Key Insights on Brand Success

Sep 6, 2024

Reasons for Brand Success

Emotional Connection

  • Essential to connect emotionally
  • Nike study: Sales increased by 14% with fragrance
  • 95% of human decisions are based on emotions
  • Example of Maggi: Emotional marketing and nostalgia

Brand Differentiation

  • Rational and emotional needs
  • Improving the product
  • Example of the French and German music test

Strategies of Luxury Brands

Scarcity

  • Sense of product shortage
  • Example of Hermes and Rolls Royce

Storytelling and Legacy

  • The beginning of the Birkin bag
  • Importance of culture and tradition

Strategies of Mass Premium Brands

Product Innovation

  • Example of Apple: Design and user experience
  • Example of Apple's mouse

Customer Delight

  • Perceived value enhancement

Marketing Strategies

Loss Leader Strategy

  • Reducing the price of a particular product to attract customers
  • Example of McDonald's

Importance of Brand Name

  • Impact and attention to the name
  • Example of Haldiram

Other Important Points

  • Psychology of colors: Use of red
  • Selection of advertising medium: Comparison of TV and outdoor

Examples of Failures

Tata Nano

  • Wrong positioning of a cheap car

New Coke

  • Lack of emotional connection

Education and Marketing

  • Difference between practical and teaching
  • Importance of learning on the street

Conclusion

  • Continuous progress is necessary
  • Need for improvement in the education system