Brand and Product Architectures

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From a brand's inception and throughout its lifetime, there are a myriad of decisions that must be addressed. A brand is an investment, which makes creating and fine-tuning a brand's strategy an essential and ongoing process. In fact, the success and return that you receive is very much influenced by the brand strategies you select.
Brand and Product Architectures
Keen Branding provides our clients with innovative, strategic thinking that helps their brands become market leaders. With the depth of our brand and marketing experience, we are able to provide companies with a frank, outside assessment of your situation and valuable brand advice and creative solutions specific to your individual needs that will position your brand(s) for the long term. Throughout this process, we consider your target audiences and their needs, purchase patterns and the buying experience, competitors and what benefits you provide to the market.
Brand and Product Architectures
While the recommendations we provide are unique to each situation, some of the key questions that we address for clients include:

•	Determining what your brand stands for Key to effective positioning is defining your brand's positioning, brand essence, key attributes and underlying values and creating a brand personality that fits with your corporate identity and within your brand portfolio.
•	When and when not to brand While brands offer very tangible benefits, branding is not always a panacea, and brand proliferation is a very obvious concern. Product refinements and new introductions require identifying whether to brand or not or whether to use a sub-brand or product descriptor.
•	How to introduce a brand The cost of creating a new brand is typically very high and time usually is of the essence, so establishing a brand as quickly and as economically as possible is a top priority.
•	When to extend a brand In order to maximize a brand's value, it is important to identify when a brand should be extended and when creating a new brand is advisable.
•	How to create a branding structure or architecture A portfolio approach to branding is essential so that all aspects of your brands, including the names, positioning, communications and strategy, support both your corporate identity and the other brands, sub-brands, products and services marketed by your company.
•	How to best support and extend the life of your brand Identifying effective marketing strategies as well as favorable new markets or target audiences for a brand is essential to fully realizing the potential of an existing brand.

For help with these or any other branding situations you are facing, please contact us. Brand and Product Architectures