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How to Market & Grow Your Brand featuring Nicole Nieves | The Brand Vibe

Season 5, Ep. 194

Episode 194 is all about how to market & grow your brand featuring Nicole Nieves of The Brand Vibe. Listen now!


Nicole Nieves is a brand expert, digital marketing strategist, business coach, and mother of 3 growing boys. After spending 15 years as a corporate exec running multimillion-dollar launch campaigns, she started her own company, The Brand Vibe, to help other entrepreneurs market their brands and scale their businesses.


With a passion for elevating leaders, she earned the trust of over 300 clients in just 2 short years and recently expanded her company to include her done-for-you marketing agency for brands along with mentorship + education for the CEOs behind the brands through her online university.


Nicole is also the host of The Brand Vibe Podcast, brews a mean cup of café con leche, and loves spending her free time sweating it out at a Zumba class or cheering it up at her boy's sports games.


You can follow Nicole on her websiteInstagramTwitterLinkedInYouTube and TikTok.


For full episode show notes, visit here.


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Until next time, stay empowered, stay inspired and #staypoderosa ✨


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