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Stop Being the Face. Start Building the Empire with Sarah Mariano
Stop Being the Face. Start Building the Empire with Sarah Mariano

Sarah Mariano did not stumble into entrepreneurship. She designed her business around the life she wanted, built The Stretch Therapists into a global certification company from her laptop while traveling with her fiance, and then had to make one of the hardest calls a founder can make: stop being the face of the thing she built.

Why This Family-Owned Roofing Company Said No to Private Equity
Why This Family-Owned Roofing Company Said No to Private Equity

This week on Behind the Brand, I sat down with Dan Keller. Dan runs George J. Keller and Sons, a third-generation family-owned roofing company right here in Flanders, NJ. He came back to the family business in 2006 after five years at Chubb Insurance, bought out his father’s side in 2009, and has owned it with his wife Heather since 2015.

Katie Dooley on Branding as a System: Why Consistency Beats Pretty
Katie Dooley on Branding as a System: Why Consistency Beats Pretty

Most people think branding is the logo. Katie Dooley thinks that is putting you ten thousand steps ahead of where you should be. Katie is the founder of Paper Lime Creative in Edmonton, Canada, and she has been doing brand strategy and print design for almost a decade. In this week’s episode, she said something I want every business owner to read twice: your brand is every impression your business makes on every person. Not just the logo. The dress code. The pricing. The voice in your emails. The thickness of your business card. All of it.

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