Duane Forrester with Jason Barnard at Kalicube Tuesdays Duane Forrester talks with Jason Barnard about branding in digital marketing. In this podcast Duane and Jason talk about the importance of building your brand persona and how companies can prepare for the future of search: amongst other things, smaller businesses need to take a good long look at their own branding, their customers' needs, the channels they can realistically leverage... and building their own internal knowledge graph. Stunningly enthralling conversation! What you’ll learn 00:07 Introducing Duane Forrester00:46 Duane’s Brand SERP02:40 Why does the citation in Duane’s Knowledge Panel differ across countries UnGagged, Search Engine Journal and BrightEdge?04:38 Answer: Duane’s digital footprint06:12 Google Books pushing an author into the Knowledge Graph08:21 How important are knowledge graphs to your business?10:07 What is most important for search engines today?12:12 Is Google’s Knowledge Panel for products going to help them compete with Amazon?14:50 How can small, family-owned or independent business compete?18:48 Branded searches going to become more important - how can you build a brand persona?20:50 An example of how important it is to update your brand with your unique selling propositions such as philanthropic ventures24:45 How to target audiences better (avoid the mistake of thinking you can reach and help everyone)26:19 What defines your branding?29:07 Why smaller businesses should start building their own knowledge graph30:24 What can you do to prepare for the future of search on engines such as Google and Bing31:41 Where is Google Discover taking us? Subscribe to the podcast Subscribe here >> This episode was recorded live on video September 30th 2020 Recorded live at Kalicube Tuesdays (Digital Marketing Livestream Event Series). Watch the video now >>