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brandknewmag.com 42 Brand Relations Management: Bridging the Gap Between Brand Promise and Brand Delivery Brand Together: How CoCreation Generates Innovation and Re-energizes Brands A new tool for marketers and brand managers, co-creation is fast becoming a recognized and effective way to drive business growth and enhance and protect brand reputation. Brand Together shows how to involve all stakeholders employees, clients and customers - in the process of co-creation and innovation to enable the brand to succeed in the new world of customer engagement and participation. It shows how to intertwine creativity with brand strategy and provides practical guidance on how to co-create with customers from a brand perspective. 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 Nicholas Ind, Clare Fuller, Charles Trevail FusionBranding: How to Forge Your Brand for the Future Robin Hood Marketing: Stealing Corporate Savvy to Sell Just Causes FusionBranding: How to Forge Your Brand for the Future by brand futurist Nick Wreden represents a fresh look at branding imperatives, especially for companies selling to other businesses. Core principles of FusionBranding are illustrated with numerous case studies. Each chapter includes a FutureView, which looks at branding in 2005 and beyond, Takeaways, in-depth questions that can help apply FusionBranding principles, and Resources that features books and Web sites about FusionBranding principles. Katya Andresen, a veteran marketer and nonprofit professional, demystifies winning marketing campaigns by reducing them to ten essential rules and provides entertaining examples and simple steps for applying the rules ethically and effectively to good causes of all kinds. The Robin Hood rules steal from the winning formulas for selling socks, cigarettes, and even mattresses, with good advice for appealing to your audiences’ values, not your own; developing a strong, competitive stance; and injecting into every message four key elements that compel people to take notice. By Katya Andresen By Nick Wreden Tell to Win By Peter Guber Brand Loyalty There’s a reason why Tell to Win has been a bestseller since it was published on March 1st. He’s the chairman and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, and a veteran producer of films that have earned over $3 billion worldwide and racked up more than 50 Academy Award Nominations - including his latest project, T