Lecture 8 Branding Flashcards
What is marketing?
This is how you communicate, based on insight, knowing why you’re saying what you’re saying
What is brand?
How you are perceived and why you are better
What should be tackled first: marketing or brand?
The brand should be defined first and integrated thoroughly before it is articulated.
What are customers buying into?
A feeling, mood, value, idea
They want a reason to believe
What does branding help you do within a market?
It helps differentiate you within a market
What does a brand make associations with?
Attributes and feelings
What do successful brands do?
They create a strong, positive and lasting impression through their marketing communications and not just their functionality through use
What does branding provide information about?
Content, taste, durability, quality, price and performance without requiring the buyer to undertake time consuming comparison tests
How do brands allow organisations to communicate?
By using imagery only
What is a brand?
Brands are products and services that have added value which has been deliberately designed to augment an offering
What does Achenbaum (1993) say about brands?
Values and associations that are not only recognised by but are meaningful to their customers: a brand resides in the mind of the consumer
What do marketing managers have to do?
Create, sustain, protect and develop the identity of the brands for which they are responsible
Why are brands both about the organisation and the customer?
It is the organisation that creates the brand but the customer’s perception and the images they form of the brand and the meaning and value they give to the brand that is important.
What 4 things could the brand be represented by?
Name
Symbol
Word
Mark
What is Chernatony’s (2000) definition of a successful brand?
“A successful brand is an identifiable product, service, person or place augmented in such a way that the buyer or user perceives relevant, unique added values which match their needs most closely. Furthermore, its success results from being able to sustain these added values in the face of the competition”
What is Keller’s (2002) definition of a brand?
“A brand… adds other dimensions to differentiate it in some way from other products designed to satisfy the same need. These differences may be rational and tangible- related to the performance of the brand- or more symbolic, emotional and intangible- related to what the brand represents”
What are 8 reasons why consumers like brands?
They help us to identify preferred products
Reduce risk
Help identify level of quality
Reduce time spent shopping by making it easier to make decisions
Provide (psychological reassurance)
Help avoid brands we don’t like
Help us develop relationships based on trust (TRUST IS VERY IMPORTANT)
Non-verbal communication tool
What are 7 reasons why manufacturers and retailers like brands?
Enable premium pricing
Differentiate and provide a competitive advantage in crowded marketplaces whilst deterring competition from entering the market
Encourage cross selling to other brands owned by them e.g. Kellogs
Develop loyalty and retention
Assist integrated marketing communications and consistency of message
Contribute to corporate identity and to the bottom line
Extend the maturity of the product life cycle- brand extension
What are the 6 things to consider when creating a brand?
Beliefs Why Personality What Who How
What is belief when creating a brand?
Three core beliefs that keep you on track, values you will never break, no matter what
What is why when creating a brand?
The simple statement that sums up your core purpose
What is personality when creating a brand?
Three ways to express yourself to the world, this will inform your tone of voice
What is what when creating a brand?
A simple description of your product or service
What is who when creating a brand?
Overview/ attitude of your core customers
What is how when creating a brand?
The points that differentiate you from competitors
What do brands trigger in our minds?
Associations
What do consumers search for in terms of brands?
Customers search for a brand with a personality that compliments their self-concept (McCraken, 1996)
When Belk says that brands offer a means of self-expression (1998) what are the 3 forms of this?
Who we want to be (desire self)
Who we strive to be (ideal self)
Who we think we ought to be (ought self)
What does brand provide a means for?
Brand provides a means for individuals to indicate to others their preferred personality as they relate to those self concepts
Explain Aaker’s brand personality scale
Set of human characteristics that consumers associate with a brand
Developed 5 dimensions of psychosocial meaning (42 traits)
Consumers choose brands which they feel reflect their own personality and are consistent with their self concepts