SOLO is your weekly design and visibility lab — part of the Solo Business School, and dedicated to helping solopreneurs stand out with smart systems, sharp visuals, and AI that unlocks your edge. Each week, you get fresh ideas to help you stay small and play big. Welcome to issue #074, and to our many new readers this week. Let’s Push Past Basic Frameworks Over the past five weeks, we’ve explored the five essential shapes behind visual frameworks (circles, squares, triangles, paths, and...
13 days ago • 3 min read
SOLO is your weekly design and visibility lab — part of the Solo Business School, and dedicated to helping solopreneurs stand out with smart systems, sharp visuals, and AI that unlocks your edge. Each week, you get fresh ideas to help you stay small and play big. Welcome to issue #073. How to Show Everything All at Once Hey, Reader — With 47 new readers joining us this week and many more in recent months, it seems a good time to quickly reintroduce myself. I’m Terri Lonier, and I’ve been...
20 days ago • 4 min read
SOLO is your weekly design and visibility lab — part of the Solo Business School, and dedicated to helping solopreneurs stand out with smart systems, sharp visuals, and AI that unlocks your edge. Each week, you get fresh ideas to help you stay small and play big. Welcome to issue #072, and the many new readers who have joined us for the first time this week Is Your Message Lost Without a Map? Over the past few weeks, we’ve been exploring how visual frameworks can help you stand out. Through a...
27 days ago • 2 min read
SOLO is your weekly design and visibility lab — part of the Solo Business School, and dedicated to helping solopreneurs stand out with smart systems, sharp visuals, and AI that unlocks your edge. Each week, you get fresh ideas to help you stay small and play big. Welcome to issue #071, and all the new readers who joined us this week. Discover the Shape That Sorts, Shrinks, and Sharpens So much of running a solo business is about distilling the many into the few: ideas into offers, leads into...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
SOLO is your weekly design and visibility lab — part of the Solo Business School, and dedicated to helping solopreneurs stand out with smart systems, sharp visuals, and AI that unlocks your edge. Each week, you get fresh ideas to help you stay small and play big. Welcome to issue #070. What’s In Your Top Right? It’s just two lines crossing inside a square. But don’t let its simplicity fool you.Arrange them in this way, and you have a tool that sorts ideas, highlights what matters, and shows...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
SOLO is your weekly design and visibility lab — part of the Solo Business School, and dedicated to helping solopreneurs stand out with smart systems, sharp visuals, and AI that unlocks your edge. Each week, you get fresh ideas to help you stay small and play big. Welcome to issue #069. Don’t Skip This Shape In Your Visuals! Hey, Reader — First, a warm welcome to the many new SOLO subscribers this week! You’ve landed in a virtual community of visual thinkers looking to stand out and share...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
SOLO is your weekly design and visibility lab — part of the Solo Business School, and dedicated to helping solopreneurs stand out with smart systems, sharp visuals, and AI that unlocks your edge. Each week, you get fresh ideas to help you stay small and play big. Welcome to issue #068. This Shape Might Change How You Think Hey, Reader — Summer is an appropriate time to think about circles. As the seasons change, we can step back, notice patterns, and find shape in the swirl of solo business...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
SOLO is your weekly design and visibility lab — part of the Solo Business School, and dedicated to helping solopreneurs stand out with smart systems, sharp visuals, and AI that unlocks your edge. Each week, you get fresh ideas to help you stay small and play big. Welcome to issue #067. Last week, I attended Craft + Commerce, the annual gathering of creators sponsored by Kit, the company I use to send this newsletter. Over 400 people came together to exchange ideas and connect with old and new...
2 months ago • 2 min read
SOLO is your weekly design and visibility lab — part of the Solo Business School, and dedicated to helping solopreneurs stand out with smart systems, sharp visuals, and AI that unlocks your edge. Each week, you get fresh ideas to help you stay small and play big. Deliver Your Big Idea in a Carousel, One Swipe at a Time Hey, Reader — Last week, we laid the foundation for creating compelling LinkedIn carousels. We covered content strategy, structure, and the basics. When I asked what you wanted...
2 months ago • 5 min read