On Brand with Nick Westergaard
The On Brand podcast helps you tell stronger stories and build better brands. Each week host Nick Westergaard, author of Brand Now and Get Scrappy, interviews marketing and communication thought leaders or those working for innovative brands like Adobe, Ben & Jerry’s, HBO, Mastercard, Maker’s Mark, the Minnesota Vikings, Salesforce, and Whole Foods. For show notes and more, please visit http://onbrandpodcast.com.
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Get Scrappy with Nick Westergaard LIVE at Prair...
This week, we have something a little different for our podcast listeners. Recently, I was asked to do a reading of my new book, at Prairie Lights Bookstore in Iowa City. Prairie Lights is something of a literary institution — both in the region...
30 min
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Branding in the Age of Disruption with Geoffrey...
“The new normal is that there is no normal.” Geoffrey Colon opened this week’s episode of the On Brand podcast with these daunting words. Colon, a self-described data punk, DJ, podcaster, and author, serves as a communications designer and...
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Brand Yourself or You Risk Being Branded by Others
“It’s brand or be branded.” That’s the ultimatum that Deb Gabor presented this week on the On Brand podcast. The founder and CEO of Sol Marketing and author of the new bestselling book Branding Is Sex explained that if you aren’t...
35 min
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Social Sound Bite: Is Twitter in Trouble?
On this week's Social Sound Bite – recorded live at the studios in Iowa City – Jay and I discussed the latest news out of Twitter. And it's not super great. With a recently downgraded market share of the US social networking space, Twitter is...
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How Schwinn Uses Stories to Power Brand Advocacy
“Don’t be afraid to to embrace your brand ambassadors. Make them a part of your marketing.” Schwinn Bicycles is a historic brand that’s part of the lives of generations. As Associate Marketing Manager, it’s part of Samantha Hersil’s job to...
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Social Sound Bite: Why Is Facebook Blocking Ad-...
On this week’s Social Sound Bite – recorded live at the studios in Iowa City – Jay and I discussed an interesting development. Just as Facebook continues to offer their own robust advertising solutions, they’ve taken a big step to block the...
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How Stories Can Help Your Brand Stand Out with ...
“It’s almost cliche to say but the Internet is challenging. There’s so much noise. Why do weed another blog or another channel?” While digital media has provided more opportunities for building brands online, it’s also created a...
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Connecting Brain Science and Branding with Dary...
“In marketing we’re trying to get people to do something. We need to understand why we do what we do. What motivates us?” Building on a career at Coca-Cola and brand consulting, Daryl Weber has devoted himself to connecting the dots of...
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Practicing Data-Driven Empathy with Andy Cresto...
“A bad marketer is one who does things based on their gut.” As the co-founder of Orbit Media, an author, and host of Content Jam in Chicago, Andy Crestodina helps marketers quantify those gut impulses with actionable data and strategies. Andy is...
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Social Sound Bite: Why You Should Pay Attention...
On this week’s Social Sound Bite – recorded live at the studios in Iowa City – Jay and I discussed … Pokemon Go! Love it or hate it (and folks seem squarely in one of those two camps) Pokemon Go is lighting up the Internet this week. Let’s...
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Embracing Your Community Both Online and Off wi...
“It doesn’t matter where you interact with us — you’re part of our community.” Being on the community team at SEO software giant Moz isn’t just focusing on social media. As senior community manager, Erica McGillivray interacts with the...
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How Adobe Enables Their Social Brand Ambassadors
“Employees are trusted more than the organizations they work for.” Citing this simple stat from the Edelman Trust Barometer, Adobe’s Lauren Friedman described her job in a nutshell. As the head of Global Social Business Enablement, Friedman...
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Social Sound Bite: Facebook's New Like Button (...
On this week's Social Sound Bite – recorded live at the studios in Iowa City – Jay and I discussed the news that Facebook has redesigned their 'like' button. While this could sound trivial, consider the fact that the like button is a...
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Understanding Native Advertising and Content wi...
What sets apart good branded content? “Strategic tools, storytelling, and understanding your objectives.” Melanie Deziel helps brands and publishers better understand the shared goals and potential wins that are possible through native...
35 min
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Social Sound Bite: Instagram Has Twice the Dail...
On this week’s Social Sound Bite – recorded live at the studios in Iowa City – Jay and I discussed some new numbers that Instagram shared this week. The popular Facebook-owned social network now boasts 500 million users and 300 million...
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How to Build a TV Brand with Andy Bryant and Ch...
“There’s something inherently valuable about viewing television.” Andy Bryant and Charlier Mawer would know. As the creative force behind the UK’s Red Bee agency, they help global clients such as the BBC, NBC Universal, and Fox market their...
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Creating Culture Through Brand Camp at Spiceworks
“Everything we do as employees translates into the brand.” I’ve been fascinated by the Spiceworks brand since I first read about them in Jay Baer’s new book . This people-focused community platform for IT professionals is the very definition...
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Social Sound Bite: Snapchat Overtakes Twitter i...
On this week's Social Sound Bite – recorded live at the studios in Iowa City – Jay and I discussed a shocking new stat about Snapchat's use numbers. This past week, Bloomberg reported that Snapchat overtook Twitter in number of daily users. Great...
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How Snapchat Helps Humanize Brands with Carlos Gil
“Snapchat is Twitter meets YouTube.” The meteoritic rise of this new network has left many marketers scratching their collective heads. Not Carlos Gil. An early adopter of social media from back when it was called AOL, Gil has led social...
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Social Sound Bite: Who's Sharing What on Facebook
On this week's Social Sound Bite – recorded live at the studios in Iowa City – Jay and I discussed some new data compiled by Fractl outlining who's sharing what on Facebook. With 91% sharing something at least once weekly on the social network,...
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The Future of Social Media with Jason Keath of ...
“You learn more by doing than by watching.” Jason Keath knows a thing or two about learning and doing. As CEO and Founder of Social Fresh, he helps marketers stay on top of the latest, greatest, FRESHEST digital marketing insights through their...
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Building the Brand Experience Inside and Out at...
“You have to build marketing inside out today. It has to come from inside the company.” It’s this kind of hard work that drives John Zissimos, Chief Creative Officer for software giant Salesforce. His work includes growing a coherent brand and...
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Brands Need to Listen Up Says Elasticity’s Jaso...
“Branding today isn’t that different. It’s just harder.” Jason Falls is a branding, digital marketing and PR expert. The founder of Social Media Explorer, author of No Bullshit Social Media and The Rebel’s Guide to Email Marketing, and VP at...
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Social Sound Bite: Facebook, Twitter, and Insta...
On this week’s Social Sound Bite – recorded live at the studios in Iowa City – Jay and I discussed an emerging turf war between social media’s 800-pound gorilla Facebook and its latest shiny new thing Snapchat. Ironically at the very moment...
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Why Your Content Strategy Is Only As Good as Yo...
“The companies that don’t have a good strategy around their content usually don’t have a good strategy around their brand either.” Creating an engaging content experience is one of the most effective branding tools marketers can employ today....
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