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Brand. Who Needs It? | BTalk Australia

June 23rd, 2008 @ 1:31 pm

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Categories: BTalk Australia, Podcasts

Tags: Brand, Branding, Marketing, Phil Dobbie, Podcasts, Stephen Downes

What is brand and how important is it? Dr Stephen Downes, a lecturer at RMIT University in Melbourne, describes brand as a series of associations that determine how customers think about your company and the services you offer. Today on BTalk Australia Phil Dobbie asks if brand is important even in small businesses offering B2B services. Do companies sometimes see their brand differently to how their customers see it? And what about the proposed merger between Westpac and St George — can the St George brand survive?

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    Acerebel

    07/22/08 | Report as spam

    Fascinating, but ...

    I found this podcast to be very interesting.

    One thing I think needs to be reiterated again and again about branding, brands, brand equity and loyalty, however, is the importance of the external brand (to our customers) being truthful as a reflection of our internal brand (to ourselves). There is so much dissonance at times between how we portray ourselves (kind and generous, or innovative and feisty, for example) and how we really treat our staff or perform our work (harshly and stingily, or rigidly and stuffily).

    Yes, I know that the external brand won't survive if this kind of mismatch continues, but the damage done to the people trying to make it work, in the meantime, can be considerable.

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