Why Johnny Can't Brand Rediscovering The Lost Art Of The Big Idea [Hardcover]

Theres a Big Idea waiting inside your brand that can make you #1. Find it and shape it yourselfor competitors and customers will do it for you. And we promise, you wont like the tagline.

A few years back, a shocking best seller called Why Johnny Cant Read woke up the education establishment and revived the lost art of phonics. Now, Why Johnny Cant Brand blows the lid off the marketing establishment by reviving the lost art of the Big Idea.

According to Bill Schley and Carl Nichols, Jr., modern branding is a daily choice between real, muscle-building ideas and an immense smorgasbord of empty-caloried junk. The stakes are huge, especially in a world with 155 kinds of shampoo. So why do so many good companies choose wrong? In fact, why do most fail to differentiate at allhanding what some call an unfair advantage to the few who do? The surprising answers, and the exclusive, eight-week prescription to fix it, are here in Why Johnny Cant Brand.

Schley and Nicholswho have more than twenty-five years of experience working with global giants as well as small, spunky, start-upspresent an in-your-face, no-nonsense guide to what real branding and communicating is all about.

The secret is uncovering and focusing on the Dominant Selling Ideathe one unifying idea at the center of every brandbefore you charge ahead with advertising or anything else. The Dominant Selling Idea (DSI) is the thing you do thats superlative, important and believable, made memorable and tangiblethe difference that makes people want to buy you. It automatically puts you in a category of one.

In the often funny, page-turning style of two award-winning, former Madison Avenue communicators, Schley and Nichols explain:
1.Why real branding is the opposite of what you think
2. How positioning turns your brand asset from fools gold to real gold
3. Why Harvard and Stanford MBAs are the last to get it (but fear notthey can learn this too)
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