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Every day, thousands of passionate developers come up with new startup ideas but lack the branding know-how to make them thrive. If you count yourself among them, Lean Branding is here to help. This practical toolkit helps you build your own robust, dynamic brands that generate conversion. You’ll find over 100 DIY branding tactics and inspiring case studies, and step-by-step instructions for building and measuring 25 essential brand strategy ingredients, from logo design to demo-day pitches, using The Lean Startup methodology’s Build-Measure-Learn loop. Learn exactly what a brand is—and what it isn’t Build a minimal set of brand ingredients that are viable in the marketplace: brand story, brand symbols, and brand strategy Measure your brand ingredients by using meaningful metrics to see if they meet your conversion goals Pivot your brand ingredients in new directions based on what you’ve learned—by optimizing rather than trashing Focus specifically on brand story, symbols, or strategy by following the Build-Measure-Learn chapters that apply
Every day, thousands of passionate developers come up with new startup ideas but lack the branding know-how to make them thrive. If you count yourself among them, Lean Branding is here to help. This practical toolkit helps you build your own robust, dynamic brands that generate conversion. You'll find over 100 DIY branding tactics and inspiring case studies, and step-by-step instructions for building and measuring 25 essential brand strategy ingredients, from logo design to demo-day pitches, using The Lean Startup methodology's Build-Measure-Learn loop. Learn exactly what a brand is--and what it isn't Build a minimal set of brand ingredients that are viable in the marketplace: brand story, brand symbols, and brand strategy Measure your brand ingredients by using meaningful metrics to see if they meet your conversion goals Pivot your brand ingredients in new directions based on what you've learned--by optimizing rather than trashing Focus specifically on brand story, symbols, or strategy by following the Build-Measure-Learn chapters that apply
Your new product is ready to launch and you’re itching to tell potential customers all about it. But how do you make your message stand out above all the noise and marketing clutter? Take the guesswork out of content management with this hands-on guide. You’ll learn how to produce and manage powerful content pieces that speak directly to customers and compel them to respond. Author Laura Busche walks you through content strategies and tactics drawn from business, design, and psychology insights. Packed with examples and exercises, this book teaches you how to tell your story with engaging copy, potent images, and striking design—all carefully orchestrated through well-oiled production ...
You've created a product that you're passionate about. Maybe that product is a service. Maybe it's a cause. Maybe that product is you. Ever found it hard to explain to others what you're all about—to convince them to be a part of your team, to buy from you, to partner up?Ever felt that out of the 7 billion+ brands on this earth, none can shake the world exactly like yours--- but somehow you just can't pass on that feeling to anyone else?Wonder. Stories. Joy. Others. Helping. Optimism. Lifestyle. Quality. Solving. Passion. Faith. Energy. This is what we're made of.What is your brand made of? What is it that moves your soul and business? Because let me tell you something: there's a high chance that is exactly what will move others too. Sharing your story doesn't have to be painful, and starting today, it won't. We will embark on the adventure of building a bold, inspiring and powerful brand manifesto—a roadmap that will draw buyers, employees, investors and everyone else right into your brand story.
How do you develop products that people will actually use and buy? This practical guide shows you how to validate product and company ideas through customer development research—before you waste months and millions on a product or service that no one needs or wants. With a combination of open-ended interviewing and fast and flexible research techniques, you’ll learn how your prospective customers behave, the problems they need to solve, and what frustrates and delights them. These insights may shake your assumptions, but they’ll help you reach the "ah-ha!" moments that inspire truly great products. Validate or invalidate your hypothesis by talking to the right people Learn how to conduct successful customer interviews play-by-play Detect a customer’s behaviors, pain points, and constraints Turn interview insights into Minimum Viable Products to validate what customers will use and buy Adapt customer development strategies for large companies, conservative industries, and existing products
This workbook will guide you on the journey of building a genuine personal brand that moves audiences. It includes exercises, templates, and helpful advice to navigate everything from shaping a personal brand story, to designing symbols that represent you in the marketplace. Among many others, you'll find a month's worth of personal brand journal pages, a worksheet to create your manifesto, and a complete personal branding plan. Branding yourself and your dream can be a form of therapy. This hyper-digital world of ours has a funny way of amplifying mistakes. Accentuating faults. Introducing doubt. Without strong convictions and self-esteem, our lives can slowly turn into a "me too" song where all we are trying to do every morning is keep up, comply, and fit in. Branding is a cure against all of that.
Interest in the phenomenon known as "lean" has grown significantly in recent years. This is the first volume to provide an academically rigorous overview of the field of lean management, introducing the reader to the application of lean in diverse application areas, from the production floor to sales and marketing, from the automobile industry to academic institutions. The volume collects contributions from well-known lean experts and up-and-coming scholars from around the world. The chapters provide a detailed description of lean management across the manufacturing enterprise (supply chain, accounting, production, sales, IT etc.), and offer important perspectives for applying lean across di...
Now revised and updated, this classic book is still the definitive step-by-step guide to creating cutting edge print ads. It covers everything from how advertising works, how brand-building methodologies are changing, how to get an idea, and how copy and art should be crafted. It demystifies the advertising creative process, with page after page of practical, inspiring and often controversial advice from such masters as David Abbott, Bob Barrie, Tim Delaney, David Droga, Neil French, Marcello Serpa, and dozens more. Over 200 print ads and case histories reveal the creative processes at work in world-famous agencies in the US, UK, Asia and Australia. This new edition also includes an exclusive section featuring winning ads from the World Press Awards. No other book takes you on such a journey through the minds of advertising¿s creative leaders.
Advertising is a ubiquitous and powerful force, seducing us into buying wanted and sometimes unwanted products and services, donating to charitable causes, voting for political candidates, and changing our health-related lifestyles for better or worse. The impact of advertising is often subtle and implicit, but sometimes blatant and impossible to overlook. This revised and fully updated new edition of The Psychology of Advertising offers a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of the psychological findings on the impact of advertising, and discusses the research in the context of recent developments in the fields of social and consumer psychology. Key questions covered in the volume in...