基于顾客让渡价值的品牌社群构建

关系营销、社群理论、品牌建设理论的融合形成了品牌社群这一品牌理论前沿,品牌社群对于企业提高顾客满意度,顾客忠诚度,甚至对提升品牌资产都有重要的意义。本文从顾客让渡价值理论的角度来研究品牌社群的构建。     

品牌社群价值对品牌信任的影响作用研究

品牌社群是当今西方品牌理论研究的新前沿,品牌社群营销成功的关键在于运用品牌社群来创造消费者的品牌信任。本文在系统论述品牌社群价值和品牌信任结构维度的基础上,建立品牌社群价值与品牌信任之间的作用机理模型,通过顾客体验作为中介变量来理解品牌社群价值与品牌信任之间的关系。最后,本文提出了研究结论,并指出了研究局限性和未来展望。     

社交媒体时代下虚拟品牌社群形成机制分析

品牌社群是近几年来品牌管理领域的重要研究课题,随着社交媒体时代的来临,虚拟品牌社群随之兴起,然而,目前学术界缺乏对虚拟品牌社群形成机制的研究。本文以社交媒体的核心—互动为出发点,结合象征互动论和社会认同理论,讨论了形成虚拟品牌社群的相关要素的内涵和维度,深入剖析了虚拟品牌社群的形成机理,从而从系统上建立了一个完整的虚拟品牌社群形成的理论模型。研究表明:虚拟品牌社群形成机制包括三个阶段:第一阶段是品牌互动形成品牌利益、品牌体验以及品牌象征;第二阶段是品牌利益、品牌体验和品牌象征形成品牌依恋;最后一个阶段是品牌依恋形成虚拟品牌社群意识,标志着虚拟品牌社群的形成。对虚拟品牌社群形成机制进行研究能够为企业构建虚拟品牌社群提供理论上的指导。     

简析品牌社群对顾客价值的影响

近年来,品牌社群作为一种消费者群体性组织正在日益发展起来,品牌企业也越来越注重品牌社群的建设。本文从品牌社群对顾客价值的影响角度出发,简要分析品牌社群给顾客价值带来的影响,在传统顾客价值的基础上消费者因品牌社群的体验进而真正融入到品牌社群中,这给顾客价值和顾客成本都增添了新的内涵。作为品牌企业更是应该深入研究品牌社群给顾客价值带来的影响,通过营销实践为顾客带来更多的顾客价值并努力降低顾客成本从而在激烈的市场竞争中赢得更多的目标市场。     

品牌社群对顾客价值感知和创新的影响研究

近年来,品牌社群作为消费者群体性虚拟组织迅猛发展,为我们解读顾客价值提供了重要途径。文章认为,品牌社群的特征影响着顾客价值感知和顾客价值创新。通过实证分析可知,品牌社群技术性及品牌社群参与性等对顾客价值感知有正向影响,品牌社群共同意识、道德责任感及品牌社群技术性对顾客价值创新有正向影响。品牌社群运营者可以通过提高品牌社群技术性、促进成员的共同意识、道德责任感和参与性等方面做出行动,以促使成员更好地感知焦点品牌的顾客价值并且参与价值创新,品牌企业也可以通过关注和引导品牌社群的发展增强企业的竞争力。     

在线品牌社群中顾客参与、顾客契合与品牌忠诚的关系研究——感知不确定性的调节作用

在服务主导逻辑下,在线品牌社群顾客参与对品牌忠诚具有重要影响.本文从顾客视角出发,将顾客参与、顾客契合、感知不确定性与品牌忠诚纳入同一研究框架,探讨在线品牌社群中顾客参与对品牌忠诚的具体作用机制.采用偏最小二乘法对收集到的537份有效样本进行多元线性回归分析,结果表明:在线品牌社群中顾客参与能够直接促进常规品牌忠诚和敌对品牌忠诚;顾客参与能够通过顾客契合间接促进常规品牌忠诚和敌对品牌忠诚,顾客契合在顾客参与和品牌忠诚间起到中介作用;感知不确定性负向调节顾客参与对顾客契合的影响.     

品牌社群价值结构维度理论评述

品牌社群研究逐渐成熟,而品牌社群价值结构维度一直是其研究的一个热点,明确品牌社群价值所在利于有关社群其他问题的研究。基于此,本文以顾客在品牌社群中获得价值的性质和方向为依据,把既有的品牌社群价值结构维度模型分为内在物质型价值结构维度,外在物质型价值结构维度,内在精神型价值结构维度和外在精神型结构维度四种,然后具体分析这四种价值结构维度所包含的价值所在以及内涵,并在最后分析了本研究的不足。     

顾客间互动—情绪—购后满意关系分析——基于在线品牌社群视角

顾客间互动对顾客满意的影响和作用已经为学者们普遍接受,但之前的研究大多局限于服务现场,有关服务现场外顾客间互动的研究较少.文章以在线品牌社群为研究背景,根据刺激(S)—有机体(O)—反应(R)理论构建顾客间互动、顾客情绪和购后满意度的关系模型.研究表明,在线品牌社群中的顾客间互动(信息互动和人际互动)对购后满意度具有积极影响,且积极情绪对这种影响具有中介作用,具体为积极情绪在信息互动中对购后满意度的影响具有部分中介作用,在人际互动对购后满意度的影响中起到完全中介作用.     

淘宝中品牌社群营销策略分析与建议

互联网时代赋予消费者越来越多的权利,网络品牌社群对信息交流、促进购买、建立口碑、培养顾客忠诚等具有重要作用。因此,作为电子商务平台巨头之一的淘宝网也越来越重视建立网络社群。本文以品牌社群营销理论为基础,通过对淘宝平台自身和平台中商户所进行的品牌社群营销进行分析,思考"品牌+社群"如何维护消费者的品牌忠诚度,挖掘淘宝网现有的品牌社群利弊以及其改进的建议。     

论汽车品牌社群的构建——以宝马汽车俱乐部为例

品牌社群是近年来营销理论研究的新内容,现有文献在诠释品牌社群构建的问题上尚存在不足。本文从汽车品牌社群的含义入手,简单介绍了国内外汽车品牌社群构建的总体情况,从顾客让渡价值、文化价值观的差异、消费者对履行群体行为的共同意愿、品牌社群文化、可识别的汽车品牌社群要素五个方面,分析了影响汽车品牌社群构建的因素,然后,在此基础上提出汽车品牌社群的构建策略,并以宝马汽车俱乐部为案例,通过介绍宝马百年品牌历史、宝马俱乐部,从营销学的角度解读了它的成功。     

品牌体验对品牌忠诚的影响:品牌社区的中介作用

文章以"动感地带"为测试品牌,在构建品牌体验、品牌社区和品牌忠诚三者之间概念模型的基础上,应用多元回归分析,实证研究了品牌体验、品牌社区对品牌忠诚的影响.研究发现:品牌体验对品牌社区具有显著的正向效应;品牌体验和品牌社区对品牌忠诚均具有明显的正向影响;品牌社区是品牌体验作用于品牌忠诚的中介变量,品牌体验更多的是通过品牌社影响品牌忠诚.这些研究结论为品牌忠诚影响因素的进一步研究提供了理论基础,对于企业创新品牌忠诚培育模式和策略也具有指导意义.     

Online brand community within the integrated marketing communication system: When chocolate becomes seductive like a person

This study proposes brand communities as an effective tool within the integrated marketing communication (IMC) system. The paper utilizes the Brand Concept Map quali-quantitative technique in order to represent and compare mental association texture within one group of non-members of a brand community versus one group of people engaged in the same community. Brand stimulus is Nutella (chocolate cream) which boasts a crowded and lively online brand community: Nutellaville. Results show that brand community is effective in terms of contribution, commonality, and complementarity within the IMC system. In particular, Nutella brand image within the online community participants is composed of some mental associations overlapping other communication tools (commonality), and by new mental associations (complementarity) referred to the brand image dimension named ‘brand as person’ (seductive, popular, reassuring); second, this anthropomorphism effect solves the issue of sense of guilt excited by chocolate (contribution).     

Drivers of brand community engagement

Brand community engagement is evolving as a prominent relationship marketing variable that yields promising outcomes for the firms. Drawing upon the relevant premises of social exchange theory, this paper proposes a theoretical model portraying the role of online brand community based benefits (experience based and self-esteem based) and the community relationship investment in predicting the levels of brand community engagement.Data collected through a survey questionnaire technique from 925 members of the firm created online brand communities was employed to test the measurement and structural theory using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling respectively. The empirical results reveal that the customers’ experiential and self-esteem based benefits drive their brand community engagement. The perceived community relationship investment of the members also drives their brand community engagement positively. The sequential structural model also supported a positive impact exerted by brand community engagement on brand community commitment and brand loyalty. Additionally, it is observed that the focal brand ownership moderates the effect of community benefits and community relationship investment on brand community engagement.This study contributes to the nascent academic research on online brand communities and to the existing understanding of the brand community managers in managing customer engagement in online brand communities, thereby of profound theoretical and managerial relevance.     

品牌授权及其营销传播意义阐释

品牌授权是一个新兴的产业,也是企业品牌扩展、品牌营销的手段。随着网络、数字化、移动通讯等技术的发展,SNS、微博等新媒体的不断涌现,GOOGLE、亚马逊、当当网、腾讯等电子商务的出现,社会对于个体需求的满足提供模式开始发生变化,体现出“整合”的特性,被工业化社会和大众传播时代所割裂的消费需求的完整性开始“重现”,“人”成为营销的关键词。据此企业运用品牌授权,不仅仅只是增加品牌知名度,更意味着对特定消费者需求的全方位关注,以及商品或服务的整合性提供。     

公司社会营销对基于顾客品牌权益的影响

本文界定了公司社会营销与基于顾客品牌权益,从六个方面论述了公司社会营销对基于顾客品牌权益的影响,同时提出了进行公司社会营销的一些方法。     

Personality,person–brand fit,and brand community: An investigation of individuals,brands, and brand communities

Abstract

Brand communities have received considerable and warranted attention from marketing researchers and practitioners. Brand communities can be important sources of information for both the firm and other customers, and they play an important role in building and maintaining strong brands. Nevertheless, the antecedents of brand community identification, such as individual differences across consumers in the propensity to connect with brand communities, are not as well understood. We hypothesise that the enduring personality traits extraversion and agreeableness predict identification with the [brand] community, which in turn, and along with product attachment, will be related to brand trust and brand loyalty. Product attachment itself is hypothesised to be a function of person–brand congruity, the perceived fit between the person and the brand. Those relationships are tested and supported in data from a sample of 662 car enthusiasts attending a large brand community meeting or ‘brandfest’.     

Brand Power Relationships: A Co-Evolutionary Conceptual Framework

Abstract

In the era of the Internet and networking, stakeholders increasingly acquire power by influencing brand value and meanings. However, this does not imply that marketing managers have lost their power over brand creation and management. Thus, the aim of this study is to explore brand power relationships taking the co-evolutionary perspective as conceptual lenses. In particular, this article seeks to address the competitive relationship between the corporation and its stakeholders in determining the corporate brand evolution over time, suggesting that corporate brand management is successful when co-evolving power relationships are established. The relational interplay between managers and stakeholders is framed into the Brand Power Relationship Model that suggests four potential evolutionary paths. It offers new brand typologies supported by examples from business practices, which mirror four different ways of managing and adapting brands over time; namely, through the None’s Brand, the Managers’ Brand, the Stakeholders’ Brand, and the Co-Evolutionary Brand. Focusing on the latter, this study depicts managers and stakeholders as having reciprocal influences and co-determining themselves, thus triggering interrelated relational effects that influence corporate brand evolution over time. The bilateral power of managers and stakeholders is framed into a further model, focused on corporate brand co-evolution. It is proposed that corporate brands can successfully co-create their value and meanings over time only if corporations co-evolve with their environment—in this study, multiple external stakeholders.     

An Empirical Investigation of Brand Equity: A Cross-Country Validation Analysis

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this article is to propose and test a model in order to better understand brand equity. The goal of this research is to identify the drivers and determine how they influence brand equity performance in the researched industry in order to develop a more effective brand strategy. Quantitative data collected are used to test a model of brand value in the context of the food industry. The findings of this research provided evidence that the customer-based brand equity model can be applied to the food industry context and be used to guide marketing activities internationally. Brand awareness has a positive influence on brand associations and perceived quality. Brand associations have a positive influence on brand loyalty. Finally, brand loyalty, perceived quality, and brand associations all have a positive effect on brand equity. This study contributes to the scarce international brand equity literature by testing the proposed model using data from a sample of consumers in two European countries.     

“Happy Together”: Effects of Brand Community Engagement on Customer Happiness

Because the pursuit of happiness is fundamental, humans perform a wide range of activities, including consumption, to lead a happy life. For marketers, findings from positive psychology suggest that customer happiness may arise through customer engagement. This article proposes a conceptual framework of customer happiness in brand communities and analyzes the effect of customer engagement on customer happiness, as well as on the ultimate outcomes of word of mouth and purchase intentions. Structural equation modeling provides a test of the model through an empirical study with 518 members from the online brand community for a German automotive brand. Customer engagement exerts a significant positive effect on customer happiness, which in turn increases positive word of mouth and purchase intentions. Therefore, marketing managers should invest in brand communities to engage customers and build and maintain their happiness and loyalty.     

Designing Mobile Brand Communities: Concept and Empirical Illustration

Brand communities are a commonly used marketing instrument to enhance customer attraction and retention. Well-known success stories of brand communities include brands such as Jeep®, Apple Macintosh®, or Harley Davidson®. Despite the great importance for companies to effectively manage the social facet of their products, research in this field has been rare. In literature, indications for success factors and constituting elements of communities have been found. However, seldom have viable business cases for the community operator been provided.

We propose the mobile channel to be a particularly promising media for establishing brand communities. Due to the significant and still increasing worldwide penetration of mobile devices and current always-on location sensitive mobile services, innovative community concepts bear the potential for substantial value creation, which tends to result in positive effects on customer loyalty and brand equity for the community operator.

In this article, we review selected literature to develop propositions on how concepts for mobile brand communities can be developed. Building on the 4 constituting elements of a community, which are member entities, shared interest, common space of interaction, and relation, combined with the specific characteristics of the mobile channel, which are location awareness, ubiquity, identification, and immediacy, we developed a procedure on how to design mobile brand communities according to perceived consumer value. We use the case of a mobile content provider to illustrate the suggested process. Starting from the theoretical mobile community model, we apply means–end chains to do justice to the specific brand values. In concluding, we propose a 4-step model of key mobile brand community design tasks.