JUST Branding
JUST Branding - by Jacob Cass & Matt Davies
The JUST Branding Podcast, hosted by Jacob Cass & Matt Davies, is the only podcast dedicated to helping designers & entrepreneurs grow brands.
Each episode goes deep into the details of the brand building process, with professional insights, actionable tips and resources to help you build better brands.
The focus is on helping designers & entrepreneurs bridge the gap between strategy and design. Branding professionals from around the world join Jacob & Matt in discussing the benefits of brand strategy, top tools, how to sell strategy, brand purpose, brand positioning, neuroscience, brand personality, messaging, storytelling, brand naming, tag lines, logo design, brand identity design and brand experience.
ABOUT JACOB CASS
Jacob Cass is a Sydney-based designer & strategist who runs JUST Creative, an award-winning branding & design firm that doubles as an industry leading blog. Jacob helps brands grow & get results by crafting distinctive logos & brand identities that are backed by a solid brand strategy.
He recently rebranded San Francisco and Puerto Rico, and also branded New York's Digital District. Other clients have included the likes of Disney, Nintendo and Jerry Seinfeld. Jacob has spoken at TEDx, been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur and has been awarded LinkedIn’s “Best of” for branding.
For him, design is a lifelong journey of continuously honing his craft, as well as educating other fellow designers & business owners to build on theirs, which has allowed him to build a large and loyal following, including his website which has been been viewed over 50 million times. Jacob is an avid traveler and has traveled to 87 countries.
ABOUT MATT DAVIES
Matt is a brand strategy specialist working with leaders to align around their brand and get it ready to connect deeply with those inside and outside of their organisations. His work enables you to grow your business faster and easier. Matt solves a variety of brand challenges, from strategy and positioning to naming and identity right through to company culture and product innovation.
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Top 10 JUST Branding Episodes
Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best JUST Branding episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to JUST Branding for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite JUST Branding episode by adding your comments to the episode page.
09/14/20 • 43 min
In this episode, we sit down with the wonderful Kaye Putnam, a psychology-driven brand strategist from South Carolina. We geek out about all things brand thinking. We get into the meaning of ‘psychology-driven branding’, about knowing your brand and living your brand. Kaye shares her ‘4C Brand Strategy Framework’ which helps to bake psychological principles into brands.
We also discover Kayes inspirational story, her obsession with human decision making and how this helps her in her work + how she keeps a work life balance as a Mum and entrepreneur.
ABOUT OUR GUEST: Kaye Putnam is a psychology-driven brand strategist for entrepreneurs. Through work with hundreds of clients from international corporations to solo-entrepreneurs, she developed her signature Clarity CodeTM method. She believes that online business should be more human and that all entrepreneurs have genius they can use to impact the world. She works with students in her brand incubation program and with clients 1-on-1. When she’s not transforming brands, she’s exploring the world with her husband and two little ones.
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06/22/20 • 42 min
Melinda Livsey, a brand strategist & online educator, shares her journey of going from a designer to brand strategist, sharing her definitions of brand & brand strategy, how she “sells” strategy, her onboarding process, how to conduct a brand strategy workshop step-by-step, including the deliverables, plus, what life is like without design. Tune in with Jacob Cass, Matt Davies & Melinda Livsey, if you want to go from being an “order taker” to brand expert.
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05/23/23 • 49 min
LinkedIn is one of the most powerful platforms for making business connections and growing your personal brand.
But are you leveraging its power to the full?
Join us in this episode as we are joined by LinkedIn expert, Mike Roberts, to dig deep into how to use LinkedIn to grow your personal brand for success.
Together we review how LinkedIn can help you build a powerful personal brand and what you need to do to ensure your LinkedIn profile is in tip-top condition for success.
We also get Mike's top tips on how to use the platform, how video is the next big thing, and what you can do right now to bring awareness to your brand. Not to be missed!
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08/03/23 • 50 min
Join us as we sit down with marketing strategist, Ian Barnard, and delve into the world of brand performance and its distinction from performance marketing, exploring the positioning process (4Cs) and the significance of creating future demand.
Ian shares valuable insights on how small brands can grow when competing against larger market leaders and highlights the most common advertising mistakes made by small brands.
Tune in to learn how brand marketing can facilitate profitable scaling and discover the 2-4-5 framework for effective full-funnel advertising.
We also discuss digital marketing mistakes that damage brands and uncover strategies for positioning brands to become the top-of-mind choice.
Don’t miss this insightful conversation that will level up your brand & marketing expertise, no matter your level.
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09/07/22 • 41 min
David Aaker is the author of over 100 articles and 18 books on branding, business strategy, and marketing that have sold well over one million copies.
Hailed the “Father of Modern Branding”, David is a true authority on branding and we’re incredibly humbled to have him here on JUST Branding.
In this episode, we focus on two of his recent books...
The first is “Owning Game-Changing Subcategories” which focuses on disruptive innovation & growth in the digital age.
And the second is his latest book, The Future of Purpose-Driven Branding: Signature Programs that Impact & Inspire Both Business and Society.
Tune in to understand how brands can break through with disruptive innovation and the “must-haves” for growth in the digital age.
Plus, how brands can maintain relevance & connect with future consumers through purpose-driven branding while avoiding green-washing.
S03.EP18 - Brand Positioning with Ulli Appelbaum
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09/20/22 • 46 min
How can brands position themselves for success in today’s marketplace?
That is the question.
And we have the answer!
In this episode, we discuss proven brand positioning methodologies that actually work, complete with examples and practical steps you can use to develop your own brand positioning that are truly differentiating, distinctive, and highly relevant.
To guide us, we have Ulli Appelbaum, the author of the new book The Brand Positioning Workbook: A simple how-to guide to more compelling brand positioning, faster.
Ulli is an award-winning marketing and brand strategy consultant with more than 20 years of experience creating brand strategies and building brands, holding senior strategy roles at some of the largest advertising agencies in the world including BBDO, Leo Burnett, and SapientNitro.
If you want to be able to create attractive brands that succeed in today’s marketplace, this is the episode for you!
05/25/20 • 54 min
Positioning and naming expert, Rob Meyerson, joins Jacob Cass & Matt Davies in exploring positioning statements & the best naming practices from the lens of the company, client and consumer, sharing actionable tips and real world examples that will help you build a better brand.
S01.E09 - Strategic Audio Branding
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07/06/20 • 41 min
🔊 Ever heard of sonic branding? Audio branding is the strategic use of music and sound to help reinforce brand recognition and enhance the consumer experience. We go deep in this session, exploring the ins and outs of successful audio branding, using popular examples, as well as the process Drop Music Branding used to audio brand this very podcast. Tune in with Jacob Cass, Matt Davies & Gabriel Ignacio Agüero to discover why “good audio branding is invisible” and how you can stand out with audio branding.
S03.EP14 - The Brand Mindset with Ezequiel Abramzon
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07/19/22 • 55 min
Ezequiel Abramzon is a brand strategist who spent 20+ years working as an executive at Disney as a marketer and strategist running digital across LATAM and later overseeing global creative from the UK.
He now lives in Spain where he works as a consultant helping entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial companies transform the way they see their business by unlocking their brand mindset.
And brand mindset is the focus of this episode.
We explore what a brand mindset is and why businesses need it.
We go deep into the 6 traits of a brand mindset and explore how to develop each trait. We also pick Ezequiel's brains on how to keep a mindset on track - both for yourself and your team.
S01.E03 - Brand Strategy Tools
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04/12/20 • 41 min
Jacob Cass & Matt Davies discuss the best tools for brand strategy, including top courses, books & methodologies. We also dive into positioning brand archetypes, brand experience & brand personality and how these tools can help build better brands.
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FAQ
How many episodes does JUST Branding have?
JUST Branding currently has 104 episodes available.
What topics does JUST Branding cover?
The podcast is about Design, Podcasts and Arts.
What is the most popular episode on JUST Branding?
The episode title 'S04.EP08 - Personal Branding & The Power of LinkedIn with Mike Roberts' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on JUST Branding?
The average episode length on JUST Branding is 53 minutes.
How often are episodes of JUST Branding released?
Episodes of JUST Branding are typically released every 14 days.
When was the first episode of JUST Branding?
The first episode of JUST Branding was released on Apr 11, 2020.
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