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How to Write an effective Brand Plan that everyone can follow
If you have ever sat there at
your computer screen looking
at these Brand Plan Headlines
and gotten Writer’s Block, you
are not alone.
 Vision
 Mission
 Goals
 Strategies
 Tactics
 Target
 Expected Result
 Main Message
 Support Points
 Product
 Advertising
 Promotion
 Stimulus
 Response
 Medium
 Channel
 We have some long term thoughts on where the brand can
go and the special assignment to get us on our way. And
that helps shape the things we want to achieve with our
brand. To get started, the brand has different options for
how to get there
 We try to find a slice of the population to get them to take
an action that makes our brand bigger. We then find out
what to say and how to talk to them to trigger that action
We need to re-enforce why we can do it and others can’t.
 We then create the most motivating stimulus to get them to
take action and put it in part of their life where they are
most likely to hear it and act on it.
Marketing
Made Easy
in about
150 words
or less
Describing the Entire Marketing Planning Process Sounds Pretty
Simple. Yet, how come it’s so Difficult to write a plan?
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 We have some long term thoughts on where the brand can
go (vision) and the special assignment to get us on our way.
(mission) And that help shape the things we want to achieve
with our brand. (goals) To get started, the brand has different
options (strategies) for how to get there (tactics)
 We try to find a slice of the population (target) to get them
to take an action (expected result) that makes our brand
bigger. We then find out what to say and how to talk to
them to trigger that action (main message) We need to re-
enforce why we can do it and others can’t (support)
 We then create the most motivating stimulus (product, ad,
promotion) to get them to take action and put it in part of
their life where they are most likely to hear it and act on it
(the medium/channel)
STRATEGIC
PLAN
POSITIONING
EXECUTION
Does it get More Complicated when we start to layer in all the
Marketing Buzz words?
4
My suspicion is the Marketing Words create the Writers
block and complicates our thinking.
1. Where are we?
2. Why are we here?
3. Where could we be?
4. How can we get there?
5. What do we need to do
to get ready
Five Great Simple Questions to Ask Before
Getting Started on Your Brand Plan.
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Situation Analysis
Key Issues
Vision/Mission/Goals
Strategies/Tactics
Execute & Measure
Questions To Ask Planning Areas
1
2
3
4
5 6
Situation
Analysis
An Example of how a Good Brand Plan Comes Together in the End
Forecast
P&L
Situation
Analysis
Brand Vision
Strategic
Initiatives
Executional
Tactics
Brand
Budget
Key Issues
3
6
1
2
4
5
6
The Situation Analysis
And the Key Issues
Where Are We and How Did We Get there?
1 2
Understanding how the consumer buys, allows you to match it up
and apply pressure against a single point on the brand funnel.
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Indifferent
Like It
Love It
The Love Curve Helps Isolate the Issues, matching the
consumer buying system to the brand funnel.
 Behaviour matched up against data.
Force Field Analysis: Drivers, Inhibitors, Opportunities, Threats
•factors of strength or inertia that are
helping to accelerate your brand’s growth.
Could be something within the brand’s
make up or control, or it could be a factor
of the market place.
•What are the things that are directly
driving your brand growth?
Drivers
•Weaknesses or friction that is slowing
your brand down, or a leaky hole that
needs fixing. These are things that are
happening right now.
•What is holding you back or getting in
your way from achieving the growth?
•A leak in your Brand Funnel. Where are
you exposed, Achilles heal?
Inhibitors
•Areas you could take advantage, which
would accelerate our growth. They have
to be real, or exploratory areas. No
pipedreams! Unfulfilled needs, new
technologies, regulation changes, removal
of trade barriers.
Opportunities
•Outside of your control. They are real, but have
not happened yet. If they did, they would be
an inhibitor. No laundry lists.
•Changing consumer needs, threat of
substitutes, barriers to trade, customer
preference, or attacking your weaknesses.
Threats
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Helps Frame what the brand is facing as well as set up
the Key Issues for the Brand Plan.
Is happening Now
Could happen
Analysis from the BURGER Example: Keep the Analysis tight
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Ideally, you want to focus on
the top 3-4 points for each.
Make sure the drivers and
inhibitors are IN plan now, not
could happen, but are
happening.
Risks and Opportunities could
happen but they have to be
realistic and within a 3-5 year
window.
Force Field Analysis: Drivers, Inhibitors, Opportunities, Threats
Drivers
Inhibitors
Opportunities
Threats
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Continue/Enhance
Stay focused on things going right, accelerate
against them. Continuous improvement.
Minimize/Reverse
Close the leaks, develop turnaround plans
or re-focus the team against the trend.
Take Advantage of
Build plans to mobilize the brand to see if the
opportunity is a winning space for the brand.
Avoid/Contingency
Identify and measure the risk, explore plans
to avoid. Fill the gap before a competitor.
Helps to Frame the Key Issues Facing the Brand
• Key Issues should be asked in question format. Think of them in terms of a
“rhetorical strategic question” which means that the question should be a bit leading,
and have a proposed strategy as the solution.
• As a guideline, there should be 3-5 key issues per brand. The crucial part of key issues
is getting to the right level. If you have less, you are likely not detailed or specific
enough, and if you have more…you should try to elevate some up to see if you can
capture the bigger picture. Play around with it, until it feels at the right level.
Key Issues Identify the Areas of Focus for Your plan
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Example: Key Issues for The US War in Iraq.
Too Low: How do we get more helicopters into Iraq? This is too
specific or too small. Think about it, if there are other ways to
get to the same goal (e.g. you could get more tanks) then the
issue is too small.
Too High: How do we drive Peace in the Middle East? This is
aspiration, but unrealistic. If it feels too much to chew off, then
it’s too big of an issue.
Just Right: What’s the most effective way to change Regimes in
Iraq? This talks closer to the overall objective…but with enough
room to give strategic alternatives
VISION/MISSION
Where Could we be?
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• Vision: End in Mind Achievement. What do you want the brand to
become? Think 10 years out: if you became this one thing, you would know
that you are successful. Ideally it is Qualitative (yet grounded in something)
and quantitative (measurable) It should be motivating and enticing to get
people focused.
• Mission: Special Assignment. It should be tightly connected to the vision,
but is more likely a 1-3 year direction—if a vision is a destination, then a
mission is the how or the major milestone on the path towards that vision.
• A mission statement focuses on a company’s present state while a vision
statement focuses on a company’s future.
Vision and Mission help to Frame the Overall Brand Plan
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Things that Make a Good vision:
1) Easy for employees and partners to understand and rally around
2) Think about something that can last 5-10 years or more
3) Balance between aspiration (stretch) and reality (achievement)
4) It’s ok to embed a financial ($x) or share position (#1) element into it as
long as it’s important for framing the vision.
The watch outs for vision statements:
1. It’s not a positioning statement
2. Make sure we haven’t achieved it already
3. Don’t put strategic statements
4. Try to be single minded: tighten it—don’t include everything!!!
What Makes for Good Vision Statement
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Great Examples of Brand Vision
Princess Margaret
Hospital
“To Conquer Cancer in
Our Lifetime.”
John F. Kennedy
"I believe that this nation should
commit itself to achieving a goal,
before this decade is out, of landing
a man on the moon and returning
him safely to earth."
Facebook
“Give people the power
to share and make the
world more open and
connected.”
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Strategies
How can we get there?
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Strategic Thinkers see “what if” questions before they see
solutions. They map out a range of decision trees that intersect
and connect by imagining how events will play out. They reflect
and plan before they act. They are thinkers and planning who can
see connections. PLANNING!
Non Strategic Thinkers see answers before questions. They get
to answers quickly, and will get frustrated in the delays of thinking.
They think doing something is better then doing nothing. They
opt for action over thinking. They are impulsive and doers who
see tasks. They are frustrated by strategic thinkers. EXECUTING!
Marketing Chameleon: You must talk with and act like
both in order to manage both types of people. You need to
inspire non-strategic thinkers to be great on your brand.
What’s the Difference between a Strategic Thinker and a Non
Strategic Thinker? Great Marketers Must Be Both!
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Does your strategy have:
 An end in mind vision, pathway that has milestones,
objectives and specific goals.
 Specific choices on direction. Not a vague chance.
 Pin-pointed focus of resources (effort and investment)
 Leverage point to turn a small win into something big.
 Gateway, defined as a win for the brand that translates into
an increase in power or value.
Strategy is all about choices, not chances. Strategy helps
accomplishes goals that move you towards a vision.
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There are 4 elements of a good strategy: Focus, Early Win, Leverage
and a Gateway to something bigger.
1. FOCUS all your energy to a particular strategic point or purpose. Match
up your brand assets to pressure points you can break through,
maximizing your limited resources—either financial resources or effort.
2. You want that EARLY WIN, to kick start of some momentum. Early Wins
are about slicing off parts of the business or population where you can
build further.
3. LEVERAGE everything to gain positional advantage or power that helps
exert even greater pressure and gains the tipping point of the business
that helps lead to something bigger.
4. Seeing beyond the early win, there has to be a GATEWAY point, which is
the entrance or a means of access to something even bigger. It could be
getting to the masses, changing opinions or behaviours. Return on
Investment or Effort.
Strategic Thinking: How to Think in a Different Way?
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Example: World War II
• D-Day: While Germany was fighting a war on two
fronts (Russia and Britain), the Allied Forces
planned D-Day for 2 years and joined in full force
to focus all their attention on one beach, on one
specific day.
• The surprise attack gave them an early win, and
momentum which they could then leverage into a
bigger victory then just one beach.
• Getting on mainland Europe gave the allied forces
the gateway they needed to steamroll through on
a town by town basis and defeat the Germans.
The allied forces had been on the defensive for
years, but landing on D-Day gave them one
victory and the tipping point to winning the war.
Strategic Thinking: Focus, Early Win, Leverage, Gateway
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Tim Horton’s Menu Expansion
• Tim Horton’s experienced tremendous growth through
the 80s and 90s, mainly because of the their coffee.
Added to that is the shift towards Canadian patriotism,
which Tim’s has taken advantage of. Tim’s quickly
become a life ritual in the morning to wake you up and
lunch to pick you up.
• The focus shifted to build a broader portfolio of products
around these two time slots. The early win were a series
of new products that made Tim’s seem big on innovation.
Maple Donuts, B.E.L.T.,Strawberry Muffins.
• The leverage point was turning a coffee routine into a
breakfast/lunch routine. The gateway is expanding the
life ritual of Tim’s so that it’s now a broad based place for
breakfast and lunch, but still connected with coffee.
Tim’s is now #1 for breakfast and #2 for lunch behind
McDonald’s.
Strategic Thinking: Focus, Early Win, Leverage, Gateway
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Drives the Feet
To Take Action
Establish in the Mind
About Brand X
Tugs at the Heart
To tighten the Connection
• Mind Shift: drive a
new position or re-
enforce current equity.
• Mind Share: get more
attention than
competitors
• New News: launching
something new.
• Drive Acquisition: new consumers
to try Brand X.
• Consolidation: get consumers to
do everything with Brand X.
• Drive Penetration: get consumers
to use more or differently
• Cross Sell: getting current
customers to try other Brand X
• Maintain: re-enforce our
Brand X equities.
• Deeper: consolidation or
broader usage of Brand X.
• New Reasons to Love:
target our most loyal users
first—building on their
good feelings.
Where the Brand stands on the Love Curve helps to pick the
Strategy Choice to move the Brand towards Beloved.
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The Love Curve Helps Pick Your
Brand Strategy Options
To have a very focused plan,
narrow the issues down to the
top 3, and then phrase it in a
reflective question.
The answer becomes the
strategy, with one strategy
matched up to deliver against
each issue.
Avoid having a strategy come
out of no where, neither
showing up in the analysis nor
in the issues.
Key Issues and Strategies from the BURGER Example:
Execute and Measure
Are we Getting there?
5 6
Execution Plan from the BURGER Example:
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As you now cross reference it
per major executional bucket,
make sure that it still delivers
agaisnt the 3 major strategies.
Specific details help give
direction on the execution.
Activity options plus timing
expectation, with clear
budgets to deliver.
Make sure balance of budget
lines up to intent of the plan.
Brand Vision/Mission
Where Are We?
Brand Issues We Face
Strategies/Tactics
Brand Foundation
Brand Platform
Creative Brief
Big Ideas
Creative Expressions
Architecture
Tone/Feel
Elements
Execution
Strategic Planning
(Foundation)
Each step must link together and stay true to
the vision and on strategy.
Communicating
(Briefing)
Execution
(Align w/strategy)
Market Feedback
(Brand Review)
The Planning Process has Three Phases: Planning Foundation
Work, Communicating and Executing.
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- Advertising
- Events & PR
- Ads at first consideration
- Key Influencers: experts
- Web Page & Links
- Ads at Search Point
- Experts, Partners
- Consistent Display
- Sales Influence
- Pricing & Promotion
- Customer Service
- Product Quality
- Continuous Innovation
- Cross Sell Brand
- Advocacy & Influence
- Loyalty Marketing
Leverage the Love Curve to Map the Tactics Up to the Various
Stages of the Buying System.
The Love Curve can even Help Match Up
Your Tactics to Consumer Stage
- Transaction Options
- Ease of Purchase
Beloved Brands have a focus in their approach. Prioritization
should focus on Return on Investment and Effort (ROI and ROE)
Every brand is constrained by resources.
 By mapping Big vs Small and Easy vs Difficult allows you to
focus your brands efforts.
 This helps to add profit and drive a bigger return against efforts.
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Focus Area
The Stake in the Ground: A Comparison Measure
• The first thing to do is to find a comparative stake in the ground, which will help you to
make comparisons—either above or below the comparison.
• you can make a comparison from. It could be something from our own past, a
competitor’s past, another brand in the company…or even a different geography that
could be extrapolated to Canada.
The + or – Analysis
• Put together a chart that shows how your expectations of what you are trying to measure
in relative nature to the stake in the ground. Think things in your own market, that might
make it bigger or smaller then the stake in the ground projection.
Bigger Impact Lower Impact
Examples:
We have a relatively bigger share
More advertising dollars
Consumers like that flavour better
It has a unique positioning
More doctor support
Example:
We are last in the market.
Pricing is lower.
Not as much consumer appeal.
Canadians don’t like that flavour.
We are 4th in market.
Making Projections: Stake the + or -
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How big is Brand x?
• Brand X is a new molecule in the OTC market
• It is a new brand that brings new hope for the allergy sufferer
Stake in the Ground: Brand X could be as big as Y in Year 1 (9% share)
Bigger Impact Lower Impact
• expected to get more A&P support then
what Allegra got
• It has 24 hour claim while Brand Y was
only 12 hours
• Strong HCP recos—especially
pharmacists
• Already a 4% dollar share
• market is a lot more crowded than it was in
97 when Y launched
• Launching in March, missed Q1 sales
• While it’s a new molecule, it really has very
little to say (congestion)
• Launching at a significant price premium
Making Projections Sales Projections for the Year: Put a stake in the ground,
then use estimates of + or – to determine the size.
Conclusion: Brand X will be slightly bigger then
Brand Y in Year 1 (Therefore it could be a 10% share)
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Scorecard: Powerful Brands are Healthier and Wealthier
Brands. Track and Measure against these four areas.
External
Brand Wealth
Brand Health
Internal
The idea of the brand has to be
embedded right into the culture.
Employees need to get it and live
it. They have to realize their
impact on the end customer.
Everyone focused on Profit and
Value. Lining up and delivering the
brand promise to a clear set of
objectives, helps employees see that
they are contributing to and sharing
in the brand wealth.
Healthy and Beloved brands win.
They are more efficient, higher sales,
lower costs, better margins, higher
over all profits.
Connecting with consumer is a source
of power for brands. How your
consumer sees your brand, starting at
awareness, trial, repeat all the way
down the brand funnel to brand loyalty.
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The Overall Plan
Writing the Plan
Situation
Analysis
An Example of how a Good Brand Plan Comes Together in the End
Plan Consistency and Flow: The Power of 3
The power of 3’s: you should have 3 core strategic pillars, and 3 supporting
tactics for each strategy. That means you are doing a maximum of 9 things in
a given year. Doing any more then that becomes daunting, but also divisive of
your budget and focus.
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Strategy #1
Tactic Tactic Tactic
Strategy #2
Tactic Tactic Tactic
Strategy #3
Tactic Tactic Tactic
Strategic Theme
Stay strategic
• There's temptation to talk about all of the data that you’ve uncovered. But
really, what we want is to understand what it means for the business and
what we should do about it. It’s so easy to get lost in the mounds of data,
and it’s hard to get back out to get back on track.
Watch the Tactics
• If its a strategic meeting, you owe your audience strategic direction. Watch
how tactical you get. Its very tempting to get excited about tactics
Strategic Story Telling
• In presenting, take your audience on a journey from your vision to your
strategy, using the facts to support your thinking. Don't start with the facts
or get hung up in them.
Controlling the meeting
• Some people used the sheets too much, and some not enough. The
balance is the ability to speak above your sheets when talking strategy, and
then reach for a point on the sheet to bring your audience back on track.
Tell The Brand Story Through Analysis
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Plan Consistency and Flow: “Finding Tubas”
• A good brand plan should have a consistency from the vision all the way down to the
execution. Think of a band playing in perfect harmony. When you write something
that doesn’t fit, it should stand out like a “Tuba” player, trying to play his own song.
It’s misfit to the plan.
• Go through your document and see if you can spot misfits. Is your mission to drive
trial and you aren’t sampling? If you want to be the “category leader in innovation”,
then why are we not launching any new products til 2015? If your mission is “become
#1”, why do we not have a growth or share objective?
• Make sure things don’t “die a quick death” in the document….or that they don’t
“come from out of no where”.
• Senior Managers are skilled at finding Tubas—find them before they do.
Vision ObjectiveTacticMission
Strategy
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• Take out any meaningless words….especially on vision and strategy.
Make sure your idea is complete, but see how fast you can explain it.
• If you have the shortest brand plan, and then idea gets through—then
you will have the best plan.
Be Concise in your writing
Bad Writing Good Writing
The strategic intent for LPP is to get consumers to
make a first time purchase.
Drive Trial.
Get consumers to add Listerine whenever they brush
their teeth—every day, all the time. .
Become part of the consumers
brushing routine.
Use Prepack program as a way to convince Variety
Stores to list the LPP 24s at the front check out
counter.
Drive C&G distribution for LPP.
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Summary Thought Starters for Brand Plans
• Before trying to write it, start off with five key questions that set the
context for the key areas of the plan: analysis, issues, vision/mission,
strategies/tactics and execute/measurement
1. Where are we?
2. Why are we here?
3. Where could we be?
4. How can we get there?
5. Are we getting there?
• A simple analysis around drivers, inhibitors, risks and opportunities helps
uncover the key issues. Ask the Key Issues in question style with the
Strategy serving to answer the questions. Focus on top 3 issues/strategies
which sets up 3 Tactics per—for a total of 9 per year—enough for any plan.
• A good brand plan should have consistency from the vision all the way down
to the execution. It should all fit. Avoid “Tubas” playing their own song.
• Let the Love Curve provide context—helping identify issues related to the
brand funnel, connecting strategy and tactics to the consumer buying
system. Lastly, the brand funnel is an excellent tool for measurement.
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Situation Analysis
Key Issues
Vision/Mission/Goals
Strategies/Tactics
Execute & Measure
The more beloved the brand,
the more valuable the brand.
growthpowerbeloved profit
Graham Robertson
website: beloved-brands.com
email: grahamrobertson@live.com
linked in: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/grahamrobertson1
phone: 905.884.9115
“If you don’t love the work, how
do you expect the consumer to fall
in love with your brand?”

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Beloved brands-brand-plan

  • 1. How to Write an effective Brand Plan that everyone can follow
  • 2. If you have ever sat there at your computer screen looking at these Brand Plan Headlines and gotten Writer’s Block, you are not alone.  Vision  Mission  Goals  Strategies  Tactics  Target  Expected Result  Main Message  Support Points  Product  Advertising  Promotion  Stimulus  Response  Medium  Channel
  • 3.  We have some long term thoughts on where the brand can go and the special assignment to get us on our way. And that helps shape the things we want to achieve with our brand. To get started, the brand has different options for how to get there  We try to find a slice of the population to get them to take an action that makes our brand bigger. We then find out what to say and how to talk to them to trigger that action We need to re-enforce why we can do it and others can’t.  We then create the most motivating stimulus to get them to take action and put it in part of their life where they are most likely to hear it and act on it. Marketing Made Easy in about 150 words or less Describing the Entire Marketing Planning Process Sounds Pretty Simple. Yet, how come it’s so Difficult to write a plan? 3
  • 4.  We have some long term thoughts on where the brand can go (vision) and the special assignment to get us on our way. (mission) And that help shape the things we want to achieve with our brand. (goals) To get started, the brand has different options (strategies) for how to get there (tactics)  We try to find a slice of the population (target) to get them to take an action (expected result) that makes our brand bigger. We then find out what to say and how to talk to them to trigger that action (main message) We need to re- enforce why we can do it and others can’t (support)  We then create the most motivating stimulus (product, ad, promotion) to get them to take action and put it in part of their life where they are most likely to hear it and act on it (the medium/channel) STRATEGIC PLAN POSITIONING EXECUTION Does it get More Complicated when we start to layer in all the Marketing Buzz words? 4 My suspicion is the Marketing Words create the Writers block and complicates our thinking.
  • 5. 1. Where are we? 2. Why are we here? 3. Where could we be? 4. How can we get there? 5. What do we need to do to get ready Five Great Simple Questions to Ask Before Getting Started on Your Brand Plan. 5 Situation Analysis Key Issues Vision/Mission/Goals Strategies/Tactics Execute & Measure Questions To Ask Planning Areas 1 2 3 4 5 6
  • 6. Situation Analysis An Example of how a Good Brand Plan Comes Together in the End Forecast P&L Situation Analysis Brand Vision Strategic Initiatives Executional Tactics Brand Budget Key Issues 3 6 1 2 4 5 6
  • 7. The Situation Analysis And the Key Issues Where Are We and How Did We Get there? 1 2
  • 8. Understanding how the consumer buys, allows you to match it up and apply pressure against a single point on the brand funnel. 8 Indifferent Like It Love It The Love Curve Helps Isolate the Issues, matching the consumer buying system to the brand funnel.  Behaviour matched up against data.
  • 9. Force Field Analysis: Drivers, Inhibitors, Opportunities, Threats •factors of strength or inertia that are helping to accelerate your brand’s growth. Could be something within the brand’s make up or control, or it could be a factor of the market place. •What are the things that are directly driving your brand growth? Drivers •Weaknesses or friction that is slowing your brand down, or a leaky hole that needs fixing. These are things that are happening right now. •What is holding you back or getting in your way from achieving the growth? •A leak in your Brand Funnel. Where are you exposed, Achilles heal? Inhibitors •Areas you could take advantage, which would accelerate our growth. They have to be real, or exploratory areas. No pipedreams! Unfulfilled needs, new technologies, regulation changes, removal of trade barriers. Opportunities •Outside of your control. They are real, but have not happened yet. If they did, they would be an inhibitor. No laundry lists. •Changing consumer needs, threat of substitutes, barriers to trade, customer preference, or attacking your weaknesses. Threats 9 Helps Frame what the brand is facing as well as set up the Key Issues for the Brand Plan. Is happening Now Could happen
  • 10. Analysis from the BURGER Example: Keep the Analysis tight 10 Ideally, you want to focus on the top 3-4 points for each. Make sure the drivers and inhibitors are IN plan now, not could happen, but are happening. Risks and Opportunities could happen but they have to be realistic and within a 3-5 year window.
  • 11. Force Field Analysis: Drivers, Inhibitors, Opportunities, Threats Drivers Inhibitors Opportunities Threats 11 Continue/Enhance Stay focused on things going right, accelerate against them. Continuous improvement. Minimize/Reverse Close the leaks, develop turnaround plans or re-focus the team against the trend. Take Advantage of Build plans to mobilize the brand to see if the opportunity is a winning space for the brand. Avoid/Contingency Identify and measure the risk, explore plans to avoid. Fill the gap before a competitor. Helps to Frame the Key Issues Facing the Brand
  • 12. • Key Issues should be asked in question format. Think of them in terms of a “rhetorical strategic question” which means that the question should be a bit leading, and have a proposed strategy as the solution. • As a guideline, there should be 3-5 key issues per brand. The crucial part of key issues is getting to the right level. If you have less, you are likely not detailed or specific enough, and if you have more…you should try to elevate some up to see if you can capture the bigger picture. Play around with it, until it feels at the right level. Key Issues Identify the Areas of Focus for Your plan 12 Example: Key Issues for The US War in Iraq. Too Low: How do we get more helicopters into Iraq? This is too specific or too small. Think about it, if there are other ways to get to the same goal (e.g. you could get more tanks) then the issue is too small. Too High: How do we drive Peace in the Middle East? This is aspiration, but unrealistic. If it feels too much to chew off, then it’s too big of an issue. Just Right: What’s the most effective way to change Regimes in Iraq? This talks closer to the overall objective…but with enough room to give strategic alternatives
  • 14. • Vision: End in Mind Achievement. What do you want the brand to become? Think 10 years out: if you became this one thing, you would know that you are successful. Ideally it is Qualitative (yet grounded in something) and quantitative (measurable) It should be motivating and enticing to get people focused. • Mission: Special Assignment. It should be tightly connected to the vision, but is more likely a 1-3 year direction—if a vision is a destination, then a mission is the how or the major milestone on the path towards that vision. • A mission statement focuses on a company’s present state while a vision statement focuses on a company’s future. Vision and Mission help to Frame the Overall Brand Plan 14
  • 15. Things that Make a Good vision: 1) Easy for employees and partners to understand and rally around 2) Think about something that can last 5-10 years or more 3) Balance between aspiration (stretch) and reality (achievement) 4) It’s ok to embed a financial ($x) or share position (#1) element into it as long as it’s important for framing the vision. The watch outs for vision statements: 1. It’s not a positioning statement 2. Make sure we haven’t achieved it already 3. Don’t put strategic statements 4. Try to be single minded: tighten it—don’t include everything!!! What Makes for Good Vision Statement 15
  • 16. Great Examples of Brand Vision Princess Margaret Hospital “To Conquer Cancer in Our Lifetime.” John F. Kennedy "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving a goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth." Facebook “Give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.” 16
  • 17. Strategies How can we get there? 4
  • 18. Strategic Thinkers see “what if” questions before they see solutions. They map out a range of decision trees that intersect and connect by imagining how events will play out. They reflect and plan before they act. They are thinkers and planning who can see connections. PLANNING! Non Strategic Thinkers see answers before questions. They get to answers quickly, and will get frustrated in the delays of thinking. They think doing something is better then doing nothing. They opt for action over thinking. They are impulsive and doers who see tasks. They are frustrated by strategic thinkers. EXECUTING! Marketing Chameleon: You must talk with and act like both in order to manage both types of people. You need to inspire non-strategic thinkers to be great on your brand. What’s the Difference between a Strategic Thinker and a Non Strategic Thinker? Great Marketers Must Be Both! 18
  • 19. Does your strategy have:  An end in mind vision, pathway that has milestones, objectives and specific goals.  Specific choices on direction. Not a vague chance.  Pin-pointed focus of resources (effort and investment)  Leverage point to turn a small win into something big.  Gateway, defined as a win for the brand that translates into an increase in power or value. Strategy is all about choices, not chances. Strategy helps accomplishes goals that move you towards a vision. 19
  • 20. There are 4 elements of a good strategy: Focus, Early Win, Leverage and a Gateway to something bigger. 1. FOCUS all your energy to a particular strategic point or purpose. Match up your brand assets to pressure points you can break through, maximizing your limited resources—either financial resources or effort. 2. You want that EARLY WIN, to kick start of some momentum. Early Wins are about slicing off parts of the business or population where you can build further. 3. LEVERAGE everything to gain positional advantage or power that helps exert even greater pressure and gains the tipping point of the business that helps lead to something bigger. 4. Seeing beyond the early win, there has to be a GATEWAY point, which is the entrance or a means of access to something even bigger. It could be getting to the masses, changing opinions or behaviours. Return on Investment or Effort. Strategic Thinking: How to Think in a Different Way? 20
  • 21. Example: World War II • D-Day: While Germany was fighting a war on two fronts (Russia and Britain), the Allied Forces planned D-Day for 2 years and joined in full force to focus all their attention on one beach, on one specific day. • The surprise attack gave them an early win, and momentum which they could then leverage into a bigger victory then just one beach. • Getting on mainland Europe gave the allied forces the gateway they needed to steamroll through on a town by town basis and defeat the Germans. The allied forces had been on the defensive for years, but landing on D-Day gave them one victory and the tipping point to winning the war. Strategic Thinking: Focus, Early Win, Leverage, Gateway 21
  • 22. Tim Horton’s Menu Expansion • Tim Horton’s experienced tremendous growth through the 80s and 90s, mainly because of the their coffee. Added to that is the shift towards Canadian patriotism, which Tim’s has taken advantage of. Tim’s quickly become a life ritual in the morning to wake you up and lunch to pick you up. • The focus shifted to build a broader portfolio of products around these two time slots. The early win were a series of new products that made Tim’s seem big on innovation. Maple Donuts, B.E.L.T.,Strawberry Muffins. • The leverage point was turning a coffee routine into a breakfast/lunch routine. The gateway is expanding the life ritual of Tim’s so that it’s now a broad based place for breakfast and lunch, but still connected with coffee. Tim’s is now #1 for breakfast and #2 for lunch behind McDonald’s. Strategic Thinking: Focus, Early Win, Leverage, Gateway 22
  • 23. Drives the Feet To Take Action Establish in the Mind About Brand X Tugs at the Heart To tighten the Connection • Mind Shift: drive a new position or re- enforce current equity. • Mind Share: get more attention than competitors • New News: launching something new. • Drive Acquisition: new consumers to try Brand X. • Consolidation: get consumers to do everything with Brand X. • Drive Penetration: get consumers to use more or differently • Cross Sell: getting current customers to try other Brand X • Maintain: re-enforce our Brand X equities. • Deeper: consolidation or broader usage of Brand X. • New Reasons to Love: target our most loyal users first—building on their good feelings. Where the Brand stands on the Love Curve helps to pick the Strategy Choice to move the Brand towards Beloved. 23 The Love Curve Helps Pick Your Brand Strategy Options
  • 24. To have a very focused plan, narrow the issues down to the top 3, and then phrase it in a reflective question. The answer becomes the strategy, with one strategy matched up to deliver against each issue. Avoid having a strategy come out of no where, neither showing up in the analysis nor in the issues. Key Issues and Strategies from the BURGER Example:
  • 25. Execute and Measure Are we Getting there? 5 6
  • 26. Execution Plan from the BURGER Example: 26 As you now cross reference it per major executional bucket, make sure that it still delivers agaisnt the 3 major strategies. Specific details help give direction on the execution. Activity options plus timing expectation, with clear budgets to deliver. Make sure balance of budget lines up to intent of the plan.
  • 27. Brand Vision/Mission Where Are We? Brand Issues We Face Strategies/Tactics Brand Foundation Brand Platform Creative Brief Big Ideas Creative Expressions Architecture Tone/Feel Elements Execution Strategic Planning (Foundation) Each step must link together and stay true to the vision and on strategy. Communicating (Briefing) Execution (Align w/strategy) Market Feedback (Brand Review) The Planning Process has Three Phases: Planning Foundation Work, Communicating and Executing. 27
  • 28. - Advertising - Events & PR - Ads at first consideration - Key Influencers: experts - Web Page & Links - Ads at Search Point - Experts, Partners - Consistent Display - Sales Influence - Pricing & Promotion - Customer Service - Product Quality - Continuous Innovation - Cross Sell Brand - Advocacy & Influence - Loyalty Marketing Leverage the Love Curve to Map the Tactics Up to the Various Stages of the Buying System. The Love Curve can even Help Match Up Your Tactics to Consumer Stage - Transaction Options - Ease of Purchase
  • 29. Beloved Brands have a focus in their approach. Prioritization should focus on Return on Investment and Effort (ROI and ROE) Every brand is constrained by resources.  By mapping Big vs Small and Easy vs Difficult allows you to focus your brands efforts.  This helps to add profit and drive a bigger return against efforts. 29 Focus Area
  • 30. The Stake in the Ground: A Comparison Measure • The first thing to do is to find a comparative stake in the ground, which will help you to make comparisons—either above or below the comparison. • you can make a comparison from. It could be something from our own past, a competitor’s past, another brand in the company…or even a different geography that could be extrapolated to Canada. The + or – Analysis • Put together a chart that shows how your expectations of what you are trying to measure in relative nature to the stake in the ground. Think things in your own market, that might make it bigger or smaller then the stake in the ground projection. Bigger Impact Lower Impact Examples: We have a relatively bigger share More advertising dollars Consumers like that flavour better It has a unique positioning More doctor support Example: We are last in the market. Pricing is lower. Not as much consumer appeal. Canadians don’t like that flavour. We are 4th in market. Making Projections: Stake the + or - 30
  • 31. How big is Brand x? • Brand X is a new molecule in the OTC market • It is a new brand that brings new hope for the allergy sufferer Stake in the Ground: Brand X could be as big as Y in Year 1 (9% share) Bigger Impact Lower Impact • expected to get more A&P support then what Allegra got • It has 24 hour claim while Brand Y was only 12 hours • Strong HCP recos—especially pharmacists • Already a 4% dollar share • market is a lot more crowded than it was in 97 when Y launched • Launching in March, missed Q1 sales • While it’s a new molecule, it really has very little to say (congestion) • Launching at a significant price premium Making Projections Sales Projections for the Year: Put a stake in the ground, then use estimates of + or – to determine the size. Conclusion: Brand X will be slightly bigger then Brand Y in Year 1 (Therefore it could be a 10% share) 31
  • 32. Scorecard: Powerful Brands are Healthier and Wealthier Brands. Track and Measure against these four areas. External Brand Wealth Brand Health Internal The idea of the brand has to be embedded right into the culture. Employees need to get it and live it. They have to realize their impact on the end customer. Everyone focused on Profit and Value. Lining up and delivering the brand promise to a clear set of objectives, helps employees see that they are contributing to and sharing in the brand wealth. Healthy and Beloved brands win. They are more efficient, higher sales, lower costs, better margins, higher over all profits. Connecting with consumer is a source of power for brands. How your consumer sees your brand, starting at awareness, trial, repeat all the way down the brand funnel to brand loyalty. 32
  • 34. Situation Analysis An Example of how a Good Brand Plan Comes Together in the End
  • 35. Plan Consistency and Flow: The Power of 3 The power of 3’s: you should have 3 core strategic pillars, and 3 supporting tactics for each strategy. That means you are doing a maximum of 9 things in a given year. Doing any more then that becomes daunting, but also divisive of your budget and focus. 35 Strategy #1 Tactic Tactic Tactic Strategy #2 Tactic Tactic Tactic Strategy #3 Tactic Tactic Tactic Strategic Theme
  • 36. Stay strategic • There's temptation to talk about all of the data that you’ve uncovered. But really, what we want is to understand what it means for the business and what we should do about it. It’s so easy to get lost in the mounds of data, and it’s hard to get back out to get back on track. Watch the Tactics • If its a strategic meeting, you owe your audience strategic direction. Watch how tactical you get. Its very tempting to get excited about tactics Strategic Story Telling • In presenting, take your audience on a journey from your vision to your strategy, using the facts to support your thinking. Don't start with the facts or get hung up in them. Controlling the meeting • Some people used the sheets too much, and some not enough. The balance is the ability to speak above your sheets when talking strategy, and then reach for a point on the sheet to bring your audience back on track. Tell The Brand Story Through Analysis 36
  • 37. Plan Consistency and Flow: “Finding Tubas” • A good brand plan should have a consistency from the vision all the way down to the execution. Think of a band playing in perfect harmony. When you write something that doesn’t fit, it should stand out like a “Tuba” player, trying to play his own song. It’s misfit to the plan. • Go through your document and see if you can spot misfits. Is your mission to drive trial and you aren’t sampling? If you want to be the “category leader in innovation”, then why are we not launching any new products til 2015? If your mission is “become #1”, why do we not have a growth or share objective? • Make sure things don’t “die a quick death” in the document….or that they don’t “come from out of no where”. • Senior Managers are skilled at finding Tubas—find them before they do. Vision ObjectiveTacticMission Strategy 37
  • 38. • Take out any meaningless words….especially on vision and strategy. Make sure your idea is complete, but see how fast you can explain it. • If you have the shortest brand plan, and then idea gets through—then you will have the best plan. Be Concise in your writing Bad Writing Good Writing The strategic intent for LPP is to get consumers to make a first time purchase. Drive Trial. Get consumers to add Listerine whenever they brush their teeth—every day, all the time. . Become part of the consumers brushing routine. Use Prepack program as a way to convince Variety Stores to list the LPP 24s at the front check out counter. Drive C&G distribution for LPP. 38
  • 39. Summary Thought Starters for Brand Plans • Before trying to write it, start off with five key questions that set the context for the key areas of the plan: analysis, issues, vision/mission, strategies/tactics and execute/measurement 1. Where are we? 2. Why are we here? 3. Where could we be? 4. How can we get there? 5. Are we getting there? • A simple analysis around drivers, inhibitors, risks and opportunities helps uncover the key issues. Ask the Key Issues in question style with the Strategy serving to answer the questions. Focus on top 3 issues/strategies which sets up 3 Tactics per—for a total of 9 per year—enough for any plan. • A good brand plan should have consistency from the vision all the way down to the execution. It should all fit. Avoid “Tubas” playing their own song. • Let the Love Curve provide context—helping identify issues related to the brand funnel, connecting strategy and tactics to the consumer buying system. Lastly, the brand funnel is an excellent tool for measurement. 39 Situation Analysis Key Issues Vision/Mission/Goals Strategies/Tactics Execute & Measure
  • 40. The more beloved the brand, the more valuable the brand. growthpowerbeloved profit
  • 41. Graham Robertson website: beloved-brands.com email: grahamrobertson@live.com linked in: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/grahamrobertson1 phone: 905.884.9115 “If you don’t love the work, how do you expect the consumer to fall in love with your brand?”