Brand You Economics


Book Description

Whether it is Facebook, Instagram, Google, YouTube, email marketing, or a tactical channel to boost traffic and sales, more companies want to take shortcuts to boost their brand. These methods can pay off, but they can also hurt your brand. In fact, mistakes can be almost impossible to fix. Brand You Economics highlights what influences a brand’s performance so you can determine how your brand contributes to the bottom line. Based on the author’s lifetime of discovering best marketing practices, it teaches you to: • humanize your brand in seven distinct ways; • leverage the power of influencer marketing; • cultivate authentic relationships; • map the customer journey. You’ll learn how to find out about your audience, tell your story, and create a strong brand. By applying the book’s insights and principles, you’ll be able to build a brand that will outlast your lifetime. Welcome to Brand You Economics, timeless, tangible tools and principles to ensure your brand’s legacy.




Brand You Economics


Book Description

Whether it is Facebook, Instagram, Google, YouTube, email marketing, or a tactical channel to boost traffic and sales, more companies want to take shortcuts to boost their brand. These methods can pay off, but they can also hurt your brand. In fact, mistakes can be almost impossible to fix. Brand You Economics highlights what influences a brand's performance so you can determine how your brand contributes to the bottom line. Based on the author's lifetime of discovering best marketing practices, it teaches you to: - humanize your brand in seven distinct ways; - leverage the power of influencer marketing; - cultivate authentic relationships; - map the customer journey. You'll learn how to find out about your audience, tell your story, and create a strong brand. By applying the book's insights and principles, you'll be able to build a brand that will outlast your lifetime. Welcome to Brand You Economics, timeless, tangible tools and principles to ensure your brand's legacy.




Relationship Economics


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A revised and updated guide to bridging relationship creation with relationship capitalization Relationship Economics isn't about taking advantage of friends or coworkers to get ahead. It's about prioritizing and maximizing a unique return on strategic relationships to fuel unprecedented growth. Based on the author's global speaking and consulting engagements, Relationship Economics reveals that success comes from investing in people for extraordinary returns. This revised and updated version explains the three major types of relationships—personal, functional, and strategic—and how to focus each to fuel enterprise growth. It introduces new concepts in relationship management, including the exchange of Relationship Currency®, the accumulation of Reputation Capital®, and the building of Professional Net Worth®. These are the fundamental measures of business relationship, and once you understand them, you'll be able to turn your contacts into better executions, performance, and results. "David Nour is the definitive expert on strategic relationships. He has captured practical, pragmatic, and timely insights in Relationship Economics and has been a valuable resource to my sales transformation efforts." —RANDY SEIDL, Senior VP, Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking, Americas, HP "Although many understand the importance of relationships, the quantifiable and strategic values of relationships are often underemphasized. David Nour has done just that in??Relationship Economics."?? —CRAIG LEMASTERS, President and CEO, Assurant Solutions "If a man is judged by the company he keeps, David Nour's Relationship Economics provides a systematic approach to building value in that judgment. The concepts reach well beyond networking to building lasting and productive relationships." —DENNIS SADLOWSKI, former president and CEO, Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc.




Brands


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Brands are everywhere: in the air, on the high-street, in the kitchen, on television and, maybe even on your feet. But what are they? The brand, that point of connection between company and consumer, has become one of the key cultural forces of our time and one of the most important vehicles of globalization. This book offers a detailed and innovative analysis of the brand Illustrated with many examples, the book argues that brands: * mediate the supply and demand of products and services in a global economy * frame the activities of the market by functioning as an interface * communicate interactively, selectively promoting and inhibiting communication between producers and consumers * operate as a public currency while being legally protected as private property in law * introduce sensation, qualities and affect into the quantitative calculations of the market * organize the logics of global flows of products, people, images and events. This book will be essential reading for students of sociology, cultural studies and consumption.




What Your Customer Wants and Can't Tell You


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Why do people buy? A behavioral economist explains the science of consumer behavior in “the most important business book to come out in years” (Michael F. Schein, author and columnist for Inc., Forbes, and Psychology Today). What Your Customer Wants and Can’t Tell You explains the neuroscience of consumer behavior. Learn exactly why people buy—and how to use that knowledge to improve pricing, increase sales, create better “brain-friendly” brand messaging, and be a more effective leader. Behavioral economics is the marketing research future of brands and business. This book goes beyond an academic understanding of behavioral economics and into practical applications. Learn how real businesses and business professionals can use science to make their companies better. Business owner, consultant, and behavioral economics expert Melina Palmer helps leaders like you use the psychology of the consumer, innovation, and truly impactful branding to achieve real, bottom-line benefits. Discover information and tools you can actually use to influence consumers. Go beyond data science and learn how the consumer brain works. Dramatically improve your effectiveness as a leader and marketer with: · Real-world examples that bring a concept to life and make it stick · Ideas to help you with problem solving for your business · Ways to hack your brain into coming up with innovative programs, products, and initiatives “A stand-out guide for anyone fascinated by customer behavior and the science of decision-making.” —Madeline Quinlan, cofounder of Salient Behavioral Consultants




Brand You


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In the modern workplace, clearly defined hierarchies are on the wane, few of us have 'jobs for life' and many of us have portfolio careers or are self-employed. In these self-reliant times, it's essential to be remembered for the right reasons. Brand You helps you develop a powerful personal brand, both on- and offline, and shows you how to: Discover your talents, values and purpose Become more visible in your market Make the most of your networks Build your brand online using blogs, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter Attract people who want what you do in the way that you do it This new, extended edition is the definitive guide to personal branding and is packed with new material on social media, charisma and discovering your mission, as well as new exercises and examples. It is supported by valuable extra tools. To succeed in today's fast-paced environment, you have to know yourself and be able to communicate your brand to the outside world. This book will show you how. Highly recommended.- Gemma Greaves, Marketing Director, The Marketing Society. A must-read for everyone, from trainees to board members.- Sanjay Shah, Chief Financial Officer, The London Clinic.




Reputation Economics


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As the internet has increasingly become more social, the value of individual reputations has risen, and a new currency based on reputation has been created. This means that not only are companies tracking what an individual is tweeting and what sites they spend the most time on, but they're using this knowledge to predict the consumer's future behavior. And a world in which Target knows that a woman is pregnant before she does, or where a person gets a job (or loses one) based on his high school hijinx is a scary one indeed. Joshua Klein's Reputation Economics asks these crucial questions: But what if there were a way to harness the power of these new technologies to empower the individual and entrepreneur? What if it turned out that David was actually better suited to navigate this new realm of reputation than Goliath? And what if he ushered in a new age of business in which reputation, rather than money, was the strongest currency of all? This is all currently happening online already. Welcome to the age of Reputation Economics: -Where Avis is currently discounting car rentals based on Twitter followers -Where Carnival Cruise Lines are offering free upgrades based on a Klout score -Where Amazon and Microsoft are a short way away from dynamically pricing their goods based on a consumer's reach and reputation online -Where Klout scores are being used to vet job applications The value of individual reputation is already radically changing the way business is done.




The Little Book of Economics


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An accessible, thoroughly engaging look at how the economy really works and its role in your everyday life Not surprisingly, regular people suddenly are paying a lot closer attention to the economy than ever before. But economics, with its weird technical jargon and knotty concepts and formulas can be a very difficult subject to get to grips with on your own. Enter Greg Ip and his Little Book of Economics. Like a patient, good-natured tutor, Greg, one of today's most respected economics journalists, walks you through everything you need to know about how the economy works. Short on technical jargon and long on clear, concise, plain-English explanations of important terms, concepts, events, historical figures and major players, this revised and updated edition of Greg's bestselling guide clues you in on what's really going on, what it means to you and what we should be demanding our policymakers do about the economy going forward. From inflation to the Federal Reserve, taxes to the budget deficit, you get indispensible insights into everything that really matters about economics and its impact on everyday life Special sections featuring additional resources of every subject discussed and where to find additional information to help you learn more about an issue and keep track of ongoing developments Offers priceless insights into the roots of America's economic crisis and its aftermath, especially the role played by excessive greed and risk-taking, and what can be done to avoid another economic cataclysm Digs into globalization, the roots of the Euro crisis, the sources of China's spectacular growth, and why the gap between the economy's winners and losers keeps widening




The Economics of Emotion: How to Build a Business Everyone Will Love


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Finding success in today's marketplace is not about data, numbers, or projections-it's about understanding people and what drives them. This invaluable guide provides the knowledge you'll need to transform your business, inside and out, into a more admired and human-centric enterprise. People make decisions based on their emotions. It's a basic truth that has allowed organizations like Apple and Disney to build passionate followings while rival companies struggle to compete. To create enduring employee and consumer loyalties, and propel your brand to long-term success, you need to tap into the power of emotion. The universal resource of emotion can be your most valuable asset when it comes to setting a purpose, designing a company culture, developing products and services, and so much more. In The Economics of Emotion, business consultant Kyle M.K. helps you design an emotionally focused commercial experience that will enrich the lives of your employees and customers alike.




A Country is Not a Company


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Nobel-Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman argues that business leaders need to understand the differences between economic policy on the national and international scale and business strategy on the organizational scale. Economists deal with the closed system of a national economy, whereas executives live in the open-system world of business. Moreover, economists know that an economy must be run on the basis of general principles, but businesspeople are forever in search of the particular brilliant strategy. Krugman's article serves to elucidate the world of economics for businesspeople who are so close to it and yet are continually frustrated by what they see. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough management ideas-many of which still speak to and influence us today. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers readers the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world-and will have a direct impact on you today and for years to come.