CONCEPTS

Online Marketing Domains

Online marketing is the effort to market products and services and build customer relationships over the internet. The four major online marketing domains are: Business-to-Business: Businesses using online marketing to reach new business customers more effectively and obtain buying efficiencies in better prices. Tata Group’s B2B content marketing has the website – Tata.com. When a …

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Creating Competitive Advantage

Competitive advantage is a superior move gained by an organization by offering same values and products at a lower price or providing more benefits with higher prices over its competitors. Before creating competitive advantage, assessing the competitor’s strength, weakness and objectives is very important to identify what they can do? Competitive advantages are characterized by …

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Aaker Brand Equity Model

In simple terms, brand equity is defined as the value premium that a company generates from a product with a recognizable name when compared to a generic equivalent. Aaker Brand Equity Model primarily sees brand identity as a combination of 8-12 elements which fall under four perspectives: Brand as Product –consists of product scope, product …

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Think Global, Act Local

The concept of Glocalisation, that is an amalgamation of the words “globalisation” and “localisation” showcases the idea that in a global market, a product or service is more likely to succeed when it is customized for the locality or culture in which it is sold. Globalisation is thought of as involving cultural homogenisation, where it is …

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Brand Personality Dimensions

“Brand personality” is a term for the human characteristics or emotions attributed to a brand. Companies use brand personality to identify with their ideal consumers, and then tailor their marketing strategies to that segment. The Five Dimensions of Brand Personality by Jennifer Aaker are:- Sincerity: A brand personality demonstrates “sincerity” when consumers consider it down-to-earth, …

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Needs, Wants, and Demands

Needs wants and demands are a part of basic marketing principles. Though they are three simple words, they hold a very complex meaning behind them along with a huge differentiation factor. In fact, a product can be differentiated on the basis of whether it satisfies customer’s needs, wants or demands. Needs are the basic requirement of any human being. Without them, …

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Consumer Generated Marketing

Consumers are the main elements of any product or service provider. In simple terms, consumer generated marketing is the brand exchange created by the consumer themselves. Consumers share their own experiences with the brand through blogs, video sharing sites, image and photo on social media platform. Consumer generated marketing is a reflection of consumer loyalty …

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Dark marketing

The term dark marketing sounds like something is very wrong. It leads us to think just that- dark things. Here in marketing one would think in terms of maybe Alcohol or Tobacco or some brands that can’t be openly marketed or promoted. But one can also look on the other side, like adult diapers. That …

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