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How customers choose your brand

How customers choose your brand | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Shoppers today are overwhelmed with choice. Wherever they go they are overloaded with information, forced to choose between competing offers at almost every hour of the day.


But if vendors are offering all this extra choice to increase buyer satisfaction, they might well be making a mistake. Neuroscientists believe that increasing the comparisons available may actually reduce happiness, for the simple reason that people tend to regret the decision they made because of the additional options they couldn’t pick....

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Electrolux VP Yasushi Kusume explains what’s really going on in our heads when we decide to choose one brand over another, and how to make sure that customers choose yours.

Marco Favero's curator insight, December 31, 2014 5:41 AM

aggiungi la tua intuizione ...

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Evolving Stories from Marketed Communication To Co-Creation | THE SOCIAL CMO Blog

Evolving Stories from Marketed Communication To Co-Creation | THE SOCIAL CMO Blog | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

THEME#7 OF POST SERIES ON HUMANIZING BRAND STORYTELLING


Not all brand stories are created equal. Nor do they have the same social value. The traditional process of brand storytelling that uses advertising, collateral, digital etc., is a process owned and led by a brand/business and their agency partners. Such forms of brand communication will usually attempt to talk “to” people through an out-bound (push) marketing approach (see Theme #2 regarding Mass Media Push).


Contrast this to brand stories born externally, crafted by people about brands, and in collaboration with brands. These stories are usually inspired by direct experiences, emotional connections, and engagement opportunities that allow people to be heard, and/or co-create directly with brands themselves. The outcomes are people-powered brand stories that represent a new form of value, or social currency.


As more than 80% of all online content is now user generated, the value of user generated brand stories will only grow exponentially. The social currency value of content will ultimately depend on the perceived authenticity of the story itself, and the share of human versus manufactured voice, within brand communication....

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In order to build social currency, brands need to embrace people-powered storytelling.

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15 Brand Trends for 2015

15 Brand Trends for 2015 | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Last year, I shared Brand Keys' Robert Passikoff's 14 Brand Trends for 2014. This year, Robert again put together his proposed trends for the upcoming year. He again shared his thoughts on the numerology, as well, this time, obviously focusing on 15: In numerology 15 is the combination of the number 1 (representing leadership and forward movement) and the number 5 (numeric for business and finance), thus 15 becomes the fusion of leadership and forward momentum for brands and marketers. Let's see what Robert predicts for the new year.

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Another year almost gone, and Robert Passikoff shares trends and predictions for 2015!

Desiree Mitcham's curator insight, December 9, 2014 12:23 AM

I found this article to be interesting! I feel like these brand trends for 2015 are pretty common to what we see in brand marketing now. 

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Why do you need a brand strategy?

Why do you need a brand strategy? | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Why do you need a brand strategy?


A brand strategy can take what people know and believe about your business to new levels. Active brand management takes a valuable asset that may now be largely underused, and turns it into a powerful competitive weapon. Regardless of how sophisticated your current approach to branding is, your business has a “brand” today, though you may have acquired it by default.


Simply by being active in the marketplace, your business will have accrued a reputation, a level of fame, and a degree of notoriety (for better or worse) with your customers, and within your industry.A brand strategy will take all that value and put it to work in new ways....

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Good thoughts on how to extend your brand value.

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