This document discusses how marketers can design marketing programs to build brand equity. It covers new perspectives in marketing like digitalization and customization. Marketers are trying unconventional means like relationship marketing and personalizing experiences. Experiential, one-to-one, and permission marketing are discussed as ways to actively involve consumers. The marketing mix of product, price and distribution strategies should support the brand to increase awareness and shape the desired image.
2. Overview
How do marketing activities in generaland
product, pricing, and distribution strategies in
particularbuild brand equity?
How can marketers integrate these activities to
enhance brand awareness, improve the brand
image, elicit positive brand responses, and
increase brand resonance?
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3. New Perspectives on Marketing
The strategy and tactics behind marketing programs
have changed dramatically in recent years as firms have
dealt with enormous shifts in their external marketing
environments:
Digitalization and connectivity (through Internet, intranet,
and mobile devices)
Disintermediation and reintermediation (via new middlemen
of various sorts)
Customization and customerization (through tailored
products and ingredients provided to customers to make
products themselves)
Industry convergence (through the blurring of industry
boundaries)
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4. Integrating Marketing Programs and
Activities
Creative and original thinking is necessary to
create fresh new marketing programs that break
through the noise in the marketplace to connect
with customers.
Marketers are increasingly trying a host of
unconventional means of building brand equity.
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5. Personalizing Marketing
All of these approaches are a means to create deeper, richer, and
more favorable brand associations.
Relationship marketing has become a powerful brand-building
force.
Can slip through consumer radar
May creatively create unique associations
May reinforce brand imagery and feelings
Nevertheless, there is still a need for the control and
predictability of traditional marketing activities.
Models of brand equity can help to provide direction and focus
to the marketing programs.
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7. Reconciling the New Marketing
Approaches
One-to-one, permission, and experiential
marketing are all potentially effective means
of getting consumers more actively involved
with a brand.
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8. Experiential Marketing
Focuses on customer experience
Focuses on the consumption situation
Views customers as rational and emotional
elements
Uses electronic methods and tools
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9. One-to-One Marketing:
Competitive Rationale
Consumers help to add value by providing
information.
Firm adds value by generating rewarding
experiences with consumers.
Creates switching costs for consumers
Reduces transaction costs for consumers
Maximizes utility for consumers
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10. One-to-One Marketing:
Consumer Differentiation
Treat different consumers differently
Different needs
Different values to firm
Current
Future (lifetime value)
Devote more marketing effort on most valuable
consumers (and customers)
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11. Permission Marketing (Seth Godin)
Encourages consumers to participate in a long-
term interactive marketing campaign in which
they are rewarded in some way for paying
attention to increasingly relevant messages.
Anticipated
Personal
Relevant
Permission marketing can be contrasted to
interruption marketing.
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12. Integrating the Brand
Into Supporting Marketing Programs
Supporting marketing mix should be designed to enhance
awareness and establish desired brand image.
Product strategy
Pricing strategy
Channel strategy
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