2. Brand Equity as a “Bridge”
2.2
â– Reflection of past investments in the marketing of
abrand
â– Direction for futuremarketing actions or
programs
3. Making a Brand Strong:
Brand Knowledge
2.3
â– Brand knowledge is the key to creating brand
equity.
â– Brandknowledgeconsistsof abrandnodein
memory with a variety of associations linked to
it.
â– Brand knowledge has two components:brand
awareness and brand image.
5. Establishing Brand Awareness
2.5
â– Increasing the familiarity of the brand through
repeated exposure (for brand recognition)
â– forging strong associations with the appropriate
productcategoryorotherrelevantpurchaseor
consumption cues (for brand recall)
6. The Four Steps of Brand Building
2.6
1. Ensure identification of the brand with customers and
an association of the brand in customers’ minds
2. Establish the totality of brand meaning in the minds of
consumers
3. Elicit the proper customer responses to the brand
identification and brand meaning
4. Convert brand response to create an intense, active
loyalty relationship between customers and the brand
7. Four Questions Customers ask of Brands
2.7
1. Who are you?(brand identity)
2. What are you?(brand meaning)
3. What about you?What do I think or feel about
you?(brand responses)
4. What about you and me?What kind of
association and how much of aconnection
would I like to have with you?(brand
relationships)
8. 2.
Customer-Based Brand Equity Pyramid
RESONANCE
SALIENCE
JUDGMENTS FEELINGS
PERFORMANCE IMAGERY
4. RELATIONSHIPS =
What about you and me?
3. RESPONSE =
What about you?
2. MEANING =
What are you?
1. IDENTITY =
Who are you?
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9. Sub-Dimensions of CBBE Pyramid
LOYALTY
ATTACHMENT
COMMUNITY
ENGAGEMENT
QUALITY
CREDIBILITY
CONSIDERATION
SUPERIORITY
WARMTH
FUN
EXCITEMENT
SECURITY
SOCIAL APPROVAL
SELF-RESPECT
CATEGORY IDENTIFICATION
NEEDS SATISFIED
PRIMARY CHARACTERISTICS &
SECONDARY FEATURES
PRODUCT RELIABILITY,
DURABILITY & SERVICEABILITY
SERVICE EFFECTIVENESS,
EFFICIENCY & EMPATHY
STYLE AND DESIGN
PRICE
USER PROFILES
PURCHASE & USAGE
SITUATIONS
PERSONALITY &
VALUES
HISTORY, HERITAGE
& EXPERIENCES
10. Salience Dimensions
2.10
â– Depth of brand awareness
â– Ease of recognition and recall
â– Strength and clarity of category membership
â– Breadth of brand awareness
â– Purchase consideration
â– Consumption consideration
11. Depth and Breadth Importance
2.11
â– The product category hierarchy shows us not
only the depth of awareness matters but also the
breadth.
â– The brand must not only be top-of-mind and have
sufficient “mind share,” but it must also do so at
theright timesand places.
12. Product Category Structure
2.12
â– To fully understand brand recall, we need to
appreciateproductcategorystructure,orhow
product categories are organized in memory.
13. Performance Dimensions
2.13
â– Primary characteristics and supplementary features
â– Product reliability, durability, and serviceability
â– Service effectiveness, efficiency, and empathy
â– Style and design
â– Price
14. Imagery Dimensions
2.14
â– User profiles
â– Demographic and psychographic characteristics
â– Actual or aspirational
■Group perceptions—popularity
â– Purchase and usage situations
â– Type of channel, specific stores, ease of purchase
â– Time (day, week, month, year, etc.), location, and context of usage
â– Personality and values
â– Sincerity, excitement, competence, sophistication, and roughness
â– History, heritage, and experiences
â– Nostalgia
â– Memories
17. Resonance Dimensions
2.17
â– Behavioral loyalty
â– Frequency and amount of repeat purchases
â– Attitudinal attachment
■Love brand (favorite possessions; “a little pleasure”)
â– Proud of brand
â– Sense of community
â– Kinship
â– Affiliation
â– Active engagement
â– Seek information
â– Join club
â– Visit website, chat rooms
20. Brand Building Implications
2.20
â– Customers own brands.
■Don’t take shortcuts with brands.
â– Brands should have a duality.
â– Brands should have richness.
â– Brand resonance provides important focus.
21. Creating Customer Value
2.21
â– Customer-brand relationships are the
foundation of brand resonance and building a
strong brand.
â– The customer-based brand equity model
certainly puts that notion front and center.
22. Is a company consumer-centric?
2.22
1. Is the company looking for ways to take care of
you?
2. Does the company know its customers well
enough to differentiate between them?
3. Is someone accountable for customers?
4. Is the company managed for shareholder value?
5. Is the company testing new customer offers and
learning from the results?
Sources:Larry Selden and Geoffrey Colvin, 2004.
24. Customer Equity
2.24
â– Blattberg and Deighton (1996) offer eight guidelines as a means
of maximizing customer equity:
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Invest in highest-value customers first
Transform product management into customer management
Consider how add-on sales and cross-selling can increase customer equity
Look for ways to reduce acquisition costs
Track customer equity gains and losses against marketing programs
Relate branding to customer equity
Monitor the intrinsic retain ability of your customer
Consider writing separate marketing plans—or even building two
marketing organizations—for acquisition and retention efforts
25. Customer Equity
2.25
â– The sum of lifetime values of all customers
â– Customer lifetime value (CLV) is affected by
revenue and by the cost of customer acquisition,
retention, and cross-selling
â– Consists of three components:
â– Value equity
â– Brand equity
â– Relationship equity
Rust, Zeithamal & Lemon, 2004
26. Relationship of Customer Equity to
Brand Equity
2.26
â– Customers drive the success of brands but
brands are the necessary touchpoint that firms
have to connect with their customers.
â– Customer-based brand equity maintains that
brands create value by eliciting differential
customer response to marketing activities.
â– The higher price premiums and increased levels
of loyalty engendered by brands generate
incremental cash flows.