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Creative Thinking in Marketing: Reaching brains through sweaty palms

‘Creatives’ conjure the words, pictures and sounds that drive advertising messages into our minds. Creative thinking in marketing is what helps drive results. Creative.

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Niche Up for Success

With a GDP of nearly $20 trillion and a citizenry accounting for more than a quarter of the global household consumption, the United States is inarguably the most hyper-consumer economy in the history of the world. Hyper-consumerism begets hyper-competition. Hyper-competition is the No. 1 problem facing marketers today.

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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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Squirrels Paddles Along, Prepares to Catch Next Technology Wave

Stark County software developer’s next move is building and selling its own hardware; could double local employment to 80 in the next 18-24 months. Most Northeast Ohio squirrels are content high in an oak tree collecting acorns to stuff into their cheeks.

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Did Jaguar Commit Brand Suicide?

I’ve been asked about a couple dozen times now, “What did you think of that Jaguar ad?” My response is always, “Well, it’s interesting…” and I stop there because most people have already formed their opinions, and it’s typically, “It’s awful.

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Size Doesn't Matter! Marketing Focus Does.

Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of business. To those of you in leadership positions: The foundation of effective leadership is thinking through the organization's difference, defining it and establishing it, clearly and visibly. You have to have a well differentiated brand to survive today.

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The Good Bad & Ugly of Bed Bath & Beyond – Positioning in Business

The other evening, my wife and I were discussing the recent bad news about Bed Bath & Beyond. Bemoaning the fact that this time it probably is the end (bankruptcy usually is), she ran to the store to get the last of a few products she typically buys there.

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How to Rate the Most Winning Super Bowl Ads

(Special to the Canton Repository)

In this year's National Football League AFC Divisional Round playoff game, Cleveland Browns Coach Kevin Stefanski was accused of playing it safe.

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Laws of marketing point path to success

Last installment in four-part series shows that laws of marketing from nearly 25 years ago still elevate brands above their competition.  

In art and in science, basic tenets serve as the foundation of “laws” that guide actions that help us navigate to the outcomes we desire.

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Marketing strategy and laws guide wins in marketing warfare

In science and society, laws come together in systems to lend order, guide actions and produce results or outcomes.

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