Measuring Sources of Brand Equity: Capturing The Consumer Mindset
Measuring Sources of Brand Equity: Capturing The Consumer Mindset
Measuring Sources of Brand Equity: Capturing The Consumer Mindset
Brand Equity
Capturing the Consumer Mindset
Consumer Research
• Using ethnographic methods to understand
consumption cultures
• Studying consumers in their natural
surroundings
• Developing unique qualitative research
techniques to identify brand associations
and sources of brand equity
Profiling brand associations
Free associations:
What comes to mind with you think of Rolex?
What does the Rolex name mean to you?
Coding order of elicitation:
Place of responses in brand sequence yields a
measure of brand strength
Kelly repertory grid
Brand triads:
Which two brands are most alike? Why?
Ford BMW Mercedes Benz
Chevy Saab BMW
BMW VW Jaguar
Eliciting Brand Associations
• Visual techniques (collages, photos)
• Projective techniques (brand as a car)
• Brand stories
• Usage associations (heavy/light;
regular/non)
Projective Techniques
Couched in psychology
Types
• Constitutive - subject imposes structure;
clay modeling
• Constructive - using structures to create
reality; building blocks
• Interpretive - subject ascribes meaning to
stimulus; word association
• Cathartic - play techniques
• Refractive - subjects look back on behavior
Elicited material
Surface level Moderate level