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More than a Slogan Build a strong brand for yourcampaign by doing your homework
Emma Edmunds, Michael JonesUniversity of VirginiaSan Francisco, May 21, 2008
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A brand lives in your head. It’s the promise linking your product or service to the consumer.
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Identity
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Image
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Brand
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Does your institution
have a strong brand?
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Does your campaign
have a strong brand?
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What is yourinstitution’s brand?
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Mr. Jefferson’s University
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What is yourcampaign’s brand?
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“Thomas Jefferson’s vision of a global university in our own time.”
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The best institutional and campaign
brands are interchangeable
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Thomas Jefferson distinguishes the University from other institutions of higher learning. Arguably, Jefferson is our brand.
Institutional, Campaign Brands
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Planning for our $3 billion campaign started almost as soon as the $1 billion campaign concluded in 2000.
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How would we take the 19th century man, his writings, the place he designed and employ him as symbol of who we are and what we aspire to be? How does the University use the brand to create entity that reaches emotions, people want to identify with?
Images?
Words?
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Campaign Communications27 What’s in Place?
•Assumptions• Situational Analysis• Institutional Strategic Plan• Communications/Marketing Plan• Campaign Plan• Campaign Case (not the book)• Campaign Communications Plan/
Strategy
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•Why this campaign?•Why now?
“The purpose of this campaign is to create a privately financed public university with the means t chart its own course toward global excellence.”
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"...the important truths, that knowledge is power, that knowledge is safety, and that knowledge is happiness." – Thomas Jefferson
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John T. Casteen III With increasing competition from foreign
nations, the fortunes of our country depend more than ever on our ability to generate capable leaders.
Students must leave the U well-prepared for effective engagement in public life — in their jobs, in their communities, and in this global society.
Provide the most powerful and
rewarding student experience on any American campus
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Campaign CommunicationsFollow the Leader
No founding father to fall back on?
How do you go about branding your campaign?
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Our key messages are aligned—stressing ties to the City, to the World, and to Discovery, as well as a commitment to undergraduate education. It’s an umbrella people are happy to
step under instead of a BIG IDEA we’re trying to sell.
Jerry Kisslinger, Columbia University
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Boldly Brown: research was conducted on brand. Boldly Brown fits with identity of university, and defines where Brown wants to go. Incorporated into graphics, images, text, testimonials. Feels specific, integrated. Quotes from students, faculty, confirm, give it authenticity.
“Going off the beaten track is not just allowed at Brown. It is celebrated.”
“Brown is less traditional, less bureaucratic, with fewer people who say ‘no.” than most institutions. If you have a good idea, nobody stops you.”
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Boldly Brown illustrates how an institutional brand and its campaign brand work together. Boldly Brown: Plan for Academic Enrichment is “articulation of direction and priorities over the next decade.”
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Research• Existing Research• Communications Inventory• Primary Research
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• Go it alone…in house research• Outsource• A little of both• Test, test, test
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“When Thomas Jefferson created the University of Virginia, he envisioned a great public institution of international scope and character—in his words, the “bulwark of the human mind in this hemisphere.” More than at any time in its history, the University is within reach of this global excellence, but it will only be achieved with generous funding from private sources.”
“Like Jefferson, we understand that the greatest hope for our future power, prosperity, and happiness lies in the eradication of ignorance and in the cultivation of the human mind—and in our ability to harness the transformative power of knowledge to serve the public good.”
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Case Reviews: At U.Va. we held case reviews throughout the United States as ell as online. These were luncheons and receptions. Case sent in advance. President spoke, then asked for comments on the case.
Case reviews provide not simply ideas, but ways to engage alumni, to hear their views, and to make them part of the process.
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Staying on Message
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