Brand Marketing vs Growth Marketing

The modern marketer has to understand how to employ both growth marketing and brand marketing techniques in tandem to bring the best possible return.

In fact, growth marketing to some degree depends on brand marketing. As opposed to growth hacking, which is purely driven by tactical performance marketing, a goal of growth marketing is to create brand awareness and affinity among customers who should perhaps buy your product even if they aren’t ready to do so yet. In other words, the results of your marketing efforts must be sustainable.

That leads us to something both brand and growth marketing strategies have in common, and one reason it makes sense to use both strategies together: their success is measured in the long term. And to that end, successful growth and brand marketing strategies both require and reward commitment.

As interest in both marketing strategies has been on a steep upswing in recent years, it’s worth taking a look at both brand and growth marketing on their own merits before exploring the differences and relative advantages of both. In the following articles, we’ll explore both brand and growth marketing.

What Is Brand Marketing?

Brand marketing is focused on boosting and establishing a company’s brand. Brand Marketers would start by identifying your brand and asking yourself questions such as these:

• Who is our target audience? What do they need?
• How is our company different from the competition?
• What is our brand’s identity and personality?
• What is our brand statement?
• How is our brand recognition?
• Do we have a complete set up of brand guidelines?

The ultimate goal of brand marketing is to boost awareness, visibility, and recognition of your brand while creating clearly defined – and positive! – emotional associations between your brand and your consumers. Consider how we associate Apple with innovation, ease of use, and clean design, or how Nike will always be linked to sweat, hard work, and determination.

In other words, brand marketing is less about pushing a specific product or promotion and more about telling your story in a way that resonates.

Establishing a brand as rock-solid as those mentioned won’t happen unless Digital Marketers stick to several principles:

• Consistency. To really hammer home the story of your brand, your marketing efforts need to be consistent – in terms of messaging, voice, and visual aesthetics – across all platforms
• Emotion. We aren’t just loyal to certain companies or brands because we like their products – often, our buying decisions are tied to our sense of identity and the perceived values of the companies making those products.
• Delivery. Trust is an essential element in building a powerful brand, so be sure that your marketing aligns with what you’re actually giving your customers. For example, consider Volkswagen, who built up decades of brand equity as a manufacturer of reliable and practical cars before an emissions-cheating scandal badly hurt the company’s reputation in 2015.

With brand marketing, measurable objectives could include friendly media coverage, attention or endorsements from influencers, or heightened social media engagement.

Brand Marketing Manager Salary

The average Brand Marketing Manager Salary in the United States can range from around $70,000 all the way up to $170,000. There is such a wide degree of variance because Brand Marketing Manager can in many companies be a very senior position, but the median base salary for a Brand Marketing Manager is around $120,000.

What Is Growth Marketing?

Growth marketing is concerned with the entire funnel, where the goal is revenue growth not merely through bringing in new customers but also through the activation, retention, referral, and monetization of the customers you already have. Growth marketing is removing the boundaries of marketing to enable every aspect of the customer experience to focus on attracting more engaged customers,” said Mike Volpe, CEO of Lola.com.

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