4: Brand Resonance Flashcards
4 Steps of Brand Building
- Ensure identification of the brand with customers and an association of the brand in customers’ minds with a specific product class, product benefit, or customer need.
- Firmly establish the totality of brand meaning in the minds of customers by strategically linking a host of tangible and intangible brand associations.
- Elicit the proper customer responses to the brand.
- Convert brand responses to create brand resonance and an intense, active loyalty relationship between customers and the brand
What are the 4 stages of brand development (bottom-up of the pyramid)
- Identity : Who are you?
- Meaning: What are you?
- Response: What about you?
- Relationships: what about you and me?
Resonance Pyramid: Salience objective (bottom)
deep, broad brand awareness
Resonance Pyramid: Performance and Imagery objective (2nd row from bottom)
Points of Parity and difference
resonance pyramid: judgments and feelings objective (3rd row from bottom)
positive, accessible reactions
resonance pyramid: resonance objective (top row)
intense, active loyalty
Achieving the right brand identity means creating ___________ with customers
brand salience
brand salience
- Measures various aspects of the awareness of the brand
- How easily and often the brand is evoked under various situations or circumstances
describe breadth and depth of awareness (ie how does it give a product an identity)
Gives a product an identity by linking brand elements to:
* The product category
* The associated purchase
* The consumption or usage situations
product category structure
- How product categories are organized in memory
- Marketers assume that products are grouped
strategic implications of brand salience
- Brand needs to be top-of-mind and have sufficient mind share:
- But also must do so at the right times and places
brand performance describes how well the product or service:
- Meets customers’ more functional needs
- Rate on objective assessments of quality
- Satisfies utilitarian, aesthetic, and economic customer needs and wants in the product
or service category
describe what kinds of attributes and benefits often underlie brand performance
- Primary ingredients and supplementary features
- Product liability, durability, and serviceability
- Service effectiveness, efficiency, and empathy
- Style and design
- Price
brand imagery depends on the _____ properties of a product or service
extrinsic
what are the four main kinds of intangibles that can be linked to a brand
- User profiles
- Purchase and usage situations
- Personality and values
- History, heritage, and user experiences
user imagery (what kinds of demographic factors)
One set of brand imagery associations is about the type of person or organization who uses the brand
* Demographic factors include:
* Gender
* Age
* Race
* Income
purchase and usage imagery
Associations that tells consumers under what conditions or situations they can or should buy and use
a brand
brand personality and values
Through consumer experience or marketing activities, brands may take on personality traits or
human values:
* A person
* Appear to be modern or old-fashioned, for example
5 dimensions of brand personality (Aaker’s big 5)
- Sincerity
- Excitement
- Competence
- Sophistication
- Ruggedness