Brand Challenges, CBBE, Drivers of Strong Brands, + TB Chapters 2 & 3 Flashcards
Customer-based brand equity (CBBE)
Brand equity from the POV of the customer
Stresses that the power of a brand lies in what resides in the minds and hearts of customers
Differential effect that brand knowledge has on consumer response to the marketing of that brand
Three key components of CBBE
Differential effect
Brand knowledge
Consumer response to marketing
The benefits of strong brand equity
Improved perceptions of product performance
Greater loyalty
Less vulnerability to competitive marketing actions
Less vulnerability to marketing crises
Larger margins
More inelastic consumer response to price increases
More elastic consumer response to price decreases
Greater trade cooperation and support
Increased marketing communication effectiveness
Possible licensing opportunities
Additional brand extension opportunities
Brand equity
The marketing effects or outcomes that accrue to a product with its brand name compared with those that would accrue if the same product did not have the brand name
Associative network memory model (ANMN)
Views memory as a network of nodes and connecting links
Nodes
Represent stored information and concepts
Links
Represents the strength of association between nodes
2 components of brand knowledge
Brand awareness
Brand image
Brand awareness
Related to the strength of the brand node or trace in memory, which we can measure as the consumer’s ability to identify the brand under different conditions
Brand image
Consumers’ perceptions about a brand, as reflected by the brand associations held in consumer memory
2 components of brand awareness (RR)
Brand recognition
Brand recall
Brand recognition
Consumer’s ability to confirm prior exposure to the brand when given the brand as a cue
Brand recall
Consumers’ ability to retrieve the brand from memory when given:
The product category
The needs fulfilled by the category
A purchase or usage situation as a cue
eg: Coffee –> Starbucks
Advantages of brand awareness
Learning advantages
Consideration advantages
Choice advantages:
Consumer purchase motivation
Consumer purchase ability
Consumer purchase opportunity
Brand equity occurs when consumers hold SURF associations
Strong
Unique
Relevant
Favourable
^ Associations in memory
Strength (SURF)
Influenced by personal relevance and brand consistency over time
Uniqueness (SURF)
Meaningful unique point-of-difference to the brand / the reason why consumers should buy from this brand
eg: Ferrari for its history