Branding Flashcards
4 Brand Levers
- Ad impact
- Differentiation (uniqueness)
- Quality (perceived)
- Value (quality and price)
Mental availability
Probability of consumer noticing, recognising, and thinking of your brand in a buying situation (greater MA means brand is easier to access in consumer memory)
Physical availability
How much product you are supplying in different areas at different times - breadth and depth of distribution in time and space
Brand definition
Specific name, symbol or design (or combination of these) that is used to distinguish a particular seller’s product
Distinctive Assets (DAs)
Elements that unconsciously trigger the brand for category buyers (sensory cues):
- Logos, taglines, slogans, characters, ad style, shapes, fonts, music/jungles/sounds, colour…
Importance of DAs
- Decision-making process (considering and filtering brands)
- Build both mental and physical availability through easier branding cut-through
- Make branding easier
- Knowing your DAs helps you know which elements to keep and which to change
DAs to build mental availabiity
- Attaching brand to relevant category entry points (Starbucks = coffee)
- DAs should help us notice both the brand and the message
Benefits of DAs for mental availability
- More variety in branding
- Wider reach of brand to low literacy/other languages
- Better execution of creative messages (advertisement)
- Connect advertising done in various platforms
- Connect campaigns
- Connect brand out-of-store with in-store
DAs to build physical availability
- Retail environments are very cluttered, DAs help stand out
- Helps brand be easy to buy
Do successful brand attract higher loyalty levels?
Do attract very slight loyalty levels
Do different brands appeal to different customers?
Appeal to similar customers because competitors are similar
Are brand-loyal customers more valuable?
No, brand loyal buyers are no attractive marketing targets. These consume only half as much as non-loyal.
Realities of brands and loyalty
- Brands succeed because they’re similar
- Similar brands attract similar levels of loyalty
- Different brands appeal to same consumers
- Brand-loyal buyers tend to be light buyers (of a category)
Why are brands valuable or important?
- Great brands generate added value and higher profits (sell more, charge more, do both)
- Brand guarantees to deliver promise every time (people like consistency, reliability)
- Decision making: allows customers to cut through risks and complex choices
- Offer avenues for further growth (facilitate adoption and awareness of brand/line extensions)
- Virtuous circle of brand building (satisfy - profit (re-invest) - consistency - improve satisfaction)
Brand building blocks
- Essence
- Personality
- Values of users
- Emotional rewards
- Functional benefits
- Physical attributes