On Brand With Nick Westergard

Hosted ByNick Westergard

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.


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Building the Brand Experience Inside and Out at Salesforce

“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…

Brands Need to Listen Up Says Elasticity’s Jason Falls

“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…

Social Sound Bite: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram vs. Snapchat

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…

Why Your Content Strategy Is Only As Good as Your Brand Strategy

“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….

Social Sound Bite: YIKES! A New Facebook Algorithm (AGAIN!)

On this week’s Social Sound Bite – recorded live at the  studios in Iowa City – Jay and I discussed Facebook’s latest, greatest (frustrating!) update to their ever-evolving news feed algorithm. Part of their new “Feed Quality…

Behind the Scenes of the Whole Foods Brand Voice with Lisa Grimm

“Our Instagram voice is very different than even Facebook and Twitter.” As Associate Director of Social Media at Whole Foods Market, Lisa Grimm is responsible for how the innovative natural supermarket chain comes to life online. From developing…

Social Sound Bite: Where Facebook Hid Your Favorite Page Features

On this week’s Social Sound Bite – recorded live at the  studios in Iowa City – Jay and I discussed some confusion Facebook created recently for all of us who manage Facebook pages. They moved our favorite features including using…

How to Avoid Being a ‘Vanilla Brand’ with Gini Dietrich

“Don’t be afraid to inject humor and humanity into your brand. People love this. Life’s too short to be that serious.” This week’s episode was many things but serious was not one of them! Spin Sucks author and…

Social Sound Bite: NFL Twitter Streaming, Longer Instagram Videos

On this week’s Social Sound Bite – recorded live at the  studios in Iowa City – Jay and I discussed two major social platform updates. First, after Facebook bowed out of negotiations, Twitter picked up the streaming rights for the…