Beloved Brands Playbooks

We wrote our beloved brands playbooks to make you a smarter marketer

We will challenge the way you engage with strategic thinking, brand positioning, brand plans, creative briefs, advertising decisions, product innovation, analytics, and finance. We have specific books for consumer brands, B2B brands, and healthcare brands. 

Beloved Brands Marketing Books

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beloved brands

the playbook for how to create a brand your consumers will love

Covering every aspect of brand management, it is no wonder that our readers reach for Beloved Brands multiple times each week to guide them through the challenges of day-to-day brand management.

If you are running a brand, Beloved Brands equips you with the marketing skills, tools, strategies, and insights needed to tackle every challenge in managing your brand. This is your essential resource to navigate the complexities of building and growing a successful brand.

📊 Analyze to find insights

Our book teaches you how to conduct deep-dive brand audits to identify hidden challenges and address key issues, ensuring your brand remains competitive and poised for long-term growth.

💡Strategic Thinking Redefined

You will learn to dive into thought-provoking questions designed to challenge your perspective and uncover new ways of seeing your brand. Gain clarity and unlock innovative strategies that set your brand apart.

🎯 Sharpen your Brand Positioning

We take a unique process for defining your brand positioning. Explore fresh ideas and uncover opportunities to differentiate your brand by leveraging functional and emotional benefits.

📝 Build a Brand Plan that defines a better future

You will learn to craft a clear, actionable brand plan that aligns stakeholders and ensures every team member contributes to your brand’s growth and success.

📺 Master decision-making on Marketing Execution

You will learn to drive the marketing execution. From inspiring creative briefs to making impactful decisions on advertising and innovation, we guide your team through executing breakthrough marketing campaigns.

🌟 85% of our Amazon reviewers awarded Beloved Brands with a 5-star rating!

Don’t just take our word for it—our glowing Amazon reviews say it all. With 85% of customers awarding us a five-star rating, Beloved Brands is trusted by marketers worldwide.

 

★★★★★ 5/5

“The cheat code for Brand Managers!”

“It is undoubtedly the most practical marketing book for those who want to follow brand management that I have ever read!”

 

“The holy grail of brand building.”

“One of the best brand-building books! I have been buying it for my teams for years.

“ I have Brand Love for Beloved Brands and Graham Robertson!”

“Graham has an amazing gift of bringing to life the critical elements of brand building and management in a delightful, easy-to-understand way and includes numerous examples and case histories that turn theory into practical reality for the reader.”

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B2B brands

the b2b playbook for how to create a brand your customers will love

As a B2B marketer, you know that the key to driving growth is a strong brand. But how do you develop and execute a winning B2B brand strategy? Look no further than the B2B Brands playbook.

Prepare to think differently about your B2B brand strategy with B2B Brands. We want to challenge you with thought-provoking questions and take you through our process for defining your brand positioning. Our goal is to expand your mind to new possibilities for your brand by using real-life examples of successful B2B brand positioning strategies.

We’ll start by showing you how to create a brand plan that’s easy for everyone to follow, ensuring that all stakeholders understand how they can contribute to your brand’s success. Moreover, we guide you through the creative execution process, including how to write an inspiring brief and make decisions to achieve smart and innovative communications.

Finally, we’ll teach you new methods to analyze your brand’s performance through a deep-dive business review.

Our B2B Brands playbook offers a wealth of knowledge and insights, including B2B case studies and examples to help you learn new techniques. It’s no wonder that 85% of our Amazon reviewers have given us a 5-star rating. So, join us on this journey to unleash the potential of your B2B brand.

★★★★★ 5/5

“Great Book to learn building B2B brands.”

“Excellent book from one of my favorite authors, Mr. Graham Robertson.”

 

 

“True Value for the Money”

“This is what I could simply phrase as true value for money. I wish every book were just like this.”

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healthcare brands

the playbook for healthcare marketers to help build a beloved healthcare brand that your patients, customers, and healthcare professionals will love

Healthcare Brands book

The best healthcare brands win by creating a lasting bond with their patients, customers, and healthcare professionals.

I have a special spot in my heart for healthcare marketing having spent 12 years between Pfizer and Johnson and Johnson, working on OTC (Over-The-Counter), customer healthcare, and prescription brands. I have worked with many healthcare brands during my decade of consulting, including OTC, pharmaceutical, medical equipment, leading hospitals, and scientific discovery brands. 

Based on my passion for healthcare, I created our Healthcare Brands playbook to share my experience to help you run a healthcare brand. In our playbooks, we explain how the concept works and provide examples to bring it to life. Every example I use will be a healthcare brand. 

You will see many examples based on different types of healthcare brand models. We have a pharmaceutical model that convinces healthcare professionals (HCPs) to recommend our brand to their patients. We have OTC (over-the-counter) and consumer healthcare brands who use the influence of HCPs, and then battle competitors at the retail shelf. 

Moreover, we include a business-to-business (B2B) healthcare brand whose customers are healthcare professionals, hospitals, or medical offices. Choose your business model based on how your customer wants to buy, not how you want to sell. As brands mature, you might evolve into multiple models for your brand. 

Reach your full potential as a healthcare marketer.

Join us on a journey of unleashing your potential as a healthcare marketer with our Healthcare Brands playbook, which is filled with a wealth of knowledge and insights. You’ll have access to healthcare brand case studies and examples that will help you learn new techniques and strategies. Our playbook has received a remarkable overall rating of 4.8 out of 5 from Amazon reviewers, proving the effectiveness and value it brings to healthcare marketing professionals.

So, come along with us and explore the vast opportunities and possibilities in the healthcare industry. It’s time to elevate your healthcare brand and make a positive impact on the lives of your customers.

★★★★★ 5/5

“Highly informative.”

“Loves it. Very informative. Nice graphics.”

 

Our playbooks teach how to think, define, plan, execute and analyze

1. How to think strategically

Too many marketers are so busy that they do not even have time to think. 

The best brand leaders do the necessary critical strategic thinking to find ways to win in the market. Strategic thinking is an essential foundation, forcing marketers to ask big questions that challenge and focus brand decisions. Our brand management books provide you with the tools you need to think differently. 

I will show you four ways to enhance your strategic thinking, using the brand’s core strength finder, consumer strategy, competitive strategy, and situational strategy. You will learn how to set a vision for your brand, focus your limited resources on breakthrough points, take advantage of opportunities you see in the market, find early wins to leverage to give your brand a positional power to drive growth and profits for your brand.

2. How to define your brand positioning

Too many marketers are trying to be everything to anyone. This strategy is the usual recipe for becoming nothing to everyone. 

The best brand leaders target a specific motivated consumer audience and then define their brand around a brand idea that is interesting, simple, unique, motivating and ownable. 

In our brand management books, we will show you how to write a winning brand positioning statement with four essential elements: target market, competitive set, main benefit and reason to believe (RTB). You will learn how to build a brand idea that leads every touchpoint of your brand, including the brand promise, brand story, innovation, purchase moment and experience. With this marketing book, I will give you the tools for how to write a winning brand concept and brand story. 

3. How to write Brand Plans

Too many marketers focus on a short-term to-do list, not a long-term plan. 

The best brand leaders write brand plans everyone in the organization can follow with ease, including senior management, sales, R&D, agencies and operational teams. 

I will teach you how to write each element of the brand plan, including the brand vision, purpose, values, goals, key Issues, strategies, and tactics. We use real-life examples to give you a framework to use on your brand. With our brand management books, you will learn to build execution plans including a brand communications plan, innovation plan, and in-store plan.

4. How to inspire marketing execution

Too many marketers are becoming task-masters and step over the line into execution. 

The best brand leaders need to inspire experts to produce smart and creative execution. With our brand management books, I will provide tools and techniques for judging and making decisions on creative advertising from your agency. 

For judging execution, I use the ABC’s tool, believing the best executions must drive Attention (A), Brand link (B), Communication (C) and Stickiness (S). I will provide a checklist for you to use when judging executions, then show you how to provide direction to your agency to inspire and challenge great execution. 

5. How to analyze your brand’s performance

Too few marketers take the time to dig into data analytics. There is no value in having access to data if you are not using it to discover meaningful insights. 

The best brand leaders can tell strategic stories through analytics. With our brand management books, I will show you how to create a deep-dive business review, looking at the marketplace, consumers, competitors, channels, and brand. Then, I will teach how to turn your analysis into a presentation for management, showing the ideal presentation slide format. I will also provide a Finance 101 for Marketers, giving you every financial formula you need to run your brand.

Our brand management playbooks will help you achieve your full potential

Beloved Brands book

“Graham Robertson hits all the right notes in his new marketing book, Beloved Brands, a book every CMO or would-be CMO should read.”

Al Ries

Bestselling author of Positioning and Marketing Warfare, and viewed as “The Pioneer of Positioning,”

Ken Wong Beloved Brands Book Review

“Most books on branding are really for the MARCOM crowd. They sound good but you find it’s all fluff when you try to take it from words to actions. THIS BOOK IS DIFFERENT! Graham does a wonderful job laying out the steps in clear language and goes beyond advertising and social media to show how branding relates to all aspects of GENERAL as well as marketing management. Make no mistake: there is a strong theoretical foundation for all he says…but he spares you the buzzwords. Next year my students will all be using this book.”

Kenneth B. Wong

Distinguished Professor, S.J. Smith School of Business, Queen’s University

Brand Consulting

“Whether you’re an aspiring marketer trying to elevate your brand, or an established leader looking to separate your brand from competitors – Beloved Brands and B2B Brands are absolute “must-have” brand management books that masterfully articulate the essence of effective brand marketing through a series of practical concepts and relevant examples.”

Keith A. Gordon

Former President of NFL Players Inc.

Beloved Brands Playbook Review

“Beloved Brands is the definitive, must-read, toolkit for brand building! Graham Robertson has produced a straight-forward marketing book for anyone who wants meaningful distance from the competition, greater customer engagement, increased brand loyalty, or more customer referrals! Drop this book into your shopping cart!”  

Joseph Michelli, Ph.D.

New York Times #1 Bestselling Author

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