Table of Contents
Start Here: Introducing the Revised and Updated Edition xi
The Origin of Fascination Witchcraft 1
Part I Fascinate or Fail
The Science of Fascination: Step Inside the Laboratory 13
The Biology of Fascination: Why Your Brain Was Designed to be Fascinated 29
Fascinate the Goldfish: Why Your Old Tricks Won't Work in a World with a Nine-Second Attention Span 37
The Schoolmarm and the Sorcerer: Why Marketing is Losing its Powers of Persuasion 45
A Million Years of Personal Branding: How All Branding, Including Personal Branding, Dates Back to Our Hairier Ancestors 51
Your Brand's Advantage: How to Identify What Makes Your Brand Fascinating 61
Part II The Seven Fascination Advantages How to Make Tour Brand impossible to Resist
The System behind the Spellbinding 67
Innovation: The Language of Creativity 71
Passion: The Language of Relationship 83
Power: The Language of Confidence 95
Prestige: The Language of Excellence 107
Trust: The Language of Stability 121
Mystique: The Language of Listening 135
Alert: The Language of Details 151
Part III Tactics: A Practical System to Customize Your Message
TurboBranding with Tactics 169
Next Up: Tactics: How to Customize Your Message 175
Innovation Brands: How They Can Use Tactics 181
Passion Brands: How They Can Use Tactics 191
Power Brands: How They Can Use Tactics 201
Prestige Brands: How They Can Use Tactics 211
Trust Brands: How They Can Use Tactics 219
Mystique Brands: How They Can Use Tactics 229
Alert Brands: How They Can Use Tactics 239
Applying Multiple Tactics 247
Part IV How to Get Started Today: Your 5-Step Action Plan
The Fascinate System for Brands 257
Author's Note 271
Appendix A The Kelton Study of Fascination 273
Appendix B Fast Facts about the Advantages 283
Appendix C Adjectives 287
Appendix D Nouns 293
Glossary 295
Acknowledgments 299
Notes 301
Index 319