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brandknewmag.com 42 Brand Atlas: Branding Intelligence Made Visible By Alina Wheeler, Joel Katz A company’s brand is its most valuable asset. Wheeler takes the most seminal tools used by a wide variety of thought leaders and practitioners and makes the information understandable, visible, relevant, exportable and applicable. With her best-selling debut book, Designing Brand Identity (Wall Street Journal, Best-Seller, Spotlight 1/23/2011), now in its third edition, Alina Wheeler reinvented the marketing textbook using a straightforward style to help... Where the Suckers Moon: The Life and Death of an Advertising Campaign By Randall Rothenberg Rothenberg chronicles the brief, turbulent marriage between a recession-plagued auto company and an aggressively hip ad agency (whose creative director despised cars), capturing both the ad world’s tantalizing gossip and the broader significance of its creations. “Simply the best book about advertising I have ever read.”-Neil Postman (Technopoly). Branding Yourself: How to Use Social Media to Invent or Reinvent Yourself By Erik Deckers, Kyle Lacy Want a new job or career? Need to demonstrate more value to customers or employers? Use today’s hottest social media platforms to build the powerful personal brand that gets you what you want! In this completely updated book, Erik Deckers and Kyle Lacy help you use social media to attract new business and job opportunities you’ll never find any other way... The Power of Cult Branding: How 9 Magnetic Brands Turned Customers into Loyal Followers (and Yours Can, Too!) By Matthew W. Ragas, Bolivar J. Bueno Like religious cults that can attract thousands of devoted disciples, is it possible for company brands to build legions of loyal followers? In a marketer’s dream come true, can certain products—with the right combination of positioning and branding— take on magnetic characteristics and galvanize die-hard customers who become walking... The End of Advertising as We Know It The Marketing Mavens By Sergio Zyman, Armin Brott The controversial marketing guru discusses the revolution in advertising strategy “What can I say about Sergio Zyman? He’s a genius; that’s all.”-Warren Bennis, University Professor and DistinguishedProfessor of BusinessAdministration, USC Marshall School of Business In this follow-up to his bestselling book The End of Marketing As We Know It, Sergio Zyman, CocaCola’s renowned former chief... The way far too many people at far too many companies think about and execute marketing was born in an era when suppliers-the companies generating products and services-were in the catbird seat. That world is long dead, and customers now occupy that position. In this relentlessly globalizing economy, we live in a world of oversupply and underdemand, with too many suppliers chasing too few customers, offering more goods and services than the market can absorb... The Brand Gap: How to Bridge the D