I was always excited with the company Flipkart and how carefully they are choosing their way forward. For now, Flipkart seems to be playing their cards right. Flipkart.com has aired three TVCs. Each of the ads attack a distinct fear in the consumer's mind towards online shopping, and how Flipkart solves that problem. Fear of …
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According to newspaper reports, deodorants and fragrances market in India is more than Rs. 10,000 million in 2010. No one could have imagined that deodorants would become such a huge market in India. It required a monumental marketing effort to convert people from an old to a new way to meet a primary human need. …
Myntra.com is currently among the top e-commerce companies in India. Recently, they started above the line (ATL) advertising with the television commercial(TVC) below. As most of us know, if you have the pockets, a TVC is probably the best way to create awareness of your brand in India. Myntra.com TVC on air Going on TV …
In marketing, there are two fundamental principles called Attitude to Behaviour (A to B) and Behaviour to Attitude (B to A) marketing. In A to B marketing, you target and change the attitude of the consumer first, so that the change in the attitude may result in a desired change in the behaviour. For example, …
Over the last decade, Tata Steel has lost its equity within the Tata Group of companies. There was a time when every engineer in India used to aspire to work for Tata Steel. Tata Steel was once the dominant company among the Tata Group, but in the last decade it was overshadowed by Tata Consultancy …
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A visit to any mall and you see it is filled with the in-mall activations and the in-store activations. Brand Activations are catching up fast and becoming a serious BTL activity for the marketers and it is no more only for the awareness, PR and couponing. It is fast becoming an important weapon in marketing …
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Mouthwash was relatively a new category and it was primarily driven by Medical Shops channel, as the consumers generally used to use Mouthwash only when prescribed by the dentists for some medical conditions. Colgate being a pioneer of the oral category, had the challenge to create consumer pull to this category and the brand. Colgate …
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To best reach today’s consumers, both in and out of the store, companies have to focus on integrated marketing communications that include a mix of traditional and new media as well as creative promotional activities. Shopper marketing program, which focuses on in-store behaviour, is another way of identifying ew growth opportunities for the company and …
Brand development This is about creating exciting and compelling visions for our brands and developing plans across the full marketing mix. It includes brand communications, innovation and renovation as well as channel-specific propositions. Brand building Here we translate those visions into a local market context, plan practical activity and make sure those plans are executed …
Positioning of a product is how do you intend the consumer to perceive your product. It is to understand where and for what do you want to stand in the consumer's mind. After segmenting a market and then targeting a consumer, next step will be to position a product within that market. It refers to …
There is a big difference between feeling rugged when wearing Levi’s jeans and expressing the strong, rugged side of you by wearing them. The differences between the two can be important. Brands essentially deal with different kinds of benefits. An identity that is based on intangible associations or brand personalities provides the brand with more …
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This is a question that all of us ponder on at some point of time. There is one famous answer, which is that the watch-makers want you to smile. They want people to remember that they should smile and look at their watch. I was also quite satisfied with this answer before. But, the actual …
Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India, Nandan Nilekani, said over a third of India’s 1.1 billion consumers had been largely overlooked in areas such as banking and social services. Speaking to business leaders gathered at The Nielsen Company’s Consumer 360 event in New Delhi, Nilekani said this had come about in part because …
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Pond’s, the popular brand for cosmetics, applied its brand name to toothpaste releasing Pond’s toothpaste. Pond’s has done a blind test and people were happy with the toothpaste. So Pond’s thought it will extend itself into the toothpaste category. But when Pond’s actually released the toothpaste with the Pond’s name on it, it is a …
In order to keep the same identity throughout the world, many companies stick with the same marketing campaign and brand message in every country. However, this occasionally creates difficulties as we see below: KFC in Hong Kong KFC’s ‘finger lickin’ good’ is used the world over to highlight the tastiness of the product. However, when …
Often you see a great brand trying to come up with an extension and fail and some great brands extending their brand successfully. Maggi is a good example for successful brand extensions and Harley Davidson is a great example of brand extension failures. Let us see the hows and whys: Maggi is a brand which …
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Brand Management is a classic example of markets have changed into consumer-driven markets. Today, brand managers face a lot of market fragmentation, market realities, and competition. The Brand Managers are under pressure to leverage upon the brand assets because of higher costs of creating new brands, although this is dependent upon your brand strategy which …
What is a Brand? The names Tata, Nokia, Google and many others are one of the biggest brands in the world. So what really is the name Tata or Google is? Is it just a name or more than that? I define Brand as ‘a network of experience’. Let us understand brands with the example …
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