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.


All Episodes

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…

Why Having a Brand Filter Makes Decisions Easy at AWeber

“Your brand is more than your logo.” How many times have you heard something like this? If you’re a visual brand builder like , you probably find yourself saying this a lot. But what does it really mean? As art director at email marketing…

Social Sound Bite: Quit Freaking Out About the Instagram Algorithm

On this week’s Social Sound Bite – recorded live at the  studios in Iowa City – Jay and I discussed the new Instagram algorithm. While some are freaking out — pleading with followers to turn on push notifications for their brand —…

How Poo~Pourri Uses Humor to Humanize Their Brand

When your business category is taboo, how do you get people to talk about it? Suzy Bátiz is the inventor and entrepreneur behind , an innovative brand that is literally changing the way we go to the bathroom. As founder and CEO, she’s built…

Social Sound Bite: Email Marketing Is NOT Dead

On this week’s Social Sound Bite – recorded live at the  studios in Iowa City – Jay and I discussed a new report on which digital marketing tactics are most effective. Guess what? Once again, the winner was email marketing. Quit…

Everything You Do Is Branding with John Michael Morgan

“Everyone has a brand because everyone has a reputation.” John Michael Morgan knows a thing or two about branding for everyone. That’s because the Brand Against the Machine author has worked with everyone from bestselling authors,…

Customer Service Is the New Branding with Jay Baer

“Every single time you respond to a customer complaint it increases advocacy. Every time you don’t it decreases it.” Jay Baer would know. For his new book Hug Your Haters, Jay didn’t just write about what he thought and felt about…