Module 2 Flashcards
(CBBE)
Customer-Based Brand Equity
Customer-Based Brand Equity
“The differential effect that brand knowledge has on consumer response to the marketing of that brand.”
Answers two main questions:
What makes a brand strong?
How do you build a strong brand?
CBBE answers these questions from the perspectives of the consumer – as an individual and as an organization.
When does a brand have POSITIVE CBBE?
When consumers react favorably to a product and the way it is marketed when the brand is identified - than when it is not identified.
When does a brand have NEGATIVE CBBE?
A brand has NEGATIVE CBBE if consumers react less favorably to marketing activity for the brand compared with an unnamed or fictitiously named version of the product.
There are 3 key “ingredients” to CBBE:
- Differential Effect
- Brand Knowledge
- Consumer Response to Marketing
Differential Effect
Differences in consumer response
Brand Knowledge
A result of consumers’ knowledge about the brand
Consumer Response to Marketing
perceptions, preferences, & behavior related to all aspects of brand marketing
Marketing Advantages Of Strong Brands
Improved perceptions of product performance
Greater loyalty
Less vulnerability to competitive marketing actions
Less vulnerability to marketing crises
Larger margins
More inelastic consumer response to price increases
More elastic consumer response to price decreases
Greater trade cooperation and support
Increased marketing communication effectiveness
Possible licensing opportunities
Additional brand extension opportunities
Consumer knowledge drives the differences that manifest themselves in terms of…
…brand equity.
Brand equity provides marketers with a vital strategic __ from their past to their future.
bridge
Brands as a Reflection of the Past
Marketers should consider all the dollars spent on manufacturing and marketing products each year not as “expenses” but rather as “investments” in what consumers learned, felt and experienced about the brand.
Quality of brand building is more important than quantity.
Brands as a Direction for the Future
Past results can be interpreted to design future marketing programs. The brand knowledge that marketers create over time dictates appropriate and inappropriate future directions for the brand.
Brand knowledge is the key to creating brand equity because…
…it creates the differential effect that drives brand equity.
Associative Network Memory Model
Views memory as a network of nodes and connecting links
Nodes
stored information & concepts
Links
associations between information or concepts
Brand knowledge has two components:
Brand Awareness
Brand Image
Brand Awareness
The strength of the brand “node” in memory.
The consumer’s ability to identify the brand under different conditions.
Brand Image
Consumer’s perceptions about a brand. It is reflected by the brand associations held in the consumer’ memory
Customer-based brand equity occurs when the consumer:
- Has high levels of awareness & familiarity with the brand.
- Holds strong, favorable & unique brand associations in memory.
In some cases (low involvement) brand awareness alone is enough to create…
…favorable consumer responses.
In other cases, however, the strength, favorability, and uniqueness of brand associations play a critical role in determining the differential response that makes up brand equity.
Brand Awareness consists of…
Brand Recognition
Brand Recall
Brand Recognition
consumer’s ability to confirm prior exposure to a brand when cued (eg: POP displays)
Brand Recall
consumer’s ability to retrieve the brand from memory when given the product category, the needs fulfilled by the category, or a purchase or usage situation as a cue (eg: services & online brands).
Advantages of Effective Brand Awareness
Learning Advantages
Consideration Advantages
Choice Advantages
Learning Advantages
Brand awareness influences the formation and strength of the associations that make up the brand image.
Registers the brand in the minds of consumers.
Consideration Advantages
Likelihood that the brand will be a member of the consideration set.
Consumers must consider the brand whenever they are making a purchase for which it could be acceptable or fulfilling a need it could satisfy.
Choice Advantages
Affects choices among brands in the consideration
set
- Consumer purchase motivation
- Consumer purchase ability
Creating brand awareness means…
…increasing the familiarity of the brand thru repeated exposure, this is generally more effective for brand recognition than for brand recall.
Repetition increases…
…recognizability.
Improving brand recall also requires…
…linkages in memory to right product categories or other purchase or consumption cues (eg: names, symbols, logos, packaging, etc)
The way marketers pair the brand with its product category, such as with an advertising slogan, helps determine…
…the strength of product category links. (eg: Ford cars)
Many marketers have attempted to create brand awareness through so-called…
…“shock advertising” with bizarre themes.
The problem with such “shock advertising” methods is that…
…they invariably fail to
create strong category links because the product is just not
prominent enough in the ad (eg: Outpost.com – came across as desperate with an unclear message).
Creating a positive brand image requires…
…strong, favorable, and unique brand associations.
Strength of brand associations is based on:
Personal Relevance
Consistency of Presentation
Consumers form beliefs about brand attributes and benefits in different ways called:
Brand attributes
Brand benefits
Brand attributes
descriptive features that are characteristic of a product or service.
Brand benefits
the personal value and meaning that consumers attach to the product or service attributes.
Company-influenced advtg creates the __ associations.
weakest
Direct experiences create the __ brand attribute and benefit associations.
strongest
Creative communications (instead of advtg) can be used to create…
…strong brand associations (eg: Starbucks, Google, Red Bull, etc)
To choose which favorable and unique associations to link to the brand, marketers carefully analyze the…
…consumer and the competition to determine the best positioning for the brand.
Favorable brand associations are those that are…
…desirable and deliverable to consumers.
Desirability depends on:
how (i) relevant (ii) distinctive, and (iii) believable consumers find the brand associations.
Deliverability depends on:
(i) the actual or potential ability of the product to perform
(ii) the current or future prospects of communicating that performance
(iii) the sustainability of the actual and communicated performance over time.
The essence of brand positioning is that the brand has a…
…sustainable competitive advantage or “unique selling proposition” that gives consumers a compelling reason to should buy it.
Within brand positioning, marketers can make this unique difference explicit through…
…direct comparisons with competitors, or they may highlight it implicitly.
Strong and unique associations are critical to…
…a brand’s success.
If the brand faces no competition, it will likely…
…share some associations with other brands.
The Body Shop Example
The Body Shop created a global brand image without using conventional advertising. Its strong association to personal care and environmental concern occurred through its products, packaging, merchandising, staff, sourcing policies, social action program, and public relations program and activities.