Brand Master Podcast

Discover the difference between branding and direct response marketing and how to merge the two with overdeliver author Brian Kurtz,

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In this episode of the Brand Master Podcast, we dive into direct response marketing master and author over Overdeliver, Brian Kurtz.

First, we tackle the difference between branding vs marketing and how their symbiotic nature causes conflict among branding and marketing professionals. 

Next, we explore the difference between direct response copywriting and brand messaging and how brands can write copy that’s both persuasive and relationship-building. 

Then we explore the influence of personality on marketing and copywriting as a means to influence people to buy before discussing the importance of understanding the audience to gauge the balance of your brand communication.

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Discover the best and worst brand extension and line extension examples to guide your strategy. 

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First, you’ll learn what a brand extension strategy is (often referred to as a line extension strategy).

Then, we’ll explore the advantages and disadvantages of using this brand strategy approach.

Next, we’ll dive into the best and worst examples of brand extension including Samsung, Nike, Colgate, and Microsoft

You understand how to extend your product lines successfully (and how to avoid the fails)

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Learn how to find a sustainable competitive advantage for your brand in five simple steps.

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First, we’ll answer the question “What is a sustainable competitive advantage?” and address the different types of competitive advantages while we’re at it. 

Once competitive advantage is explained we’ll look at the systematic steps you need to take to find a sustainable competitive advantage for your brand.

These steps include segmenting your audience, establishing buyer personas, evaluating the competition, turning gaps into ideas, and ultimately creating a differentiation strategy with a competitive edge over the competition. 

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Learn how to find a sustainable competitive advantage for your brand in five simple steps.

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First, we’ll answer the question “What is a sustainable competitive advantage?” and address the different types of competitive advantages while we’re at it. 

Once competitive advantage is explained we’ll look at the systematic steps you need to take to find a sustainable competitive advantage for your brand.

These steps include segmenting your audience, establishing buyer personas, evaluating the competition, turning gaps into ideas, and ultimately creating a differentiation strategy with a competitive edge over the competition. 

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Learn how to find your key differentiator with 26 differentiation strategy examples to inspire your positioning strategy.  

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First, you’ll learn what a key differentiator is with a definition and why it’s so important in positioning your brand. 

Next, you’ll learn how differentiation applies to different business levels and discover the difference between product differentiation vs brand differentiation.  

Then, you’ll learn the key characteristics of an effective differentiation strategy before discovering Marty Neumeier’s differentiation strategy template, the online statement.  

Then we’ll dive into 26 key differentiator examples to inspire the development of your brand's positioning strategy.  

You’ll also discover key differentiators examples for brands such as Tesla, Dollar Shave Club, Birchbox, Amazon, Apple, H&M, Zara, Chipotle and Chubbies Shorts 

Finally, you’ll learn how to combine differentiation strategy ideas for the best results before learning to evaluate your key differentiator concept.

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Learn how to position brands effectively with this 8-Step Competitive Positioning Process.

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First, you’ll learn how to analyze your target market and segment your audience.

Next, you’ll discover the importance of defining your buyer persona or customer avatar.

Then we’ll dive into the picture painted by demographics and psychographics before we look at how to evaluate the competitive with competitive research.

Later we’ll get to the nuts and bolts of brand positioning by learning how to discover gaps and opportunities before developing them into a unique competitive advantage and ultimately an effective brand positioning strategy

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Discover how to find a competitive position using market mapping and a positioning matrix.

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First, you’ll discover what a competitive position is and how it relates to terms such as competitive strategy, competitive positioning, positioning strategy, differentiation strategy, and key differentiator to name a few.

Then, we’ll lift the lid on where competitive positioning began with an iconic book called “Positioning: A Battle For The Mind” by Al Reis and Jack Trout.

Next, you’ll discover what a positioning map is and lift the fog on the multitude of terms to describe it including perceptual maps, market mapping, positioning matrix, and perceptual matrix to name a few. 

Finally, we’ll break down why you should use a perceptual map and how to do it effectively. 

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Learn what a go-to-market strategy is, and use this GTM process template to nail your product or brand launch. 

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First, you’ll learn what a go-to-market strategy is and how the go-to-market process affects the success of your product or brand. 

Next, you’ll discover when you need a go-to-market plan before we provide you with this easy-to-follow go-to-market strategy template. 

Then we’ll dive into the different methods you can use in your go-to-market plan before we dive into the steps to create a go-to-market strategy. 

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Discover what a sustainable branding strategy is, the principles and processes to build it, and 7 sustainable brand strategy examples. 

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First, you’ll discover what sustainability branding is and why it's so important. 

Next, you’ll learn the principles of building sustainable brands starting with the sustainability roadmap and the mistakes to avoid including greenwashing.

Then, we’ll dive into the processes and steps you need to take to develop a sustainable brand before you discover 7 of the best sustainable branding examples.

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Learn How To Identify Your Target Market with this Detailed Audience Research Process.

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By the end of this video, you’ll know how to identify your target audience and target market segmentation with this detailed target market research process.

First, you’ll learn how to uncover your target market demographics and how this audience analysis process paints the foundational picture.

Next, you’ll discover how to uncover your market psychographics to understand their personality.

Then you’ll learn how to create an audience persona (or buyer persona) to bring your audience to life before mapping the customers' journey and defining their challenges and pain points.

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