According to prior researchers, the business world is divided into two areas, the physical, offline, world and the cyber world.
They consequently comment that brand power should be considered differently, as the business world has been effectively divided into two arenas. The research reported here is predicated on the view that brand equity is conceptually the same for any brand, and that models of brand equity that work for off-line products and services will work just as well in an on-line context. Thus, two objectives are focal. The first is to demonstrate the theoretical and structural similarity of on- and off-line brand equity. Second, the specific indicators of cyber brand equity will be established from the consumer's perspective through an empirical field study. The study shows that practitioners intent on raising the power of their cyber brand can be guided by the same model as used off-line.