Small Business Marketing Series

The Brand Messaging Fix

One clear sentence about your business. About an hour's work.

A fill-in-the-blank workbook for owner-operators whose work is better than their words. You'll build one core brand statement, a homepage headline, and a 30-second answer to "so what do you do?" — all from the same thinking — plus the tools to keep them consistent everywhere your business shows up.

Fillable PDF + editable Word companion · Instant download · For owner-operators, service businesses, coaches and local retail

Cover of The Brand Messaging Fix
1One-sentence brand statement
10Real messages, rewritten
4Tools and templates
60Minutes, start to finish
Why it exists

You already know what you do. You've explained it a hundred times — at the counter, on the phone, at a barbecue when somebody asked what you do for a living.

And it comes out a little different every time.

That's what this workbook fixes. Not your service, not your pricing, not your logo. The sentence. One sentence you can say the same way twice, that tells the right person they've found what they were looking for.

Work the four parts in order the first time through. The cheat sheet at the back is the payoff, and it's only ever as good as the thinking that got you there — so resist filling it in from memory on page one.

Time to complete: about an hour. 34 pages, 97 fillable inputs. Every external statistic is sourced on the page or it isn't in the book.

What's inside

Fill-in-the-blank · 10 rewritten examples · One-page cheat sheet · 4 tools and templates.

Every part opens with the argument for why it matters, then hands you the tool. Nothing in it is reading for its own sake.

Part 01

The Three Ingredients

  • Finding Your One True Customer
  • What They've Tried, and What They're Really Buying
  • The Problem You Solve
  • Writing Your Problem Statement
  • Outcomes, Not Features
  • Your Proof Point and Result Statement
Part 02

The Core Message

  • The Three-Part Formula
  • Your First Draft
  • The Four Tests
  • Ten Messages, Rewritten — One Through Five
  • Ten Messages, Rewritten — Six Through Ten
Part 03

Putting the Message to Work

  • Your Homepage Headline
  • The Three-Second Stranger Test
  • Why Most Verbal Pitches Fail
  • Writing Your 30-Second Answer
Part 04

Tools and Templates

  • Words That Carry Weight
  • The Competitor Differentiation Worksheet
  • Where Your Message Has to Show Up
  • The Consistency Audit — Online
  • The Consistency Audit — Conversations and Print
  • When to Rewrite Your Message
Quick reference

Take it with you

  • Your Brand Message Cheat Sheet
  • Your Message, Word for Word
  • Rules Worth Remembering
Sample pages

Built to be filled in, on screen or on paper.

Real form fields in the PDF, so you can type straight into it. Print it and it's a clean workbook. The Word companion is there if you'd rather edit freely.

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Get it

$27, yours to keep and reuse.

One purchase covers your use within one business, every quarter, for as long as it's useful. You'll get the fillable PDF and the Word companion the moment checkout finishes, plus the updated edition when the book changes.

Checkout is handled by Gumroad. Sales tax is included where it applies. If it isn't what you needed, reply to the receipt within 30 days and we'll refund it.

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Start a conversation

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