Building The Athlete Brand

Building the Athlete Brand

This is the first book to offer a complete, practical guide to the process of building an athlete brand and developing brand value. In an era of digital technology and social media, athletes have moved to the centre of the sport business landscape, and this book introduces the skills in branding, marketing communications, and entrepreneurship that athletes and their advisors need to develop in order to stand out from the competition. Written by authors with decades of experience working in the sport business industry, including successful sport branding consultancy, this book takes the reader through the entire process of building an athlete brand, from goal-setting and strategic planning to managing brand identity and measuring success. It introduces the global branding ecosystem and the fundamentals of storytelling and narrative building, as well as how to navigate the rules and regulations of global sport business. This book also includes detailed guidance on managing an athlete brand across digital platforms and explores key contemporary issues such as Name, Image, and Likeness, athlete activism and social impact. This is an essential resource for any athlete looking to build and manage their personal brand and for all sport business and communications professionals working with athletes or sports organisations.

The Athlete Brand Book

Brand Power Built In

If you’ve ever tried to build, launch, or grow a tech product, you’ve probably wrestled with this question: how do we really win customers’ hearts and minds? Most tech ventures fail to stand out or connect meaningfully with customers until it’s too late. What separates promising products from true market leaders isn’t just great technology—it’s embedding brand power into your product’s DNA from day one, not as an afterthought after the product is built. Too many founders and product managers dismiss brand as a fluffy marketing activity that can wait. That assumption kills promising products. As global brand and marketing leader Lifang He reveals, when you build in brand power from the start, you don’t just build better products and experiences, you create a far more valuable business. That’s the hidden opportunity most companies miss. Drawing on everything she’s learned from launching and scaling breakthrough products for Apple, Amazon, and Ring, plus hard-won lessons from leaders at Rivian, Airbnb, Robinhood, Notion, and other category winners, she offers a repeatable framework for: Building brand power into product development, go-to-market, and scaling strategies. Transforming customer experiences to drive differentiation and value. Leading cross-functional teams to maximize product success from the earliest stages. Navigating AI’s impact on branding, customer experience, and product growth. Written for founders, product builders, marketers, business leaders, and anyone driving innovation and growth, Brand Power Built In gives you the insider playbook to win customers’ hearts and minds from day one and across the entire product journey. Brand is how you win. This book shows you how.