“Absolutely eye-opening wisdom on branding and marketing. Brier does it again.”
Micah Solomon, co-author,
“Exceptional Service, Exceptional Profit:
The Secrets of Building a Five-Star Customer Service Organization”
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How to get more brand for your buck!
(Pardon the pun, but you’re about to meet the industry’s leading branding specialist !!)
David Brier is a 27-year veteran design and branding specialist who has received over 300 industry awards for his design, brand and package design solutions for a wide range of clients.
The world according to Brier:
“Cliches can kill more businesses than a room full of politicians. It’s our job to prevent cliches from gaining access to our client’s branding solutions. Think of us as the ‘brand intervention specialists.’ ”
As an alumni of the renowned School of Visual Arts in New York City, his work, and the work of DBD International, can be seen in retail, non-profit and business-to-business applications helping those organizations outshine and out-elevate their competition. Among DBD’s client list are Big Dot of Happiness, Estée Lauder, Feldman Mall Properties, cellist Eugene Friesen, Jim Henson Associates, Loehmann’s, Mabel Tainter Center for the Arts, New York City Ballet, National Cooperative Grocers Association, New York Times Sunday Magazine, Revlon, Rolling Stone magazine, Tower Realty Trust and Wells Fargo among others.
Why I Wrote “The Lucky Brand” by David Brier
I just completed writing “The Lucky Brand: 10 Golden Rules of Branding to Outshine, Outperform and Outlast Your Competition” simply because, everyone today can use some help.
You can request your own free copy. But first, here are some facts you should know.
It’s Never Been Stiffer
Each year, 26,000 new products find their way into the marketplace. It was noted recently that as many as 50 million tweets were posted in a single day. Recently, Google reported 293 million searches had been conducted in a single 24-hour period. Yet another report stated that a new blog is started every half second. So the compeition to gain attention is at all time high and has never been stiffer.
With such noise competing for attention and vying for time, one has to ask, “Do you feel lucky?”
There is No Magic Bullet
Have you ever noticed certain brands and thought, “HOW do they do that?” They just nail it time after time, not merely a one-shot wonder, but BAM! Time after time. It just seems they have a golden touch, an endless supply of luck.
Well, there is “luck” and there’s doing the right (i.e., effective) things that bring about the right results. If the steps you take are not the effective ones, you can work hard all day long and all you’d have to show for it would be more perspiration and a furrowed brow. But as you’re probably among those who wish to market more effectively, let’s look deeper.
The World has Changed
The challenge we have as communicators is considerable: especially if the company is losing sales because it does not have top-of-mind presence when the customer is ready to buy.
OK, so more information is transmitted in a single day than used to be relayed in a year. The bigger problem is few if any of us have any gauge to determine the relative value of each bit of info (e.g., which are important, meaningful, useful, effective, and proven—and which are trivial and a waste of time?).
So it becomes important to answer several questions:
How to stand out?
How to be noticed at all?
How to be thought of when it’s time for your customer to buy?
Start Somewhere
There is no value simply to having read something. In this age of information overload, use of information is what separates the professional from the wannabe.
So before you download your copy and read a single word, I must insist on one thing: Decide to use something in this report. At least one single item. You can always add to the list of tools you use, but at least start by using one and build from there.
Your Growth
So, if you don’t plan on using The Lucky Brand to improve your business and help your colleagues, you might as well stop right here. Pass this to someone who will use it. Its power is in its use, not in merely having read it.
My interest is in you doing better, your business selling more and your influence expanding. Thomas Jefferson said it best: “I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”
Here’s to a better gravity-defying world, starting with you.
David Brier
david@risingabovethenoise.com
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David Brier is the Chief Gravity Defyer of DBD International. A Fast Company blogger and also the author of the branding bible “Defying Gravity and Rising Above the Noise,” David writes thought-provoking and myth-busting articles and blogs that a leave a person wiser and more nimble than when they arrived. (Oh yeah, he is the recipient of over 300 industry awards over the last 27 years…)
The Lost Law of Branding by David Brier
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