The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, Marketer in Residence at First Round Capital)
What makes a great brand? After working at Google and Square, Arielle Jackson has spent the past eight years consulting startups on how to create powerful messaging that works. In this jam-packed episode, she shares how to pick a winning name for your company, create a brand purpose that excites your team and customers, and position your company and its products for success. You don’t want to miss this one!
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Find the full transcript here: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-art-of-building-legendary-brands
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Where to find Arielle Jackson:
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/hiiamarielle
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ariellerjackson/
- Course: https://maven.com/arielle/startupbrandstrategy
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Referenced:
- Positioning Your Startup Is Vital—Here’s How to Nail It: https://review.firstround.com/Positioning-Your-Startup-is-Vital-Heres-How-to-Do-It-Right
- Three Moves Every Startup Founder Must Make to Build a Brand That Matters: https://review.firstround.com/three-moves-every-startup-founder-must-make-to-build-a-brand-that-matters
- What I Learned from Developing Branding for Airbnb, Dropbox, and Thumbtack: https://review.firstround.com/what-i-learned-from-developing-branding-for-airbnb-dropbox-and-thumbtack
- Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind: https://www.amazon.com/Positioning-Battle-Your-Al-Ries/dp/0071373586
- Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life: https://www.amazon.com/Alchemy-Curious-Science-Creating-Business/dp/006238841X
- The Vanishing Half: https://britbennett.com/the-vanishing-half
- The Mothers: https://britbennett.com/the-mothers
- Nik Sharma’s weekly newsletter: https://www.nik.co/subscribe
- How I Built This: https://www.npr.org/series/490248027/how-i-built-this
- In Depth: https://review.firstround.com/podcast
- Unseen Unknown: https://unseen-unknown.simplecast.com/
- Luca: https://movies.disney.com/luca
- Encanto: https://movies.disney.com/encanto
- Old Enough!: https://www.netflix.com/title/81506279
- The Sociology of Business with Ana Andjelic: https://andjelicaaa.substack.com
- David Ogilvy: https://www.oneclub.org/hall-of-fame/-bio/david-ogilvy
- Rory Sutherland: https://twitter.com/rorysutherland
- Seth Godin: https://seths.blog/
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In this episode, we cover:
[04:04] From making jewelry as a side hustle to launching products for Square: Arielle’s background[12:32] What makes a good name for a product or a startup[19:17] How to come up with a great name[24:59] How to run a naming brainstorm for the best results[31:09] Bad names and naming mistakes[34:17] Arielle’s brand development framework and when founders should implement it[36:02] How do you know when brand development is completed?[41:17] How long should branding take?[42:42] How to build a brand purpose that ignites excitement[48:51] Specific tactics for building your brand purpose[51:12] How to master your positioning[55:22] Why it’s important to stay niche when you’re mastering your positioning[59:15] The process of positioning and Arielle’s bar test[1:02:38] How to build a brand personality using the five big brand descriptions[1:07:39] Where to put brand and product positioning documents so they’ll actually get used[1:09:14] How startups can get PR[1:14:49] When should you hire a marketer?—Production and marketing: https://penname.co/
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