Edexcel Branding and promotion 1.3 Flashcards
Umbrella brands
Brands assigned to more than one brand
Cooperate brand
Promoting the brand name rather than product or service
Own label brands
Retail services assign branding to a range of goods
Global brands
Easily recognised and operating worldwide
Brand extension
Uses brand name on products
Brand stretching
Brand used for range of products not necessarily connected
Use of promotion
Increase sales
Attract new customers
Encourage customer loyalty
Advertising
Paid for communication
Advertising advantages
wide coverage
Repetition is effective
Advertising Disadvantges
Expensive
impersonal
Advertising examples
Tv
Radio
Sales promotion
Persuading consumers to buy products
sales promotion examples
Free gifts
Coupons
Sales promotion advantages
Effective to boost sales
Encourages customers to trial products
Sales promotion Disadvantges
Sale effects are short time
Damage brand image
Personal selling
Person to person communication
personal selling examples
Telephones
meetings
Personal selling advantages
Better customer service
Sell products at high prices
Personal selling Disadvantges
High costs
Labour insensitive
Public relations
Create goodwill towards business or product.
Public relations example
Promoting new products
enhancing brand awareness
Public relations advantages
Build image and reputation
Communicate effectively with consumers
Direct marketing
Promotions directed through mail, email, social media
Direct marketing advantages
Generate a specific response from a group
Easy to adapt
Direct marketing Disadvantges
response rates vary
expensive
Sponsorship
A business will sponsor an event, team or individual in order to build brand awareness.
Viral marketing
Uses social media to create brand awareness or marketing objectives.
Emotional branding
Companies decide which emotion to target to consumers
This emotion is communicated through external and internal communications.
In order to emotionally bond consumer to brand
Emotional branding examples
Customer relations
Online contact
Social media engagement
Branding
Creating a unique and identifiable name that differentiates a product and service from competitors.
Adv of cooperate branding
Creates strong brand recognition and reputation.
Existing reputation used to introduce new products.
Dis of cooperate branding
If company’s reputation damaged by product all products will be damages.
If company faces intense competition in one market may affect sales across production.
Product branding
Use of unique name, design or symbol to promote a specific product.
Adv of own label branding
Offer products at lower price than branded.
Build customer loyalty with exclusive brands.
Dis of own label branding
Own brands may have a lower perceived quality.
Benefits of Branding
Added Value
Ability to charge premium prices
Reduced price elasticity of demand