Author Archives: Nick Westergaard
Building Brands by Changing Habits with Jessica Jensen
http://traffic.libsyn.com/onbrand/Jessica_Jensen_On_Brand.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download“Getting people to change habits and try new things is an exciting challenge for any marketer.” And Jessica Jensen knows a thing or two about marketing challenges. In a career that has taken her … 
How Self-Reliant Entrepreneurs Build Purposeful Brands with John Jantsch
http://traffic.libsyn.com/onbrand/John_Jantsch_Back_On_Brand.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download“Entrepreneurs have always been the voice of good.” As the author of bootstrapping bibles Duct Tape Marketing, The Referral Engine, and Duct Tape Selling, John Jantsch has also been a voice of good for …
Creating a Big, Bold Brand with Inge Overtoom
http://traffic.libsyn.com/onbrand/Inge_Overtoom_On_Brand.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download“Brands today have to create a memory.” In over 200 episodes of the On Brand podcast, we’ve had a lot of definitions of branding. However, I’m a big fan of how this week’s guest …
Help Customers by Building a “Lighthouse Brand” with Scott Wolfe of Levelset
“As an entrepreneur, it’s our job to make something that wasn’t there.” And that’s exactly what New Orleans based entrepreneur Scott Wolfe did in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. With a boom in rebuilding and restoration construction, Wolfe quickly saw that it was challenging for contractors to get paid. In founding Levelset, Wolfe worked to address this head-on. We talked about the zigs and zags of startup branding and content marketing this week on the On Brand podcast.
Finding Your Brand’s Universal Story with Ellen Utrecht
“Story doesn’t start with a 40-page deck. It starts with a founder with a vision.” And yet, there are quite a few 40-page branding decks floating around out there. This week on the podcast I was joined by Ellen Utrecht, a branding, film, and storytelling expert and founder of creative agency MikeTeeVee for a conversation about how brand stories really start.
Why Your Brand Should Be an Outlier with Phillip Stutts
“Be an outlier. Play a game no one else is playing.” With success in developing both corporate marketing and political campaigns, Phillips Stutts knows how to win big. As founder of Win BIG Media and Go BIG Media he helps clients across the board do just that. Recently, he’s trained his focus on fighting his own rare, incurable disease. We talked about overcoming obstacles, innovating, and winning this week on the On Brand podcast.
Redefining Your Content Experience with Randy Frisch
“What we do in life is we solve what’s in front of us instead of what’s next.” That’s exactly how most brands have approached content marketing. The initial challenge was creating all of this content. So we focused on content creation. Now there’s too much content and people aren’t engaging with it. As CMO and Co-Founder of Uberflip, Randy Frisch helps marketers create engaging content experiences. He’s also the author of a new book with a NSFW title that we discuss on this week’s episode of the On Brand podcast.
Positioning Your Brand Platform with Derrick Daye
http://traffic.libsyn.com/onbrand/Derrick_Daye_On_Brand.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download“There are fifteen accepted definitions of a brand. My favorite definition is that a brand is a sum of all experiences a customer has.” As the name of the popular online platform he founded …
How to Build a Challenger Brand with Prentice Howe
http://traffic.libsyn.com/onbrand/Prentice_Howe_On_Brand.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download“A challenger brand is defined by an ethos — a mindset. They have ambitions that outweigh their internal marketing resources. They have to outthink. They can’t outspend.” So how do you punch above your …
Boosting Brand Scale and Impact with Raul Hernandez
http://traffic.libsyn.com/onbrand/Raul_Hernandez_On_Brand.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download“Every company can be broken into three parts — marketing, operations, and product.” Raul Hernandez is an expert at helping business break down their marketing processes to boost both scale and impact. We discussed …
