It’s 2018. Every company has a blog and a podcast. Every company is making videos. Every company is spending money on AdWords, Facebook ads, and retargeting. And on top of that, there are hundreds (if not thousands) of competitors in every industry leaving more options for your potential customers than ever before.
We live in a world of infinite supply. And in this world, traditional marketing and demand generation just aren’t working like they used to. Yet most marketers continue to play by the same old rules and that’s why they keep getting the same old results.
But that doesn’t mean that marketing doesn’t work anymore. In fact, marketing today can be even easier, because you don’t have to learn all of the tricks, algorithms, and formulas: you have to focus on being you and building a brand.
But how exactly to you get there? How do you build an enduring brand and company especially when time and resources are limited?
Why Building a Brand is the Single Best Investment You Can Make (and How to Do it Without Hiring a Six-figure Agency)
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Dave Gerhardt
VP of Marketing @ Drift
@davegerhardt
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Why Building A Brand Is The Single Best
Investment You Can Make If You’re Serious
About Growing Your Business In 2018
(And How To Do It Without Hiring A Six-Figure
Agency Or A Team Of “Creatives”)
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PS. I have to fly through this, SO if you want to
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4. This is an RXBar.
I love RXBars.
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5. This is what an RXBar looked like in 2014.
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Who do I trust?
What do I actually need!?
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On Top Of That: Explosion Of Channels
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Explosion Of Marketing Channels
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Every company has a blog.
Every company is on social.
Every company is on video.
Every company has a podcast.
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“You know what: I wish I had more
content from brands!
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We now live in a world
of INFINITE supply in
marketing.
31. So as marketers, the playbook for
acquiring customers has to change
in order to compete.
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Traditional marketing channels work well
when there is LIMITED supply available.
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And every company has a blog.
Every company is on social.
Every company is on video.
Every company has a podcast.
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In this world,
customers have
ALL the power
because they have
all of the CHOICE.
39. Think about how YOU buy for your business
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40. By the time you get here, you’ve done all of
your research.
41. You and I don’t get sold to anymore. We buy.
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“There’s a new B2B buyer out there—
one who does not expect, and in
many cases does not want, to deal
with a salesperson until it is time to
close the deal. More than three-
quarters of all B2B purchasers today,
including both small businesses and
enterprise customers, have only limited
interaction with salespeople.”
https://www.bcg.com/publications/2017/marketing-sales-how-digital-leaders-transforming-b2b.aspx
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In a world with
INFINITE supply, you
only have
one choice to
compete:
build a brand.
44. Unless you are in a market with ZERO
competition, you can’t be running the same
marketing playbook from 2009.
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45. Brand has to be what drives demand today.
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46. But what IS a brand? Sounds like fluff.
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47. “A brand is a company’s most important asset. A
company can’t “own” it’s facts. If the company’s facts
(speed, price, quality) are superior to the competition,
any good competitor will duplicate them or improve on
them.”
48. Good news
(and why I wanted to give this talk )
Today, you DO NOT need million dollar
budgets, agencies, or “creatives” to build a
brand.
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49. The best branding strategy today is to be
real, authentic, and human.
56. “Our branding efforts are simple: tell people who we are. We don’t have to create a
fictional character like the Marlboro Man or a fake responsible caring campaign like
Chevron’s “we agree” advertising. Writing fiction is so much more difficult than
nonfiction.”
Patagonia Founder Yvon Chouinard
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58. This is why Snapchat and Instagram took off.
It’s a real life live broadcast.
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76. 300,000 video views in 48 hours
#1 all-time traffic day to Drift.com
$0 spent on promotion
100 people with iPhones
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77.
78. Building a brand used to require an agency
or a team of creatives.
79. Today you need to make the shift to be real,
authentic, and human.
This is what will help you cut through the noise
and create demand as a marketer.
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