Brand Recognition
The ultimate measure of how successful brand management has been, brand recognition is the extent to which the intended audience is able to identify a brand, from memory, based upon associations with visual, audio, and/or verbal attributes.
An advertising executive for a prominent sneaker manufacturer is walked to the end of a plank and threatened with being pushed off...unless you, dear reader, are able to recall their brand from a visual cue. You are then shown a “Swoosh” symbol above the phrase “Just Do It.”
Does the ad exec sleep with the fishes from a lack of brand recognition, or did you think “Nike?”
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Finance a la shmoop what is capital gains tax? alright people you've invested
your hard-earned savings from working 72 hours a week all year you put 10 grand
to work seven years ago in buying Heinz ketchup stock at 50 bucks a share
200 shares then this year along comes Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway to [Warren and Berkshire appear]
confirm what a brilliant investor you were and they buy for all cash the
company Heinz ketchup for $200 a share you've made four times your money in
seven years nice work well you have a gain of 150 bucks a share which you are
gonna fully realize like you'll realize that capital gain in the form of
receiving cash like oh I realize I have cash in my bank account yay me!
so all this was so good such a nice day until you realize that you live in a [Woman frollocking in a meadow]
blue state with massive taxes and that you'll now give back about a third or
more of your investment gains that is you invested 10 grand it became 40 grand
the old-fashioned way you had 30 grand of profits and now uncle sam says i want [Uncle Sam demanding I want your cash]
your cash and you now pay about 10 grand roughly a third of it in taxes of
your gains of that 30 grand back to Uncle S, sadly you are paying back in
taxes about the same amount you invested in the first place yep lots of hard work
lots of taxes how's that feel?