The Microbrand Playbook: Build a Focused Brand That Can Compete with Bigger Companies - Softcover

Carter, Miles

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798161156667

Verlag: Independently published, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

You can’t outspend the giants. But you can out-focus them.

Hana Ruiz makes the best smoked chili sauce in Texas, and almost nobody knows it. After three years of farmers’ markets and forty small grocers, her sales have stalled at $180,000. Then a regional supermarket chain calls with an offer: shelf space in sixty stores, right beside national brands with advertising budgets bigger than her whole company. She has one employee, a rented kitchen, and $11,000 in the bank.

Every small brand eventually faces Hana’s question. How do you compete with companies that have a thousand times more money than you do?

The answer isn’t to act bigger. It’s to get sharper.

In The Microbrand Playbook, Miles Carter follows Hana as she cuts products that sell, finds out who her real customers are, and makes a promise no national brand can copy. Alongside her story are the real companies that showed the way. A refugee’s rooster-bottle sauce conquered America without traditional advertising, a yogurt maker spotted what the giants ignored, and a soccer club began a season at 5,000-to-1 and finished it as champion. Others are warnings: brands that rose fast, grew carelessly, and lost the very thing that made people choose them.

You’ll learn how to pick a fight you can win, build a look shoppers spot from across the aisle, tell stories that spread, set prices with confidence, and hold your ground when a giant copies you.

Small is not a weakness. Small is close.

For founders, makers, and anyone building something worth choosing.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798161156667
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 195
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