Your Brand Needs an Intervention Says David Brier

June 10, 2019

33 Steps to Build Your Brand

 

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Sales Tips you’ll learn today on The Sales Podcast…

  • He has helped companies sell over one billion dollars following his strategies

  • Branding is more than

    • Stories

    • A logo

    • How your store looks

  • It’s the art of differentiation

  • We have a lot of choices

  • Know how to stand apart

  • Everything you do supports your differentiation

  • Be heard, be seen, be understood

  • Make your offering clear

  • Different is better than better

    • Stupid different is not better than better

    • Going head to head on features is not good enough

    • Open earlier

    • Give a foot massage

    • Open on weekends

    • Incremental changes are easy to respond to by your competitors

    • Apple gave colorful computers

    • Dyson made 5,000 prototypes and design to create see-through canisters to make other vacuums “old”

  •  We’re too close to our own businesses

  • You need a fresh perspective

  • You need a good story

  • We’re in a world of perception

  • Tell a meaningful story, get traction, hit on pain points

  • Speak to real people

  • Inferior products win if they have the better story

  • Make the customer the hero of the story

  • You need to toot your own horn

  • Be a rebel

  • Be careful of being too careful

  • Have conviction and convey it

  • You can take humility to the point of stupidity

  • As he codified his processes bigger growth came

  • Lowering your price on a premium product will kill you (See page 218)

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