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STRATEGIC BRAND MANAGEMENT

BUILDING, MEASURING, AND MANAGING


BRAND EQUITY

Kevin Lane Keller

: Ileush Cornell, Brand Strategist,


Collected by Bangladesh, Blog: www.ileush.blogspot.com
What is a Brand?
American Marketing Association’s definition
A brand is a name, term, sign, symbol, or design which is
intended to identify the goods or services of one seller or
group of sellers and to differentiate them from those of
competitors.

• Attributes that identify the brand are called – Brand


Elements (based on people, place, objects, animals, etc.)
• Practicing managers define brands as more than that.
This distinction is important since it can lead to confusion.

: Ileush Cornell, Brand Strategist,


Collected by Bangladesh, Blog: www.ileush.blogspot.com
What is a Brand?
Brand versus Product –
Product – is anything that can be offered to a market
for attention, acquisition, use or consumption that
may satisfy a need or a want (goods, services,
retail store, person, organization, idea)

• Kotler defines 5 levels of a product


1. Core benefit level – fundamental need or want that
is satisfied
2. Generic product level – basic version – attributes
necessary for functioning (stripped down level)
3. Expected product level – what customer’s
normally expect
4. Augmented product level – additional attributes,
benefits that distinguish it from competition
5. Potential product level – all transformation that it
might undergo in the future

: Ileush Cornell, Brand Strategist,


Collected by Bangladesh, Blog: www.ileush.blogspot.com
What is a Brand?
A Brand is therefore a Product – that also has dimensions that
differentiates it from other products designed to satisfy the
same need (competition)
• Differences may be -
• Rational and tangible – related to product performance
(3M, Sony, Gillette)
• Symbolic, emotional, intangible – related to what the
brand represents (Coca Cola, Calvin Kline, Marlboro)

• What distinguishes a brand from a commodity gives it


equity - the sum total of consumer perceptions and
feelings about how it performs (3M, Sony, Gillette)
• The name and what it stands for
• The company associated with the brand

: Ileush Cornell, Brand Strategist,


Collected by Bangladesh, Blog: www.ileush.blogspot.com
New Concept of Brand Equity (BE)

BE is defined differently by many but there is


a point of consensus. It is agreed that -
• BE relates to marketing effects that are
uniquely attributable to the brand
• BE relates to the fact that different outcomes
result in the marketing of a product or service
because of its brand name, as compared to if
the same product or service did not have that
name.
• BE concept in marketing - stresses the
importance of the brand in marketing
strategies.

: Ileush Cornell, Brand Strategist,


Collected by Bangladesh, Blog: www.ileush.blogspot.com
New Concept of Brand Equity
There is also agreement about - Branding is about
creating differences
• Differences in outcome - arise from ‘added value’
endowed to a product as a result of past marketing
activities for the brand
• This value can be created for a brand in many ways
• Brand value can be exploited to benefit of the firm in
many different ways
• BE provides the common denominator for
interpreting marketing strategies and assessing the
value of the brand

: Ileush Cornell, Brand Strategist,


Collected by Bangladesh, Blog: www.ileush.blogspot.com
Why Brands Matters?
Brand Value created translates to financial profits for the firm as:
• Creates perceived differences through branding
• Develops a loyal consumer franchise

The brand is an intangible valued asset that needs to be handled


carefully.

: Ileush Cornell, Brand Strategist,


Collected by Bangladesh, Blog: www.ileush.blogspot.com
Why Brands Matter
• Customers
• Risk reducer
• Search cost reducer
• Signal of quality
• Symbolic device for self expression
• Promise, bond, pact, with maker of the product
• Means of identification of source of product for assignment of responsibility to product
maker

• Manufacturer
• Means of identification for handling, tracing
• Signal of quality level to satisfied customers
• Competitive advantage
• Financial return
• Legal protection of unique features

: Ileush Cornell, Brand Strategist,


Collected by Bangladesh, Blog: www.ileush.blogspot.com
Why Brands Matter
• It creates a relationship between brand and consumer
• a bond / pact. trust and loyalty and in return …….
• expect consistent product performance, appropriate price, distribution and
other actions
• Brands take on a special meaning and change the experience and
perception of a product that leads to greater satisfaction
• Customers with past experience learn more about the brand
• The advantages
• Lowers search cost internally and externally
• The value may not be only functional in nature
• They are symbolic devices allowing them to project their self image
• Extremely important with credence goods to signal quality
• Brands reduce risk particularly in BtoB settings

: Ileush Cornell, Brand Strategist,


Collected by Bangladesh, Blog: www.ileush.blogspot.com
Benefits of Customer-Based Brand Equity
• Branding is a powerful means of securing a competitive advantage
• Brand experience can last for years and cannot be duplicated

• Enjoy greater brand loyalty, usage, and affinity


• Predictability and security of demand
• Command larger price premiums on a regular basis, also
during A&Ms
• Creates entry barriers for others
• Receive greater trade cooperation & support
• Increase marketing communication effectiveness
• Yield licensing opportunities
• Support brand extensions
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: Ileush Cornell, Brand Strategist,


Collected by Bangladesh, Blog: www.ileush.blogspot.com
Anything Can Be Branded
Branding is possible for -
• B to B products
• High-tech products
• Services
• Retailers and Distributors
• Online products and services
• People and Organizations
• Sports
• Arts, Entertainment
• Geographic location
• Ideas and causes

: Ileush Cornell, Brand Strategist,


Collected by Bangladesh, Blog: www.ileush.blogspot.com
Anything Can Be Branded
To brand a product what needs to be done is -
Consumer has to be
• Taught to identify the brand – label, name and other elements
• Learn the brand meaning - functional, emotional and symbolical
• Know the brand difference from other similar product brands
(performance / image and non-product related considerations)

Commodities have been branded – atta, salt

: Ileush Cornell, Brand Strategist,


Collected by Bangladesh, Blog: www.ileush.blogspot.com
Determinants of Customer-Based Brand Equity

• Customer is aware of and familiar with the brand

• Customer holds some strong, favorable, and unique brand


associations in memory

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: Ileush Cornell, Brand Strategist,


Collected by Bangladesh, Blog: www.ileush.blogspot.com
The Concept of CBBE and Marketing

• Customer-based brand equity - creates


• Differential effect of brand because of …
• Customer brand knowledge…which generates
• Customer response to brand marketing

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: Ileush Cornell, Brand Strategist,


Collected by Bangladesh, Blog: www.ileush.blogspot.com
Brand Equity and Marketing Management

• BE concept stresses - importance of the brand in


marketing strategies
• BE is defined in terms of the marketing effects uniquely
attributable to the brand.
• Brand equity relates to the fact that different outcomes
result in the marketing of a product or service because
of its brand name, as compared to if the same product
or service did not have that name.

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: Ileush Cornell, Brand Strategist,


Collected by Bangladesh, Blog: www.ileush.blogspot.com
Building Customer-Based Brand Equity

• Brand knowledge structures depend on . . .


• The initial choices for the brand elements
• The supporting marketing program and the manner by which
the brand is integrated into it

• Other associations indirectly transferred to the brand by linking


it to some other entities

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: Ileush Cornell, Brand Strategist,


Collected by Bangladesh, Blog: www.ileush.blogspot.com
The Key to Successful Branding

For branding strategies to be successful –


• Consumers must be convinced that there are meaningful
differences among brands
• Consumer must not think that all brands in the category are the
same.
PERCEPTION = VALUE

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: Ileush Cornell, Brand Strategist,


Collected by Bangladesh, Blog: www.ileush.blogspot.com
Customer-Based Brand Equity as a “Bridge”

• CBBE represents the “added value” endowed to a


product as a result of past investments in the
marketing of a brand.
• CBBE therefore provides direction and focus to
future marketing activities

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: Ileush Cornell, Brand Strategist,


Collected by Bangladesh, Blog: www.ileush.blogspot.com
Strategic Brand Management
• Strategic brand management involves design and
implementation of marketing programs and activities
• to build,
• measure,
• manage BE
• Strategic brand management process involves four
main steps:
1) Identify and establish brand positioning and values
2)  Plan and implement brand marketing programs
3)  Measure and interpret brand performance
4)  Grow and sustain BE

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: Ileush Cornell, Brand Strategist,


Collected by Bangladesh, Blog: www.ileush.blogspot.com
Strategic Brand Management Process
STEPS KEY CONCEPTS
Mental maps
Identify and Establish Competitive frame of reference
Brand Positioning and Values Points-of-parity and points-of-difference
Core brand values
Brand mantra

Plan and Implement Mixing and matching of brand elements


Brand Marketing Programs Integrating brand marketing activities
Leveraging of secondary associations

Brand Value Chain


Measure and Interpret Brand audits
Brand Performance Brand tracking
Brand equity management system

Brand-product matrix
Grow and Sustain Brand portfolios and hierarchies
Brand Equity Brand expansion strategies
Brand reinforcement and revitalization
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: Ileush Cornell, Brand Strategist,


Collected by Bangladesh, Blog: www.ileush.blogspot.com
New Branding Challenges

• Brands are important as ever


• Consumer need for simplification
• Consumer need for risk reduction

• Brand management is as difficult as ever


• Savvy consumers
• Increased competition
• Decreased effectiveness of traditional marketing tools and
emergence of new marketing tools
• Complex brand and product portfolios

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: Ileush Cornell, Brand Strategist,


Collected by Bangladesh, Blog: www.ileush.blogspot.com
The Customer/Brand Challenge

• In this difficult environment, marketers must have a keen


understanding of:
• customers
• brands
• the relationship between the two

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: Ileush Cornell, Brand Strategist,


Collected by Bangladesh, Blog: www.ileush.blogspot.com

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