Building Strong Brands: David A. Aaker

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From Publishers Weekly
Aaker (marketing, Univ. of California- Berkeley) has written a sequel to his Managing Brand Equity (Free Pr., 1991). In this latest offering he tells how to deal with the fragmentation of markets by building brand identity, creating brand personality, and managing a brand [...]

Driving Customer Equity : How Customer Lifetime Value is Reshaping Corporate Strategy: Roland Rust, Valarie Zeithaml, Katherine Lemon

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Serban Teodoresco VP Operations, DiverseyLever Consulting, Unilever Group An insightful and powerful new model for establishing clear strategic priorities. Faced with fast wealth migration in their industry and customers with more options than ever, companies will need such models if they want to remain [...]

The Phoenix Effect: 9 Revitalizing Strategies No Business Can Do Without: Carter Pate, Harlan Platt

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From Publishers Weekly
With so many businesses flopping in the current economy, Carter Pate, a veteran financial adviser and PricewaterhouseCoopers turnaround expert, and writer Harlan Platt offer counsel to those now teetering on the edge of disaster. The Phoenix Effect: 9 Revitalizing Strategies No Business Can [...]

The Employer Brand: Bringing the Best of Brand Management to People at Work: Simon Barrow, Richard Mosley

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“…This is not just an eloquent brand management and marketing text but one of the wisest management books in the past five years.” (Independent on Sunday, 20th November 2005)
“…the authors offer an intellectual framework, a fresh focus and a stimulating guide…this book is [...]

Managing Customers as Investments: The Strategic Value of Customers in the Long Run: Sunil Gupta, Donald Lehmann

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What’s a customer really worth? Can you find out, without endlesslycomplex modeling? And once you know, what should you do with thatknowledge? Managing Your Customers as Investments has the answers.You’ll learn simple ways to get reliable customer value information–ina form you can use. You’ll discover how to use it to measure marketingeffectiveness, [...]

Value Creation: Strategies for the Chemical Industry: Florian Budde, Utz-Hellmuth Felcht, Heiner Frankemölle

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“This reviewer would have been very glad to have had a book such as this, about value creation in the chemical industry, at the start of his industrial career! In this book, which contains 33 chapters written by over 50 authors, the three editors have succeeded [...]

Managing Customers as Investments: The Strategic Value of Customers in the Long Run: Sunil Gupta, Donald Lehmann

Editorial Reviews
What’s a customer really worth? Can you find out, without endlesslycomplex modeling? And once you know, what should you do with thatknowledge? Managing Your Customers as Investments has the answers.You’ll learn simple ways to get reliable customer value information–ina form you can use. You’ll discover how to use it to measure marketingeffectiveness, [...]

Think Two Products Ahead: Secrets the Big Advertising Agencies Don’t Want You to Know and How to Use Them for Bigger Profits: Ben Mack, Mark Joyner, Dave Lakhani

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This commonsense guide lets you develop your brand with the same techniques and technologies as the big players—but without all the cost. You’ll learn to master the same three-step plan the big advertisers use and discover the secret to brand continuity from product to product. This valuable resource will help you connect [...]

Brand Stretch: Why 1 in 2 extensions fail, and how to beat the odds: A brandgym workout: David Taylor

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“This is essentially a useful guide for brand managers in organisations without long-term wisdom.” (Brand Strategy, May 2004)
“If this review were to be only two words, they would be ‘Buy this!’ [this] book is an essential, authoritative and easy-to-understand..” (Media Week 4 [...]

The Cool Factor: Building Your Brands Image through Partnership Marketing: Del Breckenfeld

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Praise for The Cool Factor
“Del Breckenfeld’s The Cool Factor gets the inside story on themusic business partnering with major corporations fueling their brands.” —Bill Gibbons, guitarist, singer, and songwriter with the multiplatinum band ZZ Top, and all-around “Sharp Dressed Man”
“The Cool [...]