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How Philanthropy Helped Build This Beloved Liquor Brand Taylor Berry, Head of Brand Marketing at Tito's Handmade Vodka, discusses the evolution of the brand and the role that philanthropy plays in its growth.

By David Meltzer

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Taylor Berry, Head of Brand Marketing at Tito's Handmade Vodka, talks about the origins of the multi-billion-dollar liquor brand and how founder Tito Beveridge's failures in other industries led him to success as a distiller. Berry discusses how the vodka brand used philanthropic events to spread, the company's efforts to create a culture of giving, as well as his own unique journey to becoming the Head of Brand Marketing.

Berry and host David Meltzer discuss the many advantages that brands hold which defy convention, the role of authenticity and emotion in marketing a product and the need to embrace change as an individual in order to grow personally and professionally.

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David Meltzer

Co-Founder of Sports 1 Marketing, Speaker, Author and Business Coach

David Meltzer, co-founder of Sports 1 Marketing and host of Entrepreneur's podcast, “The Playbook”, is a Top 100 Business Coach, global public speaker and three-time international best-selling author who has been honored by Variety as “Sports Humanitarian of the Year”.

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