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Advertise During a Recession?
Fast-food giant McDonald's made a critical choice during the early 1990s recession that ultimately resulted in a loss of market share: McDonald’s chose to not advertise during a recession. Spending by consumers was declining, and the fast-food sector was hit particularly hard.
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Bud Light Violates Core Positioning Principles
Set the politics aside. Forget your values for just a moment. Bud Light’s marketing fiasco reminds us that violating positioning principles can cost you a lot more than advertising dollars.
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The Good Bad & Ugly of Bed Bath & Beyond – Positioning in Business
The other evening, my wife and I were discussing the recent bad news about Bed Bath & Beyond. Bemoaning the fact that this time it probably is the end (bankruptcy usually is), she ran to the store to get the last of a few products she typically buys there.
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AI-Powered Marketing – The Latest Disruption
If you’ve been around long enough, you remember the days when it was declared, “The internet is going to replace books!” When this was proclaimed, I worked at a book publisher (1993-94), and the owner feared he would be out of business within five years due to this proclamation by…
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How a UX Design Agency Impacts Your Greatest Marketing Tool
These days, before someone ever visits your actual store or looks at your product in person, there is almost 100% certainty they took a moment to look up your website.
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Scratch me behind the ears. Chewy does — with something called positioning alignment.
A picture is worth a thousand loyal customers every week. We want to call out Chewy for a job well done and celebrate this positioning alignment. Pets mean a lot to their owners. And Chewy has come to mean a lot to those people.
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Podcast promotion isn’t just entertainment, it’s marketing.
If you’re attentive to advertising’s current landscape, you may have already paired digital marketing media like social and paid search with traditional media like radio, print, and television. Yet if you think you’ve exhausted available marketing tactics, you’re only just beginning.
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Dilemma of the day: How to reach your target audience
In the era of digital marketing, many have come to believe marketing is as simple as plugging in your desired audience and watching the results flow. Our recent discussion with the Wizard of Ads, Roy H. Williams, though has us rethinking the expense and effectiveness of limiting your audience.
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Differentiate or Die by AI
One of Jack Trout’s most popular works – Differentiate or Die – was published in 2000, just after the Y2K “scare. ” The technology bubble was about to burst, and changes to our way of living and thinking due to the 9/11 disaster were just around the corner.
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Advertise Responsibly®
After a recent lecture at Grove City College, a discerning student asked me the following question, “Do you ever find yourself losing sleep at night because of a marketing campaign you created that conflicted with your morals?”
My answer was easy and without hesitation. “No.
