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How does a celebrity's smile affect his personal brand?

3 Jul 2005 09:433 commentsBizLike
Having done a bibliographical research about the importance of the smile in leadership, I was surprised to how it had a "defining" impact on followership, and significantly impacted the bottom-line results. Now, I am extending my research to personal branding.
My questions are about “The impact of a celebrity’s 'SMILE' over his personal brand”.

1. What impact does it have on the minds of the people that the celebrity wants to attract, e.g. in case of any product endorsements, he has to attract the customers for the product he endorses?

2. But if he is not endorsing a product, does he still have to keep a positive and upbeat image about himself in the industry? And if so, does his smile help him in that?

I'm therefore looking for answers to the following questions:
- In what way does a smile influence (the observer’s) behaviour or perception?
- If it influences, how is it reflected over the personal brand of the celebrity? If it shows a favourable image of the celebrity, what happens when a celebrity performs badly, and would the previous likeability of the celebrity diminish, i.e. does his personal brand’s ranking decline?

In short, does the personal brand of a celebrity depend upon his personal performance out there in his skilled area or upon his popularity with the public?

In all the above questions I am assuming that the celebrity is very visible to the public, appearing in the media often, like George Bush and Manmohan Singh (PM of India). Although the questions seem to be hypothetical, I'd like ideas and comments about them, especially from specialists and professionals participating in this marvellous service.

Thanks a lot for taking the time to read and anwer my questions.
 
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Sean Inggs
Hi Sam-
I recently saw an article on Tom Cruises smile, discussing his personal brand. Unfortunately I've misplaced it.

If no celebrity publicists respond to you here, I think the best bet really (both ways) is to email your questions to a large celebrity magazine like OK! magazine or People and see what they have to say about it.

Personally I think the smile has an effect. The celebrity would hopfully always want to keep a smile as it's one way to show they happy with themselves and their surroundings and choices in their industry.
Also the smile would have slightly higher preferance for a female celebrity than a male I think. I've seen more big female Hollywood celebs smiling than the males. I think though overall, they should keep smiling no matter what, especially if they are representing a brand - I know I wouldn't want a celeb always in a crap mood while under my brand, I'd dump them, scared that fans and general public might think it's because of promoting my brand they close to suicide unless I was a funeral parlor! Don't take my word for this or shoot me down. I'm not a celebrity publicist but just giving my 2 cents with what experience I've had. Posted on 19 Jul 2005 03:43
Feature This!
Endorsements Do Payoff-
Hi Guys,

There are several reasons why companies use celebrities to promote their Brand.

The number one reason is the celebrity subliminal endorsement. Consumers like to emulate their heroes (sad that actors are mostly our heroes). But they do….

Not every celebrity endorsement get a home run like Ray Bans with Tom Cruise in “Risky Business”, or Mr. Potato Head in “Toy Story”.

But there are other reasons to Brand your company through Celebrities or in Films & TV shows.

1. Consumer Feel Good: The consumer feels good when they see there product being used by any actor in any scene even if it’s not the star. The best example is that when a consumer see their car on the screen or TV… same year, same model & same color. Most consumers turn to the person next to them and say “That’s my car!!” What that generates for that brand is that they have a satisfied costumer and would consider return business.

2. Corporate Feel Good: Same as Consumer except the person who works for the brand will experience the same Fell Good. If a brand like a coffee shop has an exposure with a celebrity the employee will call his family and friends to tell them that he/she saw so in so holding “HIS/HER” company’s coffee cup. They feel good about where they work. Happy workers are more productive. More productive means more sales.

3. Targeted Demographics: Corporate America targets the demographics of either the Celebrity which could be in the form of an Actor, Singer or Sport Hero: Or Television Shows ( Talk, Sitcom, Game Shows, Reality Shows & Sports Shows) and Feature Films which would include TV Movies

Again these celebrities are their heroes, Present or Past or Animated. Billions of Dollars on James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando, Babe Ruth, Jim Thorpe, Betty Boop ( Zillions of $$) Felix the Cat, Popeye and lets not forget a little mouse called Mickey who brings in a decent amount every day for over 50 years.

Does it work? Simply YES Posted on 24 Oct 2005 00:00
Not for me-
Celebrity endorsements show lack of effort. [bright spark]... "Oh , i got it, our concept will a hot booty-shakin celebrity & the product(lets say Samsung phones!) will sell like hotcakes" YiPpeE!
Who needs a creative team when you have Beyonce. Posted on 20 Jul 2007 15:31
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