How do you focus a brand when your expertise could help almost anyone?
In this episode of Cover Brand, Ethan Decker talks with Chelsea Burns, founder of The Marketing Psychologist, about the early-stage challenge of narrowing a brand’s target audience and defining its core offering.
Chelsea’s business blends psychology with ethical branding and marketing, helping organizations build trust-based relationships with customers. But after a promising first year in business, she faces a familiar founder problem: too many potential audiences and too many possible services.
Ethan shares practical brand science principles for finding focus, including why entrepreneurs underestimate their current market opportunity, why choosing a target often feels arbitrary at first, and why clarity usually comes from talking to customers rather than theorizing internally.
Listeners will also hear the origin stories of MailChimp and Nike as examples of how brands often discover their true direction through real market activity rather than perfect upfront strategy.
If you’re building a consulting business, launching a new brand, or refining your positioning, this episode offers grounded advice for moving from broad capability to clear focus.
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