What Great Brands Do

What Great Brands Do

Author: Denise Lee Yohn

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2014-01-07

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 111861125X

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Discover proven strategies for building powerful, world-class brands It's tempting to believe that brands like Apple, Nike, and Zappos achieved their iconic statuses because of serendipity, an unattainable magic formula, or even the genius of a single visionary leader. However, these companies all adopted specific approaches and principles that transformed their ordinary brands into industry leaders. In other words, great brands can be built—and Denise Lee Yohn knows exactly how to do it. Delivering a fresh perspective, Yohn's What Great Brands Do teaches an innovative brand-as-business strategy that enhances brand identity while boosting profit margins, improving company culture, and creating stronger stakeholder relationships. Drawing from twenty-five years of consulting work with such top brands as Frito-Lay, Sony, Nautica, and Burger King, Yohn explains key principles of her brand-as-business strategy. Reveals the seven key principles that the world's best brands consistently implement Presents case studies that explore the brand building successes and failures of companies of all sizes including IBM, Lululemon, Chipotle Mexican Grill, and other remarkable brands Provides tools and strategies that organizations can start using right away Filled with targeted guidance for CEOs, COOs, entrepreneurs, and other organization leaders, What Great Brands Do is an essential blueprint for launching any brand to meteoric heights.


Brand Naming

Brand Naming

Author: Rob Meyerson

Publisher: Business Expert Press

Published: 2021-12-14

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1637421567

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You don’t have a brand—whether it’s for a company or a product—until you have a name. The name is one of the first, longest lasting, and most important decisions in defining the identity of a company, product, or service. But set against a tidal wave of trademark applications, mortifying mistranslations, and disappearing dot-com availability, you won’t find a good name by dumping out Scrabble tiles. Brand Naming details best-practice methodologies, tactics, and advice from the world of professional naming. You’ll learn: What makes a good (and bad) name The step-by-step process professional namers use How to generate hundreds of name ideas The secrets of whittling the list down to a finalist The most complete and detailed book about naming your brand, Brand Naming also includes insider anecdotes, tired trends, brand origin stories, and busted myths. Whether you need a great name for a new company or product or just want to learn the secrets of professional word nerds, put down the thesaurus—not to mention Scrabble—and pick up Brand Naming.


People Buy Brands Not Companies

People Buy Brands Not Companies

Author: John Tantillo Phd

Publisher: Five Titles Press

Published: 2010-01

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 9780984436705

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People Buy Brands Not Companies is Dr. Tantillo's game-changing exploration of marketing and how it has been consistently and disastrously misunderstood. His concept of the marketing lens will empower the reader. It will change their businesses and their lives. "There simply isn't anything that can't be analyzed more effectively or run more efficiently and profitably when you apply the marketing lens," writes Tantillo, nationally known as "The Marketing Doctor." His unique approach blends his PhD in Applied Research Psychology with decades of corporate marketing acumen. Marketing is everything and this book proves it. People Buy Brands, Not Companies provides the novice with a critical advantage in the area of business and personal branding, and is the much-needed booster shot for the marketing professional. The Marketing Doctor moves marketing to the center stage of human activity where it belongs. He vanquishes the bean counters and vindicates marketing's importance for the bottom line. In the process, Tantillo proves that marketing is fundamental to the success of almost any venture, business or personal. People Buy Brands, Not Companies is something that people will want to share with their friends and marketing professionals will want to give to any client who ever doubts the importance of their work. Dr. Tantillo is a popular Fox Forum columnist and a frequent commentator on business and celebrity marketing for both radio and television. A more developed biography may be found at www.marketingdoctor.tv. What people are saying about The Marketing Doctor: "A marketing genius and visionary." -Bill O'Reilly, The O'Reilly Factor "A marketing whiz." -Cashman Peters, NPR's Marketplace "You're the best at this." -Neil Cavuto, Fox Business News, to Dr. Tantillo on air concerning his Marketing Analysis of Healthcare Reform "If you want to know how to define and enhance your brand, you need the marketing doctor, John Tantillo." -The Alan Colmes Radio Show


The Brand Flip

The Brand Flip

Author: Marty Neumeier

Publisher: New Riders

Published: 2015-07-24

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 0134172973

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Best-selling brand expert Marty Neumeier shows you how to make the leap from a company-driven past to the consumer-driven future. You’ll learn how to flip your brand from offering products to offering meaning, from value protection to value creation, from cost-based pricing to relationship pricing, from market segments to brand tribes, and from customer satisfaction to customer empowerment. In the 13 years since Neumeier wrote The Brand Gap, the influence of social media has proven his core theory: “A brand isn’t what you say it is – it’s what they say it is.” People are no longer consumers or market segments or tiny blips in big data. They don’t buy brands. They join brands. They want a vote in what gets produced and how it gets delivered. They’re willing to roll up their sleeves and help out – not only by promoting the brand to their friends, but by contributing content, volunteering ideas, and even selling products or services. At the center of the book is the Brand Commitment Matrix, a simple tool for organizing the six primary components of a brand. Your brand community is your tribe. How will you lead it?


Taking Brand Initiative

Taking Brand Initiative

Author: Mary Jo Hatch

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-03-11

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0470245360

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Taking Brand Initiative offers a revolutionary approach to corporate branding that looks beyond the marketing value of brands company-to-customer and the HR significance of brands company-to-employee. It places the management of brands at the senior level of management as it radiates throughout the organization. In this groundbreaking book, international branding thought leaders, Mary Jo Hatch and Make Schultz explain how a company's brand is just as important to ÒoutsidersÓÑpoliticians, suppliers, and analysts as it is to company insiders. They show how only the corporate brand can integrate all the company's staff functions and provide a vision for competition and globalization.


You Are The Brand

You Are The Brand

Author: Mike Kim

Publisher: Morgan James Publishing

Published: 2021-06-08

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 1631953486

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An inspiring and practical guide to help corporate professionals start, run, and grow a side-hustle into a full-time personal brand business as a coach, consultant, or creator.


Brands on a Mission

Brands on a Mission

Author: Myriam Sidibe

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-05-10

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1000069230

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Winner of the Bronze 2021 AXIOM Business Book Award in the category of Philanthropy / Nonprofit / Sustainability. Brands on a Mission explores the importance of creating a performance culture that is built on driving impact through purpose, and the type of talent required to drive these transformational changes within companies – from CEO to brand developers. Using evidence from interviews and stories from over 100 CEOs, thought leaders and brand managers, the book presents an emergent model that organisations can follow to build purpose into their growth strategy – and shows how to bridge the gap between Brand Say and Brand Do. Readers will learn from the real experts in the field: how Paul Polman, former CEO of Unilever, built purpose into the DNA of his company; what keeps Alan Jope (new CEO, Unilever) and Emmanuel Faber (CEO, Danone) awake at night; and how brand developers from Durex, Dove, Discovery and LIXIL have made choices and the reasons behind them. In this book you will learn how a soap brand Lifebuoy taught one billion people about hygiene, how a beer is tackling gender-based violence, and how a toothpaste is tackling school absenteeism amongst many others. Renowned experts like Peter Piot (Director, London School of Health and Tropical Medicine), Michael Porter (Professor, Harvard School of Business), Jane Nelson (Director, Corporate Responsibility Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School) and Susie Orbach (leading feminist and formerly professor, London School of Economics) also share examples, data and their everyday experiences of helping corporates create a culture of purpose. And leading NGOs and UN experts like Lawrence Haddad (Executive Director, GAIN) and Natalia Kanem (Executive Director of UNFPA) will recount how the public and private sector have worked together to create an accelerated path to reaching the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. The book provides a clear pathway of how to take brands through the journey of developing impactful social missions and driving business growth, and is an essential guide for both managers and students alike.


Branding

Branding

Author: Robert Jones

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 0198749910

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Branding is possibly the most powerful commercial and cultural force on the planet. Robert Jones discusses the vast variety of brands, and why we still fall for them even as we are becoming more brand-aware. Looking at the philosophy and story behind brands, he considers how they work their magic, and what the future for brands might be.


ZAG

ZAG

Author: Marty Neumeier

Publisher: Pearson Education

Published: 2006-09-20

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 0132798123

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"When everybody zigs, zag," says Marty Neumeier in this fresh view of brand strategy. ZAG follows the ultra-clear "whiteboard overview" style of the author’s first book, THE BRAND GAP, but drills deeper into the question of how brands can harness the power of differentiation. The author argues that in an extremely cluttered marketplace, traditional differentiation is no longer enough—today companies need “radical differentiation” to create lasting value for their shareholders and customers. In an entertaining 3-hour read you’ll learn: - why me-too brands are doomed to fail - how to "read" customer feedback on new products and messages - the 17 steps for designing “difference” into your brand - how to turn your brand’s “onliness” into a “trueline” to drive synergy - the secrets of naming products, services, and companies - the four deadly dangers faced by brand portfolios - how to “stretch” your brand without breaking it - how to succeed at all three stages of the competition cycle From the back cover: In an age of me-too products and instant communications, keeping up with the competition is no longer a winning strategy. Today you have to out-position, out-maneuver, and out-design the competition. The new rule? When everybody zigs, zag. In his first book, THE BRAND GAP, Neumeier showed companies how to bridge the distance between business strategy and design. In ZAG, he illustrates the number-one strategy of high-performance brands—radical differentiation. ZAG is an AIGA Design Press book, published under Peachpit's New Riders imprint in partnership with AIGA. For a quick peek inside ZAG, go to www.zagbook.com.