| The message is determined by analyzing
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| | admitted and the content will not offend
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| the brand being marketed, and doing
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| | their parents.Disney has become the
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| so with clear vision and self-knowledge.
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| | tremendous conglomerate it is today by
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| Too many marketing executives rely
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| | making
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| on their own concept of the brand's
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| | promises to its consumers and keeping
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| identity, and never bother to discover
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| | them consistently since the company's
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| what
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| | inception. Anything that bears the
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| attributes the public has assigned to a
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| | Disney name has a special trust, a
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| product. Just because you've decided
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| | covenant
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| that you want to project a certain image
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| | with the consumer, and Disney lives up
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| doesn't mean that's the image you're
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| | to that covenant every single time.It's
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| projecting. Extremely high-profile
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| | easy to ridicule the seemingly fanatical
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| marketing campaigns have failed because
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| | insistence Disney has on referring
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| not enough market research and
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| | to its employees as cast members, in
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| communication with the consuming public
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| | considering the consequences of every
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| were done.For example:When AT&T Wireless
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| | word spoken on every program its
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| decided to consolidate its wireless
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| | networks air, in not allowing its male
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| phone, pager, and
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| | employees to grow beards, or in its
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| Internet technology into something
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| | sanitized image that seems unrealistic in
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| called mlife, it gave the public examples
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| |
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| of
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| | modern society. But it would be foolish
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| what the company meant. Unfortunately,
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| | to attack the surface of the Disney
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| the public still doesn't understand,
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| | brand and overlook the unprecedented
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| and has no idea what the m stands for
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| | success it has enjoyed for a number of
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| (it is messaging).United Airlines has
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| | decades. The company continues to grow,
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| long invited the public to "fly the
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| | but never for a moment does it take
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| friendly skies of United."
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| | its covenant,the promises it makes to
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| The public has noticed that the
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| | its audience for granted.Go to the Disney
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| experience on the plane is not terribly
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| | Web site at and you'll see the company's
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| friendly,
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| |
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| and is now distrustful of all airlines'
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| | dedication to its core philosophy at
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| claims.The criteria for effective public
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| | work with every click. Want to discuss a
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| relations messages should be: (1) is it
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| | vacation at Walt Disney World in
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| true? (2)
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| | Florida? You can book your vacation,
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| Is it unusual? (3) Is it interesting?On
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| | including
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| the other hand, if a company already
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| | airfare, car rental, hotel, and theme
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| exists in the marketplace, a new
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| | park tickets, through Disney online. If
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| message will have to be identified. For
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| | you
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| retail companies, the addition of a new
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| | need personal assistance, phone numbers
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| product category or a price reduction
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| | are always available. News about
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| are always effective messages.Sales
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| | upcoming movies from the Disney studios
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| promotions, particularly very public or
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| | can be found, including coming
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| extremely unusual ones, make
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| | attractions trailers. Games are
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| good messages. Anything out of the
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| | available for children and adults. Want
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| ordinary being done by the company in
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| | to buy
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| the name of public service or community
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| | some Disney merchandise? The Disney
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| aid is a legitimate message.In order for
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| | Store has an online catalog. There is
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| the message to be even rudimentarily
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| | always the option of speaking to a
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| effective, it absolutely must
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| | Disney representative with any question
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| be true. Remember, the message is being
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| | or
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| disseminated by the legitimate news
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| | concern you might have. And the Disney
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| media; a false message will be
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| | Web site is careful not to provide links
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| discovered and exposed, and win
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| | to ABC, Touchstone, or Miramax, because
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| immediately
| |
| | those companies deal in material
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| brand the company negatively. It will do
| |
| | that, although affiliated with the
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| more damage than having no message
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| | parent company, does not conform to the
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| at all, and such situations must be
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| | Disney brand. They are separate brands
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| avoided at all costs.Unique messages are
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| | and are treated separately. They have
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| going to be more noticeable and more
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| | their own Web sites.While the philosophy
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| attractive to the
| |
| | is not directly presented to the consumer
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| gatekeepers who determine which stories
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| | in words, it is
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| are told and which are not. So an
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| | not in the least difficult to discern or
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| unusual message--something a company is
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| | understand. Disney will provide you with
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| doing that no one else has
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| | high-quality, attentive customer service
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| considered or been creative enough to
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| | and a dedication to family. It's there
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| conceive-will be considerably more
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| | on the Web site, in the theme parks, and
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| successful than one that seems tired or
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| | in the entertainment provided by the
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| old simply because it has been seen
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| | company under its own name. Under no
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| before.It goes without saying that the
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| | circumstances does the Disney
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| message must be interesting. If it is
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| | Company ever renege on those promises,
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| unique,
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| | and it holds firm to them in every
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| unusual, and true, but without any
| |
| | aspect of its branded business.On those
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| interest to the general public, the
| |
| | occasions when there is even the
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| message
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| | suggestion of a break with the
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| being delivered will most likely never
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| | covenant, Disney works swiftly to
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| find the light of day. If it does, it
| |
| | correct the situation. When some video
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| will
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| | copies of its animated film The Little
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| undoubtedly be ignored, or worse,
| |
| | Mermaid were rumored to have an off-
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| ridiculed. Many companies make the
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| | color visual joke in three frames (1/8
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| mistake of assuming that if a message
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| | of a second), the company made sure the
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| seems unusual and interesting to them,
| |
| | rumors were dispelled, and the offending
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| it will be those things for the general
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| | three frames, although they really
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| consuming public. People in business
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| | didn't contain what the rumors said they
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| tend to find their business fascinating;
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| | did, were cut from subsequent copies.
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| it is the thing they spend most of their
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| | Disney takes its covenant very
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| time thinking about, so they are more
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| | seriously.BRANDING IS ESSENTIALEverything
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| knowledgeable about and concerned
| |
| | impacts on Branding--the smell of the
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| with their business than any casual
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| | bathroom, the signs in the
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| observer or consumer would be. That is
| |
| | window, the product being sold in the
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| only natural and proper. But it is far
| |
| | store, the things people say. One of the
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| too easy to make the miscalculation that
| |
| | most powerful things that impacts all
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| a
| |
| | people's perceptions is what they read,
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| message that might be fascinating to an
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| | see, or hear about in the media, because
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| industry insider-for example, "Ours is
| |
| | it carries with it the imprimatur of the
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| the only paper bag made with 100 percent
| |
| | media outlet.To illustrate: If a garage
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| maple fibers"-will also be of interest
| |
| | band pays to produce its own CD and sends
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| to a casual user of the product. In
| |
| | out fliers
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| almost every case, that assumption will
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| | to every record store in the country
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| be
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| | saying the album is a breakthrough
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| proven untrue.So, commununication with
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| | collection, it won't carry a fraction of
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| the consuming public is an essential
| |
| | the impact that same CD win have if
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| component to
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| | someone on MTV uses the exact same
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| any successful Branding venture.
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| | words, because now the brand of the
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| Discovering from the public what its true
| |
| | garage band has been enhanced with the
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|
| |
| | brand MTV.The old saying, "There is no
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| feelings are about the brand identity
| |
| | such thing as bad publicity" is
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| being contemplated, as well as any
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| | absolutely
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| changes being discussed concerning an
| |
| | incorrect, however. Having a brand's
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| existing brand identity, can help a wise
| |
| | name mentioned in the media is a very
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| marketer avoid miscalculations that can
| |
| | strong influencer, and it can cut both
|
| prove disastrously costly and possibly
| |
| | ways. Should a media outlet say
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| fatal to the brand, the product, or the
| |
| | something negative about a brand-even if
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| company.This is not to imply that the
| |
| | the information is proven to be
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| public must be allowed to dictate all
| |
| | totally inaccurate-the negative
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| Branding
| |
| | repercussions on the brand identity can
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| decisions, however. What's more
| |
| | be
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| important is for anyone involved in
| |
| | devastating. It can take a lot of damage
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| Branding
| |
| | control, in the form of advertisement,
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| to have a clear-eyed view of their brand
| |
| | retractions from media outlets, and
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| identity. Wal-Mart remains a wildly
| |
| | strong statements from the brand itself,
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| successful brand by not trying to be
| |
| | to
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| Tiffany's. McDonald's, although it has
| |
| | undo one misplaced comment from a
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| slipped precipitously as a trusted brand
| |
| | credible media outlet. Sometimes the
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| in recent years, still has the good
| |
| | damage can't be controlled or
|
| sense not to hire Wolfgang Puck to
| |
| | undone.When public relations is done
|
| rethink its hamburger recipe.When a
| |
| | properly, an item of information is
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| Branding professional loses sight of the
| |
| | disseminated
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| original mission-that is, the
| |
| | to media gatekeepers, who then decide to
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| brand identity-and tries to be all
| |
| | report the information either directly
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| things to all people, the results are
| |
| | or indirectly. Reportage is done,
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| almost
| |
| | research is accumulated, interviews are
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| always calamitous. The archetypal
| |
| | performed. Eventually the information
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| example of New Coke works as a warning
| |
| | item becomes a media report, and it is
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| about so many different Branding errors
| |
| | at that moment that the public relations
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| that it seems clichéd to mention it, but
| |
| | professional can no longer control it
|
|
| |
| | entirely. Media outlets-particularly the
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| consider: The fundamental miscalculation
| |
| | most desirable, most credible ones-
|
| being made was the level of loyalty
| |
| | operate autonomously, reporting the
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| the average Coca-Cola drinker had for
| |
| | information they deem necessary or
|
| what was, and remains, unquestionably
| |
| | interesting and excluding all else. Time
|
| the most well-known, best-loved brand
| |
| | constraints, space limitations, and the
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| identity on this planet. To think it was
| |
| | realities of economics play as prominent
|
| a good idea to remove this beloved
| |
| | a role in the decision-making process
|
| product-in favor of a formula that
| |
| | as the newsworthiness of the information
|
| emulated the competition and was bound
| |
| | being considered.If a company is
|
| to alienate Coca-Cola loyalists who
| |
| | launching a new brand, the temptation
|
| had stuck with the brand, in some cases,
| |
| | will exist to try to
|
| for decades-is astonishing.A FEW BASIC
| |
| | saturate the market with information on
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| PROMISESPublic relations can operate
| |
| | that brand. Often, when my company
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| effectively only when a clear, realistic
| |
| | is contacted about the creation of a new
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| brand
| |
| | brand or a new product, the request
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| identity has been conceived. Certainly,
| |
| | will be, "Get us as much exposure as you
|
| PR, professionals can be part of the
| |
| | can." That is absolutely the wrong
|
| team that establishes that identity, but
| |
| | thing to request at that time, because
|
| it must be, above all else, a true
| |
| | it is not a strategic position.Such a
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| identity. That means it must have
| |
| | company should be requesting a strategic
|
| specific attributes, specific
| |
| | plan that is consistent with
|
| philosophical
| |
| | their short-, middle-, and long-term
|
| tenets, and, most important, a few basic
| |
| | goals. (Short-term is defined as 6
|
| promises made to the consumer that
| |
| | months, mid-term as 18 months, and
|
| will never, ever be broken.These
| |
| | long-term as 36 months.) It's very
|
| promises, which should be written down in
| |
| | important to define those goals before
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| the simplest language
| |
| | seeking media exposure, because the
|
| possible and distributed on a regular
| |
| | lack of a goal is the lack of a plan,
|
| basis to every employee of the company,
| |
| | and that will obliterate any hope of
|
| are a covenant made with the public.
| |
| | Branding
|
| They define the brand identity; they
| |
| | before it ever has the opportunity to
|
| provide reasons to patronize the brand;
| |
| | begin.In Lewis Carroll's Alice's
|
| and they offer, at the most basic level,
| |
| | Adventures in Wonderland, there is a
|
| differentiation from all competing
| |
| | marvelous
|
| brands. They are never to be taken
| |
| | moment in which Alice, trying to find
|
| lightly by
| |
| | her way through the maze that is
|
| any employee, and under no circumstances
| |
| | Wonderland, asks the Cheshire Cat for
|
| are they ever to be broken for any
| |
| | direction. The cat asks, quite logically,
|
| reason.If your business is a store that
| |
| |
|
| sells items that cost $1 apiece, you must
| |
| | where Alice's destination might be, and
|
| never
| |
| | she replies that she doesn't care where
|
| charge $1.05 for anything. If your
| |
| | she ends up, but needs to know which
|
| restaurant prides itself on cleanliness,
| |
| | road to take. Told that Alice doesn't
|
| the
| |
| | care where she's going, the Cat replies,
|
| rest rooms have to be absolutely
| |
| | "Then it doesn't matter which way you
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| spotless anytime anyone walks in. If your
| |
| | go."Companies that want to create brands
|
|
| |
| | but don't know what their specific goals
|
| promise is that every customer will be
| |
| | are for the next 6, 18, or 36 months
|
| served within 30 seconds of entering,
| |
| | can't possibly be expected to define
|
| you'd better have a stopwatch on every
| |
| | their
|
| employee's wrist and be sure it's
| |
| | brand identity or the proper kind of
|
| operating accurately.The promises your
| |
| | media coverage they need to best exploit
|
| business makes are the central core of
| |
| | their brand's possibilities.A good
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| that business. If
| |
| | percentage of Americans believe that
|
| you've promised to provide the longest
| |
| | Elvis is still alive; there's no
|
| hot dogs in town, and you provide
| |
| | accounting for what people might think.
|
| them, no reasonable person is going to
| |
| | But the reality is that a Branding
|
| complain that you don't have the best
| |
| | campaign, fueled by public relations
|
| crêpes suzettes as well-unless you've
| |
| | efforts, will fail miserably if it
|
| promised that too.It's extremely
| |
| | doesn't have
|
| important that the promises you make flow
| |
| | specific, well-defined goals in place
|
| from your brand
| |
| | for various points in the future before
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| identity. Understand what you are to the
| |
| | it
|
| public and what is expected of you,
| |
| | begins.How do the elite Branding experts
|
| and you can make bold but realistic
| |
| | determine their goals ahead of time and
|
| promises. Try to provide every solution
| |
| | pass that information on to public
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| to
| |
| | relations professionals? It helps to be
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| every problem, and you win end up
| |
| | first in
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| providing nothing that is the least bit
| |
| | your field. Those companies that came to
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| effective.Consider, for example, the
| |
| | the marketplace before anyone else -
|
| Disney brand. Here is a company whose
| |
| | Wal-Mart, Johnson & Johnson, Kleenex,
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| name and
| |
| | Coca-Cola, Disney, McDonald's-had an
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| logo are recognized in every country on
| |
| | advantage before they generated their
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| the planet, whose message is received
| |
| | first media placement. Nobody was
|
| and understood everywhere from Beverly
| |
| | ahead of them, and they knew precisely
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| Hills to Beirut. It was once estimated
| |
| | what they intended to do.Keep in mind
|
| that Mickey Mouse was the most
| |
| | that most of those brands established
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| recognized figure anywhere on Earth, more
| |
| | themselves very early with
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|
| |
| | very little (in many cases, close to no)
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| than the president of the United States,
| |
| | advertising budget to work with. They
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| more than Tom Cruise, actually more
| |
| | managed to create an impression in the
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| than Santa Claus (who is famous in only
| |
| | minds of consumers without spending
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| about one-third of the world's
| |
| | millions in magazines and newspapers or
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| countries).On the surface, Disney might
| |
| | on radio or television (in those cases
|
| appear to offer all things to all people.
| |
| | when radio and television existed at the
|
| Besides
| |
| | brand's inception).They did it almost
|
| its movies and television programs under
| |
| | exclusively with public relations. These
|
| the Walt Disney name, it also
| |
| | companies had a
|
| produces entertainment under the
| |
| | plan, a course of action, long before
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| Touchstone and Hollywood Pictures
| |
| | they had a brand name or a brand
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| banners. Disney has a network television
| |
| | identity. They projected the possible
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| show on a network it owns (ABC), and
| |
| | sales for their products and services and
|
| also provides programming on cable TV
| |
| |
|
| via the Disney Channel and ABC
| |
| | had realistic goals for the coming six
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| Family. The company owns theme parks in
| |
| | months, the coming year, the coming
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| California, Florida, Japan, and
| |
| | three years. In many cases, those goals
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| France. It also owns ESPN, publishing
| |
| | were far exceeded, due in large part to
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| companies, video distribution companies,
| |
| | the brilliant public relations campaigns
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| real estate, and retail stores. Disney
| |
| | that had been launched and executed
|
| logos appear on merchandise ranging
| |
| | to establish and support the brand.
|
| from souvenir Mickey Mouse ears to
| |
| | Without those plans, goals, and
|
| fashions created by respected designers,
| |
| | projections, there would have been no
|
| electronics, calendars, furniture,
| |
| | road map-and, as the Cheshire Cat
|
| musical instruments, sound recordings,
| |
| | would say, there would be no point in
|
| and
| |
| | choosing one road over another, since it
|
| timepieces. Disney produces Broadway
| |
| | wouldn't matter where you ended up
|
| shows. It even owns a town in Florida.But
| |
| | anyway.It is extremely important, then,
|
| no matter how widely it casts its net,
| |
| | to set realistic goals. In order to do
|
| Disney always promises its
| |
| | that, the
|
| customers the same things: high quality,
| |
| | smart Branding practitioner needs to
|
| fanatical customer service, and a
| |
| | have a clear-eyed view of his or her own
|
| dedication to the family. It might
| |
| | product and company. Only with that can
|
| produce some R-rated movies under its
| |
| | a true brand identity be created, one
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| Touchstone, Miramax, or Hollywood
| |
| | that will capture the imagination of the
|
| Pictures umbrella, but never with the
| |
| | targeted consumer and differentiate the
|
| Disney name. It will provide scary
| |
| | new brand from whatever competition
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| thrill rides in its theme parks, but
| |
| | currently exists or will exist in the
|
| you'd
| |
| | future. Keep in mind that even those who
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| better believe the streets in that park
| |
| | were first ended up dealing with
|
| will be clean and the "cast members" who
| |
| | competition. Kleenex may be the most
|
| work there will find a way to solve
| |
| | famous brand of tissue available today,
|
| virtually any problem a guest might have
| |
| | but it is far from the only one on the
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| during the stay. Guests at Walt Disney
| |
| | market.Michael Levine is the founder of
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| World are never told, "We can't do that";
| |
| | the prominent public relations firm
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|
| |
| | Levine
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| they are always given at least an
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| | Communications Office, based in Los
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| alternative solution. Maybe the ABC
| |
| | Angeles. He is the author of Guerrilla
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| network
| |
| | PR,
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| will broadcast NYPD Blue, which offers
| |
| | 7 Life Lessons from Noah's Ark: How to
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| |
| | Survive a Flood in Your Own
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| nudity, but the Disney Channel won't
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| ever consider such a thing. If Disney
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