Communities Dominate Brands

by Tomi T. Ahonen and Alan Moore

Communities Dominate Brands: Business and marketing challenges for the 21st century is a book about how the new phenomenon of digitally connected communities are emerging as a force to counterbalance... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0954432738
• ISBN13: 9780954432737
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Futuretext
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

New thinking to marketing

Our company offers solutions for marketing and customer understanding. And we have seen that this book have opened a lot of eyes to see the future of marketing, specially in the internet and mobile; several our clients have read the book. Communities, social networks, and engagement marketing is the future, and this book really helps to understand, why and how. I recommend this everyone who is working with marketing and customer relationship management.

Incredibly practical book on hottest business topics today

This amazing book continually impresses with vivid expert opinions and quotes with statistics and page after page of thoroughly documented examples. The book book proceeds logically through the management concerns of today, including disruptive technologies, convergence and fragmentation etc. Then it looks at the crisis facing traditional advertising, branding and marketing. The last three chapters of the book build on the earlier ones show how extensive a change is already happening with global players like Adidas, Red Bull, Boeing and Ford. The book includes insightful and immediately usable theories. I particularly liked the Four C's the Alpha Users, Engagement Marketing and Generation-C. To top it off, the book includes 13 revealing case studies. I suggest you read Oh My News Korea, Twins Hong Kong and Habbo Hotel Finland to really see the future impacting traditional businesses. I thoroughly enjoyed the book, am now rereading it, and recommend it to anyone in business.

Brilliant

This book is brilliant...I read it cover to cover in 6 hours. A must read for all those interested in integrated messaging and new media. Mark Barounos President of Marketing and Sales

If you haven't read this yet what a treat you have in store!

An excellent insight into what enpowered communities will want to do. For people who are interested in the rapidly growing opportunities of the mobile connected youth there are some brilliant inspirational ideas leaked. What is the value of a blog? who is the writer? why have they felt compelled to write? Well in this case it's because you will find nothing that has a better finger on the pulse of newly emerging connected communities - communities that have the power to ruin your brand or promote your competitors.

Brilliant, deep book makes you think

This book impresses on every page with statistics, quotes, evidence and logic. The book proceeds logically from one concept to another. It forces the reader to re-examine assumptions, and constantly presents impressive examples from all around the world. The concepts are real, the trends sustainable and therefore their conclusions are indisputable. The book is loaded with insightful examples and revealing case studies. The brand names and companies are all household names but the reader will be surprised how many unrelated industries are now involved with communities, from Adidas to Red Bull. Many times you have to put the book down to fully grasp the extent of their meaning. There are chapters on blogging, on virtual worlds/videogaming and on cellphone based Generation-C. These are used as the three primary areas where digital communities already exist. The book then shows how just about every industry from TV and the internet to locksmiths and aerospace are feeling the impacts of communities. The early part of the book discusses familiar themes of disruptive technologies, convergence and fragmentation. These are amplified with alarming facts, stats and examples. The second half of the book takes the reader deep into the near future, showing what changes are already happening to society. The book makes a compelling case as it so broadly provides examples from countries such as Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, England, Finland, Holland etc, in addition to USA and Canada. The book concludes with the earth-shattering impacts to all of business, that brand dominance is now being superceded by community power. But where most books might end at introducing a revolutionary new problem or issue, this book goes on with another chapter to explain how that problem can be solved. A remarkable book, thoroughly captivating, immensely insightful. I recommend it to anyone in business or technology.