Chapter 13: Business-to-BUsiness branding Flashcards

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Why does branding ad value for the customer?

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Branding makes the buying decision process easier and helps them reduce the risk of buying the wrong product

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1
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One way that marketing creates competitive advantage for the business-to-business firm

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Brand management

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How does branding help a company?

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Branding adds value to a firm’s intangible assets and can create price premiums

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3
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Branding is a distinct way to ____products from the competition

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differentiate

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4
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Branding is just as important in the B2B market as in the B2C market: T or F

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T

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How should companies approach the branding process?

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New companies should work to build brand while established firms must nurture, protect, and use it with care

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_____ plays an important role in markets by attracting qualified employees

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Branding

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______ helps people to organize their thinking and reduce their risk of purchasing the “wrong” product

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Branding

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8
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An approach that emphasizes the total offering- the functional relationship between all of the pieces

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Holistic

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9
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Brand perception is influenced by…

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everything the company does that comes in contact with the customer

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10
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What are the most important brand functions?

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Increased informational efficiency
Risk reduction
Value-added or image benefit creation

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11
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Brand is shorthand for the ___ _____ of the company

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value image

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12
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The complexity of the buying process and size of the buying center make____ more relevant

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brands

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13
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What increases the relevance of the brand in business markets?

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Clearly visible “public” products
Recognition among buying center members
New task buying situations

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What is the role of brands in business-to-business markets?

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Differentiation - decommodotize products that are highly undifferentiated
Secure future business
Differentiate marketing efforts - more readily accepted than unbranded efforts
Create preferences
Command price Premium
Create brand image
Increase sales

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15
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Illustrates the marketing-related connections between a company, its collaborators, and its customers. It acts as a common field to the intersecting market participants.

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Branding triangle

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16
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The ___ connects everything across all touch points of the business

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Brand

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17
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The organizational framework that systematically manages the planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of the brand strategy .

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Brand management

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The choice of common and distinctive brand elements a company applies across the company itself and the various products and services it sells.

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Brand strategy

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The most important aspect of the branding strategy in business-ti-business companies?

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defining the branding hierarchy

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20
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Companies can stretch their brand in what ways ?

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Width - individual to corporate
Length - low to high end
Depth - national to international

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21
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if a company approaches several separate and diverse markets then ____ brands may be more favorable

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Inividual

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22
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if a company approaches a whole industry then a ____ of brands makes sense

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family

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23
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Which brand elements are key when building a strong brand?

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Name
Logo
Tagline
Brand story

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The ____ _____ _____ for the brand elements should folw a set of choice criteria in order to reduce the risk of diluting or weakening the brand

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visual identity code

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25
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What are the brand building criteria for the visual identity code?

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Available, meaningful, memorable, and protectable

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What are the defensive criteria of the visual identity code?

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Future oriented, positive, and transferable

27
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It is usually less ____ to implement branding in business-to-business markets

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costly

28
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relates to the regular work of pricing, distributing, and promoting of products and services to customers

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external marketing

29
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describes all actions that train and motivate collaborators to become true brand ambassadors

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internal marketing

30
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primarily affected by internet marketing

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Interactive marketing

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Who are the three most important market participants?

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Customers, collaborators, and the company

32
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The means of marketing communication by which companies aim to inform, persuade, and remind customers- directly or indirectly- about their products and brands

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Brand building tools

33
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The brand building tools are not fundamentally ______ in business and consumer markets

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different

34
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Business-to-business markets typically focus on which brand building tool?

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personal selling

35
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In this brand equity and value approach, brand valuation is used to estimate the total financial value of the brand based on subjective judgements of knowledgeable people in an organization.

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Financially driven approaches

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In this approach to measuring brand equity and value, measurement is done using a behavioral approach that puts a financial value on brands by researching customer behaviors and attitudes that have an impact on brands

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research based evaluations

37
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___ approaches utilize both financial brand valuation and behavior brand valuation methods

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Combined

38
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Inter brand Corporation’s global brand consultancy defines brand value as what?

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The net present value of future profits attributable to the brand

39
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___ ___ in business-to-business marketing differs somewhat from branding in consumer markets - strong brands are built through careful establishment of a relationship with each customer and prospective customer

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Brand building

40
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Every other potential competitor has to show that it meets or exceeds the specifications and that its overall offering has better value when a firm has an offering that is a ___ in an industry

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standar

41
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A “shorthand” term simply referring to design engineers’ specification of materials and parts on the engineering drawings of devices

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engineering call-outs

42
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What are some disadvantages of a product becoming a standard?

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The brand could lose some differentiation value and could lead to brand proliferation

43
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How does a brand become a standard in an industry?

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First with new technology, being the best with service, innovating the need and not the technology

44
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___ marketing plays an important role in brand consistency

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Internal

45
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Involves positioning the product and organization with employees and internal stakeholders

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Internal marketing

46
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technique to defend the brand that involves a missionary seller building relationships with management above the influencers to reinforce the decision process

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market up

47
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defending the brand technique that involves paying attention to lab technicians, manufacturing personnel, and purchasing staff

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Market down

48
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defending the brand technique that involves usign the breakthrough customer product as a demonstration of a product offering’s capabilities

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market sideways

49
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Monopolistic competition makes the process of becoming a ___ more difficult and time consuming

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standard

50
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These serve to protect the premium brand of a product offering

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subordinate offerings

51
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These provide broader market coverage and protect high-end brands that have premium price and positioning

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subordinate brands

52
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In established markets in which young companies compete against companies with strong brands, young companies are at a disadvantage because they have no brand recognition or reputation: T or F

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T

53
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In early markets, young companies can build market ownership and brand reputation quickly: T or F

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T

54
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made up of brand recognition or awareness, quality of the products or services, and the customer’s positive beliefs - associations linked to the brand

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Brand strength

55
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This is a long term process that revolves around building value for the customers first

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Building brand strength

56
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the most positive associations come from what?

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Customers’ direct experiences

57
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The ability to provide appropriate value from the customer’s point of view

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perceived quality

58
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___ ___ means having the ability to perform very well on the most important dimensions as determined by the target customer

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high quality

59
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One of the most promising branding strategies for business-to-business companies

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ingredient branding

60
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An essential ingredient or component of a product has its own brand identity

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ingredient branding or inbranding

61
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The joint presence of two r more brands on a single product or service

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Cobranding

62
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This type of branding is directed at two or more downstream stages of the value channel

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Multi-stage branding

63
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Tremendously enhance the value proposition and points of differentiation of al products and services involved

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brand alliances