{"id":2228,"date":"2020-03-25T19:32:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T19:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leapgroupnetwork.com\/image-is-everything-or-is-it\/"},"modified":"2020-03-25T19:32:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T19:32:37","slug":"image-is-everything-or-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapgroupnetwork.com\/logic-magic\/image-is-everything-or-is-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Image Is Everything. Or Is It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>In the days when a message was costly to deploy and a brand could only reach a few consumers at a time, brand image was, of necessity, highly important. When you can only achieve a relatively limited number of impressions, you have to make them count!&nbsp;<\/span><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nBut, times have changed, right? Technology has given brands the ability to be everyplace, participate in a 24\/7 world, and meet the consumer at almost every touch-point. But has this innovation and market saturation lessened the need for brand management? With so many opportunities for marketers to reach consumers, has the need for managing individual messages dwindled? <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nOn the contrary, I\u2019d argue that with more messaging opportunities, more channels, and a more segmented and fragmented audience, the need for brand management has never been higher. <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nEnsuring that the message is heard is what makes brand management so important in today\u2019s technology-enabled, consumer-empowered marketing world. Between websites, mobile devices, banners, text messages, video ads, social discussions, blog conversations, and Twitter messages, the online advertising \u201cnoise\u201d has been steadily rising. <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nBrands that have adopted an unmanaged, undisciplined approach find themselves in a trap\u2014the only way to combat the noise is to create more of it, or in other words, be louder than the competition. <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nUnfortunately for them, there\u2019s no long-term benefit in just being louder. This type of brash strategy costs more over time, cheapens the brand image, and can destroy the very core message they were so vociferously attempting to broadcast. <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nAdvertisers rarely espouse the \u201cless is more\u201d idiom, and so many marketing strategies hinge on a build-build-build mentality. But, if the message isn\u2019t as sharp, resounding and consistent as it has to be in today\u2019s noisy advertising world, then such an effort can result in gross miscommunications, where <em>more<\/em> advertising is essentially <em>less<\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the days when a message was costly to deploy and a brand could only reach a few consumers at a time, brand image was, of necessity, highly important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":2229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[86,62],"issue":[8],"collection":[],"acf":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapgroupnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapgroupnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapgroupnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapgroupnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapgroupnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapgroupnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapgroupnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapgroupnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapgroupnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapgroupnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapgroupnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapgroupnetwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}