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Branding vs. Marketing: Why Understanding the Difference Matters

Tue, Mar 10

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Branding vs. Marketing: Why Understanding the Difference Matters
Branding vs. Marketing: Why Understanding the Difference Matters

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Mar 10, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT

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About The Event

Most businesses invest heavily in marketing while overlooking the quiet force doing the real work behind the scenes: their brand. In this presentation, Risa Hoag, President of GMG Public Relations, will show you how to understand the difference between the two and how to use each to support the other. 


You’ll learn the difference between marketing as doing and branding as being, and why visibility alone doesn’t convert without meaning behind it. We’ll explore how strong brands move beyond attention to choice, beyond customers to advocates, and beyond short-term wins to long-term growth.


This session will help you understand how your brand is currently showing up, how to tell if it’s helping or hurting your sales, and how to strengthen it so marketing becomes more effective, sales feel less forced, and trust does more of the heavy lifting.


If you want your brand to do more than get you seen,…

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