Branding Flashcards

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4 Brand Levers

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  • Ad impact
  • Differentiation (uniqueness)
  • Quality (perceived)
  • Value (quality and price)
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Mental availability

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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)

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Physical availability

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How much product you are supplying in different areas at different times - breadth and depth of distribution in time and space

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Brand definition

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Specific name, symbol or design (or combination of these) that is used to distinguish a particular seller’s product

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Distinctive Assets (DAs)

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Elements that unconsciously trigger the brand for category buyers (sensory cues):
- Logos, taglines, slogans, characters, ad style, shapes, fonts, music/jungles/sounds, colour…

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Importance of DAs

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  • 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
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DAs to build mental availabiity

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  • Attaching brand to relevant category entry points (Starbucks = coffee)
  • DAs should help us notice both the brand and the message
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Benefits of DAs for mental availability

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  • 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
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DAs to build physical availability

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  • Retail environments are very cluttered, DAs help stand out

- Helps brand be easy to buy

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10
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Do successful brand attract higher loyalty levels?

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Do attract very slight loyalty levels

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Do different brands appeal to different customers?

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Appeal to similar customers because competitors are similar

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Are brand-loyal customers more valuable?

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No, brand loyal buyers are no attractive marketing targets. These consume only half as much as non-loyal.

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Realities of brands and loyalty

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  • 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)
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Why are brands valuable or important?

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  • 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)
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Brand building blocks

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  1. Essence
  2. Personality
  3. Values of users
  4. Emotional rewards
  5. Functional benefits
  6. Physical attributes
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Why is niche an attractive strategy?

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  • limited resources to invest
  • no competition from incumbents
  • company has special skills/competencies that fit one segment
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Line extensions

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New products introduced into existing product category and under existing brand name (e.g. Diet Cola, Cherry Cola)

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Multi-brands

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Brands in same product category, but with different brand identities

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Brand extensions (Umbrella branding)

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Same brand name, successfully established in one market, to enter others (Soft drink brand producing a line of juices)

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Physical Attributes (Brand building blocks)

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Rational product features

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Functional benefits (Brand building blocks)

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Rational expectations as result of use

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Emotional rewards (Brand building blocks)

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Emotional benefits expected from use

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Values of users (Brand building blocks)

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What the users of the brand care about the most

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Personality (Brand building blocks)

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Image of brand, expressed in human characteristics

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Essence (Brand building blocks)

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Enduring soul of brand, single idea that fuses key emotional and functional roles of the brand (the only element of the brand that persists/doesn’t change)

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Strategic challenges of Branding

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  • Build mental availability
  • Build physical availability
    End goal: Growing the customer base (people that are not aware of brand and thus screen out the brand during purchase decisions)
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Importance of brand consistency

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Inconsistency leads to uncertainty, uncertainty hurts trust, lack of trust undermines brand power.

28
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Distinctive assets grid

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Brand has a set of DAs…

Each DA ideally needs both fame and uniqueness (ensure that they score 100% in both axes)