A young woman tells a focus group that Diet Coke is like her
boyfriend. A twenty-something tattoos the logo of Turner Classic
Movies onto his skin. These consumers aren’t just using these
brands. They are engaging in a rich, complex, ever-changing
relationship, and they’ll stay loyal, resisting marketing
gimmicks from competitors and influencing others to try the brand
they love.
How can marketers cultivate and grow the deep relationships that
earn this kind of love and drive lasting success for their
brands?
In Romancing the Brand, branding expert Tim Halloran
reveals what it takes to make consumers fall in love with your
brand. Step by step, he reveals how to start, grow, maintain,
and troubleshoot a flourishing relationship between brand and
consumer. Along the way, Halloran shares the secrets behind
establishing a mutually beneficial ‘romance.’ Drawing
on exclusive, in-depth interviews with managers of some of the
world’s most iconic brands, Romancing the Brand arms
you with an arsenal of classic and emerging marketing
tools–such as benefit laddering and word-of-mouth
marketing–that make best-in-class brands so successful. The
book is filled with examples, strategies, and tools from powerful
brands that consumers love, including Coke, Dos Equis, smartwater,
the Atlanta Falcons, Domino’s Pizza, Bounty, Turner Classic
Movies, and many more.
Ultimately, Romancing the Brand provides marketers with a
set of principles for making brands strong, resilient, and
beloved–and the insight and confidence to use them.
Table of Content
1 Romance and the Brand 1
2 Know Yourself 21
3 Know Your Type 43
4 Meet Memorably 81
5 Make It Mutual 101
6 Deepen the Connection 123
7 Keep Love Alive 145
8 Making Up 173
9 Breaking Up and Moving On 197
Notes 231
Acknowledgments 239
About the Author 243
Index 245
About the author
TIM HALLORAN is president of Brand Illumination. He has built, directed, and consulted with some of the world’s largest brands, at top companies including Coca-Cola, Home Depot, Kraft Foods, Procter & Gamble, Delta Airlines, glacéau (vitaminwater and smartwater), Georgia Pacifi c, the NBA, and Turner Broadcasting System. His successes include the national launch of Powerade sports drink and its sponsorship of the Olympics, codevelopment of Dasani bottled water, and the development of Coke’s fi rst Internet marketing initiative. He was awarded Innovator of the Year by Coca-Cola and named Max Award Finalist for Innovation by Georgia State University. He has taught at Emory University and Mercer University, and he lives in Atlanta with his wife and three children.
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