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What we can learn from Xerox and brand failures
Company failed (and failed again) when it strayed from its established core position. The basic positioning principle applies regardless of the size of your business or whether you sell to consumers or other businesses.
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Tendency to tinker your marketing business plan often too tempting
Sometimes the right thing to do is to do nothing, and that takes discipline. In marketing, as in investing, sometimes the right thing to do is to do nothing. But the tendency to tinker with your marketing business plan is often too tempting. Doing nothing is a decision.
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Perception in marketing is reality
Brand can’t stand for two disparate ideas or dominate two categories. Perception in marketing will not allow it.
The decision not to allow your brand to stand for more than one cohesive idea is difficult, but not as difficult as actually sticking with the decision.
Culturalism Trumps Commercialism in Super Bowl LI
By Lorraine Kessler, Principal | Strategy & Client Service
The Super Bowl is over. Maybe one of the best games ever. But also, one of the most memorable in terms of politics and culturalism.
Emotional Appeal: If we win the heart, we will win the mind
We make decisions with the ‘emotional’ side of our brain, then we rationalize the decision with the ‘thinking’ side of our brain. Emotional appeal drives us to rational decision.
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Thinking about advertising budgets? Think like Henry Ford
Ad agency people frequently hear the question, “How much money should we spend on marketing?” The question is pretty basic, but the answer is not a simple sum or percentage. Advertising budgets are challenging.
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Repositioning a Brand: JCPenney showed brand reinvention can stretch only so far
The fortunes of JCPenney in recent years have ebbed and flowed (ebbed, mostly) in a manner that has become a textbook case about the folly of reinventing a brand with little regard to the position it already owns. This shows the challenges behind repositioning a brand.
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‘New Coke’ Failure: Why decision was too far out to swallow
In spite of the fact that tests showed the new formula tasted better than old Coke, customers believed otherwise. The New Coke failure happened because Coke tried to be something it wasn't.
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Support Local Retail: It’s a jungle out there
As Amazon and other online operators change retail’s landscape, who will survive? If we don't support local retail, it may disappear. Not so many years ago, if you heard someone explaining the Amazon effect, you could assume it was about trashing the rain forest.
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ArtsinStark: The arts color Stark County’s brand
If I were a painter, I would love adding color to my canvas. If I could sculpt, my clay would take the shape of inspirational people. If I could sing, my song would be joyful.
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