Posted by Brand and Butter on January 26, 2010
Strong brands are important.
The challenge is to build a brand that is strong, unique and favourable – a brand that evokes positive, emotional feelings. A brand where customers react and experience positively to the brand’s product/services/ideas/people.
We need to create a brand that evokes the desired positive knowledge structures: thoughts, feelings, images, perceptions, attitudes.
But how do we build one?
Building a brand isn’t as easy as it sounds, but there is a marketing model providing guidance for brand building, called the customer-based brand equity model (CBBE model).
The basic premise of the CBBE model is that the power of a brand resides in the minds of its customers. The CBBE model acts as a branding ladder, or building blocks to guide a firm’s marketing programs.
Below is a diagram of the Customer-Based Brand Equity Model (CBBE model):
CBBE: Customer-Based Brand Equity Model
CBBE PYRAMID
Start from the base of the pyramid and work your way up, building the blocks of a strong brand.
Step 1: Salience - talks about Brand Awareness (depth and breadth)
Identity – Ensure customers can identify the brand and can associate the brand with a specific product class or need.
Depth of brand awareness: how likely the brand will spring to mind (recognition and recall) much the customer knows your brand when they see/hear about it
Breadth of brand awareness: when the customer thinks about your brand, and the range of purchase/usage situations in which the brand comes to mind.
Step 2a. Performance (2, 3, 3, 2, 1)
Meaning – Establish meaning to the brand so that when customers think of the brand, they strategically link both tangible and intangible brand associations with the brand.
Performance dimensions:
1a primary characteristics
1b secondary features
2a product reliability
2b durability
2c serviceability
3a service effectiveness
3b service