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Why settle for an ordinary brand, when you can have an exceptional one? Gerry Foster, The Branding Evangelist and leading small business brand strategist, has helped over 100,000 small businesses from over 600 different industries create unforgettable brands. But how do you develop a truly great brand that is something more than having a nice logo, website, or colorful social media images? This is just one of the thought-provoking, big questions Gerry digs into on his Big Brand Formula podcast. In addition to inspiring teachings and interviews, each episode is designed to help you take immediate action on the most important strategies for big branding your business, product, service, non-profit, or even yourself as a personal brand. Gerry’s specialty is helping you find your edge, craft a unique brand, and scaling it for more sales and profits. Discover why so many owners turn to Gerry Foster to excite, delight, and ignite their market, and make getting customers a lot easier. A graduate of the University of Southern California’s renowned Marshall School of Business, Gerry received his BS and MBA degrees with honors in Marketing, with deep study in branding. He was an adjunct professor of branding, marketing and advertising for ten straight years at four major Southern California universities, namely California State University – Fullerton, California State University – Long Beach, Pepperdine University, and the University of California – Irvine. He also carved his big branding teeth at the Procter and Gamble Co., a multi-national consumer goods corporation where he worked in Brand Management. In 2008, Gerry was honored as the Father of Business by the City of Los Angeles for his tireless and faithful work with small businesses throughout the city.As a highly-accomplished brand strategist, Gerry created the Big Brand Formula which shows small business owners how to create a big brand and a strong message that sells so you can excite, delight, and ignite your market and make it easier to get new customers. With over 30 years of successful experience showing small business owners how to brand as the big companies do, he combines the best in entrepreneurial branding with the best thinking, methods, and approaches from the world of big branders. Gerry also keeps himself busy speaking, training, and coaching, and is driven by a passion to give life to and nurture products and services that will flourish and grow beyond what is generally offered by a competitor. Drenched in promises of coveted customer experiences, the brands he creates have astounding emotional appeal. Gerry’s presentations, training, and coaching to assist, guide, and support owners who are willing to flip the script, go to the deep end of the pool, and turn the tables in their favor. He believes this can be attained by creating brands so unexpected, so profound, and so striking that blessings to owners can only multiply over time.Now, on the Big Brand Formula podcast, Gerry will help you excel in the strategic branding areas such as brand purpose, differentiation, positioning, promise and taglines, target marketing, website content direction, logo and package design. If you’re struggling to find the right words to connect with your target audience, he can also help you clearly define, craft, and articulate your brand message into relevant, engaging, and tantalizing messaging – whether it’s your website, social media postings, marketing materials, newsletters, your spoken word, or more. Quit playing small or just maintaining the status quo. If you’re just getting started with branding or need to strengthen your current brand, building your online platform, or getting ready to level up your marketing and scale your business to the next level, you’re in the right place! Start creating a world-class brand that can generate more sales and passive income over time. Let Gerry give you the playbook that enables you to chart a bold new path to making more money. Join us every week on the Big Brand Formula podcast and give yourself the ultimate advantage in the marketplace.
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In a world full of ideas, how do you put yours into a book and in front of people who are waiting for you to create an impact? In this episode, Gerry Foster has the master in this space who can help you get a great book deal. Gerry sits down with the Founder of the Author One Stop, Inc., Randy Peyser. Together, they dive into what publishers look for and what readers buy, detailing valuable steps to uniquely position your book. They also discuss the differences between self-publishing and traditional publishing, as well as how Randy's relationships with publishers give her an edge in helping authors succeed. If you're an aspiring author seeking a book deal to further make your impact with your message, then this episode is one you won’t want to miss! Tune in for expert advice and insight from Randy Peyser!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://gerryfosterbranding.com/podcasts/
More often than not, people get disappointed with how hard, difficult, or stagnant life is. What is really hindering us from making the dreams in our hearts come true? Today, we discuss how to overcome pain, push the self to move forward, and actually realize the dreams in your life with Tamara Wolfe. Tamara Wolfe is an international life coach, Neuro Coach, Neuro Leader, Mindset and Results Expert, Speaker, Author, and owner of Full Spectrum Living. Tune in and learn how to realize your dream in the one life you have!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://gerryfosterbranding.com/podcasts/
There is more to being a leader than just doing things right. For Conscious Leadership Shaman Rodolfo Carrillo, leadership also comes from that spiritual path of recognizing who we are and showing up from that state of who we are from being. In this episode, he joins host Gerry Foster to take us deep into his understanding together with his new book, BE-ing Leadership, where he combines the spiritual and business paths to show up in a more authentic way as a leader. He shares some of the steps to do that so you can become the leader you want to be and ultimately create a positive impact on the world. Join this conversation as Gerry and Rodolfo show you how you can affirm your own greatness, embrace that, and step into it.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Big Brand Formula Community today:gerryfosterbranding.comTwitterFacebookLinkedInYouTube
Building your brand means providing a reflection of yourself to the market, which requires understanding your personal magnificence and uniqueness. Unfortunately, learning how you differ from the rest may lead to an alarming result: suicide. Gerry Foster shares his knowledge about the proper way of brand building by joining Jackie Simmons of The Suicide Prevention Show. He goes deep on how one can prevent drowning into depression and ultimately end their life by having a strong attitude to go against the flow of society, stop comparing yourself to others, and remain steadfast in doing the things that give you purpose. Gerry explains how this attitude can be integrated into empowering a brand, allowing it to provide value to its audience and self-worth to the owner.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Big Brand Formula Community today:gerryfosterbranding.comTwitterFacebookLinkedInYouTube
Bhavna Srivastava’s name is synonymous with The Golden Light. A powerful visionary and thought leader, Bhavna has been chosen to bring the golden age on earth. She is the creator of Golden Light Healing, a system that heals people from trauma and pain by giving them clarity and peace. Through her books, podcast, speaking engagements, coaching and mentoring, Bhavna works with people at the soul level to help them manifest an abundance of love and money into their lives. Don’t miss this episode, where Gerry Foster brings her in for an enlightening conversation about this unique and interesting alternative healing modality. Listen in and let Bhavna help you shine your light with her Golden Light.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Big Brand Formula Community today:gerryfosterbranding.comTwitterFacebookLinkedInYouTube
In our society, up until just recently, there's been so much conditioning around staying in our lane, sitting down, and shutting up. We’ve been told to be passionate but not so passionate, to speak up but not to speak out of line. However, Leslie Medley found the opposite to be true in her life, claiming that the more messy she allows her life to be, the more clarity she receives and the more fun she has. Leslie is a world traveler, international conscious entrepreneur, speaker, coach, and co-founder of American Wanderlove. She joins Gerry Foster on today’s podcast to encourage everyone to get dirty, have a little more fun, and discover more! For those of you who want to free yourself and begin living your one and only adventurous life, stay tuned to this amazing woman.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Big Brand Formula Community today:gerryfosterbranding.comTwitterFacebookLinkedInYouTube
Often, it is in tough moments in life that we find our purpose. Guest Michael Tranmer experienced a life transformation following the end of his marriage. Dealing with heartaches, Michael found himself awakening to his calling and now, fearlessly sharing his journey of self-discovery in his book, satori ananda: awaken to happiness. In this episode, he joins host, Gerry Foster, to share his powerful memoir, taking us into his life’s story of how he used his pain to find a greater purpose in life. What do you do when you feel like your life has lost all meaning? How do you rebuild yourself and your identity after hitting rock bottom? Michael reveals the answers as he tells us of his own awakening.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Big Brand Formula Community today:gerryfosterbranding.comTwitterFacebookLinkedInYouTube
You absolutely have the power to create whatever you can dream of. You just have to allow yourself to listen to your discontent, your desires, and activate your imagination of what you really want your life to look like. If you can get to that place of abundance, contentment and happiness, that’s what success is for you. Joining Gerry Foster to spread this empowering message is award-winning transformational life coach, professional speaker, author and minister, Felicia Searcy. For Felicia, getting to a place of success and fulfillment goes beyond working with your mindset. It demands that you work with your identity, because you can only allow results based on how you see yourself. Listen in and be inspired to take action on your dreams, NOW!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Big Brand Formula Community today:gerryfosterbranding.comTwitterFacebookLinkedInYouTube
We often avoid dealing with a person in grief, not because we don’t care about them, but because we find ourselves inadequate and incapable of consoling them. The truth is, however, we can make a lot of difference by just showing up for that person in their moment of sadness. You don’t have to have to know what to say or what to do; you just have to be there for them and be your own messy self. In this moving and powerful conversation between Gerry Foster and Yvonne Heath, you will learn simple ways to make the grieving experience more bearable, if not an occasion to let love and happiness come in. Yvonne is a transformational keynote speaker, author and founder of Love Your Life to Death, and the #IJustShowedUp movement, where she teaches people of all ages to show up for themselves and others, so they are empowered and resilient when grief arrives. If that’s not enough to make you stick around, Gerry gets vulnerable about an unresolved pet grief of his somewhere in this interview, so get a tissue and listen in!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Big Brand Formula Community today:gerryfosterbranding.comTwitterFacebookLinkedInYouTube
In an increasingly diverse and inclusive business sphere, a lot of Latinas are coming out into the open and seeing success, but a lot of things are still holding them back from their true potential. Business and life coach, Michelle Gomez addresses these issues through her Latina life coaching program, where she focuses on the underserved niche of Latina women in business. Michelle understands that a lot of what holds Latinas back from really showing up in a powerful way goes back to unhealed trauma and the constant pressure to give in to other people’s expectations. She teaches her clients to see themselves as enough, overcome the impostor syndrome and reach out for their true dreams, regardless of what other people think. She talks about these and some points from her book, Own Your Brilliance: Overcome Impostor Syndrome for Career Success as she joins Gerry Foster on the podcast.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Big Brand Formula Community today:gerryfosterbranding.comTwitterFacebookLinkedInYouTube
Publicity is one of the things in in life that can come for free if you happen to have luck on your side, which most of us don’t. What can you do to publicize your brand and become more visible to the people you want to serve? Get a load of golden nuggets on this topic as Gerry Foster chats with the Queen of Publicity herself, Jill Lublin. Jill is an international speaker, publicity consultant and author of four bestselling books. Learn a lot about working with PR agencies, leveraging client testimonials, refining your brand message and other things you can do to enhance your business’s credibility, get recognized in public and boost your clientele. Plus, don’t miss out on her publicity crash course giveaway.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Big Brand Formula Community today:gerryfosterbranding.comTwitterFacebookLinkedInYouTube
Small businesses are taking the brunt of this very challenging COVID-19 environment. Though the future may be unclear, business owners nevertheless need to make efforts to move forward; otherwise, they’ll never see the light at the end of this dark tunnel. One way to start is branding, and in this special episode, Gerry Foster is interviewed by September Dohrmann, the president and CEO of CEO Space International, on her The Business Acceleration Podcast to talk about what small businesses can do in positioning their brand in the marketplace for survival. Gerry shares the key things we all need to be paying attention to, as well as what we need to communicate to our audience while pivoting and elevating our brand at the same time. Tune into this great conversation to learn the action steps we need to ensure so that our businesses and brands can outlast this pandemic.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Big Brand Formula Community today:gerryfosterbranding.comTwitterFacebookLinkedInYouTube
We’re living the new normal due to COVID-19 where social distancing, staying at home as much as possible, washing our hands frequently, and wearing masks every time we leave the house have all become the new norm. Although the things happening all around may bring a lot of uncertainties and stress, it can be a time to look for unique opportunities and provide unrivaled value through your brand. In this episode, Gerry Foster tells you not to put a mask on your brand! Your brand is essential to the problems you solve in making the lives of your customers better. Don’t slow the spread of the amazing value your brand has to offer.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Big Brand Formula Community today:gerryfosterbranding.comTwitterFacebookLinkedInYouTube
Find Your Uniqueness

Find Your Uniqueness

2020-05-1211:24

With all the noise emanating from all corners of the world wide web, finding your uniqueness is one of your most difficult assignments as an entrepreneur. Something about you and the way you do things must clinch the business of your potential clients. Otherwise, they end up going to your competitors. Gerry Foster shows the importance of standing out both as an entrepreneur and as a business. It’s easy to get lost in the constant shuffle of information on the internet. Put yourself and your business in a position to be unique, and make standing out from your competition a top priority!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Big Brand Formula Community today:gerryfosterbranding.comTwitterFacebookLinkedInYouTube
Tribute To Ryan Long

Tribute To Ryan Long

2020-05-0513:32

Ryan Long had an amazing career and lived a generous life with his philanthropic and charitable work. Not many people can lay claim to the impressive amount of work Ryan did throughout his fleeting but fruitful life. Gerry Foster pays tribute to Ryan Long and the work he did in his lifetime. Ryan was an inspiration, and his many contributions to society will not be forgotten. Did you ever get to know Ryan and his work?Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Big Brand Formula Community today:gerryfosterbranding.comTwitterFacebookLinkedInYouTube
The Dare To Go Big series has showcased the exceptional minds of entrepreneurs who are out there making a difference in their own ways. The LA City Summit has truly been an experience that highlights how boundless the opportunities are to becoming an entrepreneur, especially if one dares to go big. Rounding out this series, Gerry Foster shares a couple more of those great interviews in this episode. When all is said and done, may the series help you find the hope and inspiration you need to continue your entrepreneurial journey.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Big Brand Formula Community today:gerryfosterbranding.comTwitterFacebookLinkedInYouTube
One thing to know about entrepreneurs is that they are ripe with knowledge and wisdom. Where better to ask for them than at a gathering of some of the brightest entrepreneurial minds in the country? Continuing with part two of the Dare To Go Big series, Gerry Foster shares more of the awesome interviews he had with entrepreneurs during the LA City Summit event. Like the previous episode, one thing is for sure: the following conversations will certainly inspire you no matter if you are new to the entrepreneurial journey or already making your name. So follow along with this episode and allow it to show you how boundless the opportunities are to becoming an entrepreneur if you dare to go big.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Big Brand Formula Community today:gerryfosterbranding.comTwitterFacebookLinkedInYouTube
Setting yourself on the path towards becoming an entrepreneur is not an easy feat. That is why, no matter the reasons you have for starting a business, being one is admirable in and of itself. With all the painstaking challenges entrepreneurs face on their journey, we can definitely count on the hard-earned wisdom that they have learned. Host, Gerry Foster, shares some of those with us in this episode. During the spectacular LA City Summit event in Los Angeles, Gerry has had the opportunity to conduct A Podcast Blitz, where he did rapid-fire interviews with some of the attending entrepreneurs. Take a deep dive into how the first part of those conversations went and learn a thing or two or more about how these entrepreneurs dare to go big and make a difference.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Big Brand Formula Community today:gerryfosterbranding.comTwitterFacebookLinkedInYouTube
We are in a very trying time as the Coronavirus continues to spread around the world. It has disrupted our daily lives and put everyone into a state of chaos and fear. Mass panic has forced millions of shoppers to swarm into stores hoarding products, most especially toilet papers. Host, Gerry Foster, reflects on the hysteria caused by the Pandemic and calls on toilet paper companies to do their bidding.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Big Brand Formula Community today:gerryfosterbranding.comTwitterFacebookLinkedInYouTube
When you have something that the world has never seen or heard before, put it out there. That just might be the one that will not only bring you success but help others as well. Having created such a remarkable product is the founder and president of Happy Again Pet, Anja Skodda. In this episode, Anja shares with us how she came about creating collagen growth supplements for dogs, helping them regain their mobility and live happily again. She discusses what goes into the formula, the common pain points of pets, and the importance of getting into a preventative mindset. While taking us throughout the journey of building her company, Anja then imparts some wisdom on setting yourself apart from the competition. Follow along with Anja’s story of how she turned the heartbreaking challenge of seeing her dog suffer into a business opportunity that helps other pets as well.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Big Brand Formula Community today:gerryfosterbranding.comTwitterFacebookLinkedInYouTube
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