[MUSIC] Now that we discussed brand name, let's think about some of the other elements that can go around a brand name and I'm going to talk about two that are extremely important. One is choosing a color. And color has very, very strong perceptual cues. We'll show you some of those things, but people associate a lot with different colors. And the other is this notion of choosing a slogan or a tagline, which can add additional meaning to the brand name. So let's start with color first. There's a few rules about color that you should think about. First of all, the best use of color if you can possibly get it, is to own a color. and that's not, very many brands can do it. There aren't that many colors out there and to really own a color is pretty hard to do. But, when you do it it's extremely powerful. If you think about Tiffany's, and they own the light blue color box, you know this is a globally known, this light blue box. This is such an important cue, that the Tiffany empty boxes are sold on Ebay. And people will purchase those boxes, and then put another product, maybe not a Tiffany piece, in that product. But, people getting a gift in a Tiffany box, this just shows you how strong the perception is. We'll think the product in side that box is higher quality. But Tiffany's light blue box is extremely valuable brand image for their, I mean it's very high quality, and, and, many times with jewelry, unless your an expert it's kind of hard to necessarily judge quality so people will use this light blue box as a cue for high quality products. Mary Kay owns the pink color. That's, it's a very feminine business, cosmetics. Mary Kay gives away pink Cadillacs to their sales people. and she has really used that bright pink, that to, to symbolize her business, and it's been very strong. color can also be used within a brand to separate product lines. So, different American Express has different colored cards. The green card, the black card, the silver card, all these different kinds of cards. and you, you infer different qualities to the card as a function of its color. And that's used in lots of different products, as well. you have to be careful with color, because color can be experienced differently it can be experienced differently across different platforms. So a lot of times if you're going to test a color you want to test it on a computer, on a phone, in real life, and the colors may vary a little bit. And when you want a color to really be identifiable with a particular brand, you want to make sure you have that consistent color across. and colors also can create very strong perceptions. If, if you look at a product line and you see some of the products or it's gold or silver or black and white, that cues luxury, and you just assume that product's more expensive than more basic colors like a red and blue. So that those colors can just signal high quality just because it's gold and silver. Similarly, you see something that's blue or pink, you think female or male. just by the color, can be the exact same product but the color changes and you think it's for girls versus boys. So we know some theory about color. We know that there's two basic axes of color. There's the arousal axis, you know, how stimulating it is, versus how calming it is. And there's the affect axis, which means how much people like it or don't like it. The affect axis is extremely important, but it does vary a little bit by cultures. Some colors are better liked in some cultures than others. But what I'll show you here is kind of the way the U.S. looks at it, and it may be different in different cultures. It is true that high arousal colors are like red and orange. those ha-, create much more tension, much more excitement, and common colors are more blue and green. That's pretty universal. but then also, if you think about, on that affect, or that liking dimension, the blues and greens tend to be better liked colors in the U.S. where oranges and yellows are a little bit less liked in the U.S. And this may be different in other cultures. For example, orange is a very popular color in India. There's other rules about colors. But there's been a, color's an interesting thing. And, there's been a lot of research on color. and so there's certain things that we know of that the way people automatically react to these colors going back to that perception. So, red for example, as I mentioned is an exciting color. It can, it gets attention. It's part of the reason why fire engines are red. Or sometimes they're yellow. Both of them are very attention-getting colors. Red also means love. It means passion. But red also stimulates appetite. And so you'll see a lot of food logos like McDonald's, Pizza Hut, K, KFC, Windows, Chipotle, Windows, Wendy's, Chipotle. They all stimulate appetite, and they all have a lot of red in their logo. Blue, on the other hand, is a calming color and it is not a good color for food, for food. Blue actually is a color that curbs appetite and some people have said that if you're on a diet and you want to like try not to eat as much, having blue plates can curb your appetite a little. blue, as I mentioned, is also a color that's frequently preferred by men. Green is a color that's tranquil. It means health. It can mean money. It can mean nature. A lot of environmental companies use the green color to give you that green notion. But green also means fertility. And if you've seen some of the recent M&M's ads. And you know, Miss Green, you know? She's a pretty sexy M&M. And that's also that green color. Brown is reliable, bor-, a little bit boring, practical earth. White is an interesting color, because white can mean purity, it can mean innocence. people play around with white space. They can, it can be high design, if there's a lot of white space. the spacious, is, issue. People there's a lot of things that are done with white, white's a very interesting color. Black, on the other hand, sometimes is seen as evil, you know, it, it can symbolize in some cultures death or mourning but, you know, people wear a lot of black because they think it creates the perception that they're thinner. yellow is a very bright color. It creates a lot of energy. It has been shown, and this is somewhat interesting, that yellow can sometimes make babies cry. So, it's kind of maybe not the best color to paint for a newborn's room. Orange is exciting, warm, it, it's, it, an enthusiastic color. Lavender on the other hand, is calming, more relaxing. Purple is associated with royalty, with wealth, with wisdom. And pink as I mentioned is more of a girl's co, color. It, it's warm. It's a calming color. very feminine. And so one of the things you can look at is look at some of these different colors and see which companies use these different colors. So you know, the bright yellow color is used on Nike, on Shell Oil, on Best Buy, on McDonald's, to get, on DHL, to get a lot of attention. The friendly fun orange color is used on Hooters and Nickelodeon and Firefox. The red colors I already mentioned is used on a lot of food companies like Kelloggs, Coca Cola. It's also used to get attention. CNN uses it Netflix has used it. I've showed you before Virgin uses it. Purple is more of a creative color. So, you see Yahoo using it, Barbie uses it, Hallmark, Taco Bell. Blue is this trust color. So, companies like Oral B, Walmart, IBM, Pfizer. You don't, American Express, GE, a lot of really solid companies, not a lot of food companies. Again, green is more of this natural color, Whole Foods uses it some, Starbucks uses it, some of the oil companies have used it to show that they have environmental leanings, BP has tried to use it. and then the grey, black and white colors are more of a balance colors. So you see New York Times is a black logo. Apple sometimes has a silver apple. Mercedes Benz is a silver kind of color. So those colors silver, and things like that are more balanced. But if you look at the logos and start thinking about them. And thinking about how the colors are working, we kind of get a sense of what's going on here. So let's look now, at symbols. And symbols as I mentioned, Mickey Mouse is a very famous symbol. Symbols can add a lot of fun, a lot of attention to a brand. I had some symbols here on the slide. Mr. Clean is a symbol that communicates certain types of associations. Mr. Clean is a product for cleaning up. And what they show is a strong muscular man, so it's assuming that you can have a lot of strength in this product. The next one I showed you here is Wells Fargo. There's a lot of multiple associations with the Wells Fargo that shows independence, the wild west adventure and so there's other kinds of things that you can associate with it. Charlie the Tuna is the last one, it invokes positive feelings, liking Pillsbury's Dough Boy is kind of like that. And so you can just have fun with these different symbols. But, the symbols can get out of date and in the last section in this, we'll talk about how you can reposition and rechange these symbols. Symbols, because they can get dated and they can be very much tied to a particular era. So you have to be careful with symbols. Slogans can be tailored to help the positioning strategy, we talked about earlier. So that, you have a brand name and you want to really communicate that brand mantra. One way you can do it is through your positioning strategy. And sometimes, if you just have, you know, these brand elements, you may want a slogan or a tagline that can help remove some of the ambiguity that's associated with the brand or the symbol. And it's also, the tagline can create its own emotion, like, "reach out and touch someone" or, you know, can create its own kind of warmth and emotion. and finally, the brand or the tagline can reinforce the name or the symbol. and can just, because if you have these redundancy in the tagline, is reinforcing the imagery, or the brand name. You're seeing this multiple times, it makes for a very strong message. Some of the basics about taglines, you want them short. It's similar to a brand mantra, they have to be very short. You really want em differentiated, if they all sound the same they don't do anything, so you have to make sure it's not the same, or would be confused with the competition. Similarly it should be unique, it should be easy to say and easy to remember. you don't want it to have any negative interpretations, so you have to market test it, particularly when you go across cultures. and again, if you have a really great tagline like "just do it" you want to trademark it so that it's protected. And as I mentioned, an emotion if you can evoke an emotion with your tagline, that will make it much stronger. So what are the different types of taglines? Well there's Imperative. Just Do It, Think, Invent! You know, those kinds of things, so they're telling you what to do. There's Descriptive, which adds more information. Moving at the Speed of Business, bullish on America, You're in Good Hands. They can be Superlative. The Ultimate Driving Machine. There's no Better Way to Fly. Those kinds of things. Or they can be Provocative and kind of clever. Got Milk? was one of those and clever. Another clever one is what VW (Volkswagen) have done with their slogan. 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