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Brand positioning in the market is vital to brand success and profitability. In the journey to stardom and brand engagement, brand positioning is a major factor. Positioning is based on identifying uniqueness and communicating such. Brand positioning is also considered as process of creating brand offers in such a manner that it occupies a distinctive [...]

The main idea of marketing is the reconciliation/negotiation of possibilities of a company and customers’ desire in order to appease both sides. Every marketing initiative is a process and not an event. If this is not true then you may be running towards bankruptcy.  We live in an interesting age and time. People say nothing [...]

In the course of  last week I had interaction with two brands. The two brands are within business to customer (popularly known as B2C) group. I must acknowledge  my interaction with these two brands differ. While I provided service to one, I was a recipient of the other brand’s services. As a service provider to [...]

Brand communications aim at influencing patterns, attitudes of target towards a brand positively. In most cases, a the goal of a brand communicator is ensuring brand perception is accelerated positively. A clear knowledge to all is that no brand communications strategy can succeed on falsehood forever. It may bring immediate ‘success’ but when the falsehood [...]

Brand leadership is a great and enviable position every brand aspires. But as we know, there is a lot of difference between wishes and realities. If wishes are horses, every beggar will ride. Brand leadership is not a day journey. It entails a continuous hard work on the vision. To add to this, everyone in [...]

Brands thrive just because there are consumers of what the brands’ offer. Without brand consumers no brand will exist. It has also be proven no brand survives just having a one time buyer  but having  depth of relationship which transcend just one night stands. Brand custodians know it is easier to maintain a happy customer [...]

We live in the age of buzzword, noise, conversation. Every strong brand today understands the impact of third party endorsement, word of mouth as it tends to reduce cost of marketing and other allied costs. No wonder, every brand tries to outdo the others in building strong engagement with its stakeholder at both online and [...]

 We live in an age and time when strong audience engagement is vital. Audience engagement speaks volume when commitment is required from all the stakeholders. The varied numbers of social networking sites are not helping the matter for most brands. To some, if our audience are scattered, where do we begin from is a constant [...]

The revolution in commuication tools is encouraging  all-comers affairs. No serious brand has cogent reason today if it fails to reach and bond with its stakeholders. The low barriers to social media tools are enough encouragement for any brand. But as much as this is true, many brand custodians believe that they can just wake [...]

Someone says the spelling above is not right but that is the title of a film I watched. So pardon the title spelling. Those who are close to me know I am not a huge fan of movie and films. When I take the chance to watch one it must be that I am fascinated [...]