Course outline

  1. 1. Introduction to brand Management
  • Brand versus product
  • Can anything be branded
  • Branding challenges and opportunities
  • The brand equity concept.

  1. 2. Building Brands
  • The First Reality
  • Two Types of Marketing Practices
  • Brand – What is it after all!
  • Brand Image / Personality – Abilities
  • TOTAL Brand

  1. 3. Brand Equity
  • When a Brand is Not a Brand
  • From 4P’s To 6C’s
  • Landor’s Image Power
  • Takeovers
  • M.V.A –  Market Value Added
  • E.V.A –  Economic Value Added
  • Brand equity as a bridge
  • The Kapferen Model
  • Building Brand Equity –  Some Commandments
  • CEO’s – Three Dimensions
    • MIZARU
    • MIKAZARU
    • MAZARU
  • Ten Marketing Trends – 2010
  1. 4. Brand Positioning and values
  • Identifying and establishing brand positioning
  • Positioning guidelines
  • Core brand value
  • Brand mantras
  • Value scope consumer
  • Internal Branding
  1. 5. How to be a good advertising client
  • Agencies – Great Hospitals

– Great Ads

  • Mission – Vision
  • Perception More Important than Reality
  • Brand Barometer
  • Andrew Ehrenberg’s Doctrine
  • Russell Colley’s “ 6 M”  Approach
  • Levidge and Grey Model
  • How Advertising Really works
  • 4 Plus – Negative Type of Agencies
  • 4 Basic Causes of Disagreement
  • 5 Types of Clients
  • Mind of Coal: Heart of Pig – Why?
  • Why Keep A Dog and Bark Too?
  • Communication Brief –

–      Nagma ya Sadma

  • Move Hop – Be A kangaroo –
  • Some Management Thoughts

  1. 6. Peep into possibilities
  • Three Revolutionary Changes:
  • Cocooning
  • Staying Alive
  • Cashing out
  • The Emerging Metro-sexual Male
  • Some More Changes
  • Doctor “HORSE” – Therapist of the future
  • New Organizations – Some Elements
  • Disappearance of the Worry Chart.
    • CONSUMER  Insight value
    • attitudes
  • Females
    • A chemical analysis
    • Potential hazards
    • Most important money reducing agent
    • 5 Basic Types of Purchasing Behavior

7. MEASURING BRAND’S HEALTH AT POP

DEM

  • an effective tool to evaluate distribution health of a Brand in a Territory, Sector, Unit, Town, Zone
  • Highlights relevant parameters
  • Helps plan improvements in each parameter.

What is DEM?

  • An X-Ray of the distribution health. It pertains to the business through the distributor system and captures:
    • All the relevant parameters and,
    • Facilitates a trend analysis.
    • The objective: Continuous improvements in each parameter by generating, analysis.
    • DEM needs to be generated across the entire sales hierarchy starting from the distributor’s salesmen up to the Sales Territory / Zones.
    • Facilitates alignment down the chain.
      • Needs to be generated for important outlets.
  1. 8. The Brand experience in Wireless age.
  • The rise of mBranding
  • A boom with a view
  • The top 10 secrets of successful mobile advertising.
  • The wireless world’s social fabric —what it means to marketer.
  1. 9. Relationship Between Brand and Sales
  • Challenges to brand manager and remedy
  • Sales team lack of awareness regarding brand worth
  • Aloof attitude of brand team creates hurdles in sales
  • It’s a hand in hand activity.
  1. 10. Closing observation
  • What makes a strong brand?
  • Future brand priorities
  • Building brand equity
  • Measuring brand equity
  • Managing brand equity
  • Achieving marketing balance