Successful Brand Management
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Suzanne Kushner
Director of Marketing CommunicationsMainsoft Corp.
Successful Brand Management:
Moving from a Product-Centric to a Customer-Centric
Business Model
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Top 3 Things to Remember When “Branding”
1. Think of Branding as a way of doing business, not just a Marketing function
2. Look for ways to improve your Total Customer Experience more often
3. Service – good or bad – may have the greatest impact on your product or company’s brand image
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Why is branding so important to high-tech companies?
Product commoditization Consumers have more choices than ever
Harder to offer strong value propositions, differentiation in technology products
Strong brands can command premium prices (Historically) Strong brands have driven
strong stock prices
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The face of a commodity!
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What’s a brand worth?
10 engineers asked to read a brochure and
select a productNO BRAND LISTED IN BROCHURE
• Brand A 18.6%• Brand B 29.8%• Brand C 26.2%• Brand D 16.7%• Brand E 1.5%• Brand F 2.9%
Source: “Driving Brand Value: Using Integrated Marketing to Manage Profitable Shareholder Relationships” by Tom Duncan
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What’s a brand worth?10 engineers asked to read a brochure and
select a product
BRANDS IDENTIFIED IN THE BROCHURE
• HP 18.6% 63.2%• Brand B 29.8% 12.5%• Brand C 26.2% 7%• Brand D 16.7% 5.6%• Brand E 1.5% 4.3%• Brand F 2.9% 2.9%
Source: “Driving Brand Value: Using Integrated Marketing to Manage Profitable Shareholder Relationships” by Tom Duncan
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Do most High-Tech companies have a branding
strategy that really works?
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Most aren’t sure!
• Most high-tech companies are run by people who don’t know what good brand management involves
• Most branding is left to Marketing to create logos and run ad campaigns
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To “brand” their products, here’s what they’re doing:
• Trying to gain mindshare via advertising and mass media
• Creating pretty logos!• Creating interesting taglines
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Branding Idea Du Juor!
Name a Ballpark!• PacBell Park - San Francisco• CMGI Park - Boston - $76 million/10 years• Qualcomm Park - San Diego• 3Com Park - San Francisco• Network Associates Park -Oakland, Calif• Campbell Field -Camden, N.J.• Cinergy Field - Cincinnati• Enron Corp. - Houston Astros - $100 million/30 years• Comerica Park - Detroit - $86 million/30 years• FedEx Park- Washington- $205million/27 years
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High-tech branding is different
• Product lifecycles are short• Innovation and change-driven industry so
“secondary” brands don’t have a real impact: Sears:Kenmore/Craftsman GM: Chevrolet, Pontiac
• Often concentrate on brand of company, not product
• Most high-tech brands must grapple with global complexity; trademarking internationally is expensive
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Biggest challenge for most high tech companies:
• Not one-voice, one-look, or lack of pretty logos - these are tactical, logistical
• Creating and nourishing long-term customer relationships
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What is a brand?
A brand represents a relationship customers have come to know and value
- Regis McKenna
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What’s the company/product promising and what’s the
company/product delivering?
What is a relationship?
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So…sounds simple, but
Making and keeping a promise - consistently -
can be a powerful source of competitive advantage
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Technology buyers are skeptical
• Conditioned to expect unreliable products• Burned by old and new companies
promising too much• Don’t think a company has their best
interest in mind• Low expectations for good service
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In high tech, the interpretation of “branding” is:
Sell the promise but it’s OK to deliver only 40% of the time!
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For many companies, the brand IS the company
• Nordstrom• Volvo• SW Airlines• Tiffany• Kellogg• HP• Intel• Microsoft• Google
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How do you create a brand?
OLD WAY• Create a new category• Displace a competitor
NEW WAY• An active experience where the customer is
actively involved and feels empowered
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Today, branding is about…
• Moving from product-centric focus to customer-centric focus
• Realizing the ENTIRE customer experience can be the most significant driver to brand value
• Any contact with your organization defines your brand
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How do you build or enhance your company’s brand?
OLD WAYOne-way communication: mass media
via TV, print, word-of-mouth, broadcast NEW WAY
Two-way communication: All of above PLUS we must create 1-to-1 relationships by communicating WITH customers; create purposeful dialog
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5 R’s of “Purposeful” Dialog
1. Recourse – Customers want to avoid risk when buying a product…
- Make it easy for the customer to contact the company if there is a problem
2. Recognition – Customers like to be personally recognized
Address customers by name on solicitations3. Responsiveness – Do more than provide an 800-number!
4. Respect – Dialog w. the customer when it makes sense for them
5. Reinforcement – Reinforce your message w. mass media that has a call to action!
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Types of Brand Messages
1. Product Messages: Performance, price, distribution points: Ex. Price sends a message! What would you think of a
Rolex watch for $15? Or a diamond ring in Kmart packaging?
2. Service Messages: interactions your customers have w/your company
Ex. Customer service reps, receptionist, delivery drivers - these can have a SIGNIFICANT impact
3. Unplanned Messages: messages you can influence but can’t control
Ex. news stories, word-of-mouth, special interest groups, chat rooms employees
4. Planned Messages: (marcom) Ex. Advertisements, Brochures, data sheets, datasheets
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Which “source” is often the most influential?
UNPLANNED MESSAGES!!!
• Typically have more of an impact than marketing programs
• Sometimes you can influence them, but you can’t always control them
• Are these confirming your “planned” messages?
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Do you need advertising/mass media to build a brand?
Logos? Taglines?
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Tip!
Marketing budgets are determined by results!
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What can advertising(mass media) actually do?
• Create positive images; create awareness
• Position brand• Reach multiple stakeholders
• AGGREGATE AND QUALIFY PROSPECTS – then move to 1-to-1
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Print Ad 2
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CAUTION!
• NON-ADVERTISING MESSAGES can negate the most brilliant creative work
• Building strong brand relationships means LISTENING to and RESPONDING to customers
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This is all interesting, but where does Product
Management/Marketing
fit in?
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Sources of Brand Information
PMM
Field Sales Feedback
Design and ProductionSchedules
Competitive InformationInventory Data
Transaction DataFrom Finance
All Customer Touch Points
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How Product Management should view branding…
Clearly understand the net worth of your current customers
Know your customer touch points; determine which you can (positively) influence TODAY
Postpone Marketing activities if more serious problems exist
Hire a branding agency – not an ad agency
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How companies should think about branding
• Make your brand strategy a way of doing business – not just a marketing function
• Shift emphasis from ACQUIRING customers to RETAINING and GROWING customers
• Communicate WITH rather than TO customers
• Better manage customer expectations
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Measure Your Brand Through a Brand Audit
Components of Brand Audit• TRUST – Does product do what it says it will do?• CONSISTENCY – Is product performance and service
predictable? Are company policies and procedures consistent?• ACCESSIBILTY – Is it easy to reach your company?• RESPONSIVENESS – Are questions, inquiries and complaints
quickly and thoroughly handled• COMMITMENT – To what extent is the company really interested
in customers?• AFFINITY – Do customers identify with this brand? Do they relate
to other people who use it?• LIKING – Do all stakeholders like to be associated with the
brand?
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Top 3 Things to Remember When “Branding”
1. Think of Branding as a way of doing business, not just a Marketing function
2. Look for ways to improve your Total Customer Experience more often
3. Service – good or bad – may have the greatest impact on your product or company’s brand image