MKTG09030 2023 Digital Brand Management

Brand Management provides strategic insights into the role and relevance of digital branding. A holistic and integrative approach covers the fundamentals of successful digital brand management. There is a focus on analysis, debate and seminal contributions.

Seeing the world's biggest brands gain ground over the world's markets, you can't deny that the 25,000 students in the UK studying marketing will never understand their subject without knowing how branding works.

This is THE key scholarly text in this crucial topic, an already hugely respected title and big seller in the field. It follows on from the introductory textbook Creating Powerful Brands, and comes highly illustrated with real examples of influential marketing campaigns. This is the book that will take students to the next level with the skills to develop and implement their own branding strategy.

Luxury is in fashion and is now to be found in almost every retail, manufacturing and service sector. New terms like "mass-luxury," "new luxury" and "hyper luxury" attempt to qualify luxury, causing confusion today about what really makes a luxury product, a luxury brand or a luxury company. 

Luxury experts Jean-Noel Kapferer and Vincent Bastien provide the first rigorous blueprint for effectively managing luxury brands and companies at the highest level. The new edition of The Luxury Strategy includes more information about digital strategy, globalization, sustainable development and why luxury brands are resilient to recessions. It analyzes in depth the essence of luxury, highlights its managerial implications and rationalizes the highly original methods often very far from the usual marketing strategies used to transform small family businesses such as Ferrari, BMW, Louis Vuitton, Cartier, Chanel, Armani or Ralph Lauren into worldwide successes. 

The Luxury Strategy rationalizes those business models which have achieved profitability, while sustaining the luxury status of their brands, and sets out the counter-intuitive rules for successfully marketing luxury goods and services.

The Foreword by renowned marketing guru Philip Kotler sets the stage for a comprehensive review of the latest strategies for building, leveraging, and rejuvenating brands. Destined to become a marketing classic, Kellogg on Branding includes chapters written by respected Kellogg marketing professors and managers of successful companies. It includes:

• The latest thinking on key branding concepts, including brand positioning and design
• Strategies for launching new brands, leveraging existing brands, and managing a brand portfolio
• Techniques for building a brand-centered organization
• Insights from senior managers who have fought branding battles and won

This is the first book on branding from the faculty of the Kellogg School, the respected resource for dynamic marketing information for today's ever-changing and challenging environment. Kellogg is the brand that executives and marketing managers trust for definitive information on proven approaches for solving marketing dilemmas and seizing marketing opportunities.

In this original and imaginative slant on contemporary brand management, Thom Braun takes us into the minds of the world s greatest Western thinkers. Filled with contemporary examples, pragmatic insights and summaries of each philosopher s "top tips", this elegant and witty book will resonate with all marketing and branding professionals who want their intellectual and professional faculties stimulated by some new thinking.

The Future of Purpose-Driven Branding is an essential resources for businesses seeking to create signature social programs that truly impact, communicate a firm's social effort, and advance their business.

As industries turn increasingly hostile, it is clear that strong brand-building skills are needed to survive and prosper. In David Aaker's pathbreaking book, MANAGING BRAND EQUITY, managers discovered the value of a brand as a strategic asset and a company's primary source of competitive advantage. Now, in this compelling new work, Aaker uses real brand-building cases from Saturn, General Electric, Kodak, Healthy Choice, McDonald's, and others to demonstrate how strong brands have been created and managed. A common pitfall of brand strategists is to focus on brand attributes. Aaker shows how to break out of the box by considering emotional and self-expressive benefits and by introducing the brand-as-person, brand-as-organisation, and brand-as-symbol perspectives. A second pitfall is to ignore the fact that individual brands are part of a larger system consisting of many intertwined and overlapping brands and subbrands. Aaker shows how to manage the "brand system" to achieve clarity and synergy, to adapt to a changing environment, and to leverage brand assets into new markets and products. As executives in a wide range of industries seek to prevent their products and services from becoming commodities, they are recommitting themselves to brands as a foundation of business strategy. This new work will be essential reading for the battle-ready.

For courses in brand management. Create profitable brand strategies by building, measuring, and managing brand equity Strategic Brand Management: Building, Measuring, and Managing Brand Equity looks at branding from the perspective of the consumer, and provides a framework that identifies, defines, and measures brand equity. Using insight from both academics and industry practitioners, the text draws on illustrative examples and case studies of brands marketed in the US and all over the world. New co-author and award-winning scholar Vanitha Swaminathan, joins Kevin Lane Keller on this exciting, new 5th Edition. This edition also features a greater focus on digital branding, so students are aware of the exciting new opportunities and daunting challenges brands must face in connecting with today's consumers.

Presenting the reader with practical applications for brand enhancement, this work offers a framework for brand management, and provides a flowchart for progressing the brand building process from strategy through tactics to implementation.

Adopted internationally by business schools, MBA programmes and marketing practitioners alike, The New Strategic Brand Management is simply the reference source for senior strategists, positioning professionals and postgraduate students. Over the years it has not only established a reputation as one of the leading works on brand strategy, but has also become synonymous with the topic itself. Jean-Nol Kapferer covers all the leading issues faced by the brand strategist today, supported by an array of international case studies. With both gravitas and intelligent insight, it reveals new thinking on topics such as putting culture and content into brands, the impact of private labels, the new dynamics of targeting and the comeback of local brands.This updated fifth edition of The New Strategic Brand Management builds on its impressive reputation by including new information to enable students and practitioners to stay up to date with targeting, adding recent research and market knowledge to the discipline. With dedicated sections for specific types of brands (luxury, corporate and retail), international examples and case studies from companies such as Audi, Nivea, Toyota and Absolut Vodka, plus, among other things, models and frameworks such as the Brand Identity Prism, it remains at the forefront of strategic brand thinking.

This book provides evidence-based answers to the key questions asked by marketers every day. Tackling issues such as how brands grow, how advertising really works, what price promotions really do and how loyalty programs really affect loyalty, How Brands Grow presents decades of research in a style that is written for marketing professionals to grow their brands.

How Brands Grow Part 2 is about the fundamentals of buying behaviours and brand performance fundamentals that provide a consistent roadmap for brand growth, and improved marketing productivity. This revised edition includes updates to all chapters and the addition of a new chapter, 'Getting Down to Business-to-Business Markets'.

Take control of your brand's online presence with this bestselling guide that shows you how to plan, analyze, optimize and measure the tangible results of your digital campaigns.

Discover what marketers need to do to evoke the emotions of their customers and create long-lasting consumer-brand relationships.

Cultivate a meaningful brand strategy using a three-step, values-driven branding framework focused on connecting with customers by clarifying, integrating and communicating the values of the company.

Recommended Journal Reading 

European Journal of Marketing

International Journal of Market Research

Journal of Academy of Marketing Science

Journal of Marketing

Journal of Marketing Research

Journal of Brand Management

Journal of Product and Brand Management

Harvard Business Review

Irish Marketing Review

Mc Kinsey Quarterly

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