Books like The branded mind by Erik Du Plessis

Martin Lindstrom exposes the unseen psychological tactics used by global brands to influence our choices and reveal how advertising, neuromarketing and data mining shape consumer behavior.

A definitive guide outlining the 22 essential rules for building and sustaining powerful brands, now expanded with new commentary, illustrations, and an additional volume on internet branding.

"Neuromarketing studies the way the brain responds to various cognitive and sensory marketing stimuli. Analysts use this to measure a consumer's preference, what a customer reacts to, and why consumers make certain decisions. This scientific approach to marketing has helped many brands and companies determine how to best market their products to different demographics and consumer groups. Brainfluence explains how to practically apply neuroscience and behavior research to everyday marketing problems. This book is designed to be a practical guide with quick and easy takeaways offered in 60 short chapters, each containing one key strategy. The chapters are organized into major groups, mainly by application: in-person sales, Web marketing, print advertising, and many others. The book explains several key concepts, including: New insights into what makes people buy, Ways for brands to form emotional bonds with customers, Short, easy to digest ideas that can be accessed in any order, Techniques for all types of businesses, including small businesses and non-profits This book contains practical, easy-to-understand ways to improve marketing, advertising, and sales efforts"--

"Atkin argues that people become addicted to "cult brands" for more or less the same reasons that people become committed to cults. In The Culting of Brands, he explains how companies have fueled such unshakable allegiance." "The Culting of Brands includes interviews with current and former cult members, and some of today's most creative marketers. The book makes the connection between religion and consumerism, beliefs and buying instincts."--BOOK JACKET.

"For too long marketers have been asking the wrong question. If consumers make decisions unconsciously, why do we persist in asking them directly through traditional marketing research why they do what they do? They simply can't tell us because they don't really know. Before marketers develop strategies, they need to recognize that consumers have strategies too...human strategies, not consumer strategies. We need to go beyond asking why, and begin to ask how, behavior change occurs. Here, author Douglas Van Praet takes the most brilliant and revolutionary concepts from cognitive science and applies them to how we market, advertise, and consume in the modern digital age. Van Praet simplifies the most complex object in the known universe - the human brain - into seven codified actionable steps to behavior change. These steps are illustrated using real world examples from advertising, marketing, media and business to consciously unravel what brilliant marketers and ad practitioners have long done intuitively, deconstructing the real story behind some of the greatest marketing and business successes in recent history, such as Nike's "Just Do It" campaign; "Got Milk?"; Wendy's "Where's the Beef?" ; and the infamous Volkswagen "Punch Buggy" launch as well as their beloved "The Force" (Mini Darth Vader) Super Bowl commercial"--