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Market Positioning and the Context Filter: Stanley vs. Kodak
In a recent planning session for our 50th anniversary events, I was surprised to learn that our senior project manager had specified a Stanley mug for our kickoff celebration swag bag. I’m a Yeti fan, so this choice raised my curiosity. I might have even expected Hydro Flask.
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2024 Super Bowl Ads Winners and Losers
If you read our “How to Critique Super Bowl Commercials” PositionistView article last week, you know we have a fairly critical eye when judging the commercials. Along with a crazy overtime Chiefs’ win, the ads also provided plenty of chatter at our watch party.
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Fifty Years of Positioning: the 1970s
Some things have changed since Dick Maggiore and his stepdad, the late Chuck Innis, founded Innis Maggiore in 1974 at the kitchen table of their home in Canton. But some things haven’t changed one bit.
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55 Years Later: Revisiting Jack Trout’s Original Article on Positioning
If you haven’t read Jack Trout’s original article on positioning, you can read it here. Published in Industrial Marketing in June of 1969, this single article was the foundation upon which Trout and Ries built their principles of positioning.
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CTV Advertising – Can It Be Your New Marketing BFF?
For years, the promise of Connected TV’s (CTV) rise to prominence was predicted. Today, there’s no more prediction, just reality. According to Statista, in 2023, 88% of US TV households have at least one internet-connected device.
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Fifty Years of Positioning: the 1980s
From mullets to parachute pants and leg warmers to Rubik’s Cube, the 1980s featured some wildly hot fads that ended up being relatively short-lived. But for Innis Maggiore, the 1980s spawned a new marketing philosophy that most certainly has stood the test of time — positioning.
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It’s a dog-eat-dog world: the rise of challenger brand advertising
There have always been brands like McDonalds, Nike, and Amazon, that dominate the headspace of consumers. Despite massive control of their respective markets, this shield isn’t entirely impenetrable. Challenger brand advertising has historically found gaps in their armor by bringing attention to consumer desires left unsatisfied.
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Fifty Years of Positioning: the 1990s
From fanny packs to Beanie Babies and from the Macarena to untucked flannel shirts, some fads in the 1990s might take a little while to come back into style (if they ever do).
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Positioning for Success: The Value of Designing a New Category
Want to dominate a business category? There’s only one sure way to do it: create a NEW category. As we learned from Jack Trout’s, Marketing Warfare, “if you’re not #1 or #2, be something new!” As positionists, we’re always encouraging our clients to stand apart.
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Fifty Years of Positioning: the 2000s
We survived the Y2K scare, the boy band craze, a boot-cut jeans resurgence, flip phones, and dial-up Internet early in the 2000s. This only made us stronger. From 2000 to 2010, Innis Maggiore flexed its muscles with an increased focus on positioning. Growth and recognition followed.
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