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Jack Trout and Positioning: Legacy is brand success strategy
Jack Trout’s counsel to 500 Ohio business leaders in 2009 rings as true today as it did the day he delivered it. Times like these, he said, are opportunities for companies and brands.
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Understanding your customer is key to differentiation
Only when we know what is motivating our prime prospect are we able to find our differentiating idea, our position. Business today is conducted in intensely competitive, technology-driven global marketplaces. Whether you are an international conglomerate or a local mom-and-pop shop, there is no sign of the intensity decreasing.
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Growth Strategy: Grow your company by growing your reach
Marketers have heard for generations that 80 percent of our business comes from 20 percent of our customers, but a strong case can be made that this generalization doesn’t much apply anymore — if it ever did. Pareto PrincipleYou might have heard of the Pareto Principle.
View Web PageCompany 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. The why is considered immutable. The answer, we learned, comes from the customer’s perspective.
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Branding & Social Responsibility: Ability to respond an important responsibility
Terrell Owens, the former NFL All-Pro receiver, unprecedentedly is passing on attending his Pro Football Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Canton. It's a case study in branding and social responsibility.
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Brand Purpose: Beyond features and benefits, companies win with their whys
Not too long ago, the popular advertising strategy was to promote product features like low calories, shavers with pivot heads and toothpaste that removes stains. Then we shifted to something with more personal relevance: product benefits.
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Institutionalizing Your Position: A Key Employee Relations Strategy
Recently, I was at lunch with a friend who had just changed jobs. He happened to take a leadership position with one of our clients. As he was touring his new employer’s building, he entered the board room and saw a big phrase on one of the walls.
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Boost sales with branded packaging design that aligns with your position.
If you’re a consumer product manufacturer, you’ve undoubtedly marketed your product through a variety of advertising, media, and PR tactics.
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Differentiating Your Brand
Differentiating your brand may prove quite a challenge. When we work with our clients on determining their differentiating idea we put them through our proprietary Appreciative Discovery®.
As part of the Appreciative Discovery, the following differentiating filter was developed.
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.
