Posts Tagged ‘consumer’
Vegan Nuggets: Consumers Like Things Their Way
The world of the customization is moving quickly. It used to be easy enough to satisfy a consumer just by offering a standard brand in a category of food or product they like: you’re a beer drinker or a wine drinker, you eat meat or don’t. Now we can customize, specialize and provide almost exactly what each customer desires. The…
Read MoreHow can nonprofit brands focus on real value?
Building clarity into a nonprofit’s communications of focus and commitment is critical in this new climate of increased expectations of real results. Everyone wants to know how to make a difference. How can your brand help? What’s the value you really bring?
Read MoreThe local retailer brand. Can Starbucks really be local?
So when a national chain moves into your neighborhood the local coffee shop need not freak out. They can leverage what they have and how they deliver it in a way that the customer recognizes and values.
Read MoreJCPenney – cool new strategy did not trump loyal customer preferences
The JCP lesson in a nutshell — brands ARE made of the customer experience. Whether you’re a retail store, post office, or healthcare provider it’s about expectations and managing them and delivering on them.
Read MoreWhat is your brand’s end result? Know your outcome!
How do we choose, as consumers? How can brand value be positioned correctly with the brand name, the identity and the strategy that pitches the brand? These are tough questions that just don’t get enough attention because companies, non-profits and organizations are too busy selling what they already have – their products – not the customers’ solutions.
Read MoreHertz eats Dollar Thrifty Rental Car- more brands or fewer options?
Similar to the hospitality industry, the rental car market is attempting to gain efficiencies for the back end—the order taking and inventory management portion of the market—while having different products for different customers and needs.
Read MoreBIG DATA – it’s where the real value is for brands
Businesses, governments, even you and me have so much data—how the heck do we keep track of our exploding world? It’s like suddenly having the Library of Congress in your bedroom: what good is it if you can’t even figure out how to find anything?
Read MorePeets brand sells to a German conglomerate— is that all bad?
Peet’s Coffee and Tea just announced they are going private with a sale to German conglomerate Benckiser . But is this all bad? Is it a local company being swallowed up by a giant again? Not really—it’s an opportunity for stable growth and staying true to their values — what? How can that be? Extending and expanding value When…
Read MoreMarketing with Amazon and Google can help local businesses
In spite of all the negative spin on buying corporate it does pay to figure out the best way to get your local brand out there. Technology and the large online advertisers can help small business leverage their local awareness.
Read MoreBrand Engagement – the result of an integrated approach
Brand Engagement is the holy grail for most marketers involved in brand building. When you’ve captured the customer relationship you have them envolved and engaged at multiple levels.
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