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Licensing provides the means to generate
diversified sustainable revenue streams from existing assets.After
years of brand investments, you now have a very valuable asset in your
toolbox. Are you sure you have unleashed the potential of your brands
and maximized your return on investments? A strategically sound and well-executed
licensing program helps your brand reach its full short and long-term
financial potential.

The verdict is in. Mega-brands rule. In today’s market even blue
chips need to shout pretty loud to be heard. Seamlessly
licensing your brand to new products and services is one of the least risky and most cost effective
ways to penetrate the market beyond the reach of your core product. The
result? Added market share, added mind share, added bottom line.
Or are you a start up who’s spent the ad budget and is wondering
“now what?” Leveraging your burgeoning awareness by licensing
products that reflect who you are can enhance your ad dollars by making
your brand even more tangible to consumers.
You’ve got a great brand and everyone who’s anyone knows your
name. But, do your target consumers see your brand as relevant to their
needs? Are you different and fresh? Are you contemplating plastic surgery?
Try licensing instead. Licensing new, fresh products and services gives
you differentiation, new relevance, and reinforces and heightens brand
image.
Or
maybe you have had a face-lift recently (and don’t you look beautiful!)…what
better way to show off that new look than with licensed products that
leverage your new equity.
Have you heard the phrase “Use it or lose it”? Unless you
protect your trademark around the globe by registering it and showing
use, someone else can reap the benefit of your equity.
You’re a hit in Peoria, but will it play in Taipei? You make a mean
widget, but what about wadgets? You could build a new factory. Hire staff.
Pay for advertising. Learn a new language, legal system and culture. Why
not just partner with a licensee who knows the market and has the facilities
in place to do it for you? If it’s a success, you can choose to
jump in on your own, continue to license, or even buy or merge with your
licensee.

Licensing in a brand or co-brand with established equity
and awareness in your target market is a quick, cost effective, and clutter
cutting means to enhance perceived image, increase relevance, and differentiate
yourself from those other guys.
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