How can marketers cultivate and grow the deep relationships that earn this kind of love and drive lasting success for their brands? In branding expert Tim Halloran reveals what it takes to make consumers fall in love with your brand Step by step,he reveals how to start, grow, maintain, and troubleshoot a flourishing relationship between brand and consumer. Along the way, Halloran shares the secrets behind establishing a mutually beneficial “romance.” Drawing on exclusive, in-depth interviews with managers of some of the world’s most iconic brands, arms you with an arsenal of classic and emerging marketing tools—such as benefit laddering and word-of-mouth marketing—that make best-in-class brands so successful. The book is filled with examples, strategies, and tools from powerful brands that consumers love, including Coke, Dos Equis, smartwater, the Atlanta Falcons, Domino’s Pizza, Bounty, Turner Classic Movies, and many more. Ultimately, provides marketers with a set of principles for making brands strong, resilient, and beloved—and the insight and confidence to use them.