Breakthrough Branding: How Smart Entrepreneurs and Intrapreneurs Transform a Small Idea into a Big Brand - Softcover

Kaputa, Catherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857885813 ISBN 13: 9781857885811

Publisher: Nicholas Brealey, 2012

Synopsis

Even the smallest idea can have BIG impact when positioned correctly. Breakthrough Branding shows entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, and small businesses alike the secrets to transforming a brainstorm into big bucks.

From the grassroots growth of beverage brands like Red Bull, Honest Tea, and Innocent, to the exploding growth of digital brands like Twitter, Weibo, and Groupon; from the cult appeal of stores like Forever 21, to the success of virtual retailers like Zappos - successful companies of all types and sizes begin with three things: ambition, a winning idea, and a brand strategy.

Branding expert Catherine Kaputa uses dozens of international brand histories to demonstrate what makes a brand thrive, and provides you with the tools to do the same. Learn how to define your audience, create a standout personality, and position yourself as superior to the competition - all by utilizing the power of branding!

Packed with thoughtful reader exercises and filled with leading-edge social media strategies, Breakthrough Branding teaches novice start-ups to seasoned professionals how to leverage their assets to create a successful business.

About this title

About the Author:

Catherine Kaputa is the award-winning author of You Are a Brand! and Breakthrough Branding. She is a successful branding strategist and speaker and led the 'I Love NY' campaign. Catherine lives in New York City.

Review:

Your brand is a mental picture that consumers carry around in their heads. But the act of branding is something you can controlâ??by using the tools of marketing communications to influence those perceptions. Here is a cheerful crash course on how to get going.

Whether youâ??re dying to launch your own company, or are more of a reluctant entrepreneur, you face the imperative to build your brand. Catherine Kaputa has made this challenge her personal and professional study, and in this book she shares secrets worth many times the cost of admission. Now go forth and brand!

[Kaputa] provides direct and easy-to-grasp (and -apply) concepts within reach for any entre-/intrapreneur. . . Entertaining, engaging, and thankfully (and remarkably) untethered to marketing-, brand, and ad-speak.―Barbara Jacobs, Booklist

An accomplished marketer and world-class businesswoman, Catherine has created the ultimate field manual for any aspiring entrepreneur. A must-have and must-read for anyone who wants their business to succeed!―Kevin Allen, Author, The Hidden Agenda

If you aim to be an entrepreneur and already have a big idea, but you never studied marketing and branding, this book will give you a running start. Catherine is a superb coach and her book delivers a wonderful collection of marketing steps and real world entrepreneur success stories.

If thereâ??s one thing youâ??ve just got to know aboutâ??but is tough to learn aboutâ??itâ??s branding. Catherina Kaputa tells you what you must know in this valuable book. Read it before your competitors do.―Jay Conrad Levinson Author, Million-Selling Guerrilla Marketing Series

If brand building were courting and marrying, Kaputaâ??s strategies would be the best dating advice around! She shows you how to romance the marketplace with your package, your name, and your image without sacrificing the heart of your brand.―Dr. Wendy Walsh, Americaâ??s Relationship Expert, Co-Host, THE DOCTORS and CNNâ??s Human Behavior Expert

Having a great idea isnâ??t enough. Youâ??ve got to develop and build your brand if you want to be a successful entrepreneur, and Catherine Kaputa is just the expert you need to provide you with great ideas in a simple, direct way. Want branding to be easy? Read this book.

From one of marketingâ??s premier thought-leaders, Breakthrough Branding is a treasure chest filled with practical and immediately applicable advice on branding and marketing strategy. It is sure to become THE handbook of entrepreneurial branding and marketing strategy.

For both long-standing and newly-minted entrepreneurs, there is no greater defeat than having a customer go elsewhere because they didnâ??t understand your value. Breakthrough Branding clearly and skillfully leads its readers through the need and the creative process of branding a â??positionâ?? in the marketplace. By first creating a â??clear benefit or promise of worthâ?? which is different from that of competitors, and then by allowing social media to be a â??big microphone,â?? each entrepreneur can learn to reinvent and redistribute their personal and business branding. I highly recommend this book as a must-have marketing tool in todayâ??s highly-competitive, global marketplace.

About this edition

• Publisher: Nicholas Brealey
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1857885813
• ISBN 13: 9781857885811
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228