The Brand Mindset: Five Essential Strategies For Building Brand Advantage Throughout Your Company

"A superb book with real substance and passion that could and should change yhour organization. A plethora of original concepts and tools illustrated in marvelous case studies provide new insight into brands and their management." - David A. Aaker., E.T. Grether Professor of Marketing Strategy at The University of California at Berkeley and author of Building Strong Brands..

. "The BrandMindset is all about building Genuine Brands; they lead with the heart, nurture with the soul and build one customer at a time." - Howard Schultz, Chariman and CEP, Starbucks Coffee Company and best-selling author of Pour Your Heart Into It..

. "The BrandMindset clearly articulates 'how to think like a brand' which is necessary to understand before an organization can act like a brand." - Dave Whitwam, Chairman and CEO of Whirlpool Corporation..

. "After reading The BrandMindset you should not only consider changing the way you do business, but you'll have a real good idea about how to go about it - and doing so truly builds Brand Equity." - Robert shulman, CEO of Copernicus and author of Marketing Myths That Are Killing Business..

. "Today is not enough to provide a service or a product. Success comes when the product and service are created and delivered through a BrandMindset." - Christopher W. Hart, Ph.D., President of the Spire Group and author of Extraordinary Guarantees.

How Starbucks became Starbucks and other secrets of branding success. Aimed at managers, nt just marketers, a famed consultant presents a powerful prescription for understanding, building, and sustaining brand equity. Duane Knapp demonstrates, from a management perspective, why "a company's brand is the most valuable asset it can have." he shows how the very best practitioners - contemporary household names like Starbucks, Citicorp, Whirlpool, Lexus, Hallmark, and others - shrewdly develop and maintain their brands even in the face of ferocious competition.

Readers can assess and improve their own efforts by adopting Knapp's five proven components of the Brand Mindset that is for brand success: Make a promise to the consumer; make all decisions with the brand in mind; make sure the entire company supports the brand's message; make the brand bigger than the business, and build one specific image for the brand and stick with it always.