How 80% of Purpose-Led Brands Outperform the Market简单的广告你的连续的日子已经一去不复返了cts and watching the cash roll in. Today's consumers have more access to a wider variety of products, solutions and information than ever before - and they're choosing who to do business with, often based on a brand's values.

ByStuart Innell

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Over the past two years, many clients have been extending brand positioning exercises into purpose-driven expressions. When we look at it, it makes sense given the country's demographics.

With many of our fellow countrymen struggling to make ends meet, brands have stepped in to provide them with a picture of a future worth striving for.

Global customer-centricity study, Insights 2020, led by research firm Kantar Millward Brown, has attempted to understand how brands could drive customer-centric growth as well as the factors that really make a difference.

The research surveyed 10 495 individuals in 60 countries, and there are some significant efforts worth investing in if brands want to engage where it matters most, in consumers' hearts. The research uncovered that for market-leading companies and brands, traditional value drivers such as quality, packaging, or distribution are necessary, but no longer provide a competitive advantage; most brands are capable of providing these drivers.

What is important are a few critical approaches.

Purpose-led brands

The study found that when companies or brands linked to a purpose, 80% of them outperformed the market. Only 32% of non-purpose led brands managed to perform better than the market.

On the ground

It's important to engage with consumers in their space and on their terms. Through the use of memorable campaigns, experiential events and activations it is critical to engage with consumers on their turf.

Be truthful and authentic

Consumers can smell something inauthentic a mile away, especially when it's coming from a brand. This forces brands to strive for authenticity in everything they do, especially when it comes to marketing. Building values and principle-based attributes into your brand as a guiding tool is essential.

Helping consumers commit

By allowing individuals to attach themselves to a brand with a purpose, it helps consumers personally commit to a cause that they consider important. When a consumer is personally invested, the link between the brand and product or service deepens.

Balancing heritage and modern relevance

There is a continuous tussle in balancing the traditional market, transitional market and the new consumers brands are trying to attract. Keeping the heritage and roots of the brand true to itself, while creating relevance for the new market, is a battle marketers are still fighting.

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Stuart Innell

铅Strategist

My current position as a Lead Strategist withBoomtownhas allowed me to demonstrate my brand strategy and strategic planning skills and to prove my results-oriented approach by developing and growing brands to the extent of being part of the team that has won two (2) Global 100 Rebrand Awards (Merit) for most effective rebrands.

Well versed in marketing, business, brand and communications strategies over a broad range of sectors including, tourism, automotive, industrial, legal, tertiary education, FMCG and general business.

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