Brandsense : How to Build Powerful Brands Through Touch, Taste, Smell, Sight and Sound - Hardcover

Named the "World's Brand Futurist" by the BBC, BRANDchild author Martin Lindstrom advises Fortune Top 500 brands across the globe. He was recently selected by the Chartered Institute of Marketing as one of the world's top 50 marketing people. Martin speaks at more than 100 conferences a year across 30 countries, and he publishes a weekly online column that reaches more than one million people. He has websites at www.martinlindstrom.com and www.dualbook.com. Millward Brown is one of the world's top 10 research organizations, with 60 offices in 36 countries. See www.millwardbrown.com

"Breezily written and easy to read, with useful chapter summaries and action lists." Management Today "Once again, Lindstrom has delivered an outstanding book that provokes, intrigues and enriches our understanding of how consumers really perceive brands." The Marketer "An outstanding book that provokes, intrigues and enriches our understanding of how consumers really perceive brands." The Marketer "Effortlessly explains why certain brand images work and others fall flat. Advertisers take note." Easy Jet "Lindstrom's at his best pulling us in with so many fascinating historical titbits that it's worth the read alone for the cocktail-party icebreakers...Lindstrom's ideas...like any good brand, are sexy, smartly packaged, and sure to spark debate." Fast Company "A stand-out original among the avalanche of me-too branding publications on the market." Director "Included are innovative tools for evaluating a brand's place on the sensory scale, analyzing its future sensory potential, and enhancing its appeal to reach the broadest base of consumers." Documentation on Books, Cases, Teaching Material in Management "Martin Lindstrom's observations are always acute and his writing is both fascinating and readable." City to Cities "Broken into easily digestible chapters with handy 'highlights' at the end of each one." Media Week "There are lots of books trying to distil the essence of this particular magic. 'Brand Sense' stands out from the crowd for two reasons: it has a foreword by Philip Kotler, a professor at the Kellogg School of Management who is an acknowledged world master of marketing, in which he says the book 'contains a treasury of ideas for bringing new life' to brands. And it has a flash of insight." The Economist "BRANDsense is a wonderful book, an original to be sure. More important, it is a necessary book! The table has been run on traditional branding practices - and the race is on to re-imagine marketing and branding. Martin Lindstrom provides us with the Nikes we need to begin the re-imaging sprint." -Tom Peters "I think all brand managers should read this book if they want to get additional edge by tapping into the natural physiology of their customers." Journal of Product & Brand Management, Emerald "Lays out the path on how to integrate the five senses for successful branding." Journal of Marketing Research "Lindstrom discusses the strategies to turn brands into multi-sensory experiences." Media "In Brand Sense, published by Kogan Page, author Martin Lindstrom reveals 'tricks of the trade.'" -Daily Star "A treasury of ideas for bringing new life to your brands, and the cases are truly compelling ... should be read by everyone involved in developing or improving a brand. Read this book and watch how the professionals do it!" Philip Kotler, Professor of International Marketing, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University