Market Segmentation – Meaning, Basis and Types of Segmentation
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Customer Profiling
For a developing business it is very important to understand who are the best customers, how to find more customers like these and where to find. Customer profiling is the best strategy to accomplish this. It helps to find valuable new customers, enhance the profitability by retaining existing customers and also identify low valued customers […]
Resource Based View – The VRIN Characteristics
Introduction The resource-based view (RBV) is a way of viewing the firm and in turn of approaching strategy. Fundamentally, this theory formulates the firm to be a bundle of resources. It is these resources and the way that they are combined, which make firms different from one another. It is considered as taking an inside-out […]
Buying Behaviour Patterns of Customers
For understanding the buying behaviour of the customers in retail stores it is very important to analyze the customer psychology, the factors which influence a customer for buying certain products/services from the stores and also an analysis of the customer’s response towards a sales promotion is very critical. Before analyzing the customer’s buying behaviour, let […]
Customer Loyalty – Meaning and its Important Concepts
Every supplier wants to create and retain a loyal customer who engages in continued profitable business with him. Customer Loyalty is the measure of success of the supplier in retaining a long term relationship with the customer. Thus customer loyalty is when a supplier receives the ultimate reward of his efforts in interacting with its […]
As a Marketing student, you might wonder if brand building means advertising or that brand building is achieved through advertisements alone. Well, at this juncture it becomes important to understand that the brands stand for a lot more than just the product and its functional value that it promises to deliver to the customers.
Celebrating a brand that has become a cult proves to be a way of life with many communities. Realizing the power of the brands over the loyal community of customers, the organizations have nurtured and carefully grown the brands in terms of its reputation as well as its influence.
Many successful brands associate themselves and support many social causes as well as promote their social responsibilities.
It has now become common for the well known brands to promote sports, cultural or music as well as charity or research related events and associate the brand with the particular field that they are associated with. Sports and Branding have a hugely successful partnership. Nike, Reebok etc have gained global visibility by supporting sports traditionally.
When you analyze the brands and their associations, you will soon realize that the brands stand for a lot many things other than just the logo and visual image. No doubt the visual image is one of the intrinsic characteristics of the brand, but the brands also convey a perception that is also associated with the image. They have a distinctive position as well as value and image besides having a personality too.
Delve a little more into the branding concept and you will find that the brands acquire certain personalities too. What we mean to say is that the brands use well known personalities as the ambassadors. The personality and the public image of the brand ambassador also contribute to the brand image and popularity.
Today every personal product, be it a perfume or a watch is associated with a well known personality who represents the brand and helps promote it. Mr. Richard Branson is perhaps one of the most well known brand ambassadors and a brand in himself. There are so many highly successful individuals, sports stars like Tiger Woods as well as actors and actresses who represent and promote brands and popularize them.
All in all, the brands communicate a lot of different things to different people. Today most successful organizations promote their corporate identity or the corporate company brand to retain, sustain and build their corporate image of the company while continuing with individual brand promotion of their products as well. In such cases we see that the Corporate branding and promotions are trying to communicate a different set of messages to the customers while the product brand promotions convey a totally different message.
The corporate branding tries to cultivate and nurture the corporate identify, values and the image while at the product level, the branding promotes the product and its value proposition to the target customers.
Understanding of the different types of branding gives us the understanding that the brands carry a certain power which can be termed as perception combined with an image. Besides, the brand also carries many more components and messages that it tries to convey.
Overall you will also note that the brands have the power to gain access to and remain in the sub conscious mind of the viewers. More importantly they use this power to help initiate and strengthen the relationship with the viewers as well as the customers.
When you start noticing all about brands around, you will realize that there is a design and strategy that goes into building and growing brands for different purposes. This marks the beginning of an interesting journey into the world of brand power for marketing management students.
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