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How Brands Become Icons: The Principles of Cultural Branding [Hardcover]

Douglas B Holt
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1 Oct 2004 1578517745 978-1578517749
“Iconic brands” (ie: Coca-Cola, Volkswagon, Corona) have social lives and cultural significance that go well beyond product benefits and features

This book distills the strategies used to create the world’s most enduring brands into a new approach called “cultural branding".

Brand identity is more critical than ever today, as more and more products compete for attention across an ever-increasing array of channels. This book offers marketers and managers an alternative to conventional branding strategies, which often backfire when companies attempt to create identity brands.


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  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Harvard Business School Press (1 Oct 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1578517745
  • ISBN-13: 978-1578517749
  • Product Dimensions: 16.5 x 2.5 x 24.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 269,553 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Douglas B. Holt is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at HBS. He is a respected scholar in the marketing arena.

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FROM NELSON MANDELA TO RONALD REAGAN, from Steve Jobs to Sam Walton, from Oprah Winfrey to Martha Stewart, from Michael Jordan to Muhammad Ali, from Andy Warhol to Bruce Springsteen, from John Wayne to Woody Allen, cultural icons dominate our world. Read the first page
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Good Idea - Boring as hell 30 Jan 2011
Format:Hardcover
The book has a good idea - it reminds you of the importance of culture and I like the overall idea, - However, the book repeats the same idea over and over again and feels a little like it's a theory that could have been summed up in one Blog post, but was stretched into an entire book.

Also, as much as I hate to say it, his writing style is boring and I found it difficult to read after the 50th page. It just goes on and on and on and on....

Good idea, needs work. book could be written in a less boring way!
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Contains a number of critical concepts 10 Jan 2010
Format:Hardcover
I liked this book when it came out, and years later I still find myself going back to it and its ideas in my own brand consultancy work. Doug's elucidation of the idea of the "authored brand" is worth the cover price alone. (An authored brand happens when the brand owner's role is akin to that of a novelist, creating a brand experience that exalts and lifts people, sometimes pushily, rather than seeking to pander to "what people want" or "what research tells us.") The Harley Davidson analysis also is really enlightening, and convinced me that the conventional understanding and explanation of this brand's success is incorrect.

I think you'll appreciate this book, especially if, like me, you'd rather read about cultural anthropology than "marketing" so-called, even if marketing is what you do all day.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Real life examples, not guess work 28 Nov 2006
Format:Hardcover
So many marketing books are full of waffle.

One idea made to last 350 pages is so common place it makes you wonder if the best marketing trick was infact the one created to make you buy the book in the first place.

This is one of the few exceptions.

Using real world examples Holt makes the case for cultural resonance as the 'new way' of making marketing stick.

Well worth reading if you are interested or in the world of design, branding or advertising.
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