4. Analysis of Xiaomi’s Customer Loyalty Creation
In this chapter different approaches and techniques of Xiaomi will be analysed according to the CBBE’s first two brand development levels in order to understand how the company tries to constitute customer loyalty to gain the benefits of it.
4.1. Xiaomi’s Brand Identity
Xiaomi’s brand salience is very high in China and South East Asian countries. The greatest reason why many Asian people are aware of Xiaomi is because of its product positioning. Xiaomi is the recognized producer of high quality yet disrupting low priced smartphones. Chinese and South East Asian people do not earn much money, on average around US$6800 per year or less (World Bank, 2015). That explains why most of them cannot
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These characteristics are supported by Xiaomi’s brand colour orange, slogan and mascot. The brand colour and slogan was already analysed in chapter 4.1. Brand Identity. Mitoo’s clothing awakes Chinese national pride as well as nostalgia but the adorable looking appearance of the Mi bunny leads away from any questioning that could put the company at risk with the Chinese government since Chinese politics is a taboo topic. A combination of “patriotism, nostalgia, humour and edginess” (Zhang, 2013) is provoked as a result of Mitoo’s overall appearance. A tremendous impact on Xiaomi’s personality and values has the company’s CEO Lei who puts to a brand a face. That makes the company appear modern and trendy since only Western companies have a publicly displayed CEO. In China it is very uncommon to put a face to a brand since there is a danger of taking responsibility if the company fails. Lei is admired by Mi fans and is regard as an iconic, dynamic personality (Butler, 2012), who is experienced, successful and knows what he wants. Many Chinese people think Lei could be the man to free China from its copycat image. Experts in the tech industry consider him as a world-class entrepreneur with vision, leadership and ambition. Both, Lei and Barra, are very known people in Asia. They are considered as competent and skilful. Even Xiaomi’s co-founders are all from the tech branch that lets customers associate the brand with competence and
The Use of Rhetorical Devices in the “Google Home” Super Bowl Commercial Companies and other forms of media strategically use the three rhetorical appeals, ethos, pathos, and logos, to market goods and/or promote ideas. The appeals have been used for centuries are still prevalent in all types of modern day propaganda. If used correctly, ethos, pathos, and logos can be used as clever tactics to engrain information into the brains of consumers. One of the more notable ways that brands use these appeals are commercials. Google, the world’s most famous multinational technology company, used the three appeals to reach success.
Great Storytelling Lu Jia Delivered on a campus in California to an audience of a few thousands, yet it ended up inspiring tens of millions from both U.S. and worldwide; worshiped by Silicon Valley as the ultimate career talk, yet it embodied many aspects of life - chance, love, loss, and ultimately death. Short but smart, targeted yet universal, poignant and timeless – thus is Steve Jobs’ 2005 commencement address at Stanford. Some attribute its success to Jobs’ personal influence and charisma – they do add significant weight to the speech, undeniably. But close inspections from the lenses of rhetorical analysis allow us to appreciate this speech from a different perspective – in particular, how the speech was crafted into a fitting response to its rhetorical situation and how Jobs managed to strike a chord with his audience through the masterful use of logos, pathos and ethos, whether planned or not.
In Gregory Ciotti’s “The Psychology of Color in Branding and Marketing”, he discusses the effects that color has on the world of advertising. Ciotti states, “colors influence how customers view the ‘personality’ of the brand in question”. The article states that color blue is commonly associated with having a sincere, honest, wholesome, and friendly brand personality. This will create a very reliable down to earth experience for the audience. The author also gives the readers an illustration of a color emotion guide.
Because Xiaomi´s products are so much more affordable, the market for high-end phones have changed. With their convenience and affordability, Xiaomi basically created a new mass market for smartphones in the emerging countries they´ve expanded
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First of all customer means A person who buys goods or services from a shop or business, loyalty means the state or quality of being loyal, faithfulness to commitments or obligations. So Customer loyalty is the key objective of customer relationship management and describes the loyalty, which is established between a customer and companies, persons, products or brands. “Customer loyalty is an essential aspect in any organization whether it is offering a good or providing a service. “Many organizations are looking for various ways to increase their customer loyalty as it has a positive effect on the profitability of the organization.” (Gremler 1996: 171, Abdullah et al. 2000: 826).The individual market segments should be targeted in terms of developing customer loyalty.
Xiaomi is the most well known company that succeeded by using the copycat marketing. They used Apple as a model and copied Apple’s devices and designs. As they have fixed ideas that copied products are fake products and cheapie people do not prefer copied products, in addition although at first people criticize products made by copycat marketing they eventually choose to use the copied product if it has efficiency. Many people are aware of copied products and as it is an issue that we can easily access, there are a lot of precedent researches. According to the book “Copycat Marketing 101”, the author Burke Hedges says that copycat marketing is a great marketing strategy when making products.
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