TWIST

Standing out in today's crowded markets is a huge challenge for entrepreneurs, small businesses and non-profits vying for attention from consumers, clients and donors who are bombarded by thousands of messages every day. In TWIST: How Fresh Perspectives Build Breakthrough Brands, Julie Cottineau, former vice president of brand for Virgin and a global authority on impactful and effective branding, shares her proven tools and tips for building a brand that shines and delivers tangible results. She uses easy-to-follow insight and engaging examples of actual small businesses that have produced big results by following her methodology. Don't waste another minute on "me-too" marketing until you read this book and build your own TWIST.

Julie Cottineau is the creator of Brand School by BrandTwist, a unique and actionable online branding class for entrepreneurs, small businesses and non-profits. Before starting her own brand school and consultancy, Julie honed her branding chops at a series of high level agency positions including as vice president management supervisor at Grey Global in both the US and France and executive director of consumer branding at Interbrand. She has client-side experience as the vice president of brand at Richard Branson’s Virgin Management Group overseeing branding strategy for new and established Virgin companies in North America. Julie loves to teach and talk about branding and has been an adjunct professor and visiting senior lecturer at Columbia and Cornell Universities as well as a frequent branding commentator on Twitter and in top business media such as Forbes.com, Entrepreneur Magazine, CNN, and American Express Open Forum.

This book is a gift to small business owners, packed with information and strategies for potent branding, and full of obvious experience, wisdom and from-the-ground knowledge.


This bold book encourages entrepreneurs and brand owners across all types of businesses to think outside the limits of their category and take risks, and gives them the tools to make them stand out from their competitors.



Julie's rich experience as the vice president of brand for Virgin has been brought to life in TWIST - a wakeup call and a road map for building brands that break through and get noticed.