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👋 👋 Hello!

You're on my profile, so here's a bit about me 👇👇

What I do is simple: 

I help businesses make smarter decisions by understanding how people *actually* behave—not how we *wish* they would.

This might surprise you: 

Most branding agencies build beautiful art projects with your money. They celebrate Instagram likes while your sales stay flat. They spend weeks debating colors instead of focusing on what makes you special in the market. They take your key business & brand foundations and bury them beneath "vibes." They sacrifice data, research, and consumer psychology in favor of "what feels right." It's a total sh*tshow.

As co-founder of Graewolves, I created something different. We specialize in research-backed branding and marketing. We help businesses stand out and make more money through a simple 3-step process:

1️⃣ We find your unique sweet spot where competitors can't follow you (your "Category of One")
2️⃣ We discover exactly where your potential customers get stuck or hesitant when trying to buy
3️⃣ We fix those sticking points through branding, marketing, and behavioral science (the psychology behind how people actually make decisions)

What happens next? 

Our clients see up to 800% ROI within 12 months. Not because we made their logo prettier, but because we made their business work better. Through scientific thinking + principles, applied to business. 

Think about it: 

When was the last time a branding agency showed you the clear connection between their work and your actual revenue? That's exactly what we do. No smoke and mirrors—just results you can measure. 

A clear upward trend for your business 📈

My background brings together PhD-level research with real-world experience leading 100+ B2B transformations for high-ticket coaches, consultancies and agencies. Fun fact: I’ve also been a Nationally-ranked powerlifter and trained 50+ Olympic athletes (a dozen Olympic medalists!) to perform at their best. This unique blend of business, research, art, science and ambition… is what fuels all my work. 

Yes, our approach costs more than typical branding—not because we're "premium" (honestly, that word means nothing anymore), but because we do the deep research work that every other agency skips.

✅ We’ve (re)built 100+ brands & businesses.
✅ Increased their revenue up to 3x. 
✅ Gained up to 7x higher ROI on every marketing dollar they spend. 

We only work with a handful of new clients each quarter.

Want your branding & marketing to bring you clients 24/7/365? 

Let's talk.

Jason Dellatolla, PhD(c)

Skipping market research to "save money" is the most expensive business shortcut you can take.

- Your website launches with weak positioning. 
- Your marketing inherits that weakness. 
- Sales can't articulate differentiation. 
- Outreach falls flat from generic messaging.
- Lead gen struggles or attracts poor-fit prospects. 

Twelve months later, you're rebuilding everything at 3x the cost.

(That sucks.)

Research transforms a website from "professionally designed" to "this brand/company is only logical choice for me."

And that foundation makes everything else actually work.

Build it right once. Or pay to rebuild it three times.

Your call.


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Position yourself to lead the pack. 
#LikeAWolf 🐺

Marketing for high-ticket executive coaches, consulting firms & B2B agencies | Research-backed branding & marketing systems | 10+ years psychology | 100+ B2B transformations | $50K-$100K funnels

The offer that attracted your best clients is the offer that will attract more of them. 

For the vast majority of high-ticket coaches and consultants 👇👇 

Trying to broaden appeal and expand into new markets with new offers doesn't increase your revenue. Instead, it fragments trust (and sales) by making your expertise seem less specific. And less proven per slice of the pie. 

Consider this as another lens through which to explore the "Do I niche down or not?" question for your business. 

Ask yourself: 

1. Who do I serve best?
2. Why am I not serving them more?



P.S. - Should I make a video about this??

It took me over 30 years to realize this: 

No matter how many lasagnas you stack on top of each other... ultimately it always ends up as just one... lasagna.

Every executive coach and consulting firm we work with is selling into the same buyer psychology. Here's how we help them do it better than their competitors: 

- Doesn't matter if your offer is $25K or $250K.
- Doesn't matter if you're selling to CEOs, VPs, or department heads.

The buyer's internal experience is remarkably consistent—and most firms overlook it in their branding and marketing materials.

After each discovery call, your prospects are imagining two futures: one where they hire you and it goes brilliantly, and one where they hire you and have to explain to their peers/board why it didn't.

The 2nd scenario carries more psychological weight. Always.

Daniel Kahneman's loss aversion research quantified this decades ago—losses feel roughly twice as painful as equivalent gains feel good. Your $25K coaching engagement isn't only competing against "losing $25K." It's also competing against the emotional weight of a critical decision gone wrong.

This is why prospects who seemed completely sold go quiet after the call. The enthusiasm was real. So was the fear that followed.

Robert Cialdini's work on social proof explains the next layer. High-ticket buyers don't just want evidence you're good. They want evidence you've done this exact thing for someone in the same role and industry as them. The closer the match, the safer the mental leap - and the subsequent buy-in. 

And then there's what researchers call identity-protective cognition—the tendency for people to evaluate information through the lens of "what does choosing this say about me?" 

A senior executive hiring an executive coach is making a statement about their leadership, their self-awareness, their judgment. That's a lot of weight sitting on your positioning. 

So practically, what does this mean?

Your prospect needs 3 things before investing at the $25K-$50K level:

1️⃣ They need to see themselves in your existing client work. Not vague "leaders in transition" language—specific contexts that mirror their situation closely enough to feel genuinely relevant.

2️⃣ Second, they need language they can use to sell you internally. The decision rarely ends with one person. Give them the framing, the outcomes, the logic. Make the internal pitch easy. Make them look good. 

3️⃣ Third, they need a lower-stakes entry point that builds confidence before the full commitment. A diagnostic. A defined first engagement. Something that lets them experience your quality of thinking before betting their credibility on it.

The coaches and consultants closing $25K-$50K deals are the ones who have built the infrastructure that makes saying "yes" feel safe.

Buyer psychology doesn't change because your offer is "premium."

It just intensifies.



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At Graewolves, we provide research-backed branding and marketing that converts traffic into pre-sold prospects. If you'd like to learn more about how this approach applies to your coaching/consulting business, shoot me a DM.

#LikeAWolf 🐺

Prospect: "What does your PhD have to do with our marketing results?"

Glad you asked. Here's how:

If you’re running an established business, "I need more leads" is almost never the 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 problem. Here's why: 

More leads from a flawed foundation means more unqualified conversations. More time on discovery calls with prospects who aren't problem-aware, aren't budget-qualified, and aren't ready to make a decision at your price point. More proposals sent into silence. More follow-up cycles that go nowhere. The pipeline looks busy. The revenue doesn't move.

After developing branding & marketing systems for 100+ coaching/consulting firms, we’ve learned that it almost always stems from one of three things: 

1- Unclear positioning that attracts the wrong buyers
2- Messaging/marketing that doesn't speak to the specific pain they feel
3- An absence of pre-qualification infrastructure that filters out the noise before it reaches your calendar. 

Fix any of those, and the lead volume problem resolves itself — because the leads you have start converting at rates that make volume a secondary concern.

And if you’ve spent $25K-$50K on agencies that burned you before... 

It’s because they produced volume without conversion, activity without revenue, and a pipeline full of people who were never going to buy from you in the first place.


* * * * 

For high-ticket coaches and consulting firms, the question before "how do I get more people into the funnel?" It's "will my funnel convert the right people at the rate it should?" (That's the type of questions we ask at Graewolves.)

If the answer is no, more leads will cost you more time, more energy, and more money producing the same disappointing result. Fix the foundation. Then scale what works. 

#LikeAWolf 🐺

Kate Moss's infamous quote — "nothing tastes as good as skinny feels" — is a crude but accurate articulation of how future-state visualization competes with present-state desire.

Think about how this applies to your branding.
Think about how this applies to your marketing.
Think about how this applies to your business.

Once you crack the code, business revenue will increase almost overnight. 


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Not sure how? Shoot me a DM. I'll explain how we do this work for high-ticket coaching and consulting firms at Graewolves 🐺.

Content Marketer & LinkedIn Strategist | Founder of The Content Scroll | Elevating Brands & Leaders with Proven Content Strategies for Conversion, Engagement, and Growth.

💡 Struggling to get the right people to notice your business online?

You post, you engage… but it rarely turns into clients. Your LinkedIn and social media feel like a time sink instead of a growth engine.

That’s frustrating. Opportunities slip by. Competitors seem to effortlessly attract leads while you’re stuck guessing what works.

I help business owners and entrepreneurs fix that. Together, we create strategies that:

Put your brand in front of the right audience

Turn engagement into meaningful conversations

Drive consistent, sustainable growth

What makes my approach different? 

I don’t just create posts or suggest tactics; you get a system. One that fits your business, your audience, and your goals. A system that grows with you, so your online presence isn’t another thing on your to-do list but a driver of real results: visibility, credibility, and clients who are genuinely interested in what you offer.

Working with me means stepping off the treadmill of guessing, posting inconsistently, and hoping for results. It’s about having clarity, consistency, and a plan that actually moves the needle. Over time, the right connections, opportunities, and growth start showing up on autopilot without draining your energy.

Send me a DM to get a free LinkedIn profile audit and discover exactly what your business needs to grow. You can also reach me via email at vivienneosaka@gmail.com. Let’s explore a strategy that puts your LinkedIn and social media to work for you.

Vivienne Osaka

‎I remember being obsessed with hitting my first $10K month.
‎
‎It felt like a real milestone. 
Proof that this business thing was working.
‎
‎So I did what most people do when they’re chasing a number.
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‎I accepted everything.
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- ‎If someone had a budget, I said yes.
- ‎If the project wasn’t aligned but would help me get closer to $10K, I said yes.
- ‎If the timeline was unrealistic, I told myself I’d figure it out.

I kept thinking, “It’s just for now.”
‎
‎That month was intense.
‎
‎Back-to-back calls.
‎Constant revisions.
‎Scope creep I didn’t push back on.
‎Underpriced work that drained my energy.
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‎When the money finally came in, I expected to feel proud.
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‎Instead, I felt exhausted.
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‎I had hit $10K… but I had built pressure and chaos around myself to get there.
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‎After that month, I went quiet on here for a year.

‎I needed that time to fix what I had built.
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- ‎I had to learn how to set boundaries.
- ‎How to say no without feeling guilty.
- ‎How to create systems so I wasn’t involved in every tiny thing.
- ‎How to structure my offers so they didn’t depend on constant firefighting.

‎When I came back, the business felt lighter.
‎Cleaner.
‎More intentional.
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‎And scaling became easier.
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📌‎Looking back, my first $10K taught me more about what not to do than what to do.
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‎If you’re pushing for a revenue milestone right now, be careful what you say yes to.
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‎Hitting the number is exciting.
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‎Living with how you hit it is what actually matters.

#LinkedIn #LinkedInGrowth #B2B #LeadGeneration #Sales #PersonalBranding

LinkedIn Client Acquisition Strategist | Social Media Strategist | Driving Brand Visibility, Client Acquisition & Sustainable Online Growth for B2B Service Providers

LinkedIn Growth
Personal Branding
Business Milestone

I almost went nuts trying to find my “niche.”

Everyone says you need one.

Pick a lane.
Own a category.
Be known for one thing.

So I tried.

I brainstormed industries.
Rewrote my headline ten times.
Changed my bio.
Shifted my messaging.
Second-guessed everything.

Every week, I felt certain.
Every month, I felt confused again.

And the more I chased a niche, the more disconnected I felt from my own work.

Because I was lacking alignment.

I kept asking:
“What’s profitable?”
“What’s trending?”
“Where’s the opportunity?”

Instead of:
“Where do I naturally create leverage?”
“Who do I understand deeply?”
“What conversations feel effortless?”

There’s a difference between choosing a niche under pressure
and refining positioning from clarity.

When I stopped trying to force a label and started reviewing my actual best work, patterns appeared.

The clients I enjoyed.
The problems I solved the fastest.
The conversations that converted the easiest.

My niche wasn’t something I had to invent.
It was something I had to recognize.

And once I aligned with that:

My messaging simplified.
My outreach stopped feeling awkward.
My content stopped feeling performative.
Sales conversations felt lighter.

Alignment does something no tactic can do.
It removes friction.

Now I don’t think about “finding” a niche.

I think about sharpening the edge I already have.

If you feel confused about your niche…

Maybe you don’t need a new direction.

Maybe you need a clearer reflection.

#Entrepreneurship #PersonalBranding #B2BMarketing #PositioningStrategy
#FounderJourney

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