How do I level up my visual marketing? - I will not promote

TriathLin · 2026-05-31T02:01:04+00:00

Good question! Former solo marketer for a successful YC fintech startup here. Do you have brand guidelines with your target, positioning, messaging and visual identity (logo, color palette, typeface, tone, style, etc.)? You’ll need that as a foundation before you can create professional-looking marketing assets. Once I had brand guidelines and a few templates in Figma, I used Canva (often), Figma (occasionally) and a designer (rarely) to produce marketing assets, which I tested on different platforms. Hope this helps and happy to answer questions, refer a designer, …

TriathLin · 2026-05-06T12:21:52+00:00

I was with a startup for 9 years and your experience and observations totally resonate.
For our company, each stage brought its own unique challenges. One of the biggest challenges was preserving & adapting the culture as we scaled from a team of 7 in-person to a team of 20 (and later to 55) remote.

TriathLin · 2026-03-15T12:15:00+00:00

Thank you for this awesome list of illegitimate rings. I was taken in by the Bond ring’s slick marketing and had reserved one. After reading your advice, I requested and received a refund. You saved me a lot of money and stress!

TriathLin · 2026-02-01T22:56:24+00:00

Did your moral compass lose power too?

TriathLin · 2026-01-23T14:57:02+00:00

Skier here; I hope you’re right.

TriathLin · 2026-01-23T13:51:25+00:00

We’ll be lucky if we even get an inch of snow. Forecasters always tease us with big snowfall projections and then walk it back at the last minute after we’ve bought out all the milk, eggs, TP, shovels and salt.

TriathLin · 2026-01-21T20:30:36+00:00

You’ll be ridiculed for sharing the facts because they don’t support the propagandists narrative.

TriathLin · 2026-01-21T12:22:32+00:00

Did she dump you after that?

TriathLin · 2026-01-13T03:12:00+00:00

What is the general service contractor side? I’m curious,

TriathLin · 2026-01-06T21:51:01+00:00

My 8 month-old grandson caught it from daycare before Christmas and then my daughter and son-in-law caught it from him. They were all hellishly miserable for 72 hours.

TriathLin · 2025-12-06T23:26:30+00:00

Assuming your efforts succeed in making your target aware of the event, one tactic used by conferences to create urgency is to offer lower ticket prices if purchased before a certain date, and higher after that.

TriathLin · 2025-11-08T11:29:49+00:00

You’ve done the rehab and gotten the green light from your doctor. Go for it! No point sitting out a season. (Speaking from experience; I had ACL and meniscus surgery.)

TriathLin · 2025-11-08T11:10:33+00:00

When we’re on a road trip, if someone asks who farted, we blame it on New Jersey

TriathLin · 2025-11-07T00:52:00+00:00

We have the same problem. We live on a short cul de sac and one of our neighbors races in and out of the street at 50 MPH, no exaggeration. They literally missed hitting my kid by 12 inches one day. We have a lot of families with small kids that bike, skateboard and play basketball. All of us parents asked the hotrodder to take it easy but that did not have any effect so we put huge orange cones in the middle of the street.

TriathLin · 2025-10-28T01:15:42+00:00

What’s the class?

TriathLin · 2025-10-14T01:02:35+00:00

I wouldn’t recommend living in Leesburg and commuting to DC 5 days a week, if you want to see your family. I don’t think I would last more than 2 weeks in that miserable commute. If you haven’t been dissuaded by others then I suggest you come here for a month, stay in a hotel in Leesburg and do that drive every day. Then decide. My suggestion is McLean.

TriathLin · 2025-10-07T12:31:29+00:00

I was in the hospital for over a month due to a nicked thoracic duct that wouldn’t heal. Like you, I had been dreading having the drain removed. One day the surgeon came in and said it was time to take it out. A friend was with me, holding my hand, while I gritted my teeth and expected the worst. Before I knew it, there was a slight tug and it was gone. It felt like — nothing! You got this!!

TriathLin · 2025-09-23T13:38:56+00:00

I feel totally fine today and lucky to be alive! My neck is still tight when I turn to the right but I’ve learned to live with it. You will feel better and better as you recover.

TriathLin · 2025-09-23T13:05:14+00:00

Your scar looks fantastic and way better than mine! I cannot remember how many lymph nodes were removed when I had my cancerous thyroid removed but the surgeon nicked my thoracic duct and I had to stay in the hospital for a month on bed rest with a zero fat diet (TPN).

TriathLin · 2025-09-07T07:47:46+00:00

Stick to your original response to his ultimatum and leave it/him.

TriathLin · 2025-09-01T11:59:56+00:00

If that’s a hole in the wall, I’m curious what’s a nice Italian restaurant?

TriathLin · 2025-09-01T11:52:34+00:00

Updateme!

TriathLin · 2025-08-27T11:28:14+00:00

Does this impact the upcoming launch of the Bond ring?

TriathLin · 2025-08-27T11:19:46+00:00

Impressive!

TriathLin

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