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Brand Basics Part 1: Understanding Brand John Bowen, Alex Millet and Mohammad Saigol Brand Consultants
4 April 2013
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• Brand consultancy
• B2B and corporate focus
• Strategy and design
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• Part 1: Understanding Brand (4/4/13)
What we mean by brand, what value it can offer to a business, and how you might begin to think about creating or improving your own brand.
• Part 2: Defining Your Brand (4/11/13)
Guidelines for helping you define what your brand stands for in the context of your competitors, your customers, and your own company and culture.
• Part 3: Bringing Your Brand to Life (4/18/13)
Information and advice about translating your company’s brand strategy into customer brand experiences through messaging and design.
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• What is a brand?
• The power of brand
• The business value of brand
• How to begin developing your own brand
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“A brand is a living entity – and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures.”
Michael Eisner, Walt Disney Company CEO 1984-2005
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It is your name…
It is your logo…
It is your advertising…
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It’s also your product
It’s also your people
It’s also your culture
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Brand is what you stand for
Meaning it’s what you promise
And how you deliver on that promise
So that any one part stands in for the whole in people’s minds
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• The simplest way to think about your brand is as a promise you make to ALL of your audiences
• To customers, to employees, to partners, to investors…
• When you live up to your promise, you build your brand
• When you break your promise, your brand suffers
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“Authentic brands do not emerge from marketing cubicles or advertising agencies. They emanate from everything the company does…”
Howard Schultz, Starbucks CEO
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• A clear brand promise that is directly connected to a business model – brand strategy is business strategy
• Employees who all share a single understanding of the brand promise, and who are held accountable to deliver it
• Holistic approach to all brand touchpoints to ensure consistent and effective expression across the brand experience
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The most valuable brand in the world
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• Your brand already exists… it’s a question of whether you want to control how it develops
• You can position your company based on brand… or your customers will position you based on price
• Common trigger events for a branding or rebranding effort include: category shifts, radical technology changes, competitive pressures, internal restructuring, mergers and acquisitions
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Brand – it’s not just for B2C anymore.
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Company focus
Competitive differentiation
Customer relevance
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The power of company focus
• UPS needed to expand
their value proposition
• Success required a shift in
internal culture as much as
external marketing
• A new brand promise
hooked employees and
customers alike
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The power of customer relevance
• When markets shift, it’s
sink or swim
• When Xerox saw change
coming, they evolved to
meet new customer needs
• Today, the brand is more
relevant – and valuable –
than ever
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The power of competitive differentiation
• Intel found itself in a
commodity market despite
their high quality product
• Customers needed to
know there is a choice
• Few products are
indispensable, but the Intel
brand now feels like it is
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It’s not just for the big boys…
• ACME brick was founded in 1891
• Invested in brand through 100 year guarantee, sponsorships, product stamping, event marketing
• Estimate that 10% or their annual sales is ROI on brand building (13X)
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Brand drives preference
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Brand generates loyalty
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Interbrand – Best Global Brands 2012 Report
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Secure leadership alignment
Agree on your objectives
Agree what will be measured, and how
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• To make the case for brand as your organization’s leader:
Beat the drum of differentiation
Position brand as an internal rallying point
Lead with passion
• To make the case for brand from within the marketing team:
Begin with the marketing benefits of brand
Connect brand to business benefits
Begin with broad examples before getting specific to your company
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“Goods and services are no longer enough.”
The Experience Economy, Joe Pine and Jim Gilmore
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In this section, you learned what a brand is and what it isn’t, and how strong brands can drive tangible business results.
You also picked up a few tips on how to kick start your own branding initiative.
In Part 2: Defining Your Brand, you will begin thinking about what you want your brand to stand for from a strategic standpoint.
See you next week!
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