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Should Deep Discounting Be One of Your Positioning Tactics?
As I mentioned in my first article of the year on 2011 new media trends, there are a lot of exciting trends on the horizon and many new media options starting to settle in as excellent positioning tactics.
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Does Your Marketing Message Align With Your Brand Positioning Strategy?
The best thing you can do to strengthen your brand is to develop a brand positioning strategy that differentiates it from competitors. *
And one of the worst things? Create an ad campaign or advertising message that doesn't align with that position.
Holding the Market Leader Position Swings on the Hinge of "IF"
Of all the ways to differentiate a brand, none is better than leadership. Leadership is its own credential. People naturally believe if you hold the market leader position, your product or service is better. The benefit of becoming a category leader goes well beyond bragging rights.
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Social Marketing ROI: July 2011 Update
In 2011 New Media Trends, I covered the trends we're seeing with Facebook and its climb to a billion members. According to its statistics page, the social network is now at 750 million plus members. One billion should be achieved by the end of 2011.
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2012 Super Bowl Ads
Winning Ads of Super Bowl XLVI
Before getting to the winners and losers among the 2012 Super Bowl ads, allow me to digress. Borrowing from ancient practical wisdom, two is better than one, three is better than two. Consider a cable. A cable is a stranded cord.
Show Dad a Little Dove®
This Father's Day, Dove® wants to sell more product. So, it has jumped gender and journeyed into product line extension land. Unilever, the parent company, wants to sell dad antiperspirant, deodorant and soap. Yes, Dove for dads -- brand androgyny.
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Repositioning: Push Brand Relevance to Rev Up Your Position
Building a strong brand is not easy. Few do it. It takes the right strategy for differentiation plus factors of focus and commitment as measured by time and money. Sometimes, repositioning is needed. Conventional positioning wisdom contends that getting to the top is harder than staying on top.
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FedEx's Strategic Positioning Concept Absolutely, Positively Disrupted
FedEx founder Fred Smith wrote an economics paper while at Yale. The paper was about his idea to make an overnight delivery service more efficient by using the "hub and spokes" concept. His professor told him that it would never work and gave poor Fred a C.
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Political Advice for Candidates and Marketers: Brand Perception Trumps Rationality
One of the primary principles of positioning is that minds don't change, at least not easily. If you are like me, the natural inclination is to argue with this principle.
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Brand Meaning: Can a Brand Change Its Spots?
Famed Apple Stores leader and Silicon Valley wunderkind Ron Johnson thought so. He swept in as JC Penney's new CEO with celebratory bravado. He promised to change the stodgy brand meaning to a younger, hipper and more upscale image. Seventeen months later, JC Penney's board fired him.
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