Vol. 4 , No. 9     March 2, 2004

 


In this Newsletter:

  1. How Your Company Can Create Brand Equity
     
  2. Fight the Fear: The 10 Golden Rules of Customer Feedback
     
  3. Turning Tears into Gold: How to Create a Personal Marketing Success out of Pure Despair
     
  4. Did Anybody Show? Seven Tips to Increase Attendance for Short Seminars
     
  5. SWOT Team Ponders a Global Mega-Brand Gone Local
     
  6. A Case Against Doing Business With Kin
     
  7. How to Avoid Product and Ad Campaign Failures: Pre-empt Resistance
     

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Debbie MacInnis and C. W. Park
How Your Company Can Create Brand Equity

What makes a customer buy a brand?

This third article in a series pulls together the first two articles by suggesting how some of the ideas described in the first relate to the creation of brand equity.

Here, the authors use research from psychology and consumer behavior to describe the things that must go on in customers’ heads to make them buy the brand (initially and repeatedly) and do so in a way that minimizes marketing costs.

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Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba
Fight the Fear: The 10 Golden Rules of Customer Feedback

The biggest obstacle to knowing what customers really think about us? Fear.

We fear they’ll tell us our product or service stinks, that we’re horrible people and we should never have set foot on earth.

Overcome the fear of customer feedback and make a bold move toward creating volunteer referrals with these tips, the 10 Golden Rules of Customer Feedback.

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Sean D’Souza
Turning Tears into Gold: How to Create a Personal Marketing Success out of Pure Despair

If you’ve been struggling to find a product, look no further than your nose.

Why do you wait? It’s time to turn tears into gold. And that time is right here, right now.

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A Note to Readers

Facing Your Fears

Greetings, discerning readers!

This week, longtime contributors Jackie Huba and Ben McConnell return to the pages of MarketingProfs with a truly instructive and terrific piece on soliciting customer feedback.

Jackie and Ben name the biggest obstacle to learning what your customers really think about you – fear. As they write, “We fear they’ll tell us our product or service stinks, that we’re horrible people and we should never have set foot on earth.”

Well, as any decent therapist will tell you, you’ve gotta face that fear head-on to make it lose its grip on you. And Jackie and Ben draw you a roadmap for doing just that in “Fight the Fear: The 10 Golden Rules of Customer Feedback.”

Also this week, don’t miss the third of four installments on branding by co-authors Debbie MacInnis and CW Park.

This week, in “How Your Company Can Create Brand Equity,” the pair give you the inside skinny on what makes a customer tick when it comes to a brand. MacInnis and Park look at the big questions (What makes a customer buy a brand?) but fortunately apply the answers to how you can create brand equity with your brand... right here, right now. Check it out.

And tell me what you think. As always, your feedback is both welcome and appreciated.

Until next week,

Ann Handley
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Mike Schultz and John Doerr
Did Anybody Show? Seven Tips to Increase Attendance for Short Seminars

One of the most effective ways to build a professional service practice is to produce and deliver short (half-day or shorter) seminars, speeches and events.

If you take the time and spend the money to produce, prepare and deliver a presentation or mini-seminar, here are seven event-marketing tips that will help you fill your room.

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Yvonne Bailey and Hank Stroll
SWOT Team Ponders a Global Mega-Brand Gone Local

Weigh in with your answers to this week's dilemma: Does a brand need to be localized to be successful?

Also this week: Should compensation be tied to results?

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Kimberly L. McCall
A Case Against Doing Business With Kin

Families and commerce are a lethal concoction. Sure, the arrangement can be both profitable and viable. But here's a bit of advice: Don't do it.

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Dr. Max Sutherland
How to Avoid Product and Ad Campaign Failures: Pre-empt Resistance

Products and ads often fail for the same reason—failure to pre-empt resistance.

Expect resistance unless your products and your campaigns “fit with” something that is already in peoples’ minds.

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