Expedia claims not to have had any adverse effect on its brand due to the global economic slowdown.
Social media is an invaluable tool to address and even reverse potential liabilities before they can have a detrimental effect on the brand.
Until this study, it was difficult to measure if what people say to each other about their brand experience has a direct effect on sales.
While the short term macro situation remains uncertain with the US elections, a change of government in China and the ongoing crisis in Europe, Expedia claims not to have had any adverse effect on its brand due to the above factors, which is impressive.
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When it comes down to it, if an organization places restrictions that limits the way it engages with the public, such as the ones placed on the Olympic athletes, it will eventually have an adverse effect on the brand over time, gradually making it less relevant.
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What can be measured though, is the effect this buying down has on brand loyalty.
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Since such organisms (simple yeasts or bacteria) would carry a brand-new genetic code, they would in effect be new life forms.
The other side is that social interactions such as those enabled by Facebook also can have the opposite effect, weakening lifestyle brands and decreasing brand equity.
For example, Drevna noted that expansion projects at the nation's existing refineries have had the effect of adding the equivalent of a brand new refinery every year.
The recruiting effect is the most important component towards further brand restoration.
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Next year a 50 percent decrease in all of the brand-name drugs in the doughnut hole will go into effect.
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To really live up to its brand promise, Standard Chartered felt it needed to fully understand the effect of its activities on the countries in which it operates.
Particularly when such actions are taken together, they will have the effect of institutionalizing the core notion behind Mr. Obama's brand of what his top international lawyer (and prospective future Supreme Court nominee), State Department Legal Advisor Harold Koh, calls "transnationalism": A new world order in which the United States is simply one nation among many, subject to a higher - if utterly unaccountable - authority.
In some cases, simply increasing your own online brand awareness, possibly combined with some targeted SEO efforts can limit or negate the effect of negative press online.
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This year, Mr. Mille is powering his brand with the Tourbillon G-Sensor RM 036 Jean Todt Limited Edition , which measures the effect of G-forces on a driver in a rapidly decelerating car.
Having said this, what creativity has in common from one company or brand to the next is that if it catches on with consumers, it can have a turbo-charging effect.
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