In this breakthrough book, marketing expert Austin McGhie urges readers to set aside their obsession with "branding" and instead focus on the real work of marketing: positioning. In fact, McGhie believes there's no marketing problem or opportunity that can't be framed as a positioning exercise. He argues that brands are a marketplace response, not a marketer's stimulus; if that response from the audience is simple, clear and on strategy, marketers can build a brand. Drawing on his 30-year career working with some of world's best-known brands, including Disney, ESPN, Nike, Google, Visa,…mehr
In this breakthrough book, marketing expert Austin McGhie urges readers to set aside their obsession with "branding" and instead focus on the real work of marketing: positioning. In fact, McGhie believes there's no marketing problem or opportunity that can't be framed as a positioning exercise. He argues that brands are a marketplace response, not a marketer's stimulus; if that response from the audience is simple, clear and on strategy, marketers can build a brand. Drawing on his 30-year career working with some of world's best-known brands, including Disney, ESPN, Nike, Google, Visa, Expedia, Best Buy, Microsoft, Anheuser-Busch, Abbott and YouTube, McGhie tackles the strategic essence of positioning and creating differentiated advantage. He deftly weaves the positioning discussion throughout the book with a series of real-life anecdotes to deliver a crisp, clear view of what it means to build a brand. McGhie has written a practical book that will guide and inspire marketers and in turn help them guide and inspire their audiences.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
AUSTIN MCGHIE ran a CPG marketing and sales team and a leading advertising agency before turning thirty-five. Since then, he has successfully gotten older, run two more agencies, and built a nationally recognized marketing-strategy business from the ground up before selling it to a global communications company. Today, he and his business partner, Alpa Pandya, happily run a small but mighty marketing-strategy consulting business. Along the way, Austin has advised clients such as Kellogg's, Disney, Boeing, Nike, ESPN, NBC, YouTube, Levi Strauss, Westin, Amazon, Facebook, Visa and Unilever. In addition to participating in a host of writing and speaking engagements, Austin is the "almost bestselling" author of "Brand is a Four Letter Word: Marketing and the Art of Positioning." Visit him at FindDifference.com.
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Opening Rant SECTION 1: BRAND IS A FOUR-LETTER WORD 1. An Introduction 2. Brand (Double) Speak 3. What the Hell is a Brand Anyway? 4. Great Brands Are Built from the Inside 5. Want a Great Brand? Build a Great Product 6. A Brand is a Response, Not a Stimulus SECTION 2 POSITION IS AN EIGHT-LETTER WORD 7. Differentiation-Often Discussed, Seldom Achieved 8. Difference Must Be More Than Skin Deep 9. Eccentricity Rules 10. Differentiated Advantage 11. The Importance of the Missionary Position 12. Don't Be a Prisoner 13. Invent, Don't Construct 14. Love Me or Hate Me-Just Don't Like Me 15. Position Narrow, Catch Wide 16. Own Something 17. Niche is Not a Four-Letter Word 18. The Joys of Disruption 19. The Disposable Strategy 20. Positioning Happens 21. Find Your Difference 22. Brand Architecture-A Positioning Puzzle 23. The Non-Sense of Positioning SECTION 3 MARKETING IS A NINE-LETTER WORD (A Random Walk Through a Marketer's Mind-In Six Parts) Part 1: Thoughts You Can Use Tomorrow 24. Build Critical Marketing Mass 25. Stop Thinking Outside the Box 26. Change 27. Find the Flow 28. Think Before You Blink 29. Build an Experience 30. Make Yourself Famous Part 2: Thoughts on the Customer 31. The Consumer is Dead 32. Your Customer is a Cynic 33. Saints and Sinners 34. Customers Not Marketing Advisors Part 3: Thoughts on Research 35. Are You Feeling It? 36. Drowning in Information 37. The Importance of Why 38. I Like to Watch 39. Do You Know How High is Up? Part 4: Thoughts on Communicating That Position 40. Keep It Real 41. What's Your Back-Story? 42. Attention-The New Brand Currency 43. The Dollar Value of Creativity 44. A Nod to David Ogilvy 45. Assume You'll Only Get One Shot 46. Advertising-And the Need for Radical Re-engineering Part 5: Thoughts on the New World Order 47. Marketing in a World of Ubiquitous Information 48. It Takes a Village to Raise a Brand 49. The Truth Will Win Out-Sooner Not Later 50. Catch a Virus 51. Market to the Brand Broadcaster Part 6: Just Thoughts 52. Marketing is Judo Not Karate 53. If It's Not Important Enough to Win, You'll Lose 54. Sir Isaac's First Law 55. Sir Isaac's Second Law 56. Stop Fixing Things 57. The Brand Hijack 58. Be Careful with the Brand Keys 59. The New ROI-Return on Imagination 60. Scenario-Based Planning-An Idiot's Guide 61. Simplicity-The Ultimate Sophistication 62. Our Infatuation with Cool 63. Technology Marketing-It's Different Out There 64. Positioning You Conclusion A User's Guide to the Users Guide About the Author Index
Opening Rant SECTION 1: BRAND IS A FOUR-LETTER WORD 1. An Introduction 2. Brand (Double) Speak 3. What the Hell is a Brand Anyway? 4. Great Brands Are Built from the Inside 5. Want a Great Brand? Build a Great Product 6. A Brand is a Response, Not a Stimulus SECTION 2 POSITION IS AN EIGHT-LETTER WORD 7. Differentiation-Often Discussed, Seldom Achieved 8. Difference Must Be More Than Skin Deep 9. Eccentricity Rules 10. Differentiated Advantage 11. The Importance of the Missionary Position 12. Don't Be a Prisoner 13. Invent, Don't Construct 14. Love Me or Hate Me-Just Don't Like Me 15. Position Narrow, Catch Wide 16. Own Something 17. Niche is Not a Four-Letter Word 18. The Joys of Disruption 19. The Disposable Strategy 20. Positioning Happens 21. Find Your Difference 22. Brand Architecture-A Positioning Puzzle 23. The Non-Sense of Positioning SECTION 3 MARKETING IS A NINE-LETTER WORD (A Random Walk Through a Marketer's Mind-In Six Parts) Part 1: Thoughts You Can Use Tomorrow 24. Build Critical Marketing Mass 25. Stop Thinking Outside the Box 26. Change 27. Find the Flow 28. Think Before You Blink 29. Build an Experience 30. Make Yourself Famous Part 2: Thoughts on the Customer 31. The Consumer is Dead 32. Your Customer is a Cynic 33. Saints and Sinners 34. Customers Not Marketing Advisors Part 3: Thoughts on Research 35. Are You Feeling It? 36. Drowning in Information 37. The Importance of Why 38. I Like to Watch 39. Do You Know How High is Up? Part 4: Thoughts on Communicating That Position 40. Keep It Real 41. What's Your Back-Story? 42. Attention-The New Brand Currency 43. The Dollar Value of Creativity 44. A Nod to David Ogilvy 45. Assume You'll Only Get One Shot 46. Advertising-And the Need for Radical Re-engineering Part 5: Thoughts on the New World Order 47. Marketing in a World of Ubiquitous Information 48. It Takes a Village to Raise a Brand 49. The Truth Will Win Out-Sooner Not Later 50. Catch a Virus 51. Market to the Brand Broadcaster Part 6: Just Thoughts 52. Marketing is Judo Not Karate 53. If It's Not Important Enough to Win, You'll Lose 54. Sir Isaac's First Law 55. Sir Isaac's Second Law 56. Stop Fixing Things 57. The Brand Hijack 58. Be Careful with the Brand Keys 59. The New ROI-Return on Imagination 60. Scenario-Based Planning-An Idiot's Guide 61. Simplicity-The Ultimate Sophistication 62. Our Infatuation with Cool 63. Technology Marketing-It's Different Out There 64. Positioning You Conclusion A User's Guide to the Users Guide About the Author Index
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