Marketing Journeys · The Tradewinds Method · Build
Session 2.2

Your
Brand

It's just me. So how do I look like a pro?
Marketing Journeys2.2
Why This Matters Before the Pretty Stuff

Consistency is trust.
Recognizable beats fancy.

Same look enough times and they decide you're the real thing. This is how you beat the Secret Agent headwind: forgettable becomes recognizable.
Marketing Journeys2.2 · Your Brand
You Only Have to Decide Three Things

Color. Font.
A simple mark.

Color

Two or three

A dominant, a second, and one accent you own.

Font

One and one

One for headlines, one for reading. Then stop.

Mark

A wordmark

Your name, set well, beats a fussy logo. Start there.

Decide once

Decide these once. Then every asset gets easier, forever.

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How to Actually Pick Them

Pick for your niche
and the feeling you want to give.

Not your favorite color. The feeling the right client should get the second they land on you.
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The Few Rules That Do the Work

Steal the feeling,
not the logo.

Color speaks before words do. 60 / 30 / 10: one dominant, one second, one accent. Pull from your niche's world, podium gold, racing green, ink on cream paper.
And the font is a color too. Our Industry headline is sharp and condensed, it reads like speed, movement, the timing screen. The form is the message.
Marketing Journeys2.2 · Your Brand
Your Brand diagram
Same System, Built for a Different Heart

Same paper. Different soul.

Early and Away

"I plan trips for book lovers. For book clubs ready to travel, readers who want to go somewhere meaningful, and anyone who packs a book before anything else." Navy ink on cream, like a clothbound first edition.

Racing Passport

"I get racing fans inside the sport, opening doors that forty years of credentials unlock." Racing green and podium gold, sharp and fast.

Marketing Journeys2.2 · Your Brand
Don't Overthink Type

Two fonts. Done.

One for headlines that carries the feeling. One clean one for the body that gets out of the way. The same two everywhere: your site, your decks, your emails, your Instagram.
A third font is the moment you start looking amateur.
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Now Make It Impossible to Get Wrong

The Canva Brand Kit:
one click, on brand.

Load your colors and fonts once. Every asset you ever make is one click from on-brand. We walk through the setup together in its own how-to.
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Your Brand Also Has a Sound

Your voice, in a few words.

Three words for how you sound. Warm or sharp? Playful or buttoned-up? Pick them, then write everything that way. Ours, off our own site:
"Personal service. Real relationships. No funnels."
Marketing Journeys2.2 · Your Brand
The Permission Slip

Consistency beats perfection.
Done and consistent wins.

You do not need a designer or a perfect logo. You need the same three decisions, used every single time.
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Your First Brick

Build your kit.

1

Your colors and fonts

Two or three colors, two fonts. Write them down. (The Brand Kit worksheet.)

2

Your wordmark

Set your name well. That is a logo for now.

3

Your three voice words

And your one-line pitch: I plan trips for ____.

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Put Your Second Mate to Work

More than options. A brand engine.

Generate

Palette + fonts + names

Niche and 3 feeling words in, a full brand direction out, with real hex codes.

Codify

Your reusable voice

It reads your writing and builds a voice guide you feed every future prompt.

Audit

Catch the drift

Show it your posts and site, it flags where you're off-brand.

In the library

Copy-paste example prompts are in the library: How to Prompt Your Second Mate.

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Want a Hand With This Part?

Three ways to get unstuck.

Group

Professor Hours

Bring your specific question to office hours and ask it live.

One-on-One

Book a 1:1

We work on yours, screen to screen, until it's done right.

Done With / For You

Hire us

Consultant or coach. We build it with you, or we build it for you.

Marketing Journeys2.2 · Your Brand
Built With You, Not Taught at You

Recognizable beats fancy.

You can pick your colors and fonts today. Turning three decisions into a real Canva Brand Kit, a wordmark, and a voice that sounds like you across everything is the work. That's what we build together. We build it with you →
Post your three voice words and your one-line pitch in the community. Questions? Bring them to this week's Professor Hours.
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