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Forget Brand Preference – Win the Brand Relevance War

Strategy Driven

Brand Relevance : Making Competitors Irrelevant by David Aaker. Not only are these brands phenomenally successful – they are examples of product categories where competitors are nearly irrelevant, says branding guru David Aaker. The brand preference model dictates the objectives and strategy of the firm. Whole Foods Market.

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The Ultimate Leadership Tip (From a Trend Too Compelling to Ignore)

Terry Starbucker

Aaker , entitled “ Millennial Searchers “ This was the key passage that caught my attention (my bolding for emphasis): Millennials appear to be more interested in living lives defined by meaning than by what some would call happiness.

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How CMOs Build Brands by Collaborating Across Silos

Harvard Business Review

What, then, will achieve that objective? In fact team building can be the primary objective. The five suggestions all have been shown to advance these objectives. David Aaker is the Vice-Chairman of Prophet and the author of Brand Relevance: Making Competitors Irrelevant and the davidaaker.com blog on branding.

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