Brand extensions – the dilemma of existing products

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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Brands and Branding

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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Perceptual benefit versus Real benefit

This blog is following a debate with my colleagues over how you distinguish between a perceptual benefit and a real benefit. Every product has some real benefits and perceptual benefits. For example, in the case of a sports bike, the real benefit could be having a speedy ride on the roads and the perceptual benefit …

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A Brand is a human perception.

Perception may happen in many ways, communication is just one way to perceive something. The difference between perception and communication is: Perception is the subjective feeling that comes as a result of the objective communication. Communication is objective, whereas perception is subjective. Perception depends upon various factors such as background of the individual, psyche, economic …

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