In class, Professor Miller showed the class a bunch of brands.
The purpose of this exercise was to highlight this important aspect of brand meanings:

a) What a brand represents is very consistent across everybody.
b) A brand's meaning is controlled by the brand.
c) Brands do a great job creating the meaning associated with a symbol or tagline.
d) A brand's meaning is up to potential and actual customers.

C.

Brands do a great job creating the meaning associated with a symbol or tagline.

Explanation: Branding is important because not only is it what makes a memorable impression on consumers but it allows your customers and clients to know what to expect from your company.

There are many areas that are used to develop a brand including advertising, customer service, promotional merchandise, reputation, and logo.

The purpose of branding is knowing and consistently living from a true identity, from a real story, so that executive leadership, sales, marketing, product, support, operations, and corporate culture all align and mature in a compelling manner that is meaningful to anyone who encounters the collection of people who make up a brand. A brand is the story of people headed in a direction, inviting you to journey with them.

A brand is a product, service, or concept that is publicly distinguished from other products, services, or concepts so that it can be easily communicated and usually marketed. A brand name is the name of the distinctive product, service, or concept. Branding is the process of creating and disseminating the brand name.

c) Brands do a great job creating the meaning associated with a symbol or tagline.

Explanation:

Based on the scenario been described in the questions, the purpose of the exercise of what professor Millar was trying to do by showing the class a bunch of brands is to let them know that " Brands do a great job by creating the meaning associated with a symbol or tagline, because that's what make them unique from other company or product.

We can defines a brand as feature that is attached to particular seller making is distinct or unique from other sellers, this feature can be name, design, symbol, term of the the seller.

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