On Brand with Nick Westergaard

On Brand helps organizations and individuals 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, Maker’s Mark, the Minnesota Vikings, The Onion, Salesforce, and Whole Foods. For show notes and more, please visit http://onbrandpodcast.com.

Designing Meaningful Brand Experiences with Steve Denekas

“Experiences bring brand values to life.” As leader of the creative team at BASIC, Steve Denekas spends his time crating experiences for brands like Canadian Club, Levi’s, and Dodge. As a designer, he brings a thoughtful process to everything he…

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The Cold Shower Digital Marketers Need to Take with Ryan Cote

Why a “cold shower” you may ask? Because we know that cold showers are good for us, and yet, we avoid them. Marketers have chores they need to do that they avoid. As a third-generation business owner and seasoned marketer, Ryan Cote knows a thing…

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How to Develop Tasty Content That Sells with Rev Ciancio On Brand

“You have to think of your marketing on every channel today. If you’re a restaurant, you can’t just put a picture of garlic knots on Instagram.” This week on the On Brand podcast, we got to talk about food and marketing — specifically content…

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How to Create Presentations That Are On Brand with James Ontra

“Presentations are valuable content.” And yet, they often go underutilized. More challenging still, these prominent content delivery systems aren’t branded consistently. Enter James Ontra. Author of the book Presentation Management and Co-Founder…

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Thinking Outside of the Box and Breaking the Wheel with Jay Acunzo

“As marketers we retreat to the mean — to trendy best practices.” What’s required is out-of-the-box thinking. As the founder of Unthinkable Media and author of the new book Break the Wheel, Jay Acunzo knows a thing or two about pushing…

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Creating a Media Frenzy Around Your Brand with Sarah Tourville

“The reality is that many want to be innovative and disruptive and they’re just not.” Starting as a marketer at Motorola to founding Media Frenzy Global, Sarah Torville has spent her career helping disruptive brands tell their stories. We…

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Why Great Brands Must Design Great Culture with Josh Levine

“It’s imperative. You must design your culture. It plays such a big role.” Educator, author, and designer Josh Miles has made his mission helping organizations understand the need for culture design in our rapidly changing digital world. His new…

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In a Noisy, Distracted World, Clarity Wins with Steve Woodruff

“We’re more and more distracted today. There’s more and more noise. What hasn’t increased is attention.” In our noisy, distracted world, it’s harder than ever to get our audience’s attention — to say nothing of making sure that they remember and…

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Applying a Punk Rock Attitude to Your Brand with Jeremy Dale

“Marketing is the balance of the irrational and the rational.” Someone that would utter this truth would naturally have some ideas that are out of the box. Drawing on his career at Microsoft and Motorola, Jeremy Dale has gathered stories on what…

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How Leaders Create Strong Brands with Alberto Lopez-Valenzuela

“Twenty or 30 years ago, business did not have to be connected to society.” Today this is not the case. Author and strategist Alberto Lopez-Valenzuela helps organizations overcome this challenge at several different levels. As Chief Executive at…

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