Brand Aid: An Easy Reference Guide to Solving Your Toughest Branding Problems and Strengthening Your Market Position - Hardcover

Brad VanAuken

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814406815 ISBN 13: 9780814406816

Publisher: Amacom Books, 2003

Synopsis

Written by an acknowledged expert with 20 years of experience building world-class brands, Brand Aid is a day-to-day quick-reference guide that provides solutions for the 40 most pressing problems faced by brand managers. This comprehensive, practical how-to guide also gives readers 17 invaluable end-of-chapter checklists to help them assess and advance their own brand management efforts. Succinct and easy-to-read, it features exercises, formulas, case studies, proprietary research findings, and other useful tools -- including a template to help them do a complete brand audit.

Brand Aid covers topics ranging from research, positioning, and advertising to brand equity management, legal issues in brand management, and creating a brand-building organization. It includes an overview of the entire brand management and marketing process, as well as in-depth discussions of brand building on the Internet and internal brand building. A treasure trove of techniques, templates, and rules of thumb, Brand Aid! is an indispensable roadmap for anyone responsible for building their organization's brand.

About this title

About the Authors

Brad VanAuken is the founder and president of BrandForward, Inc.

Brad VanAuken (Honeyoye Falls, NY) is the President and founder of BrandForward, Inc. He was previously the Vice President of Marketing at Element K, and the Director of Brand Management and Marketing at Hallmark Cards.

Reviews

What makes a Mercedes a Mercedes or a Coke a Coke? Popular brand names like these are more than just products. They're symbols that capture a wide range of ideas and emotions, thanks to the efforts of marketing masters like VanAuken, former director of brand management for Hallmark. VanAuken has distilled his enormous practical knowledge about the theory and practice of brand management into this smart but problematic volume. The book is packed with information and good ideas-so many, in fact, that it is virtually an encyclopedia of brand marketing dos and don'ts. Most of the material is presented as a densely compressed series of bullet points-often with 10 or more points to a page-which lack clear continuity. The result is a book composed largely of lists-easy to browse, but hard to read. This wouldn't matter if the book were truly effective as an "easy reference guide," but the lack of a technical glossary limits its usefulness in that area as well. While certainly a valuable resource for marketing professionals, this is more a collection of brilliant fragments than a practical road map for executives out to make their product a household name like IBM or McDonald's.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Amacom Books
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814406815
• ISBN 13: 9780814406816
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320