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Wella Viva Communication Strategy Document

Angelo Veotte
Angelo Veotte

Wella Viva is a hair color brand focused on self-expression and helping younger women discover their identity through changing their hair color. The document outlines Wella Viva's brand positioning, which emphasizes transformation and finding one's true self. It also discusses the target market of fashion-oriented young females, and how the product aims to meet consumers' needs for self-confidence and social acceptance through providing a broad range of colorful hair dye options.

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April 20 Wella Viva Communication Strategy 2011 Are you a fiery lion hiding under a pale mane? Or maybe a sexy black panther, which has never really dared to go beyond Brunette? Viva Angelo gives you options you never knew you had to live the life you want to Let Viva take you there. Veotte
Well Viva Communication Strategy What do I want to say? Wella Viva is about self-expression, playfulness and confidence. With Viva you are making a statement and changing your mood. Your hair and how it looks is an extension of your identity. It allows you to live different lifestyles, be different people and try new things. What is my product or service benefit? And what is my Brand benefit? Brand Positioning Statement Are you a fiery lion hiding under a pale mane? Or maybe a sexy black panther, which has never really dared to go beyond Brunette? Viva gives you options you never knew you had to live the life you want to Let Viva take you there.1 Wella Viva is an entry level hair colorant. It is focused on younger ladies who want to play with their hair and are discovering their identity. Wella Viva is a part of the Wella Professional portfolio, which is famous for shaping the fashion trends of hair for more than five decades. Wella Viva gives their consumer the opportunity to access these fashion styles and colors at a reasonable cost. Brand Values are: TRANSFORMATIONAL; Emotional benefits of beauty, cool, socially acceptable; Remake identity, fashionable and Finding True self. 1 Partially from www.Viva.com Are you a fiery lion hiding under a pale mane? Or maybe a sexy black panther, which has never really dared to go beyond Brunette?
The product provides a broad range of colors, including bright reds, metal blondes, purples and blacks. It provides average performance in terms of hair health, quality of materials and conditioning. Who is my target market? Target Customer2 : Anyone who wants to color their hair Campaign Target : Young (12-29) female; fashion oriented; school, working Media Target : New Category Users (NCU) Creative Target : Young lady, seeking self-expression, recognition and social status. She is the decider, purchaser and user in most cases Category Need : Color hair, positive social perception; self-confidence Benefits : Transformational, Self-expression, social acceptance The primary media target is new category users. Viva is an entry level brand, which draws in new users based on fashion, rebellion and seeking a new identity. This builds the habit of coloring and moves them into the other Wella Professional brands. A secondary target market is the brand loyals, currently using Viva as a form of self-expression. It would help if the campaign can re-affirm the reasons they choose Viva. 2 See Figure 1: Long Form Positioning Statement
What is the customer need or want? The Wella Viva consumer has either a present or latent need to be cool, fashionable, desirable and / or confident. Wella Viva is driven by extreme positive emotions: Sensory gratification : With a new fashionable look. Social Approval : To fit in, be noticed and be cool. Vehicle for self-expression. Social affirmation : I had not thought of coloring my hair, and it looks cool. The consumer needs a trusted confident, who is knowledgeable about fashion to help her discover parts of herself she has never explored. This is a high involvement category and support in terms of believability of trusted confident (Wella Professional) is critical to drive action. This is done through engaging and involving the consumer in choices in a safe environment to drive experimental new brand usage. There is High risk associated with the outcome for the consumer, so the event needs to be slowly coached and made more easily accessible. 3 Importance : Self-Expression & Fashion Delivery : Height of Fashion; Fashion Advisor for cosmetic and clothes; recognized in Fashion industry as part of Wella Brand. Uniqueness : Fashion leader, color range 3 See Figure 2: Behavioural Sequence Model.
We recommend the utilization of high-involvement / transformational brand preference tactics. This would include: 1. The utilization of archetypical, emotional and instinctual selling propositions. We have done this before and examples are attached.4 2. The advert must be seen as emotional and authentic. 3. The transformational benefits can be extreme (potentially overclaimed.) 4. See the example where the range is showed at the end of the archetypical introduction, as credible informational benefits. (http://www.besthaircolor.org/833/viva-hair-color-by- wella/) 5. The presenter must be aspirational for our target audience. What worked well in the past are demonstrators, couponing, online simulations5 and competitions. How does my product meet their need better than competitors? Category IDU Review Importance or Desirability Delivery Uniqueness Self-Expression Wella Viva, 100% Color, Fashion Color Scheme High Fashion Trendsetter Highlights (Revlon, NNE, LOreal, Garnier- Permanence of color Grey Cover Nutrisse) No. of Brands or Roots number of shades 4 See Figure 3 Archetypes 5 See Figure 5 Online Personality Quiz Find your True Color.
Entry level brands such as Wella Viva and 100% Color by Garnier are more cheaply priced, for the young female market, which tends to have lower disposable income. The willingness to pay of the target market is low, as this is generally an experimental product usage and benefits are largely psychological rather than physically deliverable, as compared with more mainstream better quality brands. Wella Viva has more of a history through Wella Professional, which can be seen to have been quite avant-garde6 versus Garnier which is market separately from LOreal, its holding company. This provides Wella with a stronger delivery with respect to the trusted fashion advisor. The mass market brands such as Nice & Easy and LOreal are focused on an older demographic and the importance is grey coverage, and fashion. These brands are priced at a premium and are expected to deliver on key aspects such as hair health and long term permanence of color. What do I want customers to think, feel and do as a result of seeing my communication material? Communication Objectives: Category Need: This has been covered in depth previously. Hence the marcomm campaign has to appeal to the category needs identified. Problem Avoidance, Sensory gratification, Social Approval, Negative ending motive or / and Social affirmation. Brand Awareness: For Wella Viva, there is a need for both brand recall and recognition, as this is a high involvement category. This therefore requires both strong brand identification and the development of the category need for the consumer. 6 See Historical Wella Fashion Figure 3 Wella The Fashion Advisor 2010
Brand Preference: Our focus here is on those who are unaware or have a moderate preference. This goal will be in create a strong preference in these two groups. Brand Action Intention: In previous campaigns, we used the online personality hair color simulations. We found that attaching coupons to these consumers worked well to measure success through purchases with retailers, where we were able to track coupon usage. Creating brand action intention continues to be a major objective for this campaign. Purchase Facilitation: Purchase behaviour shows that consumers make decisions both prior to coming the stores, as well as in the stores. Often the consumer comes to the store to buy a color brand but makes the final choice of color and brand at the shelf. For this purpose, we are looking at the idea of partnering with the national beauty retailer to run an in-store competition. We would like ideas on this type of campaign, were we could tie in the retailers beauty equity with Viva. Key Goals of Communication 10% of ongoing consumers are NCU tracked through coupon redemption. Increase brand recall of 40% amongst target audience by 50%. What is constraints are there? In terms of the Wella Viva brand the constraints are: Limited budget. As this is entry level low priced product, we cannot afford any kind of television advertising. The choice of media must be oriented to what drives interaction with the target audience. We need to develop a relationship with our target audience and
become their confident. Media which goes viral, or is seen as cool, at low cost will be ideal. See our website for how we have created an online interaction based on personality tests, which help reveal your true identity.7 The Viva Make-over competition worked very well for us as well, as there was user generated content and free advertising through the media. This is a young vibrant brand, which allows us to be more avant-garde than most clients. This needs to be kept in line with the professional Wella brand, so that we do not bring into disrepute. The timing of this campaign needs to be ready to roll-out in Spring. It is now August 2011, and we need to ensure that any print media in support is briefed in by October 2011 for Spring Issue. This time constraint is critical, as there will be no flexibility with all suppliers focused on Christmas execution, and March being locked down. What media should be used? As briefed above, we would like to look at alternative types of media, including specifically online social media. Traditionally, we have run strong in-store demonstrator programs, print advertising, and online competitions. We are open to alternative types of media. One of the ideas we have is of potentially looking at partnering with a beauty magazine, retailer or beauty / fashion show, which is targeted towards the correct demographic. Any examples or ideas for this will be useful. 7 Figure 6: Online Personality Testing
Appendix Figure 1: Long Form Positioning Statement VIVA Brand Wella Viva Target Customer 1. Target customer type and description Anyone who wants to color their hair. that includes all realistic potential and actual buyers. 2. Campaign Target audience Young (12-29) female; fashion oriented; school, working 3. Media Target New category users. 4. Creative target Young lady, seeking self-expression, recognition and social status. She is the decider, purchaser and user in most cases. Category Need 1. Customer need 2. Alternative brands that the target Semi-permanent brands like Loving Care or audience considers. lasting Color. Benefits 1. Key Benefit to be emphasized. Transformation 2. Key benefit claim chain Attributes: Color hair, Fashion advisor status (TRANSFORMATIONALLY Benefits: Radical or slight change; make-over MOTIVATED) Purely positive end Emotional: TRANSFORMATIONAL; benefits benefit focus and emotional focus. of beauty, cool, socially acceptable; Find True self. 3. Entry-ticket benefit, or benefits, to be Fashionista. Wella Professional is a salon brand mentioned: with Wella Professionals the best in the world. 4. Inferior benefit to be traded off with Product may not last as long as natural hair lower price and short to medium lasting colorants. The key benefit for the consumer is not coverage to be deliberately omitted. grey coverage. It is to be changed frequently and make a different statement regularly.
Figure 2. Behavioural Sequence Model WHAT Need Arousal Information search and Store choice and Usage evaluation alternatives purchase WHO Young female: Friends, fashion advisors, Mother, customer, Consumer Feeling drab; new user, season; going to new education, WHERE Learning institution, Online, fashion Home, social Home or friends office, party, magazines, television, in gathering, store, house. stores. WHEN Any time On the spot with some 1-15 days from 1-7 days from flexibility. In the store, decision. purchase. looking at the different colors. HOW Moving to a new Friends, rock-stars, movie Decide color, brand, 4 to 6 weeks (frequency) year of school, stars, fashion shows, range before or in changing job, finding music videos, MTV, store. High risk new partner, Joining seeking information. new social group.
Figure 3: Archetypes ANGEL ROCKSTAR SEXY AND PLAYFUL NEW IDENTITY
Figure 4: Wella The Fashion Advisor (2010) 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 2000
Figure 5: Viva Make-over Competition Wella invites you to discover your creative talent by taking part in the Wella Viva Makeover "More Color. More Fun" online competition. Simply visit www.viva-color.com and get the chance to walk away with a sexy new Nokia 8800 or a funky 4GB iPod Nano. Figure 6: Online Personality Tests Outcomes

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  • 1. April 20 Wella Viva Communication Strategy 2011 Are you a fiery lion hiding under a pale mane? Or maybe a sexy black panther, which has never really dared to go beyond Brunette? Viva Angelo gives you options you never knew you had to live the life you want to Let Viva take you there. Veotte
  • 2. Well Viva Communication Strategy What do I want to say? Wella Viva is about self-expression, playfulness and confidence. With Viva you are making a statement and changing your mood. Your hair and how it looks is an extension of your identity. It allows you to live different lifestyles, be different people and try new things. What is my product or service benefit? And what is my Brand benefit? Brand Positioning Statement Are you a fiery lion hiding under a pale mane? Or maybe a sexy black panther, which has never really dared to go beyond Brunette? Viva gives you options you never knew you had to live the life you want to Let Viva take you there.1 Wella Viva is an entry level hair colorant. It is focused on younger ladies who want to play with their hair and are discovering their identity. Wella Viva is a part of the Wella Professional portfolio, which is famous for shaping the fashion trends of hair for more than five decades. Wella Viva gives their consumer the opportunity to access these fashion styles and colors at a reasonable cost. Brand Values are: TRANSFORMATIONAL; Emotional benefits of beauty, cool, socially acceptable; Remake identity, fashionable and Finding True self. 1 Partially from www.Viva.com Are you a fiery lion hiding under a pale mane? Or maybe a sexy black panther, which has never really dared to go beyond Brunette?
  • 3. The product provides a broad range of colors, including bright reds, metal blondes, purples and blacks. It provides average performance in terms of hair health, quality of materials and conditioning. Who is my target market? Target Customer2 : Anyone who wants to color their hair Campaign Target : Young (12-29) female; fashion oriented; school, working Media Target : New Category Users (NCU) Creative Target : Young lady, seeking self-expression, recognition and social status. She is the decider, purchaser and user in most cases Category Need : Color hair, positive social perception; self-confidence Benefits : Transformational, Self-expression, social acceptance The primary media target is new category users. Viva is an entry level brand, which draws in new users based on fashion, rebellion and seeking a new identity. This builds the habit of coloring and moves them into the other Wella Professional brands. A secondary target market is the brand loyals, currently using Viva as a form of self-expression. It would help if the campaign can re-affirm the reasons they choose Viva. 2 See Figure 1: Long Form Positioning Statement
  • 4. What is the customer need or want? The Wella Viva consumer has either a present or latent need to be cool, fashionable, desirable and / or confident. Wella Viva is driven by extreme positive emotions: Sensory gratification : With a new fashionable look. Social Approval : To fit in, be noticed and be cool. Vehicle for self-expression. Social affirmation : I had not thought of coloring my hair, and it looks cool. The consumer needs a trusted confident, who is knowledgeable about fashion to help her discover parts of herself she has never explored. This is a high involvement category and support in terms of believability of trusted confident (Wella Professional) is critical to drive action. This is done through engaging and involving the consumer in choices in a safe environment to drive experimental new brand usage. There is High risk associated with the outcome for the consumer, so the event needs to be slowly coached and made more easily accessible. 3 Importance : Self-Expression & Fashion Delivery : Height of Fashion; Fashion Advisor for cosmetic and clothes; recognized in Fashion industry as part of Wella Brand. Uniqueness : Fashion leader, color range 3 See Figure 2: Behavioural Sequence Model.
  • 5. We recommend the utilization of high-involvement / transformational brand preference tactics. This would include: 1. The utilization of archetypical, emotional and instinctual selling propositions. We have done this before and examples are attached.4 2. The advert must be seen as emotional and authentic. 3. The transformational benefits can be extreme (potentially overclaimed.) 4. See the example where the range is showed at the end of the archetypical introduction, as credible informational benefits. (http://www.besthaircolor.org/833/viva-hair-color-by- wella/) 5. The presenter must be aspirational for our target audience. What worked well in the past are demonstrators, couponing, online simulations5 and competitions. How does my product meet their need better than competitors? Category IDU Review Importance or Desirability Delivery Uniqueness Self-Expression Wella Viva, 100% Color, Fashion Color Scheme High Fashion Trendsetter Highlights (Revlon, NNE, LOreal, Garnier- Permanence of color Grey Cover Nutrisse) No. of Brands or Roots number of shades 4 See Figure 3 Archetypes 5 See Figure 5 Online Personality Quiz Find your True Color.
  • 6. Entry level brands such as Wella Viva and 100% Color by Garnier are more cheaply priced, for the young female market, which tends to have lower disposable income. The willingness to pay of the target market is low, as this is generally an experimental product usage and benefits are largely psychological rather than physically deliverable, as compared with more mainstream better quality brands. Wella Viva has more of a history through Wella Professional, which can be seen to have been quite avant-garde6 versus Garnier which is market separately from LOreal, its holding company. This provides Wella with a stronger delivery with respect to the trusted fashion advisor. The mass market brands such as Nice & Easy and LOreal are focused on an older demographic and the importance is grey coverage, and fashion. These brands are priced at a premium and are expected to deliver on key aspects such as hair health and long term permanence of color. What do I want customers to think, feel and do as a result of seeing my communication material? Communication Objectives: Category Need: This has been covered in depth previously. Hence the marcomm campaign has to appeal to the category needs identified. Problem Avoidance, Sensory gratification, Social Approval, Negative ending motive or / and Social affirmation. Brand Awareness: For Wella Viva, there is a need for both brand recall and recognition, as this is a high involvement category. This therefore requires both strong brand identification and the development of the category need for the consumer. 6 See Historical Wella Fashion Figure 3 Wella The Fashion Advisor 2010
  • 7. Brand Preference: Our focus here is on those who are unaware or have a moderate preference. This goal will be in create a strong preference in these two groups. Brand Action Intention: In previous campaigns, we used the online personality hair color simulations. We found that attaching coupons to these consumers worked well to measure success through purchases with retailers, where we were able to track coupon usage. Creating brand action intention continues to be a major objective for this campaign. Purchase Facilitation: Purchase behaviour shows that consumers make decisions both prior to coming the stores, as well as in the stores. Often the consumer comes to the store to buy a color brand but makes the final choice of color and brand at the shelf. For this purpose, we are looking at the idea of partnering with the national beauty retailer to run an in-store competition. We would like ideas on this type of campaign, were we could tie in the retailers beauty equity with Viva. Key Goals of Communication 10% of ongoing consumers are NCU tracked through coupon redemption. Increase brand recall of 40% amongst target audience by 50%. What is constraints are there? In terms of the Wella Viva brand the constraints are: Limited budget. As this is entry level low priced product, we cannot afford any kind of television advertising. The choice of media must be oriented to what drives interaction with the target audience. We need to develop a relationship with our target audience and
  • 8. become their confident. Media which goes viral, or is seen as cool, at low cost will be ideal. See our website for how we have created an online interaction based on personality tests, which help reveal your true identity.7 The Viva Make-over competition worked very well for us as well, as there was user generated content and free advertising through the media. This is a young vibrant brand, which allows us to be more avant-garde than most clients. This needs to be kept in line with the professional Wella brand, so that we do not bring into disrepute. The timing of this campaign needs to be ready to roll-out in Spring. It is now August 2011, and we need to ensure that any print media in support is briefed in by October 2011 for Spring Issue. This time constraint is critical, as there will be no flexibility with all suppliers focused on Christmas execution, and March being locked down. What media should be used? As briefed above, we would like to look at alternative types of media, including specifically online social media. Traditionally, we have run strong in-store demonstrator programs, print advertising, and online competitions. We are open to alternative types of media. One of the ideas we have is of potentially looking at partnering with a beauty magazine, retailer or beauty / fashion show, which is targeted towards the correct demographic. Any examples or ideas for this will be useful. 7 Figure 6: Online Personality Testing
  • 9. Appendix Figure 1: Long Form Positioning Statement VIVA Brand Wella Viva Target Customer 1. Target customer type and description Anyone who wants to color their hair. that includes all realistic potential and actual buyers. 2. Campaign Target audience Young (12-29) female; fashion oriented; school, working 3. Media Target New category users. 4. Creative target Young lady, seeking self-expression, recognition and social status. She is the decider, purchaser and user in most cases. Category Need 1. Customer need 2. Alternative brands that the target Semi-permanent brands like Loving Care or audience considers. lasting Color. Benefits 1. Key Benefit to be emphasized. Transformation 2. Key benefit claim chain Attributes: Color hair, Fashion advisor status (TRANSFORMATIONALLY Benefits: Radical or slight change; make-over MOTIVATED) Purely positive end Emotional: TRANSFORMATIONAL; benefits benefit focus and emotional focus. of beauty, cool, socially acceptable; Find True self. 3. Entry-ticket benefit, or benefits, to be Fashionista. Wella Professional is a salon brand mentioned: with Wella Professionals the best in the world. 4. Inferior benefit to be traded off with Product may not last as long as natural hair lower price and short to medium lasting colorants. The key benefit for the consumer is not coverage to be deliberately omitted. grey coverage. It is to be changed frequently and make a different statement regularly.
  • 10. Figure 2. Behavioural Sequence Model WHAT Need Arousal Information search and Store choice and Usage evaluation alternatives purchase WHO Young female: Friends, fashion advisors, Mother, customer, Consumer Feeling drab; new user, season; going to new education, WHERE Learning institution, Online, fashion Home, social Home or friends office, party, magazines, television, in gathering, store, house. stores. WHEN Any time On the spot with some 1-15 days from 1-7 days from flexibility. In the store, decision. purchase. looking at the different colors. HOW Moving to a new Friends, rock-stars, movie Decide color, brand, 4 to 6 weeks (frequency) year of school, stars, fashion shows, range before or in changing job, finding music videos, MTV, store. High risk new partner, Joining seeking information. new social group.
  • 11. Figure 3: Archetypes ANGEL ROCKSTAR SEXY AND PLAYFUL NEW IDENTITY
  • 12. Figure 4: Wella The Fashion Advisor (2010) 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 2000
  • 13. Figure 5: Viva Make-over Competition Wella invites you to discover your creative talent by taking part in the Wella Viva Makeover "More Color. More Fun" online competition. Simply visit www.viva-color.com and get the chance to walk away with a sexy new Nokia 8800 or a funky 4GB iPod Nano. Figure 6: Online Personality Tests Outcomes