the next big wave
Philip VanDusen ??
Branding Consultant | Creative Entrepreneur | Creative Professional Coach | Founder, Brand Design Masters, BONFIRE | Brand Strategy | Graphic Design | Content Creator | YouTuber | Podcaster | Speaker | ECD | VP of Design
Ever heard of wakesurfing?
Picture this: you're slicing through the water on a surfboard.
But you’re not on the open ocean.
Wakesurfing starts with a powerboat, racing through the water, creating energy and a wake in its path.
The surfer, a few feet behind, uses the energy of the wake to ride, steer, and glide across the water’s surface.
All without being physically connected to the boat.
It’s thrilling, audacious, and wildly liberating.
You may not know it, but in your professional life you're a surfer.
But instead of water, you're navigating the world of entrepreneurship.
If you’re trying to stand on that surfboard in the water alone, you know what will happen.
You’ll sink.
But just for a minute, imagine it’s not just you.
Imagine you have a powerboat creating a wake for you.
A powerboat filled with other ambitious creative pros who are action-takers, generating a massive wave of ideas, motivation, and support.
By positioning yourself in their wake, you harness the group's collective energy.
Every success story, every shared challenge, every resource or new tactic adds to the momentum that propels you forward.
Learning from your peers, and leveraging their successes, you’re accelerating your own journey without reinventing the wheel.
In my experience, I’ve found a mastermind group is exactly that kind of powerboat.
By participating in that type of community, you’re using the momentum created by something much larger than yourself to amplify your growth.
You’re catching a wave of opportunity and riding it to your next big breakthrough.
So, grab your board.
And get ready to surf.
The energy is there, and all you need to do is ride it!
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resources
MindNode: This mind-mapping and note taking app helps you capture all those thoughts racing around your head and create some organization around them. You get all the basic functionality with the free version.
Obsidian: Another note-taking app that helps you capture your thoughts. It uses Markdown files so you can create internal links between notes, and then visualize them as a graph. Free.
Fable.app: And incredibly fun and robust motion graphics studio where you can design, animate, and scale your creative work. Fable is the 'missing link' in the modern creative stack. Any asset, delivered in any format.
Krea.ai: Real-time AI image generator and video generator based on prompts that can take your written descriptions and transform them into stunning images, and scale them, too. Currently free.
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read
Three-quarters of you say (and I totally agree) that Instagram has become basically "useless" for reach and engagement. Here are some alternative strategies to get attention. READ IT
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watch
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I asked my 7,500 Brand Design Masters Facebook group members what they thought every designer needed to know. Here are 12 of the best answers. Everyone is saying it's a 'must WATCH' video.
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free ebook
I just collected the coolest AI tools into one free PDF Ebook, with hot-links making exploring them super easy. Grab it. DOWNLOAD
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style
Hemel Watches are exceptional timepieces designed by my friend, Marvin Menke. Blending versatility, capability, and utility, these modern-day classics are nostalgic without being old-fashioned and upscale without being elitist. I know, I own one :-) VISIT HEMEL
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community
As a BONFIRE 'ember, you get:
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quote of the week
"Don't tell me how good you make it; tell me how good it makes me when I use it." ~Leo Burnett
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coaching
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resources we recommend
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Jotform: The Best Online Form and Survey Creation Platform
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Philip VanDusen is a branding consultant and principal of Philip VanDusen Branding + Design an agency that leverages strategy and design to build brand equity for companies and entrepreneurs. Get more from Philip by subscribing to his email list, the brand?muse newsletter, his industry leading YouTube channel or the Brand Design Masters podcast.
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10 个月Entrepreneurs are wave riders, no doubt. Forget going solo. Surround yourself with people who have ridden the waves you want to conquer. Learn from the BEST. Pure GOLD, Philip.
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