The most important assets of any business are intangible: its company name, brands, symbols, and slogans, and their underlying associations, perceived quality, name awareness, customer base, and proprietary resources such as patents, trademarks, and channel relationships....

As industries turn increasingly hostile, it is clear that strong brand-building skills are needed to survive and prosper. In David Aaker's pathbreaking book, Managing Brand Equity, managers discovered the value of a brand as a strategic asset and a company's primary source of competitive advantage. Now, in this compelling new work, Aaker uses real brand-building cases from Saturn,...

What Charles Darwin did for biology, Al and Laura Ries do for branding.

In their exciting new book, The Origin of Brands, the Rieses take Darwin's revolutionary idea of evolution and apply it to the branding process. What results is a new and strikingly effective strategy for creating innovative products, building a successful brand, and, in turn, achieving business success.Here, the Rieses explain how changing conditions in the marketplace create endless opportunities to build new brands and accumulate riches. But these opportunities cannot be found where most people and...

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The One-Day Marketing Plan shows entrepreneurs and business owners how to quickly design a marketing plan for any business. Hiebing and Cooper's streamlined, 10-step process guides readers through the development and execution of effective marketing plans, and provides the tools to accurately evaluate bottom-line results. Packed with helpful checklists and templates, this practical, comprehensive third edition includes up-to-the-minute information on brand positioning and Internet marketing tactics.

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"With its engaging voice and pullno-punches tone, this book stands out from the marketing crowd."--Harvard Business Review

"D'Alessandro's book is witty, irreverent, and intensely practical. It is more than a book about brands, and contains many sound lessons for strategy and the role of leaders."--Michael E. Porter, Harvard Business School

"Practical, psychologically astute, and clearly written, this book has much...

A world-renowned innovation guru explains practices that result in breakthrough innovations

"Ulwick's outcome-driven programs bring discipline and predictability to the often random process of innovation."

For years, companies have accepted the underlying principles that define the customer-driven paradigm--that is, using customer "requirements" to guide growth and innovation. But twenty years into this movement, breakthrough innovations are still rare, and most companies find that 50 to 90 percent of their innovation initiatives flop. The...

B2B sales and marketing executives have been hard-hit by increasing sales demands, plummeting budgets, and highly touted techniques that promise more than they deliver. The Fundamentals of Business-to-Business Sales & Marketing shows executives how to integrate traditional B2B selling methods with effective and proven new technologies.

Covering database marketing, microclustering, accurate ROI measurement, and more, this no-nonsense book provides a dynamic, hands-on approach for selling more while spending less, and meeting today's relentless revenue and margin demands.

The ideal companion to the author's bestselling The Product Manager's Handbook, The Product Manager's Field Guide expands upon the overview and the responsibilities of product managers and delves into specific skills, abilities, and competencies to help them improve their performance. It provides readers with tools and exercises for functions such as marketing, planning, forecasting, and new product development and offers step-by-step instructions for activities designed to monitor and assess product-planning efforts.

In today's rapidly shifting marketplace, brand loyalty has subsided and the consumer-of-the-moment rules. To successfully compete for customers' wallet share, you must connect with them, understand their buying habits, and anticipate their every move.

In Why Customers Do What They Do, Marshal Cohen, the chief industry analyst for The NPD Group and one of the foremost authorities on consumer behavior, gives managers responsible for branding, marketing, and sales strategies the ability to anticipate the needs, wants, and desires of today's consumer. Drawing on years of market...

A Brand-New Approach to Brand-Building.

For Consumers. For Companies. For Life.

If you want to build and strengthen your brand in the twenty-first century, you need more than clever grassroots promotions and hip guerrilla marketing. You need Living Brands, Raymond Nadeau's dynamic, groundbreaking approach to branding that shows you, in six simple steps, how to become an integral part of your consumers' lives.

Living Brands is based on a passion for understanding consumers' lives and their existing needs. It uses the latest strategies of...

Bestselling eBay authors reveal the best strategies for success from top sellers

"eBay PowerSeller Million Dollar Ideas" provides the most original, creative, and groundbreaking tips and strategies for jumping ahead of the competition and earning record profits on the world's most successful online marketplace. You'll learn inventive ways to drive more traffic to their auctions, source and price products, sell internationally, combat fraud, and maximize "off-eBay" selling venues.

The authors consulted scores of eBay's most successful sellers, carefully selecting the best tips and...

There is a philosophy of doing business that goes beyond the transfer of goods and services. It calls for a transfer of values known as of small decencies.

This book shows the way.

Steve Harrison, longtime management and corporate culture innovator, knows one simple truth: The long term success of any company, small or large, local or global, depends largely on its culture. Change a company's internal culture for the better, and results skyrocket. But can a manager really adjust the culture of an entire work force, especially in a large corporation? Small decencies make it...

Win new customers--and keep them coming back

Whether you run a billion-dollar company or a mom-and-pop small business, you have to know your customers and know what they want. Written by three marketing experts, Tips & Traps for Marketing Your Business is filled with marketing best practices that show you how to win over new customers and make existing customers more profitable. You'll also find practical and proven marketing tips and traps to help you grow your business, lessons learned from realworld experience, and tangible examples from the leading companies in...

The Right Phrase for Every Situation...Every Time

Whether you're trying to come up with a terrific headline for a newspaper ad, a snappy brochure for sales reps, or a slick radio script, every word counts. That's why you need Perfect Phrases for Marketing and Sales Copy. Filled with specific methods for writing the kind of headlines, body copy, taglines, and calls to action that will capture customer attention and move people to buy, this book gives you the how-tos and examples you need to make every ad or marketing piece succeed.

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A better time for your business starts in the next decade.

Are you ready?

In this fast and furious time machine of a book, Richard Laermer shows you how to use-and in some cases abuse-the trends of the next decade (or two) that really matter. As an author with a functional crystal ball, a veteran marketing innovator, and media master, Laermer foresees a fabulous future-if you start planning for it today.

Sometimes you see a business evolve and think, "I wish I'd thought of that." With his trademark razor-sharp style, Laermer reveals the most functional...