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Your brand claims bring your reasons to believe to life, with creativity that backs up your main consumer benefit. Brands have four choices: be better, different, cheaper, or else not around for long. 

If you do not define your brand, then you run the risk of the possibility that your competitors will define your brand. And you might not like it.

Four elements make up a brand positioning statement, including who you serve, where you play, where will you win, and why consumers should believe you. These are the consumer target, marketplace definition, the consumer benefit, and support points. Brand claims fit in with the support points.

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Types of claims

There are four types of brand claims you can use on your brand:

Process support

  • How your product works differently
  • Showcase what you do differently within the production process
  • What added service do you provide in the value chain

Product claims

  • Usage of an ingredient that makes your brand better
  • Process or ingredient that makes your brand safer
  • A process that makes your brand cheaper

Third-person endorsement

  • Experts in the field who can speak on your brand’s behalf.
  • Past users/clients with proof support of stories or reviews
  • Recognized awards, such J.D. Power

Behavioral results 

  • Clinical tests
  • In market usage study
  • Before and after studies

Support points

I took one logic class at university, and the only thing I learned was “premise-premise conclusion.” It was an easy class, but a life-long lesson that has stuck with me. Here is a classic logical argument statement:

  • All fish live in water (premise)
  • Tuna are fish (premise)
  • Therefore, tuna live in the water (conclusion)

Our brand positioning model follows a traditional logic model, with the main consumer benefit as the conclusion and a need for two support points as the premises. Use brand claims to help the logic of your story. The difference with brands is you start with the benefit to draw in consumers. 
Claims and support points

If pure logic teaches us that two premise points are good enough to draw out any conclusion, then you only need two “reasons to believe” (brand claims). 

Brands that build concepts with a laundry list of RTBs are not doing their job in making focused decisions on what support points are required. 

With consumers seeing 5,000 brand messages per day, having a long list of support points risks making their brand communications a cluttered mess. Brand claims can be a useful tool in helping to support your RTB, yet the RTB should never be the conclusion. 

Reason to believe

As you would do with the consumer benefits, you can test these brand claims to see if they are motivating to consumers and whether they help to close off any doubts they may have

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