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Identifying Emotional Benefits For Your Brand
By Sharon LivingstonTo be truly effective at brand marketing we need to understand which concrete features and functional benefits of our brand (as well as the brand as a whole) evoke feelings most strongly and which do so without simultaneously creating emotional anti-benefits (aversive feelings).
Read MoreBrands Must Be Built On Emotional Benefits
By Sharon LivingstonEmotional and psychodynamic factors are long known to drive brand selection and loyalty. Even in today’s price-sensitive economy, the imagery attached to brands goes far beyond product attributes, functional benefits and price.
Read MoreBrand Research: Generating Good Ideas From The Bad
By Sharon LivingstonQualitative research is especially well suited to discovering something creative, such as a new name or positioning for a product. One focus group technique that helps uncover the best new ideas is, paradoxically, to ask respondents for bad ideas – the worst ones that come to mind.
Read MoreBrand Research And Neuro-Linguistic Programming
By Sharon LivingstonFocus group participants are often inspired to articulate themselves more fully and accurately than they could have alone.
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