The document provides notes on brand management from BORNALI DAS. It begins with an introduction to the author, who has over 6 years of experience in event management. The contents section then lists and defines various concepts related to brand management, including brand name, attributes, positioning, identity, image, awareness, loyalty, equity and extensions. It provides examples and discussions of each topic. The document aims to educate about fundamental aspects of developing and managing strong, successful brands.
A brand platform, or corporate image, is the set of associations that customers make with your company. Some of these associations may be quite obvious and strong, like the brand Volvo is associated with safety. In other cases, the associations can be weak; BMW, for instance, may be associated with safety but only in a very weak manner. The possible associations that a brand may want to have actually comes from many sources. For example, it may come from the benefits the customers in a target market may care the most about. But it can also come from various descriptors or the self-image of the target audience. It can also come from a company’s history or core competency.
A brand platform, or corporate image, is the set of associations that customers make with your company. Some of these associations may be quite obvious and strong, like the brand Volvo is associated with safety. In other cases, the associations can be weak; BMW, for instance, may be associated with safety but only in a very weak manner. The possible associations that a brand may want to have actually comes from many sources. For example, it may come from the benefits the customers in a target market may care the most about. But it can also come from various descriptors or the self-image of the target audience. It can also come from a company’s history or core competency.
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Brand architecture is the structure of brands within an organizational entity. It is the way in which the brands within a company’s portfolio are related to, and differentiated from, one another. The architecture should define the different leagues of branding within the organization; how the corporate brand and sub-brands relate to and support each other; and how the sub-brands reflect or reinforce the core purpose of the corporate brand to which they belong. Often, decisions about Brand Architecture are concerned with how to manage a parent brand, and a family of sub-brands - Managing brand architecture to maximize shareholder value can often include using brand valuation model techniques. Brand architecture may be defined as an integrated process of brand building through establishing brand relationships among branding options in the competitive environment. The brand architecture of an organization at any time is, in large measure, a legacy of past management decisions as well as the competitive realities it faces in the marketplace.
Brands are different from products in a way that brands are “what the consumers buy”, while products are “what concern/companies make”. Brand is an accumulation of emotional and functional associations. Brand is a promise that the product will perform as per customer’s expectations. It shapes customer’s expectations about the product. Brands usually have a trademark which protects them from use by others. A brand gives particular information about the organization, good or service, differentiating it from others in marketplace. Brand carries an assurance about the characteristics that make the product or service unique. A strong brand is a means of making people aware of what the company represents and what are it’s offerings.
Branding is about discovering and communicating the essence of your business and what it delivers to your customers. Your brand creates your business' reputation and its 'personality'.
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Brand architecture is the structure of brands within an organizational entity. It is the way in which the brands within a company’s portfolio are related to, and differentiated from, one another. The architecture should define the different leagues of branding within the organization; how the corporate brand and sub-brands relate to and support each other; and how the sub-brands reflect or reinforce the core purpose of the corporate brand to which they belong. Often, decisions about Brand Architecture are concerned with how to manage a parent brand, and a family of sub-brands - Managing brand architecture to maximize shareholder value can often include using brand valuation model techniques. Brand architecture may be defined as an integrated process of brand building through establishing brand relationships among branding options in the competitive environment. The brand architecture of an organization at any time is, in large measure, a legacy of past management decisions as well as the competitive realities it faces in the marketplace.
Brands are different from products in a way that brands are “what the consumers buy”, while products are “what concern/companies make”. Brand is an accumulation of emotional and functional associations. Brand is a promise that the product will perform as per customer’s expectations. It shapes customer’s expectations about the product. Brands usually have a trademark which protects them from use by others. A brand gives particular information about the organization, good or service, differentiating it from others in marketplace. Brand carries an assurance about the characteristics that make the product or service unique. A strong brand is a means of making people aware of what the company represents and what are it’s offerings.
Branding is about discovering and communicating the essence of your business and what it delivers to your customers. Your brand creates your business' reputation and its 'personality'.
The process involved in creating a unique name
and image for a product in the consumers'
mind, mainly through advertising campaigns
with a consistent theme. Branding aims to establish a significant and
differentiated presence in the market that attracts and retains loyal customers.
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3. About the AUTHOR:
I have more than 6 years of experience in the Event
Industry. I have worked with some of the most
reputed companies in India like UB GROUP,
SAMSUNG, ADI SPORTS INDIA Ltd. ,GLITZ and
GLAMOUR, VIREN KHANNA PRODUCTIONS .
Apart from that I have worked with many reputed
organisations as Faculty like INDIRA GANDHI
INSTITUTE OF AVIATION, FRANKFIN and many
more.
I have also worked in various events such as Fashion
Shows, Product Launches, Car rallies, Corporate
events, book launches and numerous weddings.
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CONTENTS
Brand Management - Introduction
What is a Brand ?
Brand Name
Brand Attributes
Brand Positioning
Brand Identity
Sources of Brand Identity
Brand Image
Brand Identity vs Brand Image
Brand Personality
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Brand Awareness
Brand Loyalty
Brand Association
Brand Promise
Building a Brand
Brand Equity
Brand Equity & Customer Equity
Brand Extension
Why Do Brands Have Extensions ?
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Brand Extension - A Success or Failure ?
Co-branding
Brand Value
Brand Value Measurement
Brand Categories
Marketing Career Option
Do Brands Happen or are they Made ?
What Do Brands Do ?
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Brand Management Challenges
Corporate Branding - A Discussion
Changing Profile of Brand Managers
Branding in the Age of Information and Internet
Tips for Successful Brand Management
What is Perception Management and why it is Important for Organizational
Success
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1. INTRODUCTION
What is a Brand?
A brand is the way a company, organization, or individual is perceived by those who
experience it. More than simply a name, term, design, or symbol, a brand is the
recognizable feeling a product or business evokes.
Simply put, brands are perceptions.
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Brand is a promise that the product will perform as per customer’s expectations.
It shapes customer’s expectations about the product.
Brands usually have a trademark which protects them from use by others.
A brand gives particular information about the organization, good or service, differentiating it
from others in marketplace.
Brand carries an assurance about the characteristics that make the product or service unique.
A strong brand is a means of making people aware of what the company represents and what are
it’s offerings
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To a consumer, brand means and signifies:
Source of product
Delegating responsibility to the manufacturer of product
Lower risk
Less search cost
Quality symbol
Deal or pact with the product manufacturer
Symbolic device
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To a seller, brand means and signifies:
Basis of competitive advantage
Way of bestowing products with unique associations
Way of identification to easy handling
Way of legal protection of products’ unique traits/features
Sign of quality to satisfied customer
Means of financial returns
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Brand Management –
Meaning and Important Concepts
Brand Management –
A brand, in short, can be defined as a seller’s promise to provide consistently a unique set of
characteristics, advantages, and services to the buyers/consumers.
It is a name, term, sign, symbol or a combination of all these planned to differentiate the
goods/services of one seller or group of sellers from those of competitors.
Some examples of well known brands are Mc Donald’s’, Mercedes-Benz, Sony, Coca Cola,
Kingfisher, etc.
13. A brand connects the four crucial elements
of an enterprise-
1)Customers,
2) Employees,
3)Management &
4)Shareholders.
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Brand Name
Brand name is one of the brand elements which helps the customers to identify and differentiate
one product from another. It should be chosen very carefully as it captures the key theme of a
product in an efficient and economical manner.
Brand names are not necessarily associated with the product.
For instance, brand names can be based on places (Air India, British Airways), animals or
birds (Dove soap, Puma), people (Louise Phillips, Allen Solly).
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Features of a Good Brand Name
A good brand name should have following characteristics:
It should be unique / distinctive (for instance- Kodak, Mustang)
It should be extendable.
It should be easy to pronounce, identified and memorized. (For instance-Tide)
It should give an idea about product’s qualities and benefits (For instance- Swift,
Quickfix, Lipguard).
It should be easily convertible into foreign languages
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It should be capable of legal protection and registration.
It should suggest product/service category (For instance Newsweek).
It should indicate concrete qualities (For instance Firebird).
It should not portray bad/wrong meanings in other categories. (For instance NOVA is
a poor name for a car to be sold in Spanish country, because in Spanish it means
“doesn’t go”).
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The Role of Brands
Identify the maker
Simplify product handling
Organize accounting
Signify quality
Create barriers to entry
Serve as a competitive advantage
Secure price premium
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Selection of a renowned and successful
Brand Name
Define the objectives of branding in terms of six criterions - descriptive,
suggestive, compound, classical, arbitrary and fanciful.
Generation of multiple names - Any potential source of names can be used;
organization, management and employees, current or potential customers, agencies
and professional consultants.
Screening of names on the basis of branding objectives and marketing
considerations so as to have a more synchronized list - The brand names must not
have connotations, should be easily pronounceable, should meet the legal
requirements etc.
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Gathering more extensive details on each of the finalized names - There should be
extensive international legal search done.
Conducting consumer research
Based on the above mentioned steps, management can finalize the brand name that
maximizes the organization’sbranding and marketing objectives and then formally
register the brand name.
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BRAND ATTRIBUTES
Brand Attributes portray a company’s brand characteristics. They signify the basic nature of
brand.
A strong brand must have following attributes:
Relevancy- A strong brand must be relevant. It must meet people’s expectations and should
perform the way they want it to. A good job must be done to persuade consumers to buy the
product; else inspite of your product being unique, people will not buy it.
Consistency- A consistent brand signifies what the brand stands for and builds customers
trust in brand. A consistent brand is where the company communicates message in a way that
does not deviate from the core brand proposition.
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Proper positioning- A strong brand should be positioned so that it makes a place in
target audience mind and they prefer it over other brands.
Sustainable- A strong brand makes a business competitive. A sustainable brand
drives an organization towards innovation and success. Example of sustainable brand
is Marks and Spencer’s.
Credibility- A strong brand should do what it promises. The way you communicate
your brand to the audience/ customers should be realistic. It should not fail to
deliver what it promises. Do not exaggerate as customers want to believe in the
promises you make to them.
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Inspirational- A strong brand should transcend/ inspire the category it is famous
for. For example- Nike transcendent Jersey Polo Shirt.
Uniqueness- A strong brand should be different and unique. It should set you apart
from other competitors in market.
Appealing- A strong brand should be attractive. Customers should be attracted by
the promise you make and by the value you deliver.
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BRAND POSITIONING
Brand positioning refers to “target consumer’s” reason to buy your brand in
preference to others.
It is ensures that all brand activity has a common aim; is guided, directed and
delivered by the brand’s benefits/reasons to buy; and it focusses at all points of
contact with the consumer.
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Brand positioning must make sure that:
Is it unique/distinctive vs. competitors ?
Is it significant and encouraging to the niche market ?
Is it appropriate to all major geographic markets and businesses ?
Is the proposition validated with unique, appropriate and original products ?
Is it sustainable - can it be delivered constantly across all points of contact with the consumer ?
Is it helpful for organization to achieve its financial goals ?
Is it able to support and boost up the organization ?
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In order to create a distinctive place in the market, a niche market has to be carefully
chosen and a differential advantage must be created in their mind.
Brand positioning is a medium through which an organization can portray it’s
customers what it wants to achieve for them and what it wants to mean to them.
Brand positioning forms customer’s views and opinions.
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Brand Positioning can be defined as an activity of creating a brand offer in such a manner
that it occupies a distinctive place and value in the target customer’s mind.
CASE STUDY -Kotak Mahindra positions itself in the customer’s mind as one entity- “Kotak
”- which can provide customized and one-stop solution for all their financial services needs.
It has an unaided top of mind recall. It intends to stay with the proposition of “Think
Investments, Think Kotak”. The positioning you choose for your brand will be influenced by
the competitive stance you want to adopt.
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Brand Positioning involves identifying and determining points of similarity and difference to
ascertain the right brand identity and to create a proper brand image.
Brand Positioning is the key of marketing strategy.
A strong brand positioning directs marketing strategy by explaining the brand details, the
uniqueness of brand and it’s similarity with the competitive brands, as well as the reasons for
buying and using that specific brand.
Positioning is the base for developing and increasing the required knowledge and perceptions of
the customers. It is the single feature that sets your service apart from your competitors. For
instance- Kingfisher stands for youth and excitement
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There are various positioning errors, such as-
1. Under positioning- This is a scenario in which the customer’s have a blurred and unclear idea of
the brand.
2. Over positioning- This is a scenario in which the customers have too limited a awareness of the
brand.
3. Confused positioning- This is a scenario in which the customers have a confused opinion of the
brand.
4. Double Positioning- This is a scenario in which customers do not accept the claims of a brand.
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Assignment Questions
Question 1. What Is Brand?( 5M/100 words)
Question 2. Explain Importance Of Brand Management? (10m/150 words)
Question 3. What Is Brand Positioning?(5M/100 words)
Question 4. What Are The Components Of Brand Positioning?(5M /100 words)
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Activity-1
In this activity your assignment is to identify and list 10 tasks that an Event Manager
will undertake as they begin to develop an event management plan (that is very early
on in the project cycle).
In the initial stages, there is much for the Event Manager to discover. Just imagine
that you have been asked to be the Event Manager for a major event at your local club
sometime next year. What would you need to know and what would you need to do
to get this project started in the first few months of planning.
If you cannot identify 10 tasks, name as many as you can.