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INTRODUCTION
1. INTRODUCTION
Brand Positioning can be defined as the positioning strategy of the brand with the
goal to create a unique impression in the minds of the customers and at the marketplace. The
Brand Positioning has to be desirable, specific, clear, and distinctive in nature from the rest of
the competitors in the market.
1. Generate awareness
2. Create personal connections
Our ultimate goal for the recommendations in this report is to raise funds for PH. The
objectives we have identified can be achieved through careful strategizing, which will enable
PH to move forward with their marketing and communications campaign. Additionally, the
strategies and tactics we suggest achieve these objectives and help PH reach their goal of
increasing revenue. We focused on the following aspects of the marketing campaign to
leverage PH’s presence and successfully achieve the identified objectives:
Market differentiation
Competitive advantage
4. Reason to Believe: What is the most compelling evidence that your brand delivers
on its brand promise?
What is a Brand Positioning Statement?
In Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey Moore offers one way of formulating a positioning
statement: For (target customer) who (statement of the need or opportunity), the (product
name) is a (product category) that (Statement of key Benefit; also called a compelling reason
to believe).Unlike (Primary competitive alternative), our product (statement of primary
differentiation). However, we provide a more simplified structure for formulating a Brand
Positioning Statement in the following section.
a) Relevant
The positioning strategy you decide should be relevant according to the customer. If
he finds the positioning irrelevant while making the purchase decision, you’re at loss.
b) Clear
Your message should be clear and easy to communicate. E.g. Rich taste and aroma
you won’t forget for a coffee product gives out a clear image and can position your coffee
brand differently from competitors.
c) Unique
A strong brand positioning means you have a unique credible and sustainable position
in the customers’ mind. It should be unique or it’s of no use.
d) Desirable
The unique feature should be desirable and should be able to become a factor which
the Customer Evaluate before buying a product.
e) Deliverable
The promise should have the ability to be delivered. False promises lead to negative
brand equity.
f) Points of difference
The customer should be able to tell the difference between your and your competitor’s
brand.
g) Recognizable Feature
The unique feature should be recognizable by the customer. This includes keeping
your positioning simple, and in a language which is understood by the customer.
Your positioning strategy isn’t successful until the time it is validated by the
customer. He is the one to decide whether you stand out or not. Hence, try to be in his shoes
while deciding your strategy.
Positioning by price/quality
Positioning by competitor
While There are numerous position strategies in marketing to choose from. The task for the
marketers is to complement their promise to the product features they have to offer.
a) Lifestyle Positioning
By positioning itself as a lifestyle brand, a brand tries to sell an image and identity
rather than the product. The main focus is to associate the brand with a lifestyle and focus is
more on the aspirational value than the product value. Cigarette, Alcohol, and Tabacco
companies are often seen to use lifestyle positioning while marketing their products.
Most of the brands focus on positioning their products as a one stop solution for a
specific problem. They pinpoint the pain areas and the challenges the consumers face in their
communication and other marketing strategies and mend it into promoting their product.
c) Parent Brand
This positioning strategy aims at establishing a brand promise and a reputation of the
parent brand. All the products and sub-brands under the parent brand seem to comply to the
established promise.
d) Product Specific
Some brands which caters to different market segments, use product specific
positioning strategies where they position their different products differently than others. This
is usually seen in the automobile industry.
e) Feature Specific
When the competition is huge and the products are similar, companies usually
position their products by focusing more on specific features like price, quality, or other
micro features depending on the product sold. This type of positioning strategy is usually
seen in mobile industry.
Before you decide your brand positioning, ask yourself these three questions.
Awareness
Customer Loyalty
Negative Attributes
Pigeonholes
1.12 BENEFITS OF BRAND POSITIONING
b) Efficiency & effectiveness: A proverb states, “He who chases two rabbits will catch
neither.” Positioning focuses your limited resources on a clearly defined goal, enabling these
investments to build upon each other instead of being deployed scattershot.
c) Control: Either position yourself, or your competitors will happily do it for you.
Positioning gives you control over your own brand image, because it defines the space you
can own like no one else.
Marketers can use many dimensions to carve out a brand’s position in the market place. A
brand for each brand position strategy:
Lifestyle
SWATCH has become successful lifestyle brands. It play an important role in our lives by
allowing us to express our values and define ourselvesto the world. Lifestyle branding
appeals to managers because it offers what appears to be a relatively easy way to sidestep
competition and connect with customers on a more personal level lifestyle brands do not
evade the competition; instead they end up competing for a share of a consumer’s identity.
And as an increasing number of brands turn to lifestyle positioning, the competition among
self-expressive brands intensifies.
Price leadership
Wal-Mart is a price leader. The brands that are suffering today are those that try to stake out
a position in the middle of the road. They face price competition from the price leader. This
way the company translates its cost advantage into price advantage for its customers and
thereby improves the market share. This is how Wal-Mart captures the markets and
eliminates the competitors and improves revenues and market share. Wal-Mart Stores set the
standard for retailers: They were the most efficient at getting low-priced goods into the hands
of consumers that nobody could beat them on price.
Attributes
Blackberry mobile phones they position their Brand on the basis of the attributes of their
product. Their products have special features like Blackberry Messenger (BBM) which
makes their product different from others. This strategy relies on providing a superior product
to the customers to have a better positioning.
Product class
Hindustan Unilever has positioned their various soaps by product class. Like They have dove
and lux etc that is positioned by same class. Positioning by product class can increase a
company’s profits by presenting more items from our product line to consumers who may be
familiar with or loyal to our brand name. This is especially Key when similar products we
position in our product class are one-of-a-kind with no similar offerings by competitors.
Competitors
Samsung which deals in mobiles phones position their product by keeping in mind its
competitors like HTC, Sony and LG etc. The Positioning by competitor strategy may be
influenced by the market, the features of other products in the market, their pricing,
distribution as well as any other factor which is the strength of the competitor. If Samsung is
fighting against a competitor on the same factors of positioning, it should better be prepared
for a long and hard fight. However, if it want to get to the top, it need to attack the
weaknesses first and thereby permanently take away some of the market share of the
competitor.
Occasion
COCK brand crackers have done its brand positioning on the basis of occasion. This kind of
positioning stresses when or how your product is used by your target audience. Crackers are
mostly used on some special occasions like Diwali, New Year and marriage etc. So in the
mind of consumer their products are positioned as occasion products.
Users
VERTU a subsidiary of Nokia mobile phone has positioned their brand on the base of high
class users. Their mobiles are very costly. Vertu creates limited edition luxurious cell
&mobile phones using the finest materials available including gold, titanium etc
Quality
BMW cars have built its brand image or position their product in mind of consumer through
the quality of their product. Building a Powerful Perception of quality, will Succeed in
Creating a Powerful Brand. The best way to increase perception of quality is to narrow the
company’s Focus.