Most Popular Books by Sally Hogshead

The New York Times–bestselling author shows you how the perfect words can captivate your customers and how your brand can harness the force of attraction. 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. 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 by learning 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 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 20s, writing ads that fascinated millions of consumers. Over the course of her ad career, Sally won hundreds of awards for creativity, copywriting, and branding, and was one of the most awarded advertising copywriters right from start of career, including almost every major international advertising award. 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. Her advertising work hangs in the Smithsonian Museum of American History. The science of fascination is based on Hogshead''s decade of research with 250,000 participants, including dozens of Fortune 500 teams, hundreds of small businesses, and over a thousand C-level executives.

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.

An award-winning advertising director shares advice on how to find enthusiasm and a sense of purpose in one''s career, in a guide for generation-X professionals that makes recommendations about living a lifestyle in accordance with one''s salary, setting high goals, and pursuing meaningful achievements. Original. 35,000 first printing.

La fascinacin es la forma ms poderosa de influir sobre la toma de decisiones. Es ms persuasiva que el mercadeo, la propaganda o cualquier forma de comunicacin y todo empieza con siete elementos universales: lujuria, misticismo, alarma, prestigio, poder, vicio y confianza. La fascinacin tiene una funcin en todo tipo de decisiones, desde las marcas que prefiere, hasta la pareja que escoge y activando los elementos correctamente usted puede hacer que cualquier cosa sea fascinante. Para explorar y explicar la influencia irresistible de la fascinacin, la autora indaga ms all del mercadeo, en los estudios sociales sobre comportamiento, en la historia, la neurobiologa y hasta la antropologa. As mismo, se vale de entrevistas y grandes encuestas que le permiten establecer los patrones sobre por qu y cmo somos cautivados por algo.