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Lovemarks: the future beyond brands [Kindle Edition]

Kevin Robert , A.G. Lafley
3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)

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"Ideas move mountains, especially in turbulent times. Lovemarks is the product of the fertile-iconoclast mind of Kevin Roberts, CEO Worldwide of Saatchi & Saatchi. Roberts argues vociferously, and with a ton of data to support him, that traditional branding practices have become stultified. What’s needed are customer Love affairs. Roberts lays out his grand scheme for mystery, magic, sensuality, and the like in his gloriously designed book Lovemarks.”
—Tom Peters

Tom Peters, one of the most influential business thinkers of all time, described the first edition of Lovemarks: the future beyond brands as “brilliant.” He also announced it as the “Best Business Book” published in the first five years of this century. Now translated into fourteen languages, with more than 150,000 copies in print, Lovemarks is back in a revised edition featuring a new chapter on the peculiarly human experience of shopping.

The new chapter, "Diamonds in the Mine," is an insightful collection of ideas for producers and consumers, for owners of small stores and operators of superstores. So forget making lists! Shopping, says Kevin Roberts, is an emotional event. With this as a starting point, he looks at the history of shopping and how it has changed so dramatically over the last ten years. Using the Lovemark elements of Mystery, Sensuality, and Intimacy, Roberts delves into the secrets of success that can be used to create the ultimate shopping experience.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 7111 KB
  • Print Length: 248 pages
  • Publisher: powerHouse Books; Revised Edition edition (1 Dec 2005)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B002PKBLBA
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #207,978 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Vacuous 26 Oct 2006
Format:Hardcover
Gaaaa-wd! This is a beautifully designed and prepared book and looks lovely in its gleaming red cover in the offices I have seen it in (given away free as a promo' of course) but it needs to look good. Take the pretty pictures away and you are left with a hollow re-hashed idea that first surfaced many decades ago.
I read it over a couple of evenings one weekend and was staggered at how little it has to say. Take away the pictures and 'air space' and there really is very little copy - barely a leaflet or magazines worth.
This really is design over content
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Tosh 4 July 2006
Format:Hardcover
One of the most profoundly pretentious and embarrassing books ever written on brands and advertising:- a heady mix of vanity, vapidity and cant. Nice pictures
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Dull and self congratulatory 22 Dec 2009
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I was recommend this book and thus bought it, i wish i hadn't. It is highly Dull, highly self congratulatory. The author clearly has a high opinion of himself.
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75 of 94 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars How the trees lost out 17 July 2004
By Adman
Format:Hardcover
I've awarded one star, only to show respect to the trees that have been lost to the world to produce this book. Research undertaken by the UK's National Urban Forestry Unit concludes that trees have a positive impact on the incidence of asthma, skin cancer and stress-related illness by filtering polluted air, reducing smog formation, shading out solar radiation and by providing an attractive, calming setting for recreation.
Sadly, my wellbeing has taken a turn for the worse after reading this book.
So what's the problem?
Fundamentally,the idea that this is a revealatory new idea, the basic premise, is wrong. There has been no progression from products to trademarks to brands. The world hasn't suddenly arrived at a moment when brands now need to be Lovemarks. Man has been in 'love' with inanimate and everyday objects, extracting more 'meaning' than the object itself, since our early history. Dr Francis Pryor, President of the Council for British Archaeology, believes the symbolism of something as inanimate as an upside-down oak tree at Seahenge, Norfolk is fundamental to understanding the Bronze Age mind.
'We often find everyday objects deliberately turned upside down at Bronze Age sites. The inverted oak {at Seahenge}is a very complex statement. It is the world turned upside down, just as death is an inversion of life. From a ritual point of view it symbolises taking objects out of this world and placing them in the next.' In his book on our early history, he describes how Man would take their most cherished possessions and give them up to the gods. These possessions are now what we might call brands.
This leads to my second point. Brands have been around far longer than this book (and, to be fair, most books on the topic)understands.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Highly useful 31 Mar 2009
Format:Hardcover
I was in the process of recommending this book to someone and saw the lousy reviews it has garnered. My advice is to pay no attention to them. I read it a few years ago and it had a profound impact. Are its ideas entirely new? Who cares? Its central premise that brands belong to consumers and showing the essential components in what the brand has to do in order for it to be loved - and thus bought massively at a premium price - is highly relevant and useful.
It is beautifully laid out, engaging to read and not verbose. Its ideas are simple and easily assimilated. It might be slightly trumpet-blowing, for Saatchi and P&G, but this can be dealt with.
There are no doubt different ways to marketing success, but not many products are in the situation that Microsoft (see below) finds itself. Apple on the other hand has always known how to make its products loved and this has been of huge benefit to its profitability. IBM, remember, stopped making PCs, because everyone felt indifferently about them and they found themselves a simple commodity. This has never happened to the Mac.

The canny use of social networking for branding is the most recent manifestation of the idea and has appeared subsequent to the book's publication. Check out the amount of Nutella lovers on Facebook and tell me that this book has nothing useful to say.

The essential tenets of the book are lucid and true and more cogently put than in most business books.
Heartily recommended.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Polarised reviews = Discussion Platform 1 Aug 2011
Format:Hardcover
Ok - for the marketing pro's it may not be profound or new.
It does illustrate several memorable basics and makes some applicable suggestions.

I have used the book on numerous occassions as a discussion platform to talk about the quality of service, attention to detail and motivating commitment. Great place to start.

The graphic approach appeals to those unlikely or unwilling to read a tome on the topic.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars I love this book 14 Nov 2007
By Mrs. K. A. Wheatley TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Hardcover
I didn't go to ad school or marketing college. I ran an ordinary business that wasn't making a lot of money, and wanted to find out some stuff about advertising, stuff that worked, stuff that I understood, and stuff that wasn't full of complex words and linguistic concepts. I bought this book, and it helped me, and my business, a lot. In agreement with the other reviewers who have slated it, no it isn't profound, no, there aren't a lot of concepts here, yes, it's very graphic heavy. It is however, simple, easy to understand, has a few, well thought out and interestingly promoted ideas, and also has lists of questions, ideas and tasks at the end of every chapter that you can try yourself if you're stuck in a rut with your marketing, and most small businesses are. I enjoyed it, and I used it, with some success.
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