How companies can stop overthinking the branding process, with faster and better results Brand It Yourself is about getting a handle on your brand fast-without getting bogged down by research data, focus groups, or company politics. Lynn Altman believes that branding should be an energizing, exciting process. Unfortunately, too many companies turn it into a complicated grind, burying their common sense about how to connect with their customers. Altman and her partner developed the Brandmaker Express process for positioning any brand quickly, simply, and powerfully. She helps her clients tap into their own creativity to overcome the paralysis that often afflicts marketing departments. In Brand It Yourself , Altman shares her experiences helping top global companies develop new products, services, and brand campaigns. She highlights real branding case studies at Dairy Queen, Time Inc., Brite Smile, and other innovative companies. Winning the hearts and minds of consumers is not as daunting as you might think. With the powerful techniques in Brand It Yourself , your company can develop better branding ideas with less stress and wasted time.

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Small businesses have it tough, and their survival requires a keen understanding of the challenges they face — and the ability to execute their operation with finesse. In this book, Mike Ferrell outlines the necessary elements for any thriving business: vision/branding, leadership/team, marketing systems, sales process, delivering exceptional service and strategic alliances. In addition, Ferrell shows small business owners how to funnel these elements to fit their own situation, and bring their businesses to a higher level.

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Working for nearly thirty years with and for leading companies including Citigroup, American Express, Epsilon, Apple, and Fidelity—with notable political and not-for-profit campaigns along the way—Steve Cone has the kind of hard-earned, high-level experience that translates into valuable, tested ideas on what really works—and doesn’t—in marketing. In Steal These Ideas! Cone delivers hundreds of pearls in a sharp, no-nonsense, and witty style on all facets of marketing, branding, and advertising with all the candor and freshness one would expect from a knowledgeable good friend in the business. Illustrated throughout with examples of the good, bad, and ugly in advertising, this is the secret stuff that no one ever teaches. Anyone can now steal these ideas and become a marketing star today.

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Raise your profile and get the attention you deserve -- or your business, your brand, or yourself! Almost everyone who runs a business recognizes the value of generating high-profile attention for their company, product, or service. Unfortunately, the high cost of hiring an outside marketing or PR firm can put these kinds of efforts out of reach for many small businesses and individual professionals. In his new book It's Not Who You Know--It's Who Knows You!, noted speaker and “visibility expert” David Avrin shows you how to craft, build, and promote your own brand and win the eyes and ears of the marketplace. This book offers a refreshing, new perspective on marketing, PR and strategic branding while giving you the tools and creative advice you need to solidify your market niche by differentiating yourself from the competition, crafting a truly marketable and promotable brand, and raising your visibility. If you want to get noticed and turn the spotlight on your business by becoming more newsworthy, this is the only resource you need. Offers refreshingly creative and eye-opening strategies and tactics on marketing and promoting your business Author David Avrin is a renowned marketing, PR, and branding speaker and expert and also the author of The 20 Best and Worst Questions Reporters Ask and The Gift in Every Day--Little Lessons on Living a Big Life Helps you define and refine your message to consumers to get more attention from the media The perfect marketing and PR guide for America's 30 million small businesses Gets results without the high price of marketing and PR professionals The strategies and tools here will help you discover and promote what is truly unique about your business and brand with a renewed sense of purpose and a clearer, more effective direction.

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Bag, tag, and label design is critical in the world of marketing and sales, yet can be challenging to execute successfully. The Big Book of Bags, Tags and Labels is a unique visual collection featuring work from top companies around the globe. It offers hundreds of ideas, pages of inspiration, and loads of professional advice from designers on styles ranging from classic to modern, sophisticated to conceptual, with a consistent focus on name recognition and branding.

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“Ries and Trout taught me everything I know about branding, marketing, and product management. When I had the idea of creating a very large thematic community on the Web, I first thought of Positioning....”—David Bohnett, Chairman and Founder of GeoCities. A handsome edition of the original 1981 text, this 20th Anniversary Edition makes available to business and marketing professionals—including tens of thousands of Ries and Trout groupies, worldwide—the work that forever changed the way marketing strategy is done. This new edition features commentary from the authors that offers fresh insight into why “positioning” a product in a prospective customer’s mind is still the most important strategy in business, and includes numerous examples of campaigns that followed, or didn’t follow, Ries and Trout’s thinking.

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Recently vilified as the prime dynamic driving home the breach between poor and rich nations, here the branding process is rehabilitated as a potential saviour of the economically underprivileged. Brand New Justice , now in a revised paperback edition, systematically analyses the success stories of the Top Thirteen nations, demonstrating that their wealth is based on the 'last mile' of the commercial process: buying raw materials and manufacturing cheaply in third world countries, these countries realise their lucrative profits by adding value through finishing, packaging and marketing and then selling the branded product on to the end-user at a hugely inflated price. The use of sophisticated global media techniques alongside a range of creative marketing activities are the lynchpins of this process. Applying his observations on economic history and the development and impact of global marketing, Anholt presents a cogent plan for developing nations to benefit from globalization. So long the helpless victim of capitalist trading systems, he shows that they can cross the divide and graduate from supplier nation to producer nation. Branding native produce on a global scale, making a commercial virtue out of perceived authenticity and otherness and fully capitalising on the 'last mile' benefits are key to this graduation and fundamental to forging a new global economic balance. Anholt argues with a forceful logic, but also backs his hypothesis with enticing glimpses of this process actually beginning to take place. Examining activities in India, Thailand, Russia and Africa among others, he shows the risks, challenges and pressures inherent in 'turning the tide', but above all he demonstrates the very real possibility of enlightened capitalism working as a force for good in global terms. * Controversial and thought-provoking analysis of issues that are central to 21st century economic thought; radical new thinking on wealth-creation in the developing world. * Unites world-class branding and marketing knowledge with an emerging-market development agenda. * Concrete answers to the problems of anti-capitalism, medium level poverty and the brand backlash; a way for the marketing and advertising industries to regain respect and a more positive reputation

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This is not a 'how to' book about branding. Instead it outlines approaches that will increase the accountability of marketing spending and provide tools to support investment decisions. Drawing on the world's largest database of brand research, The Business of Brands outlines the ways in which brands are a source of value for both businesses and consumers. For businesses, it shows how brands contribute to shareholder value, both through revenue generation and by acting as a management tool. And for consumers, it shows how brands can fulfil various valuable functions - such as acting as a source of trust or a predictor of quality.

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'Advertising in Leisure and Tourism' brings together the current thinking in this area, via extensive international case studies, to provide a critical appraisal of the potential of advertising in leisure and tourism. Arranged in three parts, the book introduces the role of advertising, evaluating its relationship within other aspects of tourism and leisure marketing; the techniques used: advertising a range of products to key market segments; and new strategic directions in advertising. It focuses on the new destination marketing strategy of branding and assesses the relationship between advertising and other increasing important areas of promotion, including sponsorship, ambient marketing and sales promotion. Advertising and marketing professionals in the leisure industries and undergraduates on marketing-related modules in tourism, leisure and hospitality courses will find this an invaluable text. Since the case studies are drawn from an international field, readers will be able to assess best practice from a variety of sources and countries. Dr Nigel Morgan is Principal Lecturer in Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism and Annette Pritchard is Senior Lecturer at School of Leisure and Tourism, at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff. One of the only specialist Tourism/Leisure advertising texts on the market Use of International case studies drawn from the 1999 International Festival of Leisure and Tourism Advertising to highlight good and bad practice Accessible - ideal for practitioners

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Whether you think it's a sad state of affairs or an incredible opportunity, the fact is that not-for-profit agencies like Doctors Without Borders and others have to employ marketing and branding techniques the same as any other organization. THE NEW GLOBAL BRANDS: MANAGING NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY takes you inside the process and explains the process of establishing brand identity, identifying the organizational mission, communicating brand meaning, and leveraging brand values in new and exciting ways. Full of study tools, this textbook can make a positive impact on your performance in class as well.

Price: $81.99 USD