A revelatory guide on how to build, sustain and grow a brand.
 
 A brand is either beloved, or it’s noise. We live in a fast-paced world of immediate gratification where consumers can listen to any song, watch any movie, or read any article, with the touch of a few buttons. They are peppered with hyper-personalized targeting for products that can be ordered seamlessly and arrive within hours. And if your brand isn’t the first to come to mind, they’ll click that button and it’ll be delivered by someone else.
 
So how do you make sure your brand connects with consumers? Branding that Means Business draws from the authors’ experience and business literature as well as psychology, sociology, and even anthropology to show readers that while any brand serves the business, the mechanisms that enable it are all about connecting with people. Readers will learn how to create, maintain, and operationalize their brand, and think creatively about how to differentiate their product and most importantly, make consumers fall in love with it.

 

Matt Johnson, PhD is a researcher, writer, and professor at Hult International Business School in San Francisco. His research focus is on applying this neuroscientific perspective to better understand consumer experience and decision making. A writer for Psychology Today, and a regular contributor to outlets such as Forbes, BBC, and Business Insider, he regularly provides expert opinion and thought leadership on a range of topics related to the human side of business. He advises both start-ups and large brands in his native Bay Area and has worked with Nike as an expert-in-residence in Portland, Oregon. He is the founder of the consumer behavior blog PopNeuro, and the author of Blindsight:The (Mostly) Hidden Ways Marketing Reshapes our Brains.
 
Tessa G. Misiaszek, PhD, MPH is a Professor at Hult International Business School. Dr. Misiaszek brings extensive experience developing human capital strategies to improve business communications. Prior to joining Hult International Business School, Dr. Misiaszek was CEO of Empathetics, Inc. – a company that developed empathic communications training for healthcare professionals. As a speaker, researcher and writer, Dr. Misiaszek has written a series of case studies published in The Case Journal, as well as featured as a contributing author in The Management Magazine at Simmons University.