Your business's brand once meant little more than the logo on your letterhead. Today, with the advent of social media and vocal online customers, branding means so much more.
In the twenty-first century, your brand is your voice, your vision, your values, your meaning, and your purpose; it’s now less about what you’re selling, and more about how people identify with what you believe.
In Heart: Building a Great Brand in the Digital Age, entrepreneur and business consultant Dan Pestretto lays out a simple but powerful roadmap for growing your brand, based on his Principles of Heart.
When you add your heart and passion into your business model, customers can't help but notice—and respond to—,your sincerity and vision. Truly believing in what you're doing strengthens your reputation, while putting your heart into customer service ensures consumers have a positive experience with your company—a vital component of branding in a world where one negative Tweet can ruin a brand's reputation in days.
Thorough, insightful, and entertaining, Heart offers entrepreneurs a chance to reach out to the public, creating a connection that benefits businesses and customers alike.
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Have you noticed how difficult it has become to call most of the larger companies in the US? I mean if you have a technical problem or a service issue just try to find a number to call them directly. Heck even sales are becoming mostly automated! This is not a rant on AI, automation, […]
We can choose to commit to a recursive and infinite path that elegantly creates more of the same. We can choose possibility. We can choose connection. We can choose optimism. We can choose justice. We can choose kindness. We can choose resilience. And we can decide to take responsibility. Each leads to more of the […]
January 7, 2021 In this episode of the Green Industry Perspectives Podcast, Ty Deemer welcomes Dan Pestretto to the show. Dan is a former landscaper turned coach/consultant that focuses his time on helping landscape companies implement systems to support healthy growth. Dan shares how he learned from his biggest failures and now uses those lessons […]
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A purpose in life. Make the world better, more beautiful, resilient, sustainable, colorful, and delicious. Congratulations #RINLA Great thoughts and a really nice video.
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