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Social Media & Branding

Say one true sentence until people recognize it

A practical way to keep a public message consistent: choose one sentence, repeat it, and let the pictures match it.

Choose the sentence

A public name gets clearer when one sentence does the explaining. Write the sentence a stranger should be able to repeat after meeting the work: who it is for, and what it is about.

Keep that sentence short enough to say out loud. If it needs a second idea to make sense, it is two messages. Pick the one you are willing to stand next to for a long time.

Repeat it where people actually look

Put the same sentence in the biography, in the first line people see, and in the opening of a talk. Changing the wording every week makes the audience start over.

Repetition is not a lack of ideas. It is how a message becomes recognizable. New examples can change. The sentence should not.

Let the pictures agree

A picture teaches faster than a caption. If the sentence is about leadership in a room, show the room, the work, or the person speaking. A picture that argues with the sentence makes both harder to trust.

Before something goes out, read the sentence and look at the picture together. If a newcomer would not connect them, change the picture or hold the post.