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Business Definition for: Brand Loyalty

  • a long-term customer preference for a particular product or service. Brand loyalty can be produced by factors such as customer satisfaction with the performance or price of a specific product or service, or through identifying with a brand image. It can be encouraged by advertising.

Additional Resources

True Brand Loyalty
In laymen's words true brand loyalty refers to consumers sticking with a brand out of feelings of commitment towards that brand. For instance, when one buys a tube of Prudent toothpaste and finds it ok, one will not have to spend any valuable time on looking for other toothpaste brands,...
Tags: Brand, Brand Loyalty, OnlineEssays.com, Branding, Marketing
White papers
Brand Insistence Vs. Brand Loyalty: It's More Than Symantics
Brand loyalty is the illusive nirvana for brand marketers. This paper takes a look at an important issue in terms of achieving true brand value. While it may be difficult to determine if an organization has achieved true, valuable brand loyalty, it is not impossible. For a higher probability of...
Tags: Brand, Brand Loyalty, Branding, Marketing
White papers 2004-04-05
Does Advertising Overcome Brand Loyalty?: Evidence From the Breakfast-Cereals Market
In differentiated product markets where consumer preferences are characterized by brand loyalty, an important role for advertising may be to overcome brand loyalty by encouraging consumers to switch to less familiar brands. Using a scanner panel dataset of breakfast-cereal purchases, evidence is found consistent with the hypothesis that advertising counteracts...
Tags: Advertisement, Brand, Brand Loyalty, Blackwell Publishing, Branding, Marketing
White papers 2004-04-19
From Brand Loyalty To E-Loyalty: A Conceptual Framework
With the rapid growth of E-commerce and on-line consumer shopping trends, the importance of building and maintaining customer loyalty in electronic marketplaces has come into sharper focus in marketing theory and practice. This paper integrates previous research in the field of brand loyalty to present a conceptial framework of "e-loyalty"...
Tags: Pennsylvania, Brand, Brand Loyalty, Indiana University, Branding, Marketing
White papers 2002-09-11
Sample Brand Loyalty Survey
A Brand Loyalty Survey is used to determine how loyal consumers remain to a given brand, and the reasons why they do or do not remain so. This sample is about cars. To create your own survey, use the Brand Loyalty Survey Template.
Tags: Brand, Entrepreneur.com Inc., Brand Loyalty, Brand Loyalty Survey, Entrepreneurship, Branding, Management, Marketing
Tools & templates 2004-09-16
When Ads Get Personal
A brand is the symbol, logo, design, or the name that is the unique identity of a particular product or service and differentiates it from the competitor’s offerings. Brand loyalty is the degree of repeat value that the brand has. Perceived quality is the degree of quality as seen by...
Tags: Advertisement, Brand, CFO Publishing Corp., Branding, Marketing
White papers 2000-09-15
Brand Management: Brand Equity
A brand is the symbol, logo, design, or the name that is the unique identity of a particular product or service and differentiates it from the competitor’s offerings. Intense promotional and marketing effort over time is required to build and establish a brand. Brand equity is the advantage that the...
Tags: Brand, Brand Equity, Brand Management, Brand Awareness, Branding, Marketing
Presentations 2003-01-01
Brand Loyalty Survey Worksheet
This template can be used to determine how loyal consumers are to a given brand. Check out the Sample Brand Loyalty Survey to see an example of this survey using cars as the subject.
Tags: Brand, Entrepreneur.com Inc., Brand Loyalty, Entrepreneurship, Branding, Management, Marketing
Tools & templates 2005-08-31
Mirror, Mirror…Who Has The Strongest Brand Of All?
Twenty-first century branding requires a total brand experience, one that encompasses all messages, all channels, all touch points--essentially, one that creates a whole brand experience that is both holistic and realistic, with the customer as the guiding principle. Humans are social: who needs and seeks out relationships. With this in...
Tags: Brand, Humans, Branding, Marketing
White papers 2003-01-01
Four Timely Tips On Brand Leadership For Brand-Name CEOs
Today, building rebuilding and managing brand equity should be a priority for all companies. Article assesses that strong brands beget customer loyalty. Loyalty begets profit. Profit makes many people happy. Article also ensures that brand value equals shareholder value, rebuilding, or just fortifying, your brand’s equity could make it happen....
Tags: Brand, Landor Associates, Loyalty, Branding, Marketing
White papers 2003-01-01
Brand Loyalty: The Psychology of Preference
What drives brand loyalty? The psychology behind human behavior as it pertains to brand selection can be both rudimentary and complicated at the same time. The article explores this conundrum by investigating noted authors' insight into the realm of brand preference. By unveiling current research and opinions of experts, a...
Tags: Brand, Brand Loyalty, Branding, Marketing
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Branding
A brand is a unique assortment of qualities and values that a particular product or service promises to deliver to its consumers. Intense and painstaking marketing effort is required over time to cultivate a successful brand. Brand equity is the advantage that the brand has in the market over other...
Tags: Brand, Branding, Marketing
Presentations 2003-01-01
Managing Relationships And Building Loyalty
Customer Relationship Management CRM is a strategy of perennially interacting with existing customers to assess the changes in their likes and dislikes. In today’s era of intense competition in the business realm, CRM forms an effective strategy to deliver some additional value to the customer. This ensures customer loyalty and...
Tags: Pearson Education Inc., Brand Loyalty, CRM, Branding, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
Presentations 2003-01-01
Delta Air Lines wins the Brand Keys Customer Loyalty Award for the second consecutive year; Customer poll recognizes Delta for exceeding customer expectations.
RDATE:07012002 ATLANTA -- Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) today received its second consecutive Brand Keys Customer Loyalty Award in the airline category for meeting or exceeding customer expectations in the past year. Brand Keys, the world leader in customer loyalty metrics, announced...
Tags: brand, Branding, Delta Air Lines Inc., MARKETING
Research articles 2002-07-01
Brandweek Again Names Canon No. 1 in Customer Loyalty Award Survey for Office Copier Product Category; Canon Number One Brand Among Surveyed in Addressing Customers' Needs, Values and Brand Expectation
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y. -- For the fifth consecutive year, Canon U.S.A., Inc., the nation's market share brand leader in black-and-white and color laser copier/printer solutions(1), has ranked the number one in brand loyalty in the "Office Copier" industry category. 2005 marks the second year the ranking has been sponsored by...
Tags: brand, Brandweek, Canon Inc., Microsoft Office, photocopier
Research articles 2005-06-06
Canon U.S.A. Recognized as # 1 Brand for Customer Loyalty in the Office Copier Market for Seventh Consecutive Year
Brand Keys "Customer Loyalty Engagement Index" Rates Canon U.S.A. Best in 2007
Tags: brand, Microsoft Office
Research articles 2007-08-13
Short-Term Brands Revolutionize Branding
This article is about consumers who exhibit an unprecedented readiness to try new brands and a preference for brand-variety over brand-loyalty even loyalty to a consistent repertoire of brands, resulting in damage to brand survivability. To cope, marketers now need a supplemental tool to that of the familiar Long-Term Brand...
Tags: Brand, Branding, Marketing
White papers 2003-01-01
The All-American Brand
When most people think of branding, they think of it as a part of a sales plan, one designed to generate profits. However, brands need not be about sales. The bond and the relationship created is the most important goal of a brand. Every strong brand today recognizes that the...
Tags: Brand, Branding, Marketing
White papers 2002-10-29
Canon U.S.A. Honored with #1 Ranking in Brandweek's Annual Customer Loyalty Survey; Canon Named Number One Brand in Brandweek's Office Copier Category for the Sixth Consecutive Year
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y. -- Canon U.S.A., Inc., the nation's market share brand leader in black-and-white and color laser copier/printer solutionsi, has been named number one in brand loyalty in Brandweek's 2006 Customer Loyalty Survey in the "Office Copier" industry category for the sixth consecutive year. The survey is sponsored by...
Tags: brand, Brandweek, Canon Inc., Microsoft Office, survey
Research articles 2006-06-13
Deepening Brand Loyalty
Deriving value from community isn't a new concept, of course. Successful commercial communities are as old as commerce itself, and modern examples are plentiful. Fostering community has obvious intangible benefits: one-to-one connections with site visitors, increased site stickiness, higher brand awareness, improved customer service, and support of consumer trust, loyalty,...
Tags: Community, Brand, Brand Loyalty, Key Professional Media, Branding, Marketing
White papers 2000-10-01