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Perception in marketing is reality

Brand can’t stand for two disparate ideas or dominate two categories. Perception in marketing will not allow it.  

The decision not to allow your brand to stand for more than one cohesive idea is difficult, but not as difficult as actually sticking with the decision.

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Positioning delivers when marketing a professional business firm

Legion are the tales of marketing battles waged by brands that consumers see on retail shelves. But a huge number of businesses go to market every day with no tangible product — yet they are locked in marketing combat.

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Super Bowl Advertising Effectiveness: winners and losers

Silly and sentimental. Advertisers play it safe this year.  

According to Nielsen, 51 percent of viewers prefer watching the Super Bowl commercials to watching the big game itself.  

Super Bowl advertisers are known for using Trojan horse strategy to slip their ad messages inside our gated minds.

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Crunch numbers to calculate advertising investment

An investment in advertising is key to driving sales and growing the organization, but despite its importance, an advertising budget is a difficult decision for many companies. Jef Richards, professor and chair of the Department of Advertising at Michigan State University makes a compelling argument: “Advertising is totally unnecessary.

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Deming’s gift to marketers: Test. Optimize. Repeat.

William Edwards Deming is credited with launching the Total Quality Management movement that is the groundwork for our modern emphasis on efficient and effective manufacturing. Among his many accomplishments, Deming popularized statistical testing and analysis, which, it turns out, today helps marketers gain confidence in our work.

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How to Critique Super Bowl Commercials

Every year, friends and family ask me if I watch Super Bowl commercials differently because I’m in the ad business.

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Competitive Positioning: Wal-Mart vs. Target

Times are topsy-turvy and one of the great reversals can be seen in the world of retail. And a lesson in competitive positioning is left to be learned. While Wal-Mart, the largest company in the world, has always dwarfed rival Target in size ($406 billion in annual revenue vs.

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Messaging Strategy: The Cute v. Clever Debate

It's a messaging strategy debate that rages wherever writers write or designers design. It's an issue that can boil the polar ice caps - and the gap between the two sides can be as big as the thousands of miles between our North and South poles.

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Starbucks: Instant Bad Karma

Starbucks Devalues Its Brand - To Go!

Starbucks has become a target over the last year or so with both Dunkin' Donuts and McDonald's repositioning the coffeehouse chain to set up their own competitive positions.

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DEVO Whips Itself Into Shape With Positioning Marketing

Can music benefit from positioning marketing? Though an art form, it is also a product, so in that context the answer is a definite yes.

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