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Measure the payback on the "softer" aspects of my marketing plan like branding, corporate reputation, or customer experience.

It’s so hard to put a clear financial value on branding, reputation, or customer experience enhancement. But it can be done without massive investments in research or analytics – even in the most skeptical boardrooms. Here are a few helpful approaches.

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February 23, 2010

Meeting of the Minds: Brand Resonance as a Strategic Marketing Tool

Professor Kevin Lane Keller will outline the dimensions of brand resonance and provide guidelines and examples as to how marketers can design marketing programs and activities to best achieve it... 

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February 20, 2010

The Cost of NOT Branding

When saving money becomes the goal instead of a guideline, something big always suffers... usually the brand...

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February 17, 2010

Meeeting of the Minds: Brand Resonance as a Strategic Management Tool (archived webcast)

Professor Kevin Lane Keller outlined the dimensions of brand resonance and provided guidelines and examples as to how marketers can design marketing programs and activities to best achieve it...

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January 19, 2010

The Cost of NOT Branding

When saving money becomes the goal instead of a guideline, something big always suffers... usually the brand...

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November 10, 2009

"That is the Big Challenge" says Eric Schmidt

Reflections on a recent conversation with Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, about the company's online and offline advertising models.

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August 28, 2009

My Brand's Bigger than Your Brand

Some insight behind the methodology for brand valuation and accounting for the variations in rankings and ratings.

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June 15, 2009

Effective Ways to Measure Activities for a Global Brand Portfolio

The world's largest spirits manufacturer offers guiding principles for measuring global brand portfolios

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December 18, 2008

Valuing Brand Assets: A Cost-Effective and Easy-to-Implement Measurement Approach

The author of this MSI paper proposes a new approach for measuring “financial brand equity” – one that is consistent with the FASB (Financial Accounting Standards Board) guidelines for treatment of intangible assets.

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December 18, 2008

Valuing Branded Businesses

This summary of a recent MSI paper looks at incorporating brand asset metrics into a business valuation and how it can provide incremental explanatory power in the value-to-sales multiplier for branded firms or business units.

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