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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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Johnson Controls-Pro Football Hall of Fame Village deal is brand-building genius

Agreement announced Nov. 18 becomes day when excellence met excellence in Stark County. Chances are, most readers of The Canton Repository hadn’t formed much of an image about the Johnson Controls brand before last week, but that most certainly will change soon.

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Personal Branding Builds the Value of ‘You, Inc.’: How to brand yourself

LeBron James, Donald Trump and many other celebrities know that each of us must be known for something. We need to market ourselves to further our careers. Determining how to brand yourself is more important than ever.

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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.

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Appreciating advertising’s greatest game through Super Bowl ads

Stakes are high and costs considerable when companies consider purchasing a 30-second spot during the Super Bowl. Super Bowl ads can make or break a brand. A marketing column wouldn’t be a marketing column without commenting on the ultimate arena for advertising: the Super Bowl. Ultimate indeed.

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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.

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We’re All Suffering from ‘Infobesity’: Differentiation strategy key

In an era of information overload, brand differentiation strategy becomes more important than ever. If information contained calories, we’d all be fatA Microsoft-sponsored study found the average human attention span has fallen from 12 seconds in 2000, around the time the mobile revolution began, to eight seconds in 2015.

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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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Positioning delivers when marketing a professional business firm

Legion are the tales of marketing battles waged by brands that consumers see on retail shelves. But a huge number of businesses go to market every day with no tangible product — yet they are locked in marketing combat.

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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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