Relevance: Making Stuff That Matters
After years studying remarkable companies and speaking to some of the most influential leaders around, Tim Manners has discovered a solution to the marketing woes of many brands. Stop worrying about demographics, fads, and cutting-edge advertising. Instead, focus on relevance.

Manners shares how the best of the best create solutions to their customers’ problems and help them live happier lives. You’ll learn how:
  • Levi’s reasserted relevance when it created wardrobe solutions for men.
  • Dunkin’ Donuts stopped trying to mimic the look and feel of Starbucks and found success by delivering a simple, quick cup of joe.
  • Hasbro reinvented board games for today’s time-pressed consumers.
  • Kleenex’s new germ-fighting tissues helped keep the company relevant by turning a useful product into a necessary one.
  • Staples stopped wasting its shoppers’ time with extraneous products.
  • Nintendo’s simple design for the Wii appealed to consumers of all ages and game designers alike, allowing it to outsell its competitors.

The path to sustainable growth for your brand begins with designing meaningful solutions and providing them when and where people need them most. Relevance will teach you how to become—and remain—indispensable.
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Relevance: Making Stuff That Matters
After years studying remarkable companies and speaking to some of the most influential leaders around, Tim Manners has discovered a solution to the marketing woes of many brands. Stop worrying about demographics, fads, and cutting-edge advertising. Instead, focus on relevance.

Manners shares how the best of the best create solutions to their customers’ problems and help them live happier lives. You’ll learn how:
  • Levi’s reasserted relevance when it created wardrobe solutions for men.
  • Dunkin’ Donuts stopped trying to mimic the look and feel of Starbucks and found success by delivering a simple, quick cup of joe.
  • Hasbro reinvented board games for today’s time-pressed consumers.
  • Kleenex’s new germ-fighting tissues helped keep the company relevant by turning a useful product into a necessary one.
  • Staples stopped wasting its shoppers’ time with extraneous products.
  • Nintendo’s simple design for the Wii appealed to consumers of all ages and game designers alike, allowing it to outsell its competitors.

The path to sustainable growth for your brand begins with designing meaningful solutions and providing them when and where people need them most. Relevance will teach you how to become—and remain—indispensable.
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Relevance: Making Stuff That Matters

Relevance: Making Stuff That Matters

by Tim Manners
Relevance: Making Stuff That Matters

Relevance: Making Stuff That Matters

by Tim Manners

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Overview

After years studying remarkable companies and speaking to some of the most influential leaders around, Tim Manners has discovered a solution to the marketing woes of many brands. Stop worrying about demographics, fads, and cutting-edge advertising. Instead, focus on relevance.

Manners shares how the best of the best create solutions to their customers’ problems and help them live happier lives. You’ll learn how:
  • Levi’s reasserted relevance when it created wardrobe solutions for men.
  • Dunkin’ Donuts stopped trying to mimic the look and feel of Starbucks and found success by delivering a simple, quick cup of joe.
  • Hasbro reinvented board games for today’s time-pressed consumers.
  • Kleenex’s new germ-fighting tissues helped keep the company relevant by turning a useful product into a necessary one.
  • Staples stopped wasting its shoppers’ time with extraneous products.
  • Nintendo’s simple design for the Wii appealed to consumers of all ages and game designers alike, allowing it to outsell its competitors.

The path to sustainable growth for your brand begins with designing meaningful solutions and providing them when and where people need them most. Relevance will teach you how to become—and remain—indispensable.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781440634611
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 09/18/2008
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
File size: 266 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Tim Manners is the editor and publisher of The Hub magazine and the editor of Cool News of the Day, a daily Web digest of marketing insights. As president of David X. Manners Company, a consulting firm, he has spent more than twenty years working with leading marketing services companies, including WPP, Omnicom, Interpublic, and Publicis.

What People are Saying About This

John Gilbert

"Manners has done what so few business writers manage to do: get inside the heads of the practitioners . . . and capture their real stories. He writes delightfully about real problems with real solutions. I read it once for fun. Then I read it again, for real."--(John Gilbert, chief marketing officer, the TJX Companies, Inc.)

Stephen M. Berkov

"The ability to stay relevant is the challenge any brand faces. Manners has addressed the key to what creates marketing effectiveness-or failure-in this much-needed quick read."--(Stephen M. Berkov, executive director, client strategy, Edmunds.com)

Watts Wacker

"In a world where culture is lived mostly through its inauthenticity, should we not expect that most brands are weaned on lack of relevance? Tim Manners does a masterful job of helping marketers identify irrelevance and re-create and reclaim truth in their brands."--(Watts Wacker, futurist and CEO, FirstMatter)

Jim Garrity

"Tim Manners has uniquely captured proven marketing strategies as told by hundreds of the world's most successful, forward-thinking, and insightful marketing leaders. Newly appointed brand managers and seasoned CMOs alike will benefit from the wisdom of this book."--(Jim Garrity, former executive vice president and chief marketing officer, Wachovia)

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