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Hailing from a construction background and with over twenty years of experience helping businesses build their brands as the President and Co-Founder of ER Marketing, he understands the challenges of marketing within the construction industry. With his firsthand experience in B2B marketing, Mayfield confronts the marketing challenges unique to the building and materials industry. In these pages, he lays out a simple framework which can allow any leader to rejuvenate their B2B marketing strategy: • Survey: What do people say about you? What do you want them to say about you? • Blueprint: What do you need to have in place to deliver the brand you want? • Build: How do you deliver the brand you promised and keep it up to code? With simple, down-to-earth concepts, he cuts through the noise to show how you Survey your business, draft a Blueprint, and then Build your brand through curb appeal and delivering on customer expectations. 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