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Internet Marketing & e-Commerce
Ward Hanson
Kirthi Kalyanam
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Part Two: Chapter Six
Online Branding
“There must be – and is – life beyond the 30-second
spot(現場、廣告插播). We must accept the fact that there is no
mass media anymore, and leverage more targeted approaches.”
Jim Stengel, Chief Marketing Officer, Procter & Gamble
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Shifting Landscape of Branding
• Threats to traditional advertising
include shrinking audiences, rising
costs and competing technologies
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Shifting Landscape of Branding
• Threats to traditional advertising
include shrinking audiences, rising
costs and competing technologies
• Tivo ad blocking and the Do Not Call
registry restrict marketers reach
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Shifting Landscape of Branding
• Threats to traditional advertising
include shrinking audiences, rising
costs and competing technologies
• Tivo ad blocking and the Do Not Call
registry restrict marketers reach
• Fears of the chaos scenario: a drop in
mass media effectiveness with no
equally effective marketing alternative
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☆☆ Building Brands Online
• Web spending, especially for
keyword search, is expanding
• Content and development central
to online branding efforts
• Improved multi-media technology
increases web ad effectiveness
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Building Brands Online
Aggregate U.S. Advertising and Online Advertising
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Advertising market in 2014
• http://www.iab.net/research/industry_d
ata_and_landscape/adrevenuereport
(see page 12, 13, 20)
Note: as of 3/7/2016, 2015 full data is not yet available
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Evaluating Online Effectiveness
• Four stages of establishing customerbased brand equity
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Evaluating Online Effectiveness
• Four stages of establishing customerbased brand equity
– Establishing the right identity
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Evaluating Online Effectiveness
• Four stages of establishing customerbased brand equity
– Establishing the right identity
– Creating appropriate brand meaning
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Evaluating Online Effectiveness
• Four stages of establishing customerbased brand equity
– Establishing the right identity
– Creating appropriate brand meaning
– Eliciting the right brand responses
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* Evaluating Online Effectiveness
• Four stages of establishing customerbased brand equity
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Establishing the right identity
Creating appropriate brand meaning
Eliciting the right brand responses
Forging appropriate customer brand
relationships
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Evaluating Online Effectiveness
類同點與
類異點
Source: Kevin Lane Keller
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Branding by Domain Name
• Reinforce branding
• Build traffic
• Anticipate consumer behavior and
mistakes
• Memorability matters
• Simplicity counts
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Branding by Domain Name
Alternate names should help drive traffic to main site
SOURCE: Bloomberg News/Landov
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The Challenge of Multiple Brands
• Multi-brand companies must determine
whether each brand stands alone or is
linked by the common firm
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The Challenge of Multiple Brands
• Multi-brand companies must determine
whether each brand stands alone or is
linked by the common firm
• A branded house treats all products as
an integrated brand
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The Challenge of Multiple Brands
• Multi-brand companies must determine
whether each brand stands alone or is
linked by the common firm
• A branded house treats all products as
an integrated brand
• A house of brands emphasizes
product-specific marketing with few ties
to other company brands
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The Challenge of Multiple Brands
BRANDED HOUSE
HOUSE OF BRANDS
Branding Advantages
Efficient use of resources
Lower cost of product
introductions, brand
extensions
Focus on key users
Avoids confusion
Dominance in product
category
Reduces or minimizes
channel conflict
Online Advantages
Traffic steered to single page
Authority status of site
through shared in-bound links
Easier user tracking
Focused content
Simplified imagery
Better measurement of
brand-specific campaigns
Online Challenges
Complicates content choice
Potential navigation problems
Difficult to measure
advertising effectiveness per
individual brand
Hinders cross-selling
opportunities
“Content fatigue” reduces
likelihood of frequent
customer visits
URL Choices
Homepage as umbrella
Virgin.com/books
Virgin.com/travel
Separate URLs per brand
www.tide.com
www.pantene.com
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Enhancing Brand Meaning
• Online images and content reinforce
brand personality and imagery
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Enhancing Brand Meaning
• Online images and content reinforce
brand personality and imagery
• Digital content transforms a brand into
an authority
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Enhancing Brand Meaning
• Online images and content reinforce
brand personality and imagery
• Digital content transforms a brand into
an authority
– The Stain Detective at Tide.com
– Daily pollen counts at Allegra.com
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☆ Enhancing Brand Meaning
• Online images and content reinforce
brand personality and imagery
• Digital content transforms a brand into
an authority
– The Stain Detective at Tide.com
– Daily pollen counts at Allegra.com
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☆ Enhancing Brand Responses
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Pairing traditional media campaigns with
Web advertising helps drive customer
response to a brand
– Billboards, television have wide reach but
limited information
– Internet lacks wide reach but provides deep
content, elaboration, reinforcement
– A “handoff” strategy recognizes strengths and
weaknesses of each media type
•
Online responses offer a swift, and lasting,
response to brand crises
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Enhancing Brand Responses
In Apple Computer’s “Switch” campaign, TV
ads and billboards steer users to the Web
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Forging Brand Relationships
• Online content can deepen consumer
attachment to a specific brand
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Forging Brand Relationships
• Online content can deepen consumer
attachment to a specific brand
• Legacy drives brand connections and
can be highlighted through online and
multi-media content
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Forging Brand Relationships
• Online content can deepen consumer
attachment to a specific brand
• Legacy drives brand connections and
can be highlighted through online and
multi-media content
• Brand communities place special
emphasis on a brand or product and
are powerful purchasers
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Forging Brand Relationships
Brands as socially negotiated constructs
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