Strategy Driven

APRIL 8, 2011

There are two ways to compete in existing markets – gaining brand preference and making competitors irrelevant. Most marketing strategists perceive themselves to be engaged in a brand preference battle. Brand Relevance : Making Competitors Irrelevant by David Aaker. Whole Foods Market. Brand Relevance.

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Brand Aaker Six Sigma Short-term 56

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Indeed, if a department attracts new customers, it wins the lion’s share of the marketing budget, but it is well documented that it costs some companies five to ten times more to attract new customers than to retain an existing one. The Powerful Role of Trust. Customer relationships, like interpersonal relationships, are built on trust.

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Aaker Short-term Marketing Benchmarking 63

First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Reinventing Your Marketing Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to use innovative thinking to improve how you create or increase demand for what you offer Those who aspire to maximize the impact of their marketing initiatives will find the material in this HBR book invaluable.

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Review Marketing Books Innovation 70

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2011

This is the route that breakthrough brands take, and is for most marketers the only route to growth and profitability. Marketing strategies geared toward this approach feature constant, incremental enhancements to the offering's attractiveness, reliability, or price, in hopes of getting buyers to take a second look at a familiar brand.

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Aaker Brand Marketing Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

The challenge for the Chief Marketing Officer is to create marketing and brand building that is both exceptional and efficient in the face of country, product, and functional silos. Pharmacia had a global team representing regional silos that met to coordinate marketing globally and to coordinate new product planning.

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Brand Aaker Objective Team Building 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2011

If the brand represents the category such as Fiber One, iPhone, Whole Foods Market, Geek Squad, or Jeep then other brands will have a difficult time getting considered. David Aaker is the Vice-Chairman of Prophet and the author of Brand Relevance: Making Competitors Irrelevant and the davidaaker.com blog on branding. Exemplar status.

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Aaker Henderson Brand Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2015

Some of the pioneering work on applying this idea to brands and actually measuring their personalities was done in the 1990s by Jennifer Aaker, then at UCLA and now at Stanford. And brands are part of that everything. In subsequent decades the thinking about brands as humanlike entities has gone in a lot of different directions.

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Brand Aaker Participative Media 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

Most marketers think that the best way to hold onto customers is through "engagement" — interacting as much as possible with them and building relationships. How should you market differently? Then, apply different expectations to those two groups and market differently to them. How should you market differently?

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