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Obsessed: Building a Brand People Love from Day One (Emily Heyward)
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- Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/obsessed-building-a-brand-people-love-from-day-one/id1515400946?itsct=books_box_link&itscg=30200&ls=1&at=1001l3bAw&ct=9natree
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- Read more: https://english.9natree.com/read/0593084314/
#startupbranding #brandpurpose #consumerinsight #emotionalconnection #customerexperience #Obsessed
Obsessed: Building a Brand People Love from Day One by Emily Heyward is a business and marketing book focused on modern brand building for startups and new ventures. Heyward is the cofounder and chief brand officer of Red Antler, a branding agency known for working with direct to consumer and digitally native companies, and she uses that experience to argue that brand cannot be treated as an afterthought or a cosmetic layer. Instead, it should be embedded into a company from the earliest moments, shaping the product, customer experience, and internal culture. The book positions branding as a strategic discipline that helps a young company stand out in crowded categories where functional differences are often minimal and attention is scarce. Rather than presenting brand as a logo exercise, Heyward emphasizes purpose, emotional connection, and clarity about why the business exists. The goal is to help founders and marketers create brands that earn deep customer loyalty, generate word of mouth, and remain resilient as the market changes.
Obsessed is best suited for startup founders, early stage executives, product leaders, and marketers who need a practical way to treat brand as part of how the business operates rather than as a campaign layer. It is also useful for teams launching a new product line or attempting to refresh a brand for a new generation of customers, because its focus is on foundational choices that shape perception over time. Readers gain a clearer understanding of how to define a purpose that can guide tradeoffs, how to build empathy driven insight into the consumer, and how to translate a brand idea into a consistent lived experience across touchpoints. The book stands out in the branding and entrepreneurship category because it is grounded in the realities of early stage company building, where constraints, uncertainty, and speed make conventional brand playbooks feel unrealistic. Instead of emphasizing only logos, taglines, or advertising, Heyward emphasizes the connection between brand strategy and product and service decisions, which is where loyalty is actually earned. Compared with broader marketing books, it offers a tighter lens on how modern brands create devotion in crowded markets by aligning purpose, emotion, and experience from the start.
- Amazon USA Store: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593084314?tag=9natree-20
- Amazon Worldwide Store: https://global.buys.trade/Obsessed%3A-Building-a-Brand-People-Love-from-Day-One-Emily-Heyward.html
- Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/obsessed-building-a-brand-people-love-from-day-one/id1515400946?itsct=books_box_link&itscg=30200&ls=1&at=1001l3bAw&ct=9natree
- eBay: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Obsessed+Building+a+Brand+People+Love+from+Day+One+Emily+Heyward+&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&campid=5339060787&customid=9natree&toolid=10001&mkevt=1
- Read more: https://english.9natree.com/read/0593084314/
#startupbranding #brandpurpose #consumerinsight #emotionalconnection #customerexperience #Obsessed
Obsessed: Building a Brand People Love from Day One by Emily Heyward is a business and marketing book focused on modern brand building for startups and new ventures. Heyward is the cofounder and chief brand officer of Red Antler, a branding agency known for working with direct to consumer and digitally native companies, and she uses that experience to argue that brand cannot be treated as an afterthought or a cosmetic layer. Instead, it should be embedded into a company from the earliest moments, shaping the product, customer experience, and internal culture. The book positions branding as a strategic discipline that helps a young company stand out in crowded categories where functional differences are often minimal and attention is scarce. Rather than presenting brand as a logo exercise, Heyward emphasizes purpose, emotional connection, and clarity about why the business exists. The goal is to help founders and marketers create brands that earn deep customer loyalty, generate word of mouth, and remain resilient as the market changes.
Obsessed is best suited for startup founders, early stage executives, product leaders, and marketers who need a practical way to treat brand as part of how the business operates rather than as a campaign layer. It is also useful for teams launching a new product line or attempting to refresh a brand for a new generation of customers, because its focus is on foundational choices that shape perception over time. Readers gain a clearer understanding of how to define a purpose that can guide tradeoffs, how to build empathy driven insight into the consumer, and how to translate a brand idea into a consistent lived experience across touchpoints. The book stands out in the branding and entrepreneurship category because it is grounded in the realities of early stage company building, where constraints, uncertainty, and speed make conventional brand playbooks feel unrealistic. Instead of emphasizing only logos, taglines, or advertising, Heyward emphasizes the connection between brand strategy and product and service decisions, which is where loyalty is actually earned. Compared with broader marketing books, it offers a tighter lens on how modern brands create devotion in crowded markets by aligning purpose, emotion, and experience from the start.
