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Online university needed to realign their brand architecture

Client description:

For-profit online university

Challenge: 

Online university owned and operated a number of university brands. Management desired to review the brand architecture with hopes of collapsing brands and renaming certain brands.

Methodologies: 

Focus groups

The result: 

We determined that the ideal brand strategy would be a validating brand under individual brand names with some collapsing of brands possible. We also determined that the proposed validating brand names did not resonate with end-users but through a laddering process of moderation we determined the attributes of a winning brand, many of them counter to the client’s hypothesis.

Geographic scope

US

Industries involved 

Education

Services applied 

Brand Strategy, Industry Analysis

Methodologies 

Advisory, Qualitative Research

Practice area

Market Research and Analysis

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