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How Brands Grow
- What Marketers Don't Know
- Narrated by: Daniel May
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Categories: Business & Careers, Marketing & Sales
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Summary
This audiobook provides evidence-based answers to the key questions asked by marketers every day. Tackling issues such as how brands grow, how advertising really works, what price promotions really do and how loyalty programs really affect loyalty, How Brands Grow presents decades of research in a style that is written for marketing professionals to grow their brands.
It is the first audiobook to present these laws in context and to explore their meaning and application. The most distinctive element to this audiobook is that the laws presented are tried and tested; they have been found to hold over varied conditions, time and countries. This is contrary to most marketing texts and indeed, much information provides evidence that much modern marketing theory is far from soundly based.
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- stryder
- 25-07-16
More for established corporates, terrible reading
Maybe it's the robotic reader but man this book is hard work. Not suitable for audiobook with so many references to diagrams etc. I don't even think the content is useful in 2016.
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- Tim
- 23-12-15
Good book very poor narration
Unfortunately the very "automaton" narration detracts considerably from this audio book. I think the underlying book is quite good but overall I cannot recommend this audio book.
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- Charlene
- 27-01-21
Very Hard to get into
This book is more for the number crunchers.. not really creative types hoping to grow their business,.. more for understanding the bigger companies. Also, the voice was very impersonal.. monotonous sounding, very easy to mentally switch off.
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- Patrick Johnson
- 20-10-20
Robotic voice spoils it makes it hard to follow
The content is good but the robotic voice spoils it and makes it hard to follow. I would recommend getting the book.
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- Thomas Brown
- 05-10-20
So unmemorable...
If you asked me to recount any of the information from this book, don't bother. Massively boring and nothing original.
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- marek.pisarczyk
- 07-07-20
Excellent!
Excellent book and one of the best ones I've read/listened to in this matter. You'll consume it more than once!
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- R
- 19-05-20
Thought provoking. Audible may not be best medium
Brilliant content and thought provoking but requires a lot of referring to the downloadable PDF. Worth the read but may be better as a physical book to truly learn from.
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- Chris Jones
- 13-05-20
Absolutely amazing evidenced based marketing
Superb Marketing Manual that crushes the old untested marketing claims of the past! must read
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- Mr. R. D. Cox
- 26-02-20
the facts
Still learning here, but it's good to have the data and facts in a world where bullshit rules.
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- Maria
- 28-11-19
Robotic narrator - had read on Kindle!
This review is about the narrator and by fae not the content of the book - which is great! Regarding this audio, I Will ask for refund, as it is not possible to hear this, there no story telling at all, looks like a machine recorder
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- Mr W
- 10-03-18
WARNING: "Empirical" Slight of Hand
Wow. This book is absolutely riddled with data slight of hand techniques. Take extreme caution before buying into any of these theories. I have spent almost 15 years working in a professional capacity with many of the brands cited within and have run well over a hundred research studies - and the author is incredibly manipulative with the way his conclusions are "empirically" drawn.
The pattern is as such:
1) Use data to force an extreme classification (e.g. classifying someone as "not loyal" to a brand if they deviate from it even once, instead of looking at, for instance, people that consume a brand consistently 90% of the time)
2) Make a sweeping suggestive claim about why (e.g. "this MIGHT be due to the fact that consumers see no difference between brands' positioning")
3) Translate #1 and #2 into a "Law" (e.g. "Thus, the Law of Inevitable Buyer Promiscuity")
...this pattern is repeated over and over.
Not only that, but he keeps oscillating between how the data is viewed and interpreted in order to force fit it into his theory, such as:
- Switching between percentages and means and comparing the two
- Comparing one statistic from a category to another analogous statistic from a completely different category (versus an 'apples to apples' comparison within a category)
- Subtly switching between an isolated data point (correlation) and a conclusion (causation), without there actually being an "empirical" link
- Reaching back to ancient datasets (if you look at the reference material, it toggles back and forth between the 1980's and mid-2000's) scraping for some numbers that can "empirically" fit his theories
It was infuriating to listen to as a professional who has seen the data AND the implications of proper research, insights, and brand strategy.
Again, definitely exercise a lot of caution in taking the suggestions within to heart. Not only does it marginalize and inaccurately portray the impact of branding and research, but the methodologies and strategies he discredits are only getting wildly more applicable with the micro-targeting abilities afforded to marketers through emerging online techniques.
Good luck.
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- Henri Lellouche
- 18-01-16
Great content - robotic speaker
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
I found the content to be really interesting and thought provoking. Really made me rethink my approach to my business.
What did you like best about this story?
Confirmation that advertisers need to talk to all customers: loyals, switchers, competitive loyals and even non-category users!
Would you be willing to try another one of Daniel May’s performances?
No - his reading was awful. Actually sounded like a machine-voiced performance. The author should have done this - I saw his Ted talk and his voice was just fine.
If this book were a movie would you go see it?
N/A
Any additional comments?
Better packaging of the downloadable PDF when buying the book would have been smart. I had to hunt for it after I had already begun listening to the book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 19-08-18
Revolutionary
It will turn inside out your mind regarding sales and marketing. It’s all about truths of science.
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- Splento - Product Photography & Videography
- 10-03-18
Not your usual book on branding and positioning
A very contrarian approach to many commonly held views. Not ideal as an audio book, because it refers to a lot of charts and graphs, but the content is great.
Roman
Splento.com
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- Nami87
- 03-05-16
Performance was Robotic
the performance kind of ruined this book for me. There Re a lot of interesting insights but I couldn't grasp them because I was being put to sleep by the reader.
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- Samer Forzley
- 30-12-14
Painful
Quite painful to get through, very negative gloom and doom without actionable solution, big brand focused, no need to print charts mentioned
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- Shane Foster
- 13-08-20
Snooze fest with "theories". Nothing practical
This was absolutely excruciating to listen to. Random stats and conclusions are thrown out to convince the lister of the author's intelligence. This honestly felt like a college text book, nothing praticical for real world implementation.
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- Karen
- 13-11-17
A Must “Listen” for Marketers
I️ just re-listened to this book. I️t is even better the second time. This should be mandatory reading for anyone who is in marketing or sales.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-11-17
Great content, boring reader
Every marketer should read this book. If you are considering it, read a physical copy. The narrator is brutal and you need the charts.
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- jamie t reilly
- 07-08-17
Poorly conceived, badly written, and boringly delivered
A snake oil sales pitch delivered by the driest narration you can imagine. Filled with sweeping generalizations about "science" supported by "data" but never challenging, questioning its own assertions or looking at the multiple marketplace examples that contradict the assertions made. A great book to convince accountants they can be great marketers written by someone lacking any instinct or basic logic.
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