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Sears' saga found in snowblowers
Former Sears executive Steve Goldstein was so shocked when he found snowblowers for sale at his company’s Miami store that he wrote the book, “Why are there Snowblowers in Miami?”
That is but one of myriad anecdotes in Sears’ 120-year history, yet it reveals much about the thinking of those who…
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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You Have Their Attention – Now Get Their Trust
Whether it’s as simple as a handwritten sign reading “Lemonade Stand,” or as complex as a Super Bowl commercial, attention marketing can be reduced to winning the gaze of the prospect. This challenge isn’t an easy one.
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Living Your Brand Position
What I Learned On My 800-Mile Trek Across Texas Interviewing 85-Year-Old Widows
If you're a regular reader of PositionistView, you're well aware of our brand position philosophy -- employing a differentiating idea, a strategy of differentiating your brand against your competition in all of your marketing messages.
Getting ‘right idea’ with your brand positioning statement
Remember this rule: A brand can stand for only one idea. Readers no doubt understand when someone warns, “Don’t put the cart in front of the horse. ” This would be like marketing before developing your brand positioning statement.
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Brands must be smart about their social media content strategy
Businesses churn out more and more messages, but ‘engagement’ from customers isn’t keeping pace. There’s only so much an audience can absorb. Businesses churned out three times more messages in the past year, but their prospects and customers didn’t pay any more attention to them. Not good.
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The Magnificent Seven: Best marketing books ever
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 important to leave to the marketing department.
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Joining the Social Media Conversation
The most popular question we are asked on the topic of social media is how to join the conversation. When joining social media (the third level of participation) conversation, an organization intentionally commits to developing relevant content published on a regular basis.
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Toyota. Big Brand. Big Trouble
We've all heard the adage, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall. " Nowhere is this truer than in corporate business today. The first decade of the 21st century has opened like a Greek tragedy with financial empires and kingdoms tumbling.
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Sybil the Chicken: Examining KFC's Positioning Strategy
KFC -- or is it KGC? -- seems to be having a personality crisis (with all apologies to the 70s rock band New York Dolls), which means it has a positioning strategy crisis.
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