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Brand Extension: Mayo move spread Heinz too thin to win

It happens every time I give talks here and around the country on brand positioning and brand extension. Rather than using PowerPoint presentations, I use products as props.

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Think digital branding in today's B2B sales

Brand positioning is designed to tee up sales — a mission as important as ever with today’s plethora of digital branding opportunities to engage and motivate our customers and prospects. The brand’s position is the distinctive idea that separates it from its competitors.

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‘Positioning map’ can reveal your competitive advantage

Today, more than ever, businesses need the right strategies to compete and win in the hyper-competitive marketplace. No market or industry is exempt from the need to focus on and adjust the way they’re doing business.

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Brand Repositioning Misses: Lessons from Toys ‘R’ Us

Beyond my office window, directly across Whipple Avenue, sits the once mighty, and now vacant, Toys “R” Us building.

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Differentiated Content: The Key to Content Marketing

The likely key to content marketing has been discovered; It's probably not what you think.  

Remarkably, 95 percent of CEOs whose companies use content marketing as a marketing tactic report they believe it has had no effect on their businesses.

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As the World Changes, Much Stays the Same at Pizza Oven

DiPietro family employs more than 400 Stark Countians; invests millions of dollars into its multiple businesses and our community. Some things have changed since Joe “Papa Bear” and Georgia DiPietro opened the first Pizza Oven in 1956 on West Tuscarawas in Canton.

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Competitive Business Strategy: Find your playground

Does your business have a clear and well-articulated statement of strategy?

If not, you are at a disadvantage. You might have heard it said, “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.

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From Canton to Grand Rapids, Mary Ann Donuts Gets a Lot of Love

Favorite local donut shop continues to build on its successes; Will soon service four states with its "made fresh daily" donuts. While there are definitely holes in some of Mary Ann Donuts’ products, there appear to be none in the Welden family’s business model.

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Nimbleness, Quality Fuel Growth at Premier Building Solutions

Stark County manufacturer has expanded three times since forming in 2008; Company setting itself up for continued growth in 2019 — and beyond. Some companies struggle to find buyers interested in their products and services. Massillon’s Premier Building Solutions never had that problem.

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Differentiation in Business: A marketing lesson from Mickey Mouse

Winning brands are desirably different in consumers’ minds. Differentiation in business is what helps them win.

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