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brandknewmag.com 42 The Branded Mind Brand Relations Management: Bridging the Gap Between Brand Promise and Brand Delivery Those interested in emotional branding take note. The Branded Mind provides an in depth and contemporary analysis of how people think, and how that relates to branding. De Plessis describes consumer behavior, emotions and moods, decision-making, market segmentation, and brand strategy in the context of science and philosophy. This not an easy read, but those in search of a rich and comprehensive understand of neuromarketing should look no further. Brand Relations Management is a book for all those interested in strategy and marketing. The primary intention is to show that both brand promise and brand delivery are necessary in order to build a sustainable brand. The book’s greatest strength is that it gathers and presents all the relevant theories of brand building. By Tony Apéria, Rolf Back By Erik du Plessis Emotionomics: Leveraging Emotions for Business Success StoryBranding: Creating StandOut Brands Through The Power of Story Emotionomics: Leveraging Emotions for Business Success analyzes important breakthroughs in brain science and facial coding to inform author Dan Hill’s compelling conclusions and insights on storytelling, sensory payoff, defusing skepticism and other branding essentials. A blend of psychological lessons and industry applications, Emotionomics bridges the humanity of the heart and the logic of the mind in an artful and skilled discourse on the business of life. By Dan Hill Having worked on many famous brands as an advertising executive, Jim Signorelli has found that today, in order for advertising to be truly effective, the brand being promoted must work the way a good story works. Many brands continue to get in their own way with an over-reliance on editorialized benefits. “Today, that’s a deathwish,” says Signorelli. “To remain competitive, brands must provide consumers with story themes they can relate to, identify with, and share with their tribes. By Jim Signorelli The Brand Gap By Marty Neumeier THE BRAND GAP is the first book to present a unified theory of brand-building. Whereas most books on branding are weighted toward either a strategic or creative approach, this book shows how both ways of thinking can unite to produce a “charismatic brand”-a brand that customers feel is essential to their lives. In an entertaining two-hour read you’ll learn: the new definition of brand the five essential disciplines of brandbuilding how branding is changing the dynamics of competition the three most powerful questions to ask about any brand why collaboration is the key to brand-building how design determines a customer’s experience how to test brand concepts quickly and cheaply the importance of managing brands from the inside 220-word brand glossary Habit: The 95% of Behavior Marketers Ignore In, Habit: The 95% of Behavior Markete