Ben Mack, Think Two Products Ahead and Legend Platform Branding
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Think Two Products Ahead by Ben Mack
Learn about Think Two Products Ahead: Secrets the Big Advertising Agencies Don't Want You to Know and How to Use Them for Bigger Profits by Ben Mack.
Leverage the Legend Platform Ben presents in the book for maximum profitability in your own business (small or large) and learn what branding is really all about.
Ben Mack brings his expertise from the world of big business advertising and the massive success he created for multi million dollar corporations to the hands and minds of entrepreneurs thirsty for more success and profits.
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First, Mack destroys the myth that branding is your logo or your color palette. Then, he demonstrates how great branding works, so you won't waste your money on marketing that gets you nowhere. You'll learn a practical, commonsense approach to marketing that empowers you to develop your own brand with the same techniques and technologies the big players use-but without breaking the bank. In fact, the less you spend on marketing the more important these tools are to your success.
You'll discover tools to give you a competitive advantage as you strengthen the relationship between your customer and your products or services. Every encounter with your customer will deepen this bond, leading to even greater future sales. Great branding isn't just about the product you're selling now, but about maintaining the sales momentum into the product you'll be selling tomorrow. Think Two Products Ahead shows you how to align your business plan with your marketing plan, so you can keep customers indefinitely.
Using real examples from some of the most legendary (or disastrous) branding campaigns in history, Mack gives you an insider's perspective-and inside advice-on which tactics will float your brand and which will sink it. He sorts the bad advice from the good, letting you avoid those missteps that get good companies in bad trouble.
Branding isn't magic. Not since Jay Levinson's original Guerrilla Marketing book has an insider really spilled the beans and taught you how to use the professional grade tools that are so simple they work automatically. Think Two Products Ahead reveals inside secrets that make branding work for marketing budgets of any size-so you can grow your business faster and stronger than you imagined. When it comes to your brand, this insider's guide proves that if you aren't thinking two products ahead, you're hardly thinking at all.
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When Brands Say "I Love You" by Ben Mack
Excerpt from an article archived at E-ZineArticles.com
I was impressed when I read Kevin Roberts' Lovemarks: The Future Beyond Brands (PowerHouse Books; 2005). Roberts explains the loyalty created by finding a brand's love story and transforming the logo into a Lovemark. Brilliant.In marketing, every day is Valentine's Day. The ongoing romance of your customer is a never ending process. Our customers are constantly being courted by our competitors. Our job is to flirt, to woo and to seduce.
"Advertising is a seduction, not a debate." --David Ogilvy
Many marketers are too much of a cad, making a sale and then treating our customer as though we're the only game in town. However, when the most expensive cost in marketing is making your first sale, this is a mistake. Business make bigger profits on their second, third and fourth sales.
If marketing is an invitation to a purchase, your brand is your ongoing relationship. Your brand is the magnetism, your attraction factor and is most magnetic when expressed as authentic love.
"Love is metaphysical gravity." -R. Buckminster Fuller
Your brand is not your logo, not your color-pallette. Your brand is your relationship with customers and prospects, their desire to do business with you again.
Branding is about setting up your back end. You don't want to just make a sale, you want to make several sales in a row to the same customer. You want to think two sales ahead. You want your customer to crave your next product.
Branding is an endless seduction. Need inspiration? Watch the movie 50 First Dates and see Adam Sandler seduce Drew Barrymore again, and again, and again. You are constantly seducing your customer and demonstrating why they love you and need more of you RIGHT NOW.
I hope that you don't mind that I'm flirting with you right now... Read More Here
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- Joost van der Leij demonstrates NLP techniques at Ben Mack's Think Two Sales Ahead event. Another sneak peek at the upcoming home study course from Ben Mack, author of Think Two Products Ahead.
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Is This "Law of Attraction"?
There are at least two types of attraction:1) Conscious Attraction
2) Unconscious Attraction
Conscious business attraction requires laser focus. Yes, clarity of mind builds bigger business. When you have laser focus you will make more money.
That's because you be in-tuned with what you need to do for marketing and as a result:
==> Great people will be attracted to your ideas
==> You'll suddenly see passive money opportunities
==> You'll have ALL the resources you desire
==> What you focus on will come towards you
Please allow me to tell you why I'm qualified to discuss attracting BIG BUSINESS money...
My name is Ben Mack. I'm a former Senior Vice President BBDO, Brand Strategy Director on Cingular.
I helped them make an additional $50,000,000 in 2003.
I developed the strategy that sold a quarter-of-a-billion dollars ($250,000,000) in Yomega Yo-Yos 1998-2000. That's a lot of yo-yos.
May I share with you how I helped Yomega grow from
$8,000,000 one year to $120,000,000 the next?
We didn't make our ads about the yo-yo. Yes, we had yo-yos in the advertisements, but the ads were
about the kids being heroes.
The yo-yos with a new automatic clutch allowed kids to be heroic.
The kids were shown doing yo-yo tricks that would normally have taken scores of hours or maybe even years to master.
How did we take a simple yo-yo, allow it to make kids heroes and turn all this into a quarter-billion-dollar bonanza?
I show you here...
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Magical Perspective = Seeing the metaphor as the reality
An E-Mail Branding Lesson
Dear Mark,Creating magic is manifesting a
sustainable metaphore.
This email is a think piece. If you
enjoy playing with ideas, you may
have fun with these ideas.
Please allow me to tell you a story...
Earlier this year, I worked with a
gentleman who sells plant nutrients.
He helps folks grow bigger tomatoes.
EVERYTHING he now prints, from brochures
to invoices, reinforces the notion that his
products allow you to grow bigger tomatoes.
He makes users of his product his hero because
they are growing really, really big tomatoes.
The Metaphor is that his product = bigger tomatoes.
The promise is that...
You use his product and YOU, Mark, grow
heroic size tomatoes.
This idea came to me this evening because I was
enjoying the conversation of an artist named
T. A. Thayer.
Thayer said, "The metaphor is the reality."
His notion inspired the branding lesson of this email...
Lesson: Your brand essence is your metaphore.
For a picture of a mask T.A. created, please look
here:
www.necmfa.com/PoetThayer
Thank you for consuming this think piece. Now,
think peace.
Ben
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"A pattern has an integrity independent of the
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Synergetics
If we replace the word "pattern" with the word
"brand," we create the statement: "A brand has
an integrity independent of the medium by
which you have received the information that
it exists." This is the essence of chapter one,
"What is a brand?" A brand has an integrity
Ben Mack Eats Fire
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- "Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery." -- R. Buckminster Fuller
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One of the people Ben allies with to promote Think Two Products Ahead is Tellman Knudson. Specifically, Tellman brings his expertise in building massive and responsive subscriber lists.
Ben's subscriber list before Tellman: apx. 1600
Ben's subscriber list after Tellman: 26,000+
End of story? Nope. Just beginning.
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- WarrenWhitlock WarrenWhitlock Jul 17, 2008 @ 5:02 pm
- Great resources Mark.
I'll tell folk this is a great place to learn about Dr. Mack.
How about a link to his Cialdini interview? http://yes50book.com
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- TheoBaskind TheoBaskind Jun 8, 2008 @ 6:25 pm
- Well constructed Lens promoting our mutual friend Dr. Ben Mack. I finally had the pleasure of meeting him in person in Sarasota Florida... Fun guy!
I've also created a Lens backing Ben. although it isn't as nearly as good as your Lens it serves the purpose :)
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