1. The document describes a customer experience mapping for a brand experience design project focused on sugar cane harvesting.
2. Various engagement tools are outlined, including contextual posters, ambassador conversations, visitor comment books, commenting cups, and benches for conversation.
3. The goal is to understand visitor and consumer perceptions of a new product category through authentic feedback and insights gathered via the different engagement methods.
This is a presentation that I gave to a USF Masters of Business Administration class on Brand Planning for Clients. My hope was to share some thoughts with the future generation of clients on planning, positioning, relevance and new product development.
This document discusses brand strategy and branding. It defines branding as what makes people choose one company over another, even when products are identical, as brands make people feel something and become attached to feelings brands evoke. It also notes that branding can increase sales through loyalty, build confidence and trust, and develop product uniqueness. The document defines brand strategy as a long-term plan to achieve goals through developing a successful brand. It distinguishes between private, captive, and manufacturers' brands.
The document discusses the art and science of gaining insights. It outlines a 4-step process for insighting: 1) observe, 2) reframe, 3) validate, and 4) refine. The process involves looking at things from different perspectives, asking why, making new connections, and embracing creative chaos. It provides examples of insights that led to successful branding, advertising, and innovations. It emphasizes that insights are most powerful when they touch people emotionally and are simply and clearly expressed.
The document outlines a 3-step workshop on branding:
Step 1 provides a 30-minute overview of branding and marketing concepts, and framework for collaboration.
Step 2 involves participants filling out brand squares to analyze their brand message, crafting an emotional brand message, and presenting a brand vision.
Step 3 is about developing an engagement plan, mapping touchpoints to tell their story, scheduling marketing duties, and delivering consistent content across channels.
Many brands are misguided by so many notions around and about brand strategy. Here's a brief checklist for you to know if you are approaching your brand strategy right.
1. The document describes a customer experience mapping for a brand experience design project focused on sugar cane harvesting.
2. Various engagement tools are outlined, including contextual posters, ambassador conversations, visitor comment books, commenting cups, and benches for conversation.
3. The goal is to understand visitor and consumer perceptions of a new product category through authentic feedback and insights gathered via the different engagement methods.
This is a presentation that I gave to a USF Masters of Business Administration class on Brand Planning for Clients. My hope was to share some thoughts with the future generation of clients on planning, positioning, relevance and new product development.
This document discusses brand strategy and branding. It defines branding as what makes people choose one company over another, even when products are identical, as brands make people feel something and become attached to feelings brands evoke. It also notes that branding can increase sales through loyalty, build confidence and trust, and develop product uniqueness. The document defines brand strategy as a long-term plan to achieve goals through developing a successful brand. It distinguishes between private, captive, and manufacturers' brands.
The document discusses the art and science of gaining insights. It outlines a 4-step process for insighting: 1) observe, 2) reframe, 3) validate, and 4) refine. The process involves looking at things from different perspectives, asking why, making new connections, and embracing creative chaos. It provides examples of insights that led to successful branding, advertising, and innovations. It emphasizes that insights are most powerful when they touch people emotionally and are simply and clearly expressed.
The document outlines a 3-step workshop on branding:
Step 1 provides a 30-minute overview of branding and marketing concepts, and framework for collaboration.
Step 2 involves participants filling out brand squares to analyze their brand message, crafting an emotional brand message, and presenting a brand vision.
Step 3 is about developing an engagement plan, mapping touchpoints to tell their story, scheduling marketing duties, and delivering consistent content across channels.
Many brands are misguided by so many notions around and about brand strategy. Here's a brief checklist for you to know if you are approaching your brand strategy right.
The document provides an overview of a brand strategy toolkit that is designed to help marketers and students create and implement effective brand strategies. It defines brand strategy as a plan to systematically develop a strong, coherent brand to enhance revenue and profits. The brand strategy process involves conducting a brand audit, analyzing the target market, developing brand elements, and creating an integrated communications strategy to ensure consistency across touchpoints.
This document discusses developing a brand strategy and summarizes key points in brand positioning, identity, and image. It explains that brand identity is how a brand strategist wants a brand to be perceived, while brand image is how a brand is currently perceived by customers. Brand positioning communicates part of the brand identity to target segments. The document emphasizes translating a brand promise into a customer experience strategy and vision so employees can deliver the brand as intended. It questions how to map customer engagement opportunities to the brand vision and measure progress through key metrics.
The document discusses brand strategy and provides guidance on developing an effective brand strategy. It defines brand strategy as a course of action to differentiate a brand in stakeholders' minds. An effective brand strategy considers elements like targeting, values, proposition, and ensures alignment among these elements for different stakeholders. Developing brand strategy requires understanding that markets are dynamic, competitors will change their strategies, and maintaining flexibility while keeping the core brand values constant.
Brand differentiation is CRITICAL in today's ever-commoditizing marketplace. In their book Overthrow, Adam Morgan and Mark Holden identify the 10 different challenger stories. Every brand MUST be a challenger brand for success. Which one are you?
60 Minute Brand Strategist: Extended and updated hard cover NOW available.Idris Mootee
This book includes the very latest thinking on branding and brand strategy. It has been published in different many languages and use by top global brands to train their brand managers. New updated hard cover version is not available from Amazon May 2013
Pls view in full screen mode. Published in more than 5 languages.
Jonathan Lee, Managing Director, Brand Strategy, and Ken Allard, Managing Director, Business Strategy at HUGE, gave this presentation at "Ambidexterity 2," the VCU Brandcenter's Executive Education program for account planning on June 24th at the VCU Brandcenter in Richmond, VA.
This is the first session (Sep 4) of our Free Open Advanced Branding Masterclass at www.mootee.typepad.com. Pls rememebr no books are needed. We will forward additional reading material for all registered participants.
This is a fantastic presentation from Marty Neumeier from his book Zag. If you are short of time skip to slides 63 - 68 to see the evolution from marketing to branding. Love it.
Workshop for Brand Leaders to help define your brand positioning statement, brand concept and organizing big idea.
https://beloved-brands.com/brand-positioning/
The big ideaL: Ogilvy's framework for giving brands a purposeOgilvy
Ogilvy & Mather developed a framework called "The big ideaL" to help brands find an authentic platform to speak from. It involves identifying a cultural tension in the market and finding the brand's core strength. For Louis Vuitton, this resulted in the ideal that the world is a better place when we live life as an exceptional journey. For Milo chocolate drink, it was the belief that play is essential for childhood development. Applying this process helps brands lift themselves above competitors by taking a clear point of view.
While different people will have different approaches to developing and managing brands, we believe there are some fundamental constructs and truths about brand strategy that need to be considered in any brand strategy process. We\'ve developed a short presentation on some of the fundamentals of brand strategy.
This is our brand management training workshop on brand positioning. Your brand positioning statement defines the target market, consumer benefits, both functional and emotional, as well as support points.
Brands have personalities too. But do they match the customers' wants? Brand archetypes are the common personalities that brands usually take on. A brand archetype helps a brand to connect to a certain target market and bring across a specific message about who they are and what they offer. Here are a few types of brand archetypes and what archetype should be chosen for a brand depending on what the target market is looking for.
The document discusses how to approach big ideas in today's digital world. It advocates defining the creative brief, big idea, and engagement strategy in a more participatory way that considers how technologies and culture have changed. Specifically, it recommends:
1) Fueling the brief by understanding real problems and how audiences participate rather than just saying things at people.
2) Defining ideas as platforms that live on and are generous, multifaceted, responsive, and propagated rather than just TV campaigns.
3) Awesifying ideas by building ecosystems and engagement strategies tailored to cultural behaviors on channels like social networks, rather than just disrupting them.
4) Using the RISE framework to recruit,
A brand strategy is a plan for brand management that answers the big questions: who, where, why, what and when?
Building a strong brand requires a continuous commitment to excellence and an understanding of the qualities that define
the brand.
Here a practical guide to help you outline a successful Brand strategy.
The document is a presentation on creative planning given by Leon Phang at Miami Ad School. It discusses how creative planning is important to combine creativity and strategy. Phang believes the key is to be both creatively inspiring and relevant/differentiating. The rest of the presentation will cover the "creative domain" and tools for filling it. Strategic planning is important to get the basics right and avoid teams getting lost in the process without proper planning.
In the real world, you don’t have infinite resources; you don’t have a perfect product; and you don’t sell to a growing market without competition. You’re also not omnipotent, so you cannot enforce what people think your brand represents. Under these assumptions, most companies need all the help they can get with branding. Guy Kawasaki presents eight salient tips in The Art of Branding that will give your brand the attention it deserves.
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Session 1, introduction to branding 2013 2014John Verhoeven
This document provides an introduction to branding concepts through a university course outline. It discusses why brands are important for both consumers and manufacturers in reducing risk and simplifying decisions. Brands help create awareness, knowledge, image, attitude, preference, loyalty and advocacy. The document outlines the course topics on branding management, equity, strategy, research and international aspects. It emphasizes that brands tell stories, have life cycles, personalities, responsibilities and theoretical frameworks. Finally, it discusses how branding becomes more important in entertainment due to increasing choices, commoditization, differentiation needs, and the ability of strong brands to focus employees and build communities.
Lighthouse Identity is about projecting a clear, purposeful vision to customers to gain their attention, even if they are not actively looking. It discusses key elements like values, personas, and what makes the brand unique. The document provides an example manifesto for the brand TTT, positioning that small is the new big through qualities like flexibility, customer focus, trust, challenge, and going above expectations.