BrandlandUSA

Bring Garland Pollard to your meeting to talk about your company’s brand and how you can make it live forever. His optimism, light touch and love for American brand names and commercial culture make him the perfect speaker for your trade conference, employee motivational breakfast, annual meeting or customer appreciation dinner.

His blog BrandlandUSA is all about the most fun, fascinating and best-loved American brands; his practical advice comes right out of American history. He has a point of view about brands, namely that they are important, and not disposable.

He speaks with or without Power Point, though nostalgic topics with history and product branding work better with slides. Past subjects available for last-minute bookings include talks on historic preservation, land use, architecture and urban design and product branding:

• Historic brand names and branding advice (we can split the talk between a general intro to brands and discussion of your brand)
• New theories in tourism development
• Web strategies for the promotion of tourism
• Social media and user content to promote products, churches, brands and destinations
• Cities and economic development
• Tactics and best practices in historic preservation
• Landmarks of modern architecture
• Legacy of Thomas T. Waterman, Colonial Revival architect and Martin Caidin, pioneering science fiction writer, NASA expert and inventor of the Six Million Dollar Man
• Urban planning in the United States, post World War II

In addition to keynote and single speaking engagements, Garland is a regular panelist for writing, tourism and public relations groups. Recent bookings include the Orlando Chapter of HSMAI (Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International), Washington Independent Writers and James River Writers Festival.

Other engagements include:

• Keynote speaker for the North American Travel Journalist Association annual meeting in Santa Fe
• Annual meetings of state chapters of the National Society of the Colonial Dames in America and College Communicators Association
• Regional Rotary and Ad Clubs
• Virginia associations including Virginia Press Women 2006 Spring Conference, Leadership Metro Richmond, Virginia Association of Convention and Visitor Bureaus Tourism Summit and Annual Meeting, April 24-26, 2006 and Torch Club of Richmond presentation on “The Failure of Government Intervention in Post World War II City Planning in Richmond”
• Panelist at joint Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, World Affairs Council of Greater Richmond and Urban Land Institute forum entitled “Richmond’s Future: Global Urban Competition and the Quality of Life” on Dec. 7, 2006.

Contact him about upcoming speaker dates at 941-914-5503 or email me by clicking here.