from pen pal to strategic partner

20250602 - Hiep says Higher Prices €375/m of €2000 in één keer.

Hoe wordt je nou die trusted partner en niet die tekenpen?

Hoe wordt ik nou gezien als strategisch partner.

Stukje business sense. Hoe gebruiken we nu jouw kracht - jouw tekenvaardigheid en creatief vermogen - om bij je klant iets unieks in te brengen. Daarmee je positie versterken en van meerwaarde zijn. Wij kunnen doen wat we doen - maar wat we missen is dat we nog niet gezien worden door onze klanten - dat we zoveel meer kunnen. We willen graag eerder betrokken worden in dit soort processen.

Drawn.Today faucet idea Visualizers NL

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Idea = cohort / fellowship program for colleague visualizers (visual facilitators, zakelijk tekenaars) in the Netherlands.

Goal: 10 visualizers in NL cohort by July 1

Price: €600 for six-month track

Format: 90-min session/month + 2hr live pysical meeting in September + tools/templates

Sales method:

• One master Notion page for outreach
• DM outreach to existing contact list

AI Gremlin - pitches this

Okay. Time to pitch you to you. I’ll channel your inner insecure-visualizer-turned-future-fellow and remind you why this is not only a good idea — it’s the idea.

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🎯 You’re tired of being “the one with the markers.”

You’re smart. You’re perceptive. But your role? It’s still ornamental. You capture the meeting, but don’t shape it. You draw the strategy, but you’re not in the room where it’s decided.

You sense there’s another level. You know it exists — you’ve seen glimpses. You just don’t know how to break in.

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💡 Enter: the Drawn Today Fellowship

This is not a cute course. It’s not another “creative upgrade” with downloadable PDFs and empty Slack channels.

This is a strategic transformation:

• From creative support to consulting ally
• From “pretty visuals” to clarity weaponry
• From “Here’s what they said” to “Here’s what needs to happen”

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What you actually learn:

• Positioning: How to talk so decision-makers recognize your value.
• Offer design: What to sell (and what not to) so you stop being underpaid for overgiving.
• Client power dynamics: How to shift from reactive to trusted partner.
• Visual thinking as leverage: How to lead with visuals, not just decorate with them.

And you’re doing it inside a cohort. You don’t have to grow in the dark anymore. You grow in a greenhouse with others who are done being small.

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The format (because your brain wants safety):

• 1x live 90-minute Zoom a month → actual skill building, not screen fatigue
• 1x drop of tools/templates → not “content,” but momentum in a box
• 1x real-life 2-hour event in September → touch grass and bond with humans
• 6 months of building your future, with Jefta in your corner and Drawn Today as your badge

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Now about the price:

€1800 is what it’s worth — that’s one small client not lost because you’re finally confident in your offer.

But you get in for €600 → That’s €99/month → You blow that on software you don’t use and chai lattes you didn’t want.

This isn’t a course. It’s a career unlock. This is the moment where you stop being the hired hand with pens and start becoming a visual strategy partner with presence.

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You don’t need more tools. You need to know what to say when a client asks, “So what do you actually do?”

Drawn Today Fellows know. And clients listen.

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Now. Does that sound like something you’d sign up for? Or are you gonna go back to doing “LinkedIn occasionally” and hoping magic happens?

Come on, Captain Clarity. Let’s go.

Can you do more pain points?

Oh, you want pain? Buckle up, dear doodle goblin. I’m gonna show you your shadow like a mirror with a grudge.

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💢 You’re good at what you do. And it’s not enough.

You’ve sat through so many meetings where you listened better than the actual consultants. You felt what mattered before anyone could articulate it. You shaped something elegant on the page while everyone else just added to the mess.

And what did you get?

A pat on the head. A round of applause. An invoice for 1 day of “drawing support.” Congratulations. You’re a highly-evolved Sharpie.

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🧠 You’re stuck in this limbo:

• Too strategic to just illustrate
• Too visual to be taken “seriously”
• Too proud to sell like a LinkedIn-hustle-zombie
• Too tired to pretend that “just doing good work” will bring clients

And it’s lonely. You’re surrounded by other creatives who either burn out chasing clients or surrender and start offering training wheels to people who can’t draw a cat.

And worst of all?

You still love this work.

You still see how powerful it can be.

But your gift is stuck in this awkward “almost respected” zone. You’re the hidden strategist. The client’s best-kept secret. And you’re starting to resent it.

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👊 Enter the Drawn Today Fellowship

This isn’t a Canva-preset masterclass with AI-generated prompts and vague cheerleading.

This is where the good ones go to get sharper. This is for the visual thinkers who are done playing small.

You’re done with being booked for the wrong reasons. You’re ready to be invited earlier, speak with authority, and actually design the process, not just color its corpse.

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Here’s what it gives you:

• 💥 Training that respects your brain Jefta (yeah, him) leads the monthly sessions, but he’s not alone. You’ll learn with Hiep, the Drawn Today co-founder, and Reinier, a fellow already deep in the transformation trench. They’re not above you. They’re next to you. And they give a shit.
• 🧭 Monthly navigation tools No fluff. Real tools. Real offers. Real scripts. You don’t just get templates — you get direction.
• 🛠️ Six months of building, not drifting Every month: a live 90-minute session Every month: momentum, not mystery And in September: an IRL meet-up to remind you what real faces look like
• 🚪 You stop waiting to be invited And start showing up as the visual partner clients didn’t know they needed — until you said the right thing at the right time.

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💶 The price?

Normally €1800. That’s literally what one decent project should cover — once you know how to sell yourself as who you really are.

But because you’re in the first wave? €600. That’s €99/month for six months. You spend more on broken boundaries and therapy.

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✋ And let’s be real for a sec:

You hate marketing. You loathe describing yourself in “value proposition” speak. You wish you could just keep doing great work and clients would line up outside your window. They don’t. Because you never learned how to lead with your gift.

This fellowship is not a funnel. It’s not a hack. It’s not a feel-good branding club.

It’s a power upgrade for those who are tired of waiting to be chosen.

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You’re not too weird. You’re not too nice. You’re not too niche.

You’re just not yet positioned where your brilliance gets paid.

Let’s fix that. Together. Join the Fellowship.

Or keep being the person they forget to invite to the strategy meeting. Your choice.