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""Great advertising is hard. Surround yourself with thinkers, dreamers and doers. When the right strategic idea (position) strikes the right creative, it's electric. It has the power to transform human behavior. Unless your advertising is built on this big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night.""
Find your business’ marketing Holy Grail
In the Christian tradition, the vessel Jesus and his disciples used to drink wine at the Last Supper is called the Holy Grail.
Brand a place like Canton: We can score big if we go all in
Canton and the National Football League have been the perfect pair for nearly 100 years, the peanut butter and jelly of the sports world.
How to build durable competitive advantage
Warren Buffet, the “Oracle of Omaha” and arguably one of the greatest investors of all time, is a man whose perspective is widely respected across a variety of business disciplines.
Diebold thrives on nearly 160 years of brand reinvention
Diebold Nixdorf, as Diebold is known today following the acquisition of its major German rival, is the embodiment of a company that has responded well when the time came to...
Focus key to our Stark County economy
Whether local leaders who are mustering up an initiative to reverse our community’s economy will succeed depends largely on the resources at their disposal, the degree to which true collaboration...
Businesses, markets ride pendulum of brand change
Americans elected Barack Obama, then eight years later elected Donald Trump. The pendulum swung and, by virtue of the differences between Obama and Trump, it is reasonable to deduce that...
Business Strategy: After finding your ‘why,’ it’s time to execute
Vision without execution is hallucination.
Company Focus: Know your ‘why’ to focus on ‘where’ and ‘how’
In last week’s column, we discussed the importance of finding your “why” — the reason your company does what it does beyond making money. It’s wrapped around a higher purpose.
Company Mission: Why does your company do what it does?
Why do we pay $1,000 for an iPhone X? Why do we pay $5 for a cup of coffee?
Think like a start-up when developing your company mission
Early and often over the history of this column our counsel has been about the importance of strategy in marketing our products and services and in the company mission.
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Find your brand positioning: Play your Cs to win in marketplace April 17, 2019
Do you ever feel like you’re throwing a wad of spaghetti against the wall and hoping some will stick?That is no way to win in the marketplace.The business with the right strategy and the commitment to carry it out inevit...
The Magnificent Seven: Best marketing books ever April 03, 2019
If you want to get better and better at running your business, you would do well to read a few of the best marketing books of all time.Hewlett-Packard co-founder David Packard famously said, “Marketing is far too importa...
Brand categories great for selling, lousy for unifying our world March 21, 2019
The numbers are mind boggling.Our amazing brains are wired with 100 billion cells, which researchers have found on average send signals 10 times per second. Each brain cell connects to 5,000 other brain cells, which mean...
Winning, compelling content inspires audience to engage, buy March 07, 2019
In a recent column, we quoted marketing guru Seth Godin’s profound observation, “Content marketing is the only marketing left.”Yes, compelling content marketing is that important.Content includes many tactics, from blogg...
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