The Vital Elements in Brand

The Vital Elements in Brand

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The advent and reputation of the Internet has made the awkward and huge task of branding easy, convenient and cost-effective. Branding strategy requires high quality customer overhaul, you need to consider your customer's needs during order taking, billing, returns and connections, and then during a post sale thank you by mail or telephone and by distribution a buyer satisfaction survey. Advertising effectiveness can be defined as the extent to which advertising generates a certain desired communication effect.

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Competition on advertising budgeting strategies and effectiveness

Specific advertising content, such as humor, on effectiveness

The choice of advertising media and media context on effectiveness

Consumer behavior on advertising effectiveness; and

Comparative advertising on effectiveness

The effectiveness of comparative advertising is influenced by cultural factors or, in the case of television advertising, by the type of program in which it is embedded. Also, advertising impact is enhanced if recipients have a more favorable attitude toward advertising in general. To measure advertising efficiency in the German car industry, 35 car brands that represent a combined market share of 96.7% in 2001. The determinants also include the familiarity part to the brand; hence brand familiarity does not always refer to recall or awareness of specific advertising campaigns. Rather, it refers to the comprehension of the brand's overall advertising claim. Potential buyers can only be familiar with a brand if they become aware of its attributes and achieve comprehension.

Another component is brand sympathy; Brand sympathy relates to a potential buyer's affective reaction to a brand. Advertising stimulates a variety of affective responses such as curiosity, surprise, or enjoyment. At the level of specific advertisements or campaigns, one would have to differentiate between pre-experience and post experience effect. In the pre-experience phase, advertising is supposed to frame perception, whereas in the post experience phase, it is targeted at organizing memory. Because the affective reaction to specific ads depends on the category in which consumers are located, it is difficult to control this factor because buyers migrate constantly between the two categories.

* Familiarity: "Are you familiar with the attributes of the following brand?"

* Sympathy: "Do you like the following brand?"

* Consideration: "Would you consider buying the following brand?"

* Purchase intention: "Do you intend to buy the following brand for your next purchase?"

Branding has become a ubiquitous term that most people today use. Be it a product, a whole corporate or just your career, branding seems to be the mantra for success. Yet the unsuspecting cattle know more about branding than the marketers who swear by the term

Another part is the perceived risk, conceptualized as arising from unanticipated and uncertain consequences of an unpleasant nature resulting from the product purchase. In consumer behavior, risk is conceptualized in terms of loss and thought to arise only from potentially negative outcomes, in contrast to other disciplines like psychology where both positive and negative outcomes are considered.

The notion of product importance is central to consumer behavior and the idea that consumers consider different product classes to be of differing importance is widely accepted in consumer behavior. This construct is analogous to the well-researched construct of product involvement which is defined as "the extent to which a consumer links a product to salient enduring or situation-specific goals" and has been found to influence consumer decision processes, post-decision processes and response to marketing communications.

Brand promises are by far the most ephemeral of the parts of a brand, but can be some of the most powerful tools in the brand toolbox. Many brands have lost market share and fallen by the wayside simply because they couldn't deliver on the brand promise they made. Brand promises are almost always left unsaid, though at times they may be part of the slogan, but the promise is always there in the back of the consumers mind. And when a company delivers on their promises a customer remembers, and is likely to come back for more

 
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