Learning Objectives 1. What is a brand, and how does branding work? 2. What is brand equity? 3. How is brand equity built? 4. How is brand equity measured? 5. How is brand equity managed? 6. What is brand architecture? 7. What is customer equity?
How Does Branding Work? • American Marketing Association – A brand is “a name, term, sign, symbol, or design, or a combination of them, intended to identify the goods or services of one seller or group of sellers and to differentiate them from those of competitors”
Defining Brand Equity • Brand promise – The marketer’s vision of what the brand must be and do for consumers Virgin America airline exemplifies Virgin's corporate mission to better satisfy customers by doing different things and doing things differently
Designing Holistic Marketing Activities • Brand contact – Any information-bearing experience (positive or negative) a customer or prospect has with the brand, its product category, or its market
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