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Building the Brand-Driven Business: Operationalize Your Brand to Drive Profitable Growth

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        Building the Brand-Driven Business: Operationalize Your Brand to Drive Profitable GrowthIn Building the Brand-Driven Business, authors Scott M. Davis and Michael Dunn– two of the nation’s foremost experts on brands– map out a strategy that can help an entire organization manage and live (not just think about) its brand. They show how to develop brand-building programs that are the most cost efficient, effective, and credible. And just as vital, they reveal how to create a brand-driven culture within an organization so that building the brand becomes everyone’s job.

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Moves branding to the next level by
Before I read this book, I never thought of a retail clerk or a customer service representative as a company’s brand ambassador. But what the authors explain is that brand building should be supported by more than just the people in the marketing department. Certainly, brand has become the strategy du jour among marketing people these days, as evidenced by the number of books on the market. However, this book treats brand in a different context, defining it through the concept of “operationalizing” it, bringing it to life through a company’s processes, systems and employees. It makes a great deal of sense that a company’s senior executives must embrace the brand and its promise by linking it to the company’s corporate strategy, so it becomes part of the culture. Several case studies in the book are helpful for understanding why so many well-known brand names have been successful by using similar techniques to bring their brand to life across the organization.

What is new here??? by
What is new here…that’s the quesiton I have after reading the book. I prefer his previous book. I found the chapter on connecting business strategy to brand strategy to be particularly useful or helpful and this is the biggest challenge in branding…not designing ..but makeing it real. Quite frnakly I prefer another brand book 60-Minute Brand Strategist by Idris Mootee as it covers a lot more in less than 200 pages….and a lot of less words.

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Oh, the poor trees that suffered at the hands of this book.
What was said in this book could have been said in fewer than three pages. (In fact, it has been said in fewer pages in several Harvard Business School publications.)

This book fails in many ways, not the least of which is the manner in which it fails to give any new, substantive, useful or logical way to operationalize branding. Here is the book’s central message: if you buy a “brand strategy” logo, identity, etc. from Branding Agency X get everyone to rally around it; otherwise, Branding Agency X will be held accountable for the brand failure which equals no new business for agency.

Save your money. Just re-read the section on branding in a Kotler text because this book is nothing more than hot air…

350 Pages of ‘Everyone Live the Brand Now’ by
That’s the Cliff Note version for those of you, like me, who have this as required reading before a big ‘brand summit’.

Everything else was rehashed, renamed, or retreaded.

Read it on the plane in about 30 minutes, regardless of the heft.

“Operationalizing” aside by
Don’t let the somewhat intimidating word “operationalize” keep you from investigating the pages of Building The Brand-Driven Business: Operationalize Your Brand to Drive Profitable Growth (Jossey-Bass, 2002). What authors Scott Davis and Michael Dunn show is that brand-building can and should be supported through more than just MarCom initiatives. The retail clerk who actually smiles at and is helpful to customers does far more to support the brand than the priciest ad campaigns - as Wal-Mart has long-since discovered and McDonald’s apparently has yet to grasp. The authors posit that building those supporting behaviors and mind-sets (not to mention systems and processes) and then using the brand promise as an integral measure for business decisions is what “operationalizing” is all about. It’s interesting positioning that’s perhaps ahead of its time - but certainly one that non-marketing, senior decision makers should relate to. There’s a lot of confusion among non-marketers as to what “brand” is and isn’t. The authors make a case for elevating it to an entirely different level in the organization.


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Deciding on an effective and economical advertising method doesn’t need to be a hassle. Just prepare articles for directory submission and increase your online business visibility on the internet.

Directory submission simply means the writing of articles (relating to your business) and submitting them to numerous article directories. This brings in a constant stream of targeted traffic who will visit you site and ultimately buy your products or services. Furthermore, there is no cost for this plan unless you are paying for the writing of the articles themselves.

There’s a couple of good reasons to use this marketing method:

Attracts The Search Engine Spiders:

All search engines use certain algorithms (programs) to find the type of content they see as valuable. These algorithms or programs are called Search Engine Spiders. They are the tools through which search engine “crawl” your site and find the content that is indexed allowing your website to be shown in the search engines for certain search terms. By directory submission, you can add many keyword rich articles that are then linked to your website through the description and especially through the resource information. The major search engines each have ways of tracking and quantifying the value of the keywords you use as well as the links to your site. Visitors to your site strengthen the importance of your web site, thus bringing even more visitors and by extension - customers for your product or service.

Indexing Your Website:

Website indexing is a process of ranking or listing your website so that it is noticed by the search engines. Directory submission makes it possible to speed up the indexing process and once indexed, to improve the rankings in the indexes. Each search engine has different algorithms to measure the level at which the web page meets the defined standards for quality. You can improve your chances of an effective index for your web site by using a service that specialize in preparing and submitting articles to various directories.

Economics:

Sites which offer article submission (usually article directories) come in two styles; free to use and not free to use. Depending upon your budget, you can use either type of directory website effectively. It may seem somewhat obvious to say that the free sites are the best ones to use. After all, free is a pretty good price. But consider that if a site is charging you to put content on there, then the site must be very popular and in demand (or just arrogant), and if a site is in very high demand then it it fairly likely to assume that it will be favoured by the search engines and will actually be of greater benefit to you.

Beating the competition:

Whether you love it or hate it, its hard to reasonably deny that there’s a lot of competition out there for online business. If you have been somewhat struggling to keep on top of that competition, then using articles - published to high ranking directories - is great way to pull in more traffic. A little side note; you should try to make sure that your website actually looks the part and holds onto visitors when they arrive.

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Brand Child: Remarkable Insights into the Minds of Today’s Global Kids & Their Relationships with Brands

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        Brand Child: Remarkable Insights into the Minds of Today’s Global Kids & Their Relationships with Brands* A unique exploration of children’s relationships with consumer brands

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Written from the results of a year-long global research study conducted by the brand research firm Milward Brown, this book is rich with information about how children perceive brands, react to marketing, and decide to spend their considerable financial buying power. The study targeted “tweens”, children in the 8-14 age group, who have become a global consumer group, through the internet and other technologies.

This book is a must read for anyone marketing to children and it will be as fascinating for parents as for marketers. Much of the information here will be slightly disturbing for adults, and the cold clarity of the author’s advice on marketing to tweens will strike some as nothing less than Machiavellian. Consider, for instance, the proven strategy of creating a false website for a `friendly’ kid where the marketers feed positive information about their brands to other children. However, marketers would be foolish not to understand that tweens are likely the most marketing and media savvy consumer group on the planet (exposed to 40,000 commercials per year)…and mastering peer-to-peer marketing is not only the most effective, but probably the ONLY effective way to reach them.

The information here about the psychology of tweens relative to brands is just as fascinating. Half of them have experienced the divorce of their parents, or watched their parents face corporate downsizing and uncertainty. They are a hardened group that craves stability and love and above all, control. The uncertainties of their lives makes fear the primary motivator in purchasing decisions.


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Creating a brand is nothing. Creating a brand that moves consumers in the deepest recesses of their souls–and their pocketbooks–is everything. Why buy a Honda over another import? Why pay for XM when broadcast is free? Boots are boots–why pay extra for Doc Martens? Only a very few advertising agencies can drive consumers to the market with an urgent need to buy a particular brand. Excellence in Brand Advertising looks at 25 top agencies that successfully sell sex appeal, lifestyles, solutions, and almost impossible dreams. Part alchemy, part chemistry–these innovative agencies work their magic again and again. Discover all the secrets of how they do it, with in-depth analysis and hundreds of inspiring, intriguing examples that illuminate our consumer culture today.

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Most people that work from home find the job quite a lonely existence. Many of us home business owners, never meet our clients, our suppliers, or sometimes even our staff. This lonely existence can be more than just isolating; it can be exhausting, even having an effect on your health, and therefore your productivity.

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Can your business afford not to make sales? Do you have the necessary skills to convert your prospects into sales? Can you afford to add sales staff to your home business at this stage? What if an opportunity existed that didn’t require you to sell ANYTHING? What if you could work to your strengths and benefit from the combined endeavours of a team all working together?

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