Branding Strategies for Success (Collection)

Truth 37. Be consistent but not complacent

Friends in our lives usually have predictable personalities. There is our clowning-around friend, our shy friend, our ambitious career-driven friend, and our sensitive and caring friend. Although our friends have many sides, we experience friends in predictable ways. If our shy friend suddenly starts clowning around and being very outgoing, this is a bit unusual.

Brands are like friends. You know them in predictable ways. You expect consistency. You expect them to be true to how you know them. Sometimes the market doesn't accept a brand acting beyond how people have come to know it.

Sometimes the market doesn't accept a brand acting beyond how people have come to know it.

Volkswagen is a very ...