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Brand positioning is a core activity of most marketing departments. In this paper, the relationship between six different positions and customer vulnerability is tested over time in the business financial services market. Two particular attributes relating to fees and charges and relationship/service were found to have strong relationships with customer vulnerability, both across brands and over time. This research suggests that the ’better‘ brand positions, as defined here, can be common across brands. Therefore, marketing managers of financial services should perhaps not be striving for a unique position for the brand, but aim for distinctiveness in the way the position is communicated. Research techniques to identify ’better‘ positions should also not assume that these ’better‘ positions will be those that differentiate between brands.
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Romaniuk, J. Brand positioning in financial services: A longitudinal test to find the best brand position. J Financ Serv Mark 6, 111–121 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.fsm.4770045
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Keywords
- Brand management
- positioning
- customer vulnerability
- banking
- customer relations
- e-business
- e-commerce
- financial brokers
- financial engineering
- financial institutions
- financial marketing
- financial models
- financial planning
- financial training
- insurance
- intermediation
- Knowledge management
- management
- marketing
- marketing strategy
- pensions
- services quality
- virtual organisations