Fascinate, Revised and Updated: How to Make Your Brand Impossible to Resist
Written by Sally Hogshead
Narrated by Sally Hogshead
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About this audiobook
Why is Jägermeister the most popular brand nobody likes? Why do women pay more to be fascinating than they spend on food and clothes? What raises the price of gummy worms by 1000%?
And then there’s the most important question of all: How can your brand become impossible to resist? Master marketer Sally Hogshead reveals the surprising answers, providing readers with a framework to fascinating anyone.
The word “fascinate” comes from the Latin word fascinare, meaning “to bewitch or hold captive so others are powerless to resist.” Fascination is the most powerful force of attraction, drawing customers into a state of intense focus.
This extensively revised and updated edition includes Hogshead’s latest research on the science of fascination. Combining original case studies with award-winning copywriting experience, she gives you the exact words you need to capture the attention of a distracted world.
This new edition includes a free assessment tool called the Brand Fascination Profile, which will help you earn attention in any environment.
Dive into the science of fascination and learn how to:
- Increase prices with ideas from poker to Play-Doh
- Build revenue by learning about the $14 million license plate
- Get better leads through hypnosis by Sigmund Freud and Steve Jobs
- Attract raving fans by following the cult of pistachio ice cream
Whether you realize it or not, your brand is already applying one of the seven Advantages Hogshead describes here: Innovation, Passion, Power, Prestige, Mystique, Alert, or Trust. The question is, how can you apply these core Advantages to stand out in a crowded and distracted world? Hundreds of large corporations, small businesses, and universities—including Twitter, IBM, Porsche, and New York University—use the Fascinate system to captivate their customers. Why? The answers are in this book.
Sally Hogshead
Sally Hogshead believes the greatest value you can add is to become more of yourself. Hogshead rose to the top of the advertising profession in her early twenties, writing ads that fascinated millions of consumers. Her internationally acclaimed book Fascinate: Your 7 Triggers to Persuasion and Captivation has been translated into over a dozen languages. The science of fascination is based on Hogshead's decade of research with 250,000 initial participants, including dozens of Fortune 500 teams, hundreds of small businesses, and over a thousand C-level executives. She frequently appears in national media, including NBC's Today show and the New York Times. Hogshead was recently inducted into the Speaker Hall of Fame, the industry's highest award for professional excellence.
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Reviews for Fascinate, Revised and Updated
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One of the BEST books I've read on branding! Highly recommend for ANY business!
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I had trouble getting past the narrative in the introduction with the “I am” and “I will show you” type phrasing. Middle schoolers write like this: “In this essay, I will.” I may come back to this but I didn’t find the introduction anymore fascinating than the script from a late night informal. Maybe that’s how to make things fascinating?
With too many books on my list, I’ll have to pass and come back to edit if I decide to revisit this. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book handles top-notch branding knowledge.
I align with Sally´s ideas because we see the same patterns in movie making as well.
Thanks - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I appreciate the practical tips on creating your own strategy to fascinate clients.