Brand Spirit: How Cause Related Marketing Builds Brands - Rilegato

Pringle, Hamish; Thompson, Marjorie

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ISBN 10: 047198776X ISBN 13: 9780471987765

Casa editrice: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1999

Riassunto

The only guide to understanding and making the most of one of the hottest trends in branding today

Nothing builds brand loyalty among today's increasingly skeptical, hard-to-please consumers like a proven commitment to a worthy cause on the part of a company. Known as Cause Related Marketing (CRM), this approach to branding has gained a great deal of momentum over the past decade, thanks, in no small part, to such recent, notable examples as McDonald's commitment to saving the rain forests and BMW's breast cancer fund-raising initiatives. Now, in the first book to explore the business benefits of CRM and its positive and negative impacts on business strategy, two experts explain the concept and fundamental principles of CRM and its place within the contemporary discourse on branding. And, with the help of numerous, fascinating, and instructive case studies, they demonstrate how marketers can harness the power of CRM to position and enhance customer loyalty to a brand, product, or service.

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L'autore:

MARJORIE THOMPSON is Director of Saatchi & Saatchi Cause Connection. Prior to this she was Communications Director of the Commission for Racial Equality. Previously she was Chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and has been an advisor to the Royal College of Nursing. HAMISH PRINGLE, formerly Vice-Chairman of Marketing at Saatchi & Saatchi has now formed his own consultancy, Brand Beliefs Limited. He has been Chairman of the IPA Advertising Effectiveness Committee and is also past Chairman of the UK communications industry charity NABS.

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"Many people are coming to the conclusion that 'valufacture' in the future is increasingly going to come from synergies and alliances. The single product or service is going to become a commodity sold on price alone. Cause Related Marketing is all about such synergies and alliances. All three parties involved benefit and that is why CRM is very much of the moment and has so much potential." Edward De Bono, From the Foreword to Brand Spirit "American Express invented Cause-related Marketing in the early 1980s - service marked the term - and I said at the time to American Express executives that the idea was perhaps the greatest marketing innovation in 50 years. Surely it would be copied. Given the subsequent expansion of Cause-related Marketing into the four corners of the earth under the banners of thousands of diverse companies, in hindsight I underestimated the power of the idea. This book demonstrates why Cause-related Marketing is such a major and exciting force in the global marketing world." James D. Robinson III, Chairman and CEO RRE Investors, Former Chairman and CEO American Express Company "Pringle & Thompson have done a masterful job of showing how companies can benefit by moving beyond rational and emotional branding to 'spiritual' branding." Philip Kotler, S.C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University "It's often assumed that market forces and social responsibility are impossible bed-fellows. Brand Spirit challenges this view and shows with hard example how, through Cause Related Marketing, good business and good works can be mutually supportive." Jeremy Bullmore, WPP Group PLC, London "At Harvard and now at London Business School I've seen how important the understanding of brands and branding has become within a top MBA programme. Brand Spirit brings new thinking to this key area in a highly readable and insightful way." Professor John Quelch, Dean of London Business School "Brand Spirit is the first authoritative, comprehensive - and above all readable - book to spotlight this major new marketing challenge." Winston Fletcher, Bozell UK Group Ltd "I really liked this book and felt that I learned a lot from it. I am sure it will become a 'must-read' among marketing professionals ... it provides a solid business case on why companies should consider this approach to brand building and positioning and it provides effective guidelines on how to create such campaigns. So, for brand managers, marketing directors, fund raisers and agencies it is a terrific book and one I would unquestionably recommend." Professor Peter Doyle, Warwick Business School

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• Editore: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 047198776X
• ISBN 13: 9780471987765
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 281