
The lecture starts with real work: you take the company you sell for and run nine checks on the places a business buyer actually meets you, which is almost never the home page.
This course is built from five disciplines: brand management, marketing leadership, employer brand, marketing channels and sales leadership.
The map of the course
A simple dictionary for reading lectures written about hiring as brand work
Three questions to ask after every lecture
A short self-diagnostic that shows which sections to watch first
Download the Brand Evidence Check and fill in one line after each lecture.
Tools in this lecture
Files to download (1)
Where brand ownership sits between marketing, communications and the board
The six layers of a brand, and which layer each decision belongs to
A map of thirty-plus AI tools arranged by task
Brand equity, and why a strong brand multiplies what marketing returns
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (7)
Models and methods explained (4)
Internal and external audit in five blocks, run in a day rather than months
Competitive analysis of what rivals actually claim
How ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini currently describe your company
Awareness, consideration, share of search and net promoter score
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (6)
Services and apps shown in this lecture (1)
Models and methods explained (1)
Mission, vision and values written so a salesperson can use them
Branded house against house of brands
One positioning statement turned into six repeatable messages
Naming, and checking availability before you commit
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (15)
Services and apps shown in this lecture (3)
Models and methods explained (3)
Logo, colour, typography and image style as working constraints
Moodboards and illustration produced with generative models
Teaching an AI model to write in your tone of voice
The brand book, and copyright questions around generated assets
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (12)
Services and apps shown in this lecture (3)
Models and methods explained (3)
Big idea, creative, channels and activation
Thirty campaign concepts in an hour, then discarding twenty-nine
Headlines, body copy and calls to action written with AI as a co-author
Organic, paid, press, influencers and partnerships in a single mix
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (7)
Services and apps shown in this lecture (1)
Models and methods explained (4)
Awareness, consideration, preference and loyalty as four separate numbers
Social listening that runs without you
Monitoring how AI assistants mention your brand
A ninety-day implementation plan
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (14)
Services and apps shown in this lecture (5)
Models and methods explained (4)
Where to start when you inherit a function
A fourteen-day audit of team, channels and effectiveness
Ten questions for the chief executive that set the terms
An action plan for the first month
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (17)
Models and methods explained (2)
Putting a competitive analysis together quickly
Methods for estimating a competitor's unit economics
Where insight comes from, and how to turn it into a decision
The strengths and weaknesses table
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (11)
Models and methods explained (8)
How to build a strategy leadership signs off
Frameworks: 4P, STP, the Ansoff matrix, the customer journey
Linking business goals to marketing indicators
The annual strategy template and the one-page version
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (10)
Models and methods explained (6)
Building a budget, and defending it
Cost of acquisition, lifetime value, return on marketing investment
Reallocating between channels when something stops working
The report format for the chief executive and finance
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (11)
Models and methods explained (2)
Developing the value proposition
Brand architecture and managing a product portfolio
Preparing a complete brand plan with initiatives and budgets
The template and its measures
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (15)
Models and methods explained (9)
The funnel from lead to revenue
Channels: search, paid media, social, email, customer database, content
Attribution, optimisation and the metrics that matter
The dashboard, and what the report must contain
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (20)
Models and methods explained (9)
Building a department that fits the strategy
Roles: brand, performance, analytics, press, product marketing
Indicators and a reporting system for the team
Working with sales, product and the chief executive
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (12)
Models and methods explained (8)
Where AI genuinely works: content, targeting, analytics
A selection of the twenty tools worth trying
Building an AI roadmap for the department
Cases of integration into the business
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (16)
An overview of the global market
Key trends and what they changed
How political, economic, social, technological and legal shifts hit strategy
The role and responsibility of whoever owns this
Tools in this lecture
Files to download (2)
Ready to use on the slides (5)
Services and apps shown in this lecture (1)
The strategy behind it
Who a strong internal brand is actually built for
Identifying audiences and researching them properly
Building a portrait of each one
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (7)
Models and methods explained (1)
Running a strategic audit
External market analysis with PESTEL
The best internal and external research techniques for a value proposition
Building the brand, the roadmap and the architecture
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (9)
Services and apps shown in this lecture (1)
Developing the key indicators for your strategy
Defining scope and aligning it with organisational goals
Engaging leaders through analytics rather than persuasion
Building the dashboard
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (2)
Models and methods explained (2)
Developing and activating a communication plan
Running a social media audit and writing the policy
The ambassador programme
Paid community building against organic growth
Tools in this lecture
Files to download (1)
Ready to use on the slides (6)
Aligning candidate and employee experience with brand position and values
Linking interactions with customers and with employees
The relationship between employee, customer and shareholder value
Aligning employer and customer brand strategy, and localising it
Tools in this lecture
Files to download (1)
Ready to use on the slides (3)
What the future of work implies for a brand
The technological and social trends shaping it
Customising and personalising the experience
Building a three-year plan and forecast
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (2)
Services and apps shown in this lecture (2)
Models and methods explained (1)
Building a landing page without a developer
Producing social creative with the standard design tools
Running targeted advertising
Writing copy that sells rather than describes
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (9)
Services and apps shown in this lecture (1)
Running the promotion function end to end
Launching a site that works as the entry point
Gamification at the moment of first contact
Building a community, with a case from Wargaming
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (5)
Services and apps shown in this lecture (4)
Models and methods explained (5)
Platforms and chat channels
Referral programmes as an organic distribution channel
Tracking systems and chatbots
Building the programme, with a case from Google
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (2)
Services and apps shown in this lecture (13)
Models and methods explained (1)
Email as a channel you own outright
Content marketing, video marketing and search optimisation together
Writing copy that gets read, and choosing images
A case from iDeals
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (7)
Services and apps shown in this lecture (7)
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
In consumer marketing, a brand is what somebody thinks about a logo. In business-to-business, a brand is whether the buyer trusts you enough to take a risk on you in front of their boss. Here are 431 tools to build that trust: 290 ready-to-use templates, procedures, question lists and checklists, 89 models and methods, 47 services shown on screen and 5 working files.
Open a lecture, take the template, and check your brand against the buyer's doubts.
Why B2B brands do not create demand
B2B companies copy consumer branding: logos, slogans, campaigns. Buyers need proof, expertise and people they can trust, but the brand promise is not carried by sales, service or the employees the client meets.
What changes after this course
Your brand rests on a clear position and voice, a funnel that turns attention into demand, channels you own, and people who carry the brand in every client contact.
What is inside: 431 tools, counted lecture by lecture
You do not have to take this number on trust. Open any lecture and read its description: every tool inside is listed there by name.
Where the tools are
Brand foundation (2 sections, 89 tools). Foundation, voice, campaigns and the dashboard.
Market, budget and funnel (2 sections, 117 tools). Market diagnosis, the brand plan and the digital funnel.
Team and technology (1 section, 36 tools). The marketing team and its tools.
Trust from the inside (3 sections, 51 tools). Research, strategy, measurement and trends.
Channels (2 sections, 59 tools). Owned channels, search, email and paid promotion.
People who carry the brand (3 sections, 78 tools). Hiring, onboarding, training, managing and growing.
Demand and experiments (3 sections, 33 tools). Conversion, alignment, technology and cases.
Who is teaching
I am Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with 1,800,000+ course enrollments from 170,000 students, and the author of about 200 books on Amazon. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn and worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank across 20 years in HR. I hold PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications and represent HRCI in Eastern Europe.
To make my courses valuable I use real company cases. The HR Brand award run by HeadHunter publishes nominees' presentations with a full description of what HR did in each company, and I use them to show participants real problems and solutions. Real evidence persuades professionals far better than claims.
How to use the course
Start with the brand foundation and market sections, then build channels and the people side of the brand. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name.
What is included
Where to start
Write the three doubts a buyer has before choosing you, then open the brand foundation section. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.