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What To Learn From Dunkin Donuts And Their Name Change

8/9/2017

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Dunkin Donuts is changing its name…at least in one store.​

Dunkin Donuts’ Pasadena, California location is officially changing its signage to read merely “Dunkin”.  The change  is part of the company’s desire to make a greater move into the coffee market and to distance itself from the crowded donut market. These types of moves are not new.  Kentucky Fried Chicken became “KFC” once they expanded their menu beyond poultry. 

You may ask, “Isn’t that a risk?  Can a company survive moving their marketing beyond the single thing that they are known for?”

Certainly, it is a risk, and there is no need for companies to make drastic changes when they are growing.  But when you begin to lose significant market share, then you have to adapt and overcome.  

It makes sense for Dunkin Donuts...I mean Dunkin.  People love their coffee.  You can buy it in the grocery store (where you can’t buy their donuts), and there is a large population that prefer their coffee over Starbucks.  In fact, so many people like Dunkin Donuts’ coffee, that other companies have created their own version with names like “Donut Shop Blend”.  Dunkin can sell all the donuts they want, but they can also grow their coffee market share and, more than likely, not drop a single donut sale.

So many businesses could take advantage of this approach.  Take the eye care industry for example.  Online frame and contact lens retailers are marginalizing the need for a local eye doctors and their frame room.  You can get an eye exam and glasses without ever leaving your home. 

So, what could that industry do?  Do the same thing that Dunkin has done:  better brand their additional services.  Most eye doctors could expand into vision therapy and corneal-shaping contact lens.  They could brand themselves as a resource for youth travel-athletes who aspire to get college scholarships, and on and on.  The point is, eye doctors, and many other industries, need to find other areas of expertise to brand so as to produce multiple flows of income.

You don’t necessarily have to change your name to make a change like this, but you do have to change your approach to marketing your services.  Time will tell the outcome of Dunkin’s move, but so far, no one seems to be upset with the change.  Perhaps, no one would be upset with yours either.
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Gordon Duncan is the CEO/Consultant of ProSight Success.  He has worked in and cared for the eye care industry for nearly 20 years.  His Prosight system contains helpful strategies like the one above, and His in-person and online consultations are intended to enable you and your practice to succeed in this competitive age.
 

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    Gordon Duncan

    Gordon Duncan is an award-winning educator, salesman, teacher, manager, and writer. He has taught in the public school system, lobbied for school's accreditation, managed eye clinics, led sales' teams, and also publishes books on theology, church, and culture.

    He has been happily married to Amy for over 20 years and is the proud father of 3 wonderful girls. 

    He is a graduate of East Carolina University and Reformed Theological Seminary. 

    He has been in the eye industry since 1999, an elder in the Presbyterian Church of America (PCA) since 2000, planted Sovereign King Church in Garner, NC in 2005, and planted Evident Grace Church in Fredericksburg, VA in 2013. 

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