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MCS Notes
MCS Notes
Brand
Products are created in a factory, brands are created in the mind
Engagement
Benefits of buying the brand
Important: distintivo personality
⁃ functions of a brand:
⁃ navigation: help consumers understand what they want
⁃ Reassurance: reassure that they have made the right choice
⁃ Engagement
Branding
Process
Types of branding
Co branding - brands that come together to world together
Digital branding - instagram
Personal branding - people
Cause branding - do something for the community
Country branding
Branding Marketing
Why how
Long term Short term
Macro Micro
Defines trajectory Defines tactics
Reason someone buy Reason someone buys first
Build loyalty Generates response
Is the being Is the doing
The process of manufacturing has been mostly intuitive. Intuitive because there is no
validation or because there is no rationale for the methods used to validate
Product paradigm
⁃ brand serves as legal and visual ID
⁃ Relation with customer is passive
⁃ Brand equity: having the right price, product, placement
Projective paradigm
⁃ competitiveness of the business is based on the organizations ability too find its own
internal strengths and cultivate
⁃ The brand is seen as a strategic entity that can be used as template for he overall
business model
Adaptive paradigm
⁃ the consumer is the source of brand meaning (consumer based approach)
⁃ The power of the brand resides in the minds of the consumer
Relational paradigm
⁃ dynamic dyadic process: creation of brand value is internal/creation of brand meaning is
external
⁃ Brand equity: relación between brand and the customer (personality and relational
approaches)
⁃ Co construct
Brands have both physical and symbolic value. Imbuing the brand with a human-like character
facilitates emotional engagement
Brand identity
⁃ Tangible
⁃ Appeals to all senses
⁃ Fuels recognition
Brand Ideals
⁃ ideals are essential to a responsible branding process, regardless pf the size of a
company or the nature of a business.
⁃ Ideals hold truth weather you are launching an entrepreneurial venture, creating a new
product or service
⁃ Commitment, vision, durability, value, flexibility
Topology of Marc’s
⁃ wordmarks: google
⁃ Letterforms: Unilever
⁃ Pictorial marks: apple
⁃ Abstract symbols: chase
⁃ Emblems: toms
Brand identity
⁃ what are the words that define my brand?
⁃ What is the objective of my brand?
⁃ Who is my target?
⁃ What kind of relationship do i have with my clients?
⁃ What is my vision?
⁃ What are the colors that represent my brand?
⁃ How do I present my logo?
⁃ Who is my competition?
⁃ Which are the internal and external forces that have an impact on my brand?
⁃ How will i compete? Why will they choose me?
COLORS
Emotions are reactions, and they are important because they guide our decisions
Paul Eggman - study of emotions
emotions are automatic and wuick responses to what life throws at us
result of sensory information, bodily changes and memory
no good or bad emotions, they have a certain purpose (do they serve our goals?)
Why should we care about emotions?
they change the way we see the world
they guide our behavior, our decisions
Help us value our experiences
Emotion is the atom, the basic particle of decision making
Feeling is thinking
there are 52 emotions
7 basic: evolutionary responses, universal to our species, cross cultural, specific facial
expresion
Mindsets: way of divinding emotions in families - mindsets are the lens through which we see
the world - they work like a filter: they change the way in which we give value to things and
events
1. action - reaction: set in the present - instinctive
2. reflective: introvertive - set in the past
3. judgement - moral : social or moral - specific to human - evaluate situations with critical
eye
4. forecasting: memory dependant - set in the future
Joy
bodily response
body relaxation: low muscle tension
behavioral disposition: approach
Facial expression
raised cheeks
genuine smile (crow’s feet)
Anger
Bodily response
increase in perspiration, heart rate and breathing rate
release of stress hormones
decrease in digestive system activity
behavioral disposition: muscles become tense, increased blood flow to the hands to
prepare towards fighting
Facial expression
fixed gaze, brows come together and go down
tendency to tighten the jaw (tight teeth and lips)
Fear
Bodily response
increase in perspiration, heart rate and breathing rate
release of stress hormones
decrease in digestive system activity
behavioral disposition: fight or flight (protection/avoidance)
Facial expression
elevated upper eyelids, elevated eyebrows
lips pulled backwards
Disgust
Bodily increase
increase in perspiration and heart rate
increase in disgestive system activity
behavioral disposition: avoidance
Facial expression
wrinkled nose
raised upper lip
Surprise
general activation, state of alertness
pupil dilation
behavioral disposition: approach, interest, exploration. Stop or interrupt ongoing
action, redirect attention to the new event
Facial expression
raised upper eyelids
dropped lower jaw (allows quick intake of breath)
Action-reaction fun facts:
happily people live 24% longer. Lifespan increases 7.5-10 years
Happy people have lower heart rate and cortisol levels
Spending money on others makes us happier than spending it on ourselves
People with low self steam are more likely to feel schadenfreude than people with high
self steam
Schadenfreude is linked to envy
Mindset: reflexive
Emotions linked to this mindset: sad, nostalgia, regret
Sadness
Bodily response
crying
lowered heart rate and blood flow
behavioral disposition: inhibition, lack of interest, lowered rate of behavior
Facial expression
lower upper eyelids
lip corners pulled downward
Shave vs guilt
guilt:
ones own negative evaluation of oneself
psycopaths lack the ability to feel guilty because they rationalize behavior and have
little ability to plan for the future
shame:
arises when one’s defects are exposed to others
people tend to repeat behaviors that make them feel shame, while they tend to reduce
the behavior that makes them feel guilty
Reflexive funfacts
Rats are capable of feeling regret about their own actions
regret is felt for a moment, guilt is a deep form of regret
Humans and rats express more regret about the actions (taken or not taken) then about
missed outcomes