基本信息出版社：Portfolio Hardcover
页码：256 页
出版日期：2005年12月
ISBN：1591841127
条形码：9781591841128
装帧：精装
外文书名：8周打造第一品牌

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Too many companies think that splashy advertising and cool packaging is the same thing as branding. Marketers talk about brand charisma or brand warfare, spend millions on entertaining ads starring dancing chimpanzees or cowboys herding cats, but fail to differentiate their product or give consumers a real reason to pay attention. Then they wonder why their campaigns fail.

This in-your-face, down-to-earth guide explains real branding: the process of creating an exclusive idea of value that consumers can trust you to deliver consistently. It offers a unique eight-week program that can help any company create a #1 brand by focusing on the one big idea that will make people really want your product or service.

The same principles apply to Ford Motor Company and Frankie’s Lawn & Garden shop. Schley and Nichols teach readers how to:

• abandon their precious lists of features and benefits
• focus on a simple, singular message
• distill a killer dominant selling idea
• roll out a new brand identity

For anyone who wants to harness the true power of branding, this enjoyable book is the place to start.
作者简介 Bill Schley and Carl Nichols, Jr., are partners at david, inc, a brand consulting firm in Connecticut. During their careers they’ve worked with major global companies like Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, IBM, and many others. Schley was previously a creative executive at a major New York ad agency and won the industry’s Effie Award. Nichols was previously the CEO of Einson Freeman and a managing director at D’Arcy.
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From Publishers Weekly
High-concept Super Bowl commercials, baffling corporate names, "formless positioning and flabby claims that lack any differentiating punch"—all come in for abuse in this sprightly old-school marketing primer. Harking back to the "Unique Selling Propositions" of the "Brand Titans" that bestrode advertising's golden age in the early television era, brand consultants Schley and Nichols exhort companies to redefine their products in terms of a single, mesmerizing "Dominant Selling Idea." They provide reasonably specific guidelines for arriving at a DSI, covering topics like market research, brand naming, visual imagery and—the heart of their method—concocting and laying exclusive claim to some special attribute through such techniques as combining two unrelated special attributes (Certs is a candy mint and a breath mint) or declaring a magic ingredient. They steer readers away from bland brand taglines and toward specific, wallet-grabbing, must-buy propositions like Black Flag's immortal "Roaches Check In, but They Don't Check Out." Writing in an engaging, straightforward style with a dash of wit and vinegar, the authors provide much useful, hands-on advice for perplexed marketing executives.
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From Booklist
Remember the Pets.com sock-puppet ad during Super Bowl XXXIV that epitomized the absurdity of the dot-com bubble? Cowboys herding cats, singing chimps, and the AFLAC duck may be great entertainment, but they don't convey a thing about the companies they represent. They are not effectivebranding. Somewhere along the line, "Johnny" forgot the basics about revealing the Big Idea in an easy, everyday way that cements your brand as top dog in the hearts and minds of consumers without resorting to puffery and shallow glitz. It turns out it's the steak, not the sizzle, after all. The authors create a workable strategy for placing your brand in the number-one position in the minds of your targets in eight weeks by using a motivating difference called the Dominant Selling Idea--the one thing that distinguishes your brand at the point of purchase, whether you're Ford Motors or Tom's Lawn and Garden. Schley and Nichols are partners at david, inc., a branding consulting firm in Connecticut; they've worked with major global companies such as Coca-Cola and IBM. David Siegfried
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