David Aaker

An expert presents in a compact form the 20 essential principles of branding that will lead to the creation of strong brands.

20 Principles That Drive Success

Aaker on Branding

Stories are orders of magnitude which are more effective than facts at achieving attention, persuading, being remembered, and inspiring involvement. Signature stories—intriguing, authentic, and involving narratives—apply the power of stories to communicate a strategic message. Marketing professionals, coping with the digital revolution and the need to have their strategic message heard internally and externally, are realizing that a digital strategy revolves around content and that content is stories. Creating Signature Stories shows organizations how to introduce storytelling into their strategic messaging, and guides organizations to find, or even create, signature stories and leverage them over time. With case studies built into every chapter, organizations will realize the power of storytelling to energize readers, gain visibility, persuade audiences, and inspire action.

Strategic Messaging that Persuades, Energizes and Inspires

Creating Signature Stories

Today’s firms need a social effort that is serous and impactful to be relevant. It’s not enough to make a commitment to reduce energy or have an ad hoc unbranded budget for grants and volunteering—the world needs their resources and agility to address existential threats in society, and their customers (and employees) demand it. As an influential voice in branding and market connection, David Aaker examines how businesses can adapt their approaches for social betterment in, The Future of Purpose-Driven Branding: Signature Programs that Impact & Inspire Both Business and Society. According to Aaker, the future of branding demands that businesses: Create a purpose and culture that nurtures social and environmental efforts Create signature programs to carry that message Build strong signature brands in part with five branding “Must Dos” Use the signature brands to advance a business to get their endorsement and access to their resources The Future of Purpose-Driven Branding demonstrates how firms can create signature programs, build their brands, and use them to advance a business brand, in order to maintain relevance and connect with future consumers.

Signature Programs that Impact & Inspire Both Business and Society

The Future of Purpose-Driven Branding

“A highly concise and wonderfully cogent and insightful tutorial on the principles of brand stewardship and leadership.” —Joseph V. Tripodi, former Chief Marketing Officer, Subway and Coca-Cola Aaker on Branding presents in a compact form the twenty essential principles of branding that will lead to the creation of strong brands. Culled from the six David Aaker brand books and related publications, these principles provide the broad understanding of brands, brand strategy, brand portfolios, and brand building that all business, marketing, and brand strategists should know. Aaker on Branding is a source for how you create and maintain strong brands and synergetic brand portfolios. It provides a checklist of strategies, perspectives, tools, and concepts that represents not only what you should know but also what action options should be on the table. When followed, these principles will lead to strong, enduring brands that both support business strategies going forward and create coherent and effective brand families. “Nobody knows brand strategy better than David Aaker. Aaker has taken all of the essential principles of branding and collapsed them into one epic brand book. Whether you’re a seasoned brand marketer or just getting started, this book will provide you with a practical path to creating, nurturing and leveraging strong brands.” —Ann Lewnes, CMO Adobe Technology “I am a devoted user of David Aaker’s work over many years, I, like many of you, have benefitted from his insights in chunks. Here those chunks are all pulled together, and seasoned with years of his own applied work. It’s just outstanding.” —Richard Lyons, Dean, Berkeley-Haas School of Business Administration

The Future of Purpose-Driven Branding is an essential resources for businesses seeking to create signature social programs that truly impact, communicate a firm's social effort, and advance their business.

Signature Programs That Impact Society, Inspire, and Enhance a Business

In Creating Signature Stories, branding guru David Aaker applies the power of intriguing, authentic, involving stories to communicate strategic messaging internally and externally, a critical and difficult task. Stories are many times more powerful than facts at getting attention, generating brand energy, creating involvement, persuading, arousing emotion and inspiring. Moreover, success in digital platforms, which is becoming increasingly essential, means content and content means stories. This book, full of case studies, discusses how to find, evaluate, refine and leverage great stories and use them to build brands, enhance customer relationships and inspire employees.

Strategic Messaging That Persuades, Energizes and Inspires

Creating Signature Stories in India

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Felix Stöckle

Ein kompakter Überblick über die nützlichsten Konzepte und Methoden für die Entwicklung starker Marken, die sich im Wettbewerb erfolgreich differenzieren. Die 20 Grundsätze basieren auf dem weltweit aktuellsten Wissensstand über Marken, ihre Etablierung und Weiterentwicklung. Sie zeigen die verschiedenen Möglichkeiten auf, die Manager bei der Gestaltung von Marken haben, und wie Sie damit direkten Einfluss auf Unternehmensstrategie und -erfolg nehmen können. Die deutsche Ausgabe ist mehr als eine Übersetzung. Die Autoren veranschaulichen anhand von Fallbeispielen aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum, warum man Marken als Vermögenswerte betrachten sollte und wie man eine strategische Markenvision entwickelt, diese ganzheitlich umsetzt und gegenüber Kunden einlöst. Gleichzeitig wird gezeigt, wie man Marken in neue Produktkategorien erweitert, sie gegenüber Angriffen des Wettbewerbs schützt, ihre Relevanz langfristig erhält und warum man das eigene Markenportfolio als Ökosystem betrachten sollte.

Die 20 wichtigsten Grundsätze der Markenführung

Marken erfolgreich gestalten

Uncommon Growth in the Digital Age

Owning Game-Changing Subcategories

Owning Game-Changing Subcategories is about creating organizational growth in the digital age by creating and owning game-changing subcategories fueled by digital. Owning Game-Changing Subcategories outlines the path to finding, managing, and leveraging new subcategories. In the digital age, the path has been made wider, shorter, and more frequently traveled. Throughout Owning Game-Changing Subcategories, David Aaker discusses certain aspects of the digital age that alter this path, such as E-commerce providing fast, inexpensive market access bypassing the cost of gaining distribution into storefront retailers or creating personal sales teams and social media and websites enabling communication on steroids in comparison with traditional use of advertising or events. Growth is not only a success measure but also creates energy and opportunity for customers and employees. And such growth almost never occurs with “my brand is better than your brand” marketing. Owning Game-Changing Subcategories explores the only ways to grow a business (with rare exceptions) which is to: develop new “must haves” that define a game-changing subcategory that provides a new or markedly superior buying or use experience or brand relationship to a core customer base; become the exemplar brand that represents the subcategory and drives its visibility, positioning, and success; and create barriers to competitors that could include “must-have” associations and a basis of relationships that go beyond functional benefits.

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