Is Your Brand Ready to Stretch Into New Categories?

Use a proven scoring system to decide if your brand is ready to stretch, avoid catastrophic failures, know how to get your brand ready to expand and extend if it scores badly and build on your brand’s strengths if it scores well.

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Through his LASSO method and dozens of examples, Canalichio reveals how brands enter new categories to the delight of their fans. This is a must read for anyone who is influenced by, sells based on the value of, or charged with the growth of, a brand, including their own.

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Strategic Criteria To Look At

Creative strategist Mark Di Somma and I wanted to build a framework brand leaders could use to determine whether, if and how they should consider licensing their brands.

When we looked around at all the literature, there were shelves of books on growing your company presence, plenty on how to buy, sell and negotiate for existing brands and businesses, quite a few on franchising, some on licensing. There was also plenty of publicity around the kinds of deals that were being struck. But what was missing, it seemed to us, was a framework that people in charge of growing brands could use to expand their marque methodically and responsibly into a broader phenomenon. What was also missing were the strategic criteria for knowing when to do that in order to meet growth targets.

New formats, new partnering arrangements, and new corporate extensions are breathing new vitality into how and where ideas are seen through brands, and the environments in which they are experienced. While these changes are innovating brand growth frameworks in new and exciting ways, they are also making it more complex and more fraught.

  • How should a brand look to grow?
  • When is the right time to do so?
  • How and when can it best capitalize on opportunities to hit the daunting growth targets that are increasingly expected?

We wanted to find a framework and test that framework across various areas in order to compare and contrast the success factors. Does a licensed celebrity brand, for example, succeed for different reasons than a well-known not-for-profit brand? Does a corporate brand operate under different dynamics than one in the entertainment sector? Just as importantly, what might each learn from the other?

To find out, we sat down with people who are working for, or who have worked for, brands that we thought had done a great job. We asked them about their approaches, their beliefs, their experiences, and their disappointments.

Introducing The First System That Scores Your Brand’s Potential For Licensing

Having analyzed dozens of examples, we narrowed the critical elements of a successful brand empire building down to five key factors: the five first letters of which form the acronym LASSO. Lateral, Addictive, Storied, Scalable, and Own-able.

The LASSO model helps take what could be a very daunting task and makes it easy to do and even more importantly, easy to understand. Each element in the LASSO acronym is required in order to assess where your brand currently is positioned; each one has a scoring card that makes determining where your brand currently stands straightforward.

Once you rate each element and collect your score you will have a clear idea of whether or not your brand is ready to stretch into new categories and what the next steps are in order to get in the most optimal position. In my guide, How To Tell If Your Brand Is Ready To Stretch Into New Categories, I break down each element of the LASSO model.

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