COMMUNICATING

SOCIAL VALUES
IMPROVES BRAND
EQUITY

HOW-TO GUIDE
Communicating Social Values Improves Brand Equity
HOW-TO GUIDE

Fortune 500 companies have recognized significant benefits by successfully promoting civic virtues
such as Sustainability, Community, Sponsorship, Charity, and Environment. Although benefits like
improved brand integrity are intangible, they can have a significant impact on a company’s long-term
success. Increase brand value by developing a communication plan for the organization’s social values.

What is Social Value Messaging?

Social Value Messaging demonstrates alignment of corporate goals with those of the organizations
key stakeholders such as customers, employees, and partners. Social Value Messaging programs
are not sunk costs, but rather, should be viewed as investments in corporate health.

Following are categories of Social Value Programs:

Sustainability Community Sponsorship Environment Charity

Examples of Social Value Messaging programs are abundant. On January 18, 2006, Frito-Lay’s brand,
SunChips, partnered with the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation by officially sponsoring
the Komen Race for the Cure® Series National Volunteer Recognition Program. SunChips Crunch
for the Cure is an integrated, multi-channel campaign comprised of event marketing, promotions,
online, and affiliate & channel marketing.

Benefits of Social Value Messaging:

Improved Recruitment & Retention - employees prefer to work for socially conscious organizations
that effect positive social change.

Increased Revenues - in competitive markets, social values can mean the difference between a
customer choosing you or the other guy.

Growth of Brand Equity - this includes brand awareness and increased brand integrity as
customers can identify with what your brand stands for.

Positioning as Industry Leader - social values were initially competitive advantages before these
programs became mainstream. Be a leader.

Bottom Line
Being a good corporate citizen makes business sense. Drive brand value and improve customer
and employee loyalty by capturing and communicating corporate social values.

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 Action Plan
STEP 1 - Align Company Values with the
Communication Plan

Align Company
Determine Company
1 Values with the
Communication
Plan
Values and How to Best
Promote Them

Obtain Senior
2 Management Review your organizations
Mission, Vision, Values, Goals
Approval
& Objectives.

If no document containing
this information exists,
Prioritize & hold informal interview
3 Develop a
sessions with key executives.
Strategy
Determine which values will
resonate with internal and
external stakeholders and
Communicate make a list of projects that
Values
4 Internally &
will best promote them.

Externally

Measure
5 Results

Core Values Worksheet

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