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The Key To Failure: Hyper-Commoditization

Rite Aid. General Motors. Krispy Kreme. Sbarro. Dollar Thrifty. Trump Entertainment. What do these brands have in common? They're all expected to go under this year. What is behind this failure?
Some say the answer is obvious. It's the "economy.

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Viral Video Marketing: How Being Different, Relevant, & Good Can Get You Far

By now, you and nearly the entire world has had the opportunity to see and hear about the viral video for Susan Boyle, the dowdy-looking Scottish woman who appeared as a contestant on Britain's Got Talent, and shocked everyone with her incredible voice.

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When To Use Social Media Advertising

Google "social media advertising" and you will get all sorts of opinions on whether advertising in social media makes sense. One blog entry says that now's the time to start before it gets too crowded, and another says it's past its prime.

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The Moment Of Aperture Meets The Transaction

Consider this the abbreviated version of the buying cycle: a shopper wants things, even things she doesn't know she wants, and she seeks these things out or they seek her out as she goes about her daily life.

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Fish Or Cut Bait In Product Naming

Products come and products go. The same goes for product naming.  Whether the consumer gravitates to particular products has everything to do with positioning, the quality of the products' differentiation and the perceptions associated with them. Perceptions begin anywhere the consumer encounters the product.

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Dove For Men: From Line Extension To Line Extinction

The latest miscalculation in line extension is brought to you by Unilever, maker of Dove, the world's first "beauty bar. " Dove was one of the first products in advertising history to "be positioned.

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Keyphrase: Online Positioning

SEO, search engine optimization, search engine marketing, page rank, keyword strategy, online positioning . . . all words or phrases used to refer to achieving the optimal goal of a first-page result in a search engine.

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Repositioning: Can BP Clean Up Its Marketing Mess?

I worked for BP 11 years, as copywriter and creative director at its agency prior to the Amoco merger.

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Xerox Stretches its Brand Positioning

The lead sentence in a recent Wall Street Journal article reads, "Xerox Corp. is launching its most expensive advertising campaign in two decades, as Chief Executive Ursula Burns looks to reposition the company as more than just a copier maker.

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A Brand Position Lesson: Is 31 Years in the Same Position Too Long?

Ad agency Carmichael Lynch's most recent campaign for Harley Davidson featured the rebel slogan, "Screw it. Let's ride. " After decades of communicating Harley's brand position, it seems the agency has told its long-time client to just "screw it. " There's a brand position lesson to be learned here.

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