The Role of Brand and Fan Personalities in Building Fan-Brand Relationships

Football fans are consumers with special relationship with their favourite teams. Consumer-brand relationship is unique and ultimate in football context. However, the absence of these relationships is mainly due to a lack of communication and interaction. This research aims to investigate the impact of brand personality and fan personality on fan- brand relationships. Mixed methods were conducted that employed in-depth personal interviews with football professionals and fans to gain better insights regarding consumer-brand relationships and to develop a conceptual framework and research hypotheses. Then, a quantitative phase has been followed to test these hypotheses. 471 valid questionnaires were collected through a non-probability convenience sampling technique from Egyptian football fans. The findings have shown that brand personality and fan personality have a positive impact on each of interdependence, commitment, partner quality, self-connection, nostalgic attachment, intimacy as consumer-brand relationship dimensions in the football context.

Self-service versus human interaction in private consumption: The moderating role of brand personality

We explored how consumer attitudes toward service delivery types (self-service technology vs. face-to-face) differ in a private consumption context depending on the brand personality (underdog brand vs. top- dog brand). Using banking service (Study 1) and hotel service (Study 2) scenarios, we empirically investigated the interaction effects between service delivery types and brand personalities on consumer attitudes. The results indicate that for humanized underdog brands consumers showed a more positive attitude toward self-service technologies than toward face-to-face services. However, for the top-dog brands there were no significant moderation effects. Thus, when managers in the marketing field are planning to regulate new directions for their service policy, they need to be very cautious by considering both consumption context and brand personality. We have theoretically and practically expanded the existing literature on service delivery by focusing on private consumption services.

URGENSI PERSONAL BRANDING BAGI PUSTAKAWAN DI ERA PANDEMI

As a result of the Covid-19 outbreak, libraries must change their habits and order in providing library services. Library services, which were initially carried out in person or on the spot, were turned into online services to facilitate and provide convenience for users and librarians. Librarians are expected to be more creative in creating new innovations in providing online services to users. Librarians must still be able to provide excellent service to users even with various existing limitations, both librarians, infrastructure, and library collections. In the midst of the limitations of excellent service, the librarian is the key to this excellent service. Librarians must have a brand. How the librarian shows brand personality, brand-ability, brand value, and has a stimulus that produces positive perceptions. The brand of personality to build is one that is friendly, cooperative, forgiving, understanding, and good on good terms with other people. Librarians must also hone their brand personality in terms of being systematic, careful, thorough, responsible, and disciplined. Librarians should also have less negative emotionality, so that they are relatively balanced, calm, steadfast, and feel safe. Librarians must be sociable, articulate, assertive, and open to new relationships. besides that the librarian must have a high, to listen to new ideas and change ideas. The brand of librarian abilities that must be built is solving problems systematically, being able to find and finding creative and original ideas, managing people, coordinating with other people or teamwork, regulating and controlling emotions, being able to draw decisions, under any conditions, have a service or service orientation, negotiate, have cognitive flexibility or are able to think spontaneously in response to adjusting to situational needs. The librarian's brand value that must be built is the value of integrity and leadership. In terms of integrity, librarians must value honesty in speaking and acting; be able to balance/be consistent between thoughts, words, and actions; fair in treating others; have a high dedication to the institution; can always be trusted in carrying out the mandate and carrying out daily tasks. In addition to leadership, librarians must build teamwork in order to generate new ideas, ideas, suggestions so that work goals can be implemented.

The Effect of Brand Experience, Brand Personality and Brand Trust on Brand Loyalty

This study conducted to determine the effect of brand experience, brand personality and brand trust on brand loyalty. This study is an explanatory research. The method used in this study is a quantitative method using survey methods. The total sample in this study was 150 respondents with the technique of taking with the method of purposive sampling. Primary data in this research is obtained from questionnaires distributed to respondents, while secondary data is data related to the object of research presented by other parties. Data analysis techniques in this study using simple regression analysis. The result of the research shows that: (1) brand experience has positive effect on brand personality, (2) brand experience has positive effect on brand trust, (3) brand personality positive effect on brand loyalty, (4) Brand trust has positive effect on brand loyalty (5) Brand experience has positive effect on brand loyalty.

Consumers’ assessment of the brand equity of garment brands

The assessment of brand equity and its sources is a trend among researchers and garment brand companies nowadays. The purpose of the current study is to explore the impact of two independent variables, including “words of mouth” (WOM) and “brand personality”, on the dependent variable “brand equity”, along with the assessment of mediating effects of “relationship quality”. Previous literature on the subject suggests that multiple sources including “words of mouth” and “brand personality” influence “brand equity”, but no attempts have been made for the assessment of “relationship quality” as a mediator among sources of brand equity in the context of garment brands. The present study aims at filling that gap through the presentation of a statistical model. Respondents in the sample included the regular customers of the garment brands. Partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) was used to fddd the collected data. The results indicated that the “WOM” and “brand personality” had a significantly positive influence on “brand equity”. “Relationship quality” was found to have a strong mediating effect. The theory of brand equity and the social exchange theory was used to develop a representative model. Results of the study strengthen the premises of the theory of brand equity and the social exchange theory. The researchers recommended the exploration of the influence of other possible mediating variables in future researches. Recommendations were also made for the administrators of the garment brand companies for the consideration of “relationship quality” along with the sources of “brand equity”, including “words of mouth” and “brand personality” for improved decision making and competitive advantage

Recall vs. Recognition: How the Strength of Sponsor Awareness Influences the Perceived Brand Personality

Aim: The aim of this paper is to investigate whether remembering a sponsor actively (recall) or passively (recognition) has an influence on the perceived brand image. Because brand personality is a psychological and multi-dimensional construct, it is worthwhile to investigate the influence of information retrieval from the long-term memory. Study design: The study contains two independent samples. On the one hand spectators were interviewed at different sports events that were sponsored by the same brand (field sample). Additionally, a representative sample of the population was drawn and questioned about the same brand outside the environment of sports events (online sample). Place and Duration of Study: Both samples were collected in the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany within a period of four months. Methodology: In total, 2761 questionnaires from spectators and 1000 questionnaires from representative online sample of the population in the same region were collected. Regression analyses were conducted to compare the influence of sponsor awareness on brand image with other drivers of image transfer found in literature. Results: Both tests (recall and recognition) show a significant influence on brand image, but they defer in the extent and the addressed dimensions of brand personality. Logistic regressions show that a low sponsor awareness is sufficient to strengthen some general positive brand associations, whereas it requires a higher sponsor awareness to raise intended associations successfully. Conclusion: The strength of sponsor awareness should be considered when selecting the test procedure (recall or recognition test) for measuring image outcomes – both in marketing research and sponsorship controlling. Depending on the type of objectives the sponsor wants to achieve, this can be crucial for a sponsor in strategic management.

Understanding the ties between brand gender and brand engagement in online brand communities: the moderating role of consumers’ biological sex

Purpose This study aims to examine how brand gender (masculine/feminine brand personality [FBP] traits) stimulates brand engagement (cognitive processing, affection and activation) inside online brand communities (OBCs). The authors also explore the mediation of this effect through brand identification and brand personality appeal (BPA). The moderating role of consumers’ biological sex is also investigated. Design/methodology/approach The theoretical model has been tested with the data collected from OBC members through the structural equation modelling technique. Bootstrapping is used for mediation analysis and multiple group analysis for testing the moderating effects. Findings Results show that masculine brand personality (MBP) influences brand engagement directly, as well as through brand identification and BPA. However, FBP elicits brand engagement only through the mediation of brand identification and BPA. Consumers’ biological sex moderates the effect of FBP on brand engagement, but no moderation was traced for the effect of MBP on brand engagement. Research limitations/implications The context of the research poses a limitation on the broader replication of study findings. Other limitations include the absence of community-based variables and the focused use of gender centric brands in this study. This research will help researchers to understand the nuances in the underlying relationship between brand gender and brand engagement inside OBCs. Practical implications The managers can emphasize MBP but should not downplay the importance of FBP inside OBCs. To achieve brand engagement, the marketers should curate FBP in a way to affecting consumers’ brand identification and brand appeal. To achieve consumer brand engagement, MBP can be targeted at both male and female consumers, whereas FBP holds more importance among female consumers. Therefore, classifying members as per their biological sex is recommended for better brand engagement from brand gender inside OBCs. Originality/value This study explores finer mechanisms in the relationship between brand gender and brand engagement inside OBCs by charting out the powerful mediating role played by brand identification and BPA. The moderating role of consumers’ biological sex is an important dimension to these relationships, not explored hitherto.