Hilary Rota

Learn how to sound-check your offers before you launch—so you’re not selling something nobody asked for.

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Hilary Rota

Ever wonder if your business comes across the way you intend? Learning how to establish your brand voice is the key to standing out, building trust, and attracting the clients you actually want. This blog post walks you through defining your tone, connecting with your audience, and creating a consistent, magnetic brand identity.

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Hilary Rota

I shifted from tips and tricks to storytelling…and it worked. Millions of views, aligned subscribers, and dream clients later, I’m sharing the exact frameworks I use to turn stories into connection, trust, and sales.

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Hilary Rota

Writing website copy feels like a beast, but it doesn’t have to gnaw your arm off.
There are a few ways to approach it—and when done well, the payoff is huge.
Choose your adventure. Let’s go.

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fresh off the press // fresh off the press // fresh off the press // 

Ever wonder if your business comes across the way you intend? Learning how to establish your brand voice is the key to standing out, building trust, and attracting the clients you actually want. This blog post walks you through defining your tone, connecting with your audience, and creating a consistent, magnetic brand identity.

Photos from a Photo Booth stick out from a woman's jean back pocket, with her arms folded across her chest, her black t-shirt partially in view.

I shifted from tips and tricks to storytelling…and it worked. Millions of views, aligned subscribers, and dream clients later, I’m sharing the exact frameworks I use to turn stories into connection, trust, and sales.

Several palm trees crossed by a horizontal line of power lines, in a black, grey, and white photograph

Writing website copy feels like a beast, but it doesn’t have to gnaw your arm off.
There are a few ways to approach it—and when done well, the payoff is huge.
Choose your adventure. Let’s go.

Your visuals can grab attention, but it’s your website’s words that guide visitors, spark connection, and inspire action. That’s where copywriting comes in.

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Over the last 2 years, I’ve discovered that my most profitable and exciting work didn’t come from perfectly curated content, but from the everyday details that impacted the bigger picture –the character building, nitty-gritty tales of yore that struck the chord and let clients know I was the one.

Have you ever followed someone online and found yourself completely drawn in, like a moth to a flame, totally enamoured by their vibes?
That’s attraction marketing in action.
And nobody does it better than Paizley Laura, the founder behind Peach Honey — a CBD brand that’s become a whole state of mind.

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Words like actually, really, honestly, just, and truly — they sneak in when we’re trying to sound assured but end up watering everything down instead.
So today, let’s unpack why these little “confidence boosters” are, in fact, confidence killers, and what to say instead if you want your words to pull in your audience.

Nothing compares to the vacant, glazed doughnut stare of someone who simply did not get the punchline. I thought my son would crack up when I read him an email about dart-throwing monkeys and Wall Street experts. Instead, I got a blank look—and a reminder that even the smartest ideas mean nothing if your audience doesn’t understand them.

In marketing, we’re taught to create buyer personas—fictional avatars that represent our ideal clients. But here’s the problem: overly generalized characters often lead to disconnected messaging and tuned-out readers.