The You Brands: When Loyalty is Personal
What you get from Apple is the connection to more than a MacBook computer or an iPhone but devices that bring you cool media, social connections, access to your music and real-time video with others using FaceTime, all through devices that focus on you and how you interact. Coke is not far from this. In all blind taste tests with Pepsi, Coke loses. But the visible brand choice is Coke. It’s the dominant and preferred carbonated soda globally because it conveys a historic brand experience and a brand personality that is consistent and connected to others like you.
Nike is about your experience not their product. Their product empowers you, your goals, your challenges, set by you. Just do it means exactly that. Experience the brand through what you choose to do. Your level of commitment is measured by your choices with the Nike brand.
So connecting to loyalty brands is about connecting to the customer’s control, choice and personalization of experience. The customer is not only being “sold” what they want, they are being enrolled and empowered to have what they want the most – a brand crafted around their world, their community and their experience.