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StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 59 – An Interview with David Aaker, author of Brand Relevance

Strategy Driven

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. advantages of achieving brand relevance over brand preference. several key factors needed to gain brand relevance.

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Brand Portfolio Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Brand Portfolio Strategy: Creating Relevance, Differentiation, Energy, Leverage, and Clarity David A. Aaker Free Press (2004) Note: I read this book when it was first published and recently re-read it. If anything, Aaker’s insights are even more valuable now than they were then.

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Forget Brand Preference – Win the Brand Relevance War

Strategy Driven

There are two ways to compete in existing markets – gaining brand preference and making competitors irrelevant. Brand Relevance. The first and most commonly used route to winning customers and sales focuses on generating brand preference among the brand choices considered by customers, on beating the competition.

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David A. Aaker: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

In his own words: “My passion is understanding brands and helping firms build brands and brand portfolios. My first brand book, Managing Brand Equity defined brand equity and set forth its value to a firm and its customers.

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Twitter Weekly Highlights for 2011-03-18

Tanveer Naseer

Want respect as a manager? Brand # marketing in social media – Coffee House # Book Review: “Wikibrands&# [link] #. RT @ smaxbrown : Author Jennifer @ Aaker of The Dragonfly Effect reveals how to get results by harnessing power of SM [link] #. Follow @ TanveerNaseer # FF #leadership # management #. Thanks Lisa!

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Personal Needs vs. Customer Relationships

Strategy Driven

Some compile complex Customer Relationship Management algorithms to develop and maintain these relationships. Even when brands claim to desire lifetime relationships with customers, many tactically distance themselves from the humanity of their interactions. The Powerful Role of Trust. The Sincere Company. I was satisfied.

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How CMOs Build Brands by Collaborating Across Silos

Harvard Business Review

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. 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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