Cognitive Dissonance: Brand Image Vs. Brand Reality

So, picking up on my last post about Liberty Mutual and what I’ve been thinking of as their “Good Samaritan” campaign: It’s a pretty brand-invigorating set of communications, but the perennial skeptic in me has been wondering (pretty much since the branding boom of the 90s), what really is the purpose of a brand’s image, it’s promise, if the brand experience totally contradicts that promise? Continue reading