.

    73. The honor of your presentation, execution, experience, and growth can do much more for you and your career over false claims that have no substance yet.

    74. Consider standing in honor and transparency whether behind closed doors or if those doors are open to the world at large.

    75. Through my messaging, ideas, beliefs, faith, experiences and present conclusions… I look to share content that represents my integrity, authenticity and authority in a stewarding approach while asking for nothing in return.

    76. Authentic Instruction is not always comforting or comfortable.

    77. Are you trying to control and guide truth or are you allowing truth to control and guide you?

    78. Your actions and approach with what you have may very clearly showcase to others what you would be able to do with more. 79. No one has a right to tell you what you want, what you need, or what you must have. So why let them? 80. Choose those you give your trust to carefully. Be caring; be loving; be creative. But also be careful.


    Communication, Respect and Relationships Quotes Top 100 Loren Weisman Quotes


    81. I do not disconnect because I disagree with someone on something, some view or some opinion. If I disconnect, it is because of how they chose to disagree.

    82. Regardless of how much I disagree with some people’s views, opinions & political beliefs… those disagreements have never created a desire for me to harm them, their family, business or home. I don’t understand how the first response is burn it down instead of building it up.

    83. As challenging as it can be from businesses to relationships to anything else, if we ground ourselves in the respect to hear the other side, differentiate our opinion from proven and vetted facts, while removing the insulting and attacking elements, we have a better chance at create impactful conversations of change.

    84. Amplified authentic opinions can be driven with passion while still anchored in respect for those that have a different view.

    85. Looking for someone to hear you and your desired message of change? Perhaps, do not open with insults, attacks and attitude pointed at the people that might be able to help make that change.

    86. Consider messaging, marketing and responding in love. Be kinder and be bigger, instead of adding to and authoring more words of hate online.

    87. Calling for change and being part of making change are two very different things. Stop calling for change and be a part of making the change you want to see.

    88. Demanding change and justice is worlds different from devoting time and efforts to making those changes and creating that justice.

    89. Voting is a right and if you do not want to exercise that right, who am I or who is anyone to tell you that you are wrong?

    90. Are they only addressing your symptoms or are they working with you to find a cure? And, do they have the knowledge and ability to assist you in the healing with a plan for the long run?Calling for change and being part of making change are two very different things. Stop calling for change and be a part of making the change you want to see.


    Optics, Perception and Social Media Quotes Top 100 Loren Weisman Quotes


    91. Pictures of people taken with influencers does not make them a person of influence or an influencer.

    92. Consider following through with endurance over just following the latest trend, book, course or claim of the moment.

    93. From the news, to social media and everywhere else, the tone and temperature in some ways, has become more toxic than the virus itself. It’s almost as if for some people, it is easier to be brutal than it is to be beautiful.

    94. Stop settling for, subscribing to and becoming enticed by stupid. I believe most are smarter than that. Yet many allow themselves to continually get sucked into it.

    95. Playing the blame game is stupid and childish. Even if it is someone else’s fault, the blame game is wasted time, effort, and energy that takes you somewhere that most of the time is not going to get you anywhere.


    Endurance, Harvest and Long-Term Vision Quotes Top 100 Loren Weisman Quotes


    96. How you plant, where you plant and who you plant with can be some of the most crucial elements to reaping the best fruits and results at harvest for any business.

    97. Consider taking an approach to your nonprofit asks by explaining what is needed, what would help and why, over telling them that if they skip one coffee here or one beer there, they can do so much more and show that they really care.

    98. I believe there is no better way to find out the true heart, honor, and professionalism of a person, than seeing how they handle themselves and others when facing a crisis, disaster or intense level of pressure.

    99. Is your brand messaging telling a story or is it telling your story?

    100. Consider planting authentic seeds for an enduring harvest instead of posting empty hype that lasts only for a moment.


    Loren Weisman is a Brand Communications and Optics Strategist who specializes in illuminating authoritative intelligence and amplifying authentic experts.

    Weisman is the host of the brand communications and optics podcast Wait What Really OK.

    Top 100 Loren Weisman Quotes: Considerations for Branding, Communication and Marketing

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  • Strategy and Consulting Documents for Potential Clients. Examples of my documentation

    Strategy and Consulting Documents for potential clients. Examples of my documentation I send before we get started for larger projects.

    Loren Weisman Strategy and Consulting Documents


    Review List for potential clients. Examples of the documentation I send before we get started.


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    Strategy and consulting documents

    I like for clients to feel safe and secure since a lot has to be shared in order to work on the communications, messaging and optics of a business, brand, person or product. These documents protect potential clients while at the same time hold both parties accountable. Which I believe is that way it should be and the way I like to work.


    Smaller Invoices will receive just the invoice document with a summary of the work on the invoice it self.


    Larger projects will include an:

    Invoice (INV)

    Statement of Work (SOW)

    Strategic Services Agreement (SSA)

    Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA)  and in cases where a discount, time being gifted or sponsored, this last document will be added… Gratuitous Services Agreement (GSA)Quote card over green foliage reading: The details from a clear strategic services agreement ensure for the most sound, solid and honorable working relationship between all parties.


    Strategy and Consulting Documents for Loren Weisman

    Invoice INV Pretty self explanatory. This Invoice includes an array of options on how to pay.


    Statement of Work 

    SOW

    The outline of the work that will be doing together. If we are doing a discovery… this will be included in the SOW


    Strategic Services Agreement SSA This outlines my responsibilities as well as your responsibilities for a project. This includes a statement confirming your full ownership of what is created together as well as some other protective measures to ensure your safety and security.


    Strategy and consulting documents for Loren Weisman.

    Consulting Referral Agreement for Brand Communications and Optics Strategist


    More Strategy and Consulting Documents


    Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreement NDA This NDA brings another level of protection in what is shared for both parties. The more honest, transparent and true you can be with me, in turn allows me to help in the most effective ways for you.


    Gratuitous Services Agreement GSA A clarification agreement stated that anything done in a reduced, discounted, gifted or free form belongs to you. It is a clear documentation of the discount or gift for clarity and transparency.


    These are the document examples to show you what will be coming. Each one will be personalized to the project.


    Top 100 Loren Weisman Quotes: Considerations for Branding, Communication and Marketing


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    Strategy and consulting documents.

    Strategy and Consulting Documents Overview

    A genuine and successful consulting relationship is built on transparency, structure, and mutual trust that trust begins even before a single strategy session takes place. The strategy and consulting documents provided here are not mere formalities; they are foundational tools for clarity, safety, and accountability on both sides.

    Whether it’s the simple invoice, the detailed statement of work, or the comprehensive strategic services agreement, each document is thoughtfully crafted to protect your interests, encourage open communication, and clarify the path ahead. The inclusion of a mutual non-disclosure agreement ensures that what is shared remains secure, allowing for true insights and honest collaboration to flourish. When discounts or special services are involved, the gratuitous services agreement guarantees that every detail is transparent, reinforcing trust from day one.

    As a brand communications and optics strategist, my commitment is to highlight the value of your expertise with integrity and to amplify your authority through authentic messaging. These documents reflect that same ethos ensuring that every concern is addressed upfront, every expectation is documented, and every project is grounded in fairness and clarity. By establishing a solid, transparent foundation, both client and consultant can move forward with confidence, knowing that the terms are clear, the process is secure, and the focus remains where it should: on devising strategies that propel your brand and voice forward.

    I believe collaboration should never feel risky.

    Let these documents assure you that you are in safe, competent, and accountable hands from the very start.


    Loren Weisman is a Brand Communications and Optics Strategist who specializes in illuminating authoritative intelligence and amplifying authentic experts.

    Weisman is the host of the brand communications and optics podcast Wait What Really OK.

    Strategy and Consulting Documents Review for potential clients. Examples of the documentation I send before we get started.

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  • Telling your story or sharing someone else’s messaging and story?

    Telling your story or sharing someone else’s messaging and story? Is it true for you? Or are you putting out the content, messaging and story that you think others want to hear?

    Sharing another’s story and trying to make it yours is anything but authentic. 


    Are you telling your story and are you sure?

    In a time where many seem to shift the story to make it fit for whoever is in front of them. In many cases and for many people, it is backfiring on the foundation and the authenticity of a brand or the person representing it.

    Then ad AI and the prompts and who knows what they story really is or who the author is.

    You can not be all things to everyone. And, in this time where too many try to be, it turns off and turns away potential connections, conversions and customers.


    Is your brand messaging telling a story or is it telling your story?

    Is your brand messaging telling a story or is it telling your story?
    “Is your brand messaging telling a story or is it telling your story?”

    People are getting smarter online and reading through the false and the fake more than ever. 

    This is why it is not the time to be skimping on the honest communication and messaging. This is also why it is the time to layout a clear foundation of your brand discovery to brand development that showcases the true you and the true story.


    Someone else’s messaging and story will not resonate with true authority in the end.

    Even if you can spin the ads, the bio, the tag lines, the Ai Prompts and what ever else, your story will not be your story if it isn’t your true story. With all the fake out there, it is beginning to make people both recognize it and stay away from it. At the same time, those that have been taken or have felt foolish for believing are looking that much harder for the cracks in the story or the truth. 


    Mark Twain is said to have said but not confirmed it was him.. that “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”


     

    Adding to that, if your story, all of your personal branding communication and brand messaging strategy is rooted in the truth of you, your story and honesty, then your message will penetrate that much better.

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    Stay true to yourself, to your story and your beliefs.

    Hone in the authenticity to achieve the view of authority in your story. it will help to make you stand out in a way you can be proud of. At the same time, help others to engage you and feel honesty from you, right from the start.


    Is marketing the only message your audience is receiving? Consider becoming the author and publisher of your story, over just another person trying to sell a book with the same old ads, hype PR and spam style ads that are used by so many.
    “Is marketing the only message your audience is receiving? Consider becoming the author and publisher of your story, over just another person trying to sell a book with the same old ads, hype pr and spam style ads that are used by so many.”

    Telling your story in segments and pieces can draw more interest and allow people to connect the pieces themselves.


    Please Take the high road. Organize the messaging with the truth to have a foundation to share all things that are you and all things that are true. This approach also helps to avoid the brand force trauma that too many use to force a messaging or story down peoples throats.

    Loren Weisman is a Brand Communications and Optics Strategist who specializes in illuminating authoritative intelligence and amplifying authentic experts.

    Weisman is the host of the brand communications and optics podcast Wait What Really OK.

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  • Library of Congress Visit. The psychology and perceptions of a brand misread

    Library of Congress. The psychology and perceptions of a brand misread (on my part). A Brand Communications and and Optics Blog from Loren Weisman.

    A Library of Congress Visit

    So in the middle of this whole stay at home order, I was looking through some old photos and found a picture of my book, The Artists Guide to Success in the Music Business from the Library of Congress.

    (One, I think I was not even supposed to take.)

    It reminded me of that day at the LC and the psychology and perceptions of a brand misread having to do with what I thought I would see.

    Photo of the Library of Congress
    Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash and what I was expecting…

    Library of (not what I was expecting) Congress

    So I had this idea that the building or buildings were going to look like that scene in National Treasure with Nicolas Cage. It ended up turning in to much more humbling experience.

    When I was doing a book signing in Washington DC, I was hoping my expectation and perceptions were correct.

    You might have Googled yourself?

    I Library of Congress-ed myself.

    After the book signing, I found the information for my book, The Artists Guide to Success in the Music Business (Greenleaf Book Group) that was inside the book and registered with the LC mainly held all the usual boring numbers and information that didn’t mean anything to me.


    A movie poster image of the artists guide to success in the music business.
    The Artists Guide to Success in the Music Business Movie Poster.

    This is the blah blah blah stuff…

    Table of Contents Section: Publisher’s Cataloging-In-Publication Data (Prepared by The Donohue Group, Inc.) Weisman, Loren. The artist’s guide to success in the music business : the “who, what, when, where, why & how” of the steps that musicians & bands have to take to succeed in music / Loren Weisman. 2nd ed., 1st Greenleaf Books ed. p. ; cm. Issued also as an ebook. ISBN: 978-1-60832-578-8 1608325784 1. Music trade. Vocational guidance. 2. Sound recording industry. Vocational guidance. 3. Musicians. I. Title. II. Title: TAG LC Control Number 2013936454 LC Classification ML3795 .W45 2013 Other system no. (OCoLC)840438396 Dewey Class Number 780/.23 eBook ISBN: 9781608325795 Where to Request in LC: Performing Arts Reading Room (Madison, LM113)


    a book and an image of the reading room in the library of congress But at the bottom of all; the blah blah blah…


    it read… Where to Request in Library of Congress: Performing Arts Reading Room (Madison, LM113)

    Hope got lifted.

    I imagined walking in asking for the book and watching some one retrieve it from one of the beautiful shelves in one of the cavernous areas… just like the movie.

    Reality…Not so much like that. 

    Walking across the street from the larger and much more beautiful building that is the Thomas Jefferson Building in Washington DC…

    I went to the James Madison Memorial Building. 

    Where I had to get an ID made and explain to three different people I wanted to see a book.

    After getting the ID, I walked down the hall toward the Performing Arts Reading Room (Madison, LM113).

    Two doors were there. One with this modern glass that was shaded…

    (Still hopeful at this point)


    Then a second door that lead me in to basically a 70’s looking high school classroom.

    I was asked to fill out the authors name and the book title for two women at a desk.

    One was very nice and saw that my ID matched the request. She kindly exclaimed with some excitement…

    “Your book!”

    Which felt nice.

    The second one who went to retrieve it, said,

    “This copy belongs to the government, you cant have it.”

    She might have been a little low on coffee… and well, kindness that day.


    Book on a desk table at the library of congress


    It was delivered 15 minutes later.

    And they wouldn’t hand it to me. I had to sit down at a high school style table and the woman took it out of this plastic envelop. She went on to explain the book is two floors down and stored in a basement. I snuck a picture of it… as it is the only nicely leather bound edition, scrolled through it and then had to report that I was done viewing it so it could be returned and I could leave.

    A strange experience and a little disappointing that it was not in that beautiful building, but still cool that the book is there.


    I was told the Music Business for Dummies Book that I wrote is also in the Library now.

    I am taking their word for it and will not be heading back any time soon to see that one.


    Side note; The Artist’s Guide to Success in the Music Business Audio book is available again for a free test drive on Amazon here: The Artists Guide to Success in the Music Business on Amazon


    I reiterate this quote as the close. It is not a knock on me or my book. But as you look to me, my book or for that matter any author and any book, take the time to dig a little deeper to see if the depth, the experience, the intelligence and the authority is there that makes it worth the read and the time for you.


    “Publishing a book does not make you and authority or an expert. Authorship does not equal authority.”

    Publishing a book does not make you an authority or an expert. Authorship does not equal authentic authority.
    “Publishing a book does not make you and authority or an expert. Authorship does not equal authority.”

    Loren Weisman is a Brand Communications and Optics Strategist who specializes in illuminating authoritative intelligence and amplifying authentic experts.

    Weisman is the host of the brand communications and optics podcast Wait What Really OK.

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