Building Better Brands, Elton Mayfield
Building Better Brands, Elton Mayfield
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Building Better Brands
Essential Marketing Strategies for the Construction Industry

Author: Elton Mayfield

Narrator: Michael Reilly

Unabridged: 5 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/09/2024


Synopsis

Ever wish you could renovate your marketing strategy? Now you can.
In the construction industry, reputation is everything. Whether you’re a distributor, manufacturer, builder, or installer, you want the pride of building something that will last and make a difference. While you may be an expert in your craft, marketing your business may feel like trying to drive a nail with a tape measurer—it just doesn’t work.
In Building Better Brands, Elton Mayfield provides you with the tools and raw materials to plan and build a business marketing plan. Hailing from a construction background and with over twenty years of experience helping businesses build their brands as the President and Co-Founder of ER Marketing, he understands the challenges of marketing within the construction industry.
With his firsthand experience in B2B marketing, Mayfield confronts the marketing challenges unique to the building and materials industry. In these pages, he lays out a simple framework with can allow any leader to rejuvenate their B2B marketing strategy:
• Survey: What do people say about you? What do you want them to say about you?• Blueprint: What do you need to have in place to deliver the brand you want?• Build: How do you deliver the brand you promised and keep it up to code?
With simple, down-to-earth concepts, he cuts through the noise to show how you Survey your business, draft a Blueprint, and then Build your brand through curb appeal and delivering on customer expectations. With topics covering how to handle negative reviews, crafting a strong mission statement, leveraging social media, and optimizing your web presence, this tactical manual for B2B marketing and operations strategy provides you with a foundation of tried-and-true methods. With each of these concepts, he lays out practical examples and action steps so you can build a brand to be proud of.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brandie on October 12, 2024

This book is an insightful and practical resource. Elton Mayfield emphasizes a crucial truth – in the construction industry, reputation is everything – it can make or break a business. The strategies presented in this book are not only tailored for construction but are also relevant to anyone naviga......more

Goodreads review by Kate on July 25, 2025

This is a great book for anyone who’s never studied marketing before. It explains the basics of branding in a simple, clear, and engaging way. The examples are practical and help make the ideas easy to understand. More advanced readers might not learn much new, but for beginners, it’s a very helpful......more