Sprint
Sprint

Author: Jake Knapp

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2016-03-10

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1473526809

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A NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL bestseller 'A must read for entrepreneurs of all stripes' - Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup From three partners at Google Ventures, a unique five-day process for solving tough business problems, proven at more than 100 companies. What’s the most important place to focus your effort? How many meetings and discussions does it take before you can be sure you have the right solution? What will your idea look like in real life? How do you start? Now there’s a surefire way to answer these important questions: the sprint. Designer Jake Knapp created the five-day process at Google, where sprints were used on everything from Google Search to Google X. He joined Braden Kowitz and John Zeratsky at Google Ventures, and together they have completed more than one hundred sprints with companies in mobile, e-commerce, healthcare, finance, and more. A practical guide to answering critical business questions, Sprint is a book for teams of any size, from small startups to Fortune 100s, from teachers to nonprofits. It’s for anyone with a big opportunity, problem, or idea who needs to get answers today.

Sticky Branding
Sticky Branding

Author: Jeremy Miller

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2015-01-10

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1459728122

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#1 Globe and Mail Bestseller 2016 Small Business Book Awards — Nominated, Marketing category Sticky Brands exist in almost every industry. Companies like Apple, Nike, and Starbucks have made themselves as recognizable as they are successful. But large companies are not the only ones who can stand out. Any business willing to challenge industry norms and find innovative ways to serve its customers can grow into a Sticky Brand. Based on a decade of research into what makes companies successful, Sticky Branding is your branding playbook. It provides ideas, stories, and exercises that will make your company stand out, attract customers, and grow into an incredible brand. Sticky Branding’s 12.5 guiding principles are drawn from hundreds of interviews with CEOs and business owners who have excelled within their industries.

Personal Branding for Entrepreneurs
Personal Branding for Entrepreneurs

Author: Donna Rachelson

Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers

Published: 2019-05-15

Total Pages: 101

ISBN-13: 0639955835

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Personal Branding for Entrepreneurs provides quick-fire, practical advice and real-life examples and success stories to help entrepreneurs build and market their own personal brands. In today's fast-paced, interconnected world, you need to have a personal brand, apart from that of your company. If you haven't already got one, you need to start cultivating it into something of your choosing before it becomes defined by those around you. Learn what your personal brand is, why it's critical to your success as an entrepreneur and what you need to do to grow, maintain and nurture it. Donna Rachelson, a specialist in branding and marketing, and the author of three books, distils and shares her insights from years of experience in helping entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses through the building of their authentic personal brands. Jam-packed with easily digestible nuggets of information and easy-to-apply actions, and with contributions from seven other entrepreneurs from different industries and at different stages of their personal branding journeys, Personal Branding for Entrepreneurs is a must-have in any entrepreneur's personal development toolkit.

Building a StoryBrand
Building a StoryBrand

Author: Donald Miller

Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership

Published: 2017-10-10

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0718033337

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More than half-a-million business leaders have discovered the power of the StoryBrand Framework, created by New York Times best-selling author and marketing expert Donald Miller. And they are making millions. If you use the wrong words to talk about your product, nobody will buy it. Marketers and business owners struggle to effectively connect with their customers, costing them and their companies millions in lost revenue. In a world filled with constant, on-demand distractions, it has become near-impossible for business owners to effectively cut through the noise to reach their customers, something Donald Miller knows first-hand. In this book, he shares the proven system he has created to help you engage and truly influence customers. The StoryBrand process is a proven solution to the struggle business leaders face when talking about their companies. Without a clear, distinct message, customers will not understand what you can do for them and are unwilling to engage, causing you to lose potential sales, opportunities for customer engagement, and much more. In Building a StoryBrand, Donald Miller teaches marketers and business owners to use the seven universal elements of powerful stories to dramatically improve how they connect with customers and grow their businesses. His proven process has helped thousands of companies engage with their existing customers, giving them the ultimate competitive advantage. Building a StoryBrand does this by teaching you: The seven universal story points all humans respond to; The real reason customers make purchases; How to simplify a brand message so people understand it; and How to create the most effective messaging for websites, brochures, and social media. Whether you are the marketing director of a multibillion-dollar company, the owner of a small business, a politician running for office, or the lead singer of a rock band, Building a StoryBrand will forever transform the way you talk about who you are, what you do, and the unique value you bring to your customers.

Moving Your Brand Up the Food Chain
Moving Your Brand Up the Food Chain

Author: Patrick Nycz

Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing

Published: 2017-11-01

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1457559293

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The food industry is on the verge of a revolution, with smaller, local and regional food brands finding big potential for growth. The increasing influence of millennials on consumer tastes, the desire for products produced locally, and mistrust of big food companies open opportunities to small and medium-sized food companies. An experienced consumer packages goods marketer and his team have created a book to help navigate the looming volatility in the food industry. For instance, the U.S. Department of Agriculture predicts that the sales of locally produced foods, which reached $12 billion in 2014, will soar to $20 billion by 2019. A 2015 study by the Food Marketing Institute and the Grocery Manufacturers Association found that smaller and private food brand manufacturers grew 4 percent vs. the 25 biggest U.S. food and beverage manufacturers, who grew 1 percent between 2009 and 2013. Moving Your Brand Up the Food Chain offers practical tips to help local, small and emerging food brands compete against the big brands to grow their market share. Interviews and survey answers from industry professionals provide invaluable information. The book covers the retail buyer’s perspective, marketing, external market factors, brand development, packaging, brand management, strategic product development, and more. Such details are critical if local, smaller or regional food brands hope to grow their businesses and move up the food chain.

The Brand Mapping Strategy
The Brand Mapping Strategy

Author: Karen Tiber Leland

Publisher: Entrepreneur Press

Published: 2016-06-20

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 1613083394

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If You Don’t Define Your Brand, Someone Else Will Define It for You Your small business is a brand. You as a business person are a brand! Imagine using a time-tested,strategic method to build your brandwith best practices for online marketing and more! Brand and marketing strategist Karen Tiber Leland helps entrepreneurs, business owners, CEOs, and executives create a brand by design instead of default, gain greater influence in their industries and companies, and become thought leaders in their fields. The Brand Mapping Strategy uses proven strategies, best practices and anecdotes from real life brand-building successes to give readers the tools they need to design, build, and accelerate a successful brand. Readers will be able to: Develop an overall blueprint for their brand using the Brand Mapping Process® Determine which online tactics (and in what combination) will work for their brand Expand the current brand outreach and contribution to a bigger audience in their industry, community, or the world at large Become a thought or industry leader, using clear positioning, a specific strategy for brand building, and a method for implementation Leverage content effectively and efficiently to build their brand Develop a marketing and social media strategy using the right platform

Employer Branding For Dummies
Employer Branding For Dummies

Author: Richard Mosley

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2017-01-19

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1119071623

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Attract the very best talent with a compelling employer brand! Employer Branding For Dummies is the clear, no-nonsense guide to attracting and retaining top talent. Written by two of the most recognized leaders in employer brand, Richard Mosley and Lars Schmidt, this book gives you actionable advice and expert insight you need to build, scale, and measure a compelling brand. You'll learn how to research what makes your company stand out, the best ways to reach the people you need, and how to convince those people that your company is the ideal place to exercise and develop their skills. The book includes ways to identify the specific traits of your company that aligns with specific talent, and how to translate those traits into employer brand tactic that help you draw the right talent, while repelling the wrong ones. You'll learn how to build and maintain your own distinctive, credible employer brand; and develop a set of relevant, informative success metrics to help you measure ROI. This book shows you how to discover and develop your employer brand to draw the quality talent you need. Perfect your recruitment marketing Develop a compelling employer value proposition (EVP) Demonstrate your employer brand ROI Face it: the very best employees are the ones with the most options. Why should they choose your company? A strong employer brand makes the decision a no-brainer. It's good for engagement, good for retention, and good for the bottom line. Employer Branding For Dummies helps you hone in on your unique, compelling brand, and get the people you need today.

Sport Marketing
Sport Marketing

Author: Windy Dees

Publisher: Human Kinetics

Published: 2021-03-12

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 1492594628

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"This book helps students prepare for careers in the fast-paced world of sport marketing, as well as provides a resource for practitioners looking for the latest information in the field. The book offers abundant examples of the latest issues in the competitive marketplace"--

Sport Marketing 4th Edition
Sport Marketing 4th Edition

Author: Mullin, Bernard J.

Publisher: Human Kinetics

Published: 2014-05-02

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13: 1450424988

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Sport Marketing, Fourth Edition With Web Study Guide, has been streamlined and updated to keep pace with the latest information and issues in the competitive world of sport marketing. This text maintains its position as the best-selling and original text in the field, continuing to direct students to a better understanding of the theoretical backbone that makes sport marketing such a unique and vibrant subject to study. Using the new full-color format and companion web study guide, students will stay engaged as they explore how fans, players, coaches, the media, and companies interact to drive the sport industry.

Advertising by Design
Advertising by Design

Author: Robin Landa

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2021-04-20

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1119691532

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A real-world introduction to advertising design and art direction, updated and revised for today's industry The newly revised Fourth Edition of Advertising by Design: Generating and Designing Creative Ideas Across Media delivers an invigorating and cutting-edge take on concept generation, art direction, design, and media channels for advertising. The book offers principles, theories, step-by-step instructions, and advice from esteemed experts to guide you through the fundamentals of advertising design and the creative process. With a fresh focus on building a coherent brand campaign through storytelling across all media channels, Advertising by Design shows you how to conceive ideas based on strategy, build brands with compelling advertising, and encourage social media participation. You’ll also get insights from guest essays and interviews with world-leading creatives in the advertising industry. The book is filled with practical case studies that show real-world applications. You’ll also benefit from coverage of A quick start guide to advertising A thorough introduction to what advertising is, including its purpose, categories, forms, media channels, social media listening, and its creators Creative thinking strategies and how to generate ideas based on creative briefs Utilizing brand archetypes and creating unique branded content Composition by design, including the parts of an ad, the relationship between images and copy, basic design principles, and points of view How to build a brand narrative in the digital age Copywriting how-to’s for art directors and designers Experiential advertising An examination of digital design, including subsections on the basics of mobile and desktop website design, motion, digital branding, and social media design Perfect for students and instructors of advertising design, art direction, graphic design, communication design, and copywriting, Advertising by Design also will earn a place in the libraries of business owners, executives, managers, and employees whose work requires them to understand and execute on branding initiatives, advertising campaigns, and other customer-facing content.