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The Magnificent Seven: Best marketing books ever
If you want to get better and better at running your business, you would do well to read a few of the best marketing books of all time. Hewlett-Packard co-founder David Packard famously said, “Marketing is far too important to leave to the marketing department.
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Want to be like Buffet and Socrates? Read!
No less an authority than Warren Buffett believes reading is essential to business success. A Columbia University student asked Buffett what he could do to prepare for his career. Buffett thought for a few seconds and then said, “Read 500 pages a week. That’s how knowledge works.
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Amazon and Whole Foods: What will grocers do?
Amazon has become the “everything for everybody” retailer, which in positioning parlance means it’s the opposite of the focused specialists. Amazon and Whole Foods getting together solidifies this. Back in the early days, Amazon’s positioning statement read: “For World Wide Web users who enjoy books, Amazon.
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Getting ‘right idea’ with your brand positioning statement
Remember this rule: A brand can stand for only one idea. Readers no doubt understand when someone warns, “Don’t put the cart in front of the horse. ” This would be like marketing before developing your brand positioning statement.
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Growth Strategy: Grow your company by growing your reach
Marketers have heard for generations that 80 percent of our business comes from 20 percent of our customers, but a strong case can be made that this generalization doesn’t much apply anymore — if it ever did. Pareto PrincipleYou might have heard of the Pareto Principle.
View Web PageR.I.P., Jack Trout, and Thank You for Positioning
Jack Trout helped put Naugahyde under our butts and Betty Crocker back in our kitchens, but most of all he put positioning top of mind for generations of marketers from Canton to China. When we think positioning, we think Jack Trout Positioning.
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55 Years Later: Revisiting Jack Trout’s Original Article on Positioning
If you haven’t read Jack Trout’s original article on positioning, you can read it here. Published in Industrial Marketing in June of 1969, this single article was the foundation upon which Trout and Ries built their principles of positioning.
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Lots to learn from the hedgehog and the fox
To understand the spiny hedgehog and the sly silver fox, we must go back nearly three millennia. It started with a verse from 7th century BC Greek poet Archilochus: “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows only one big thing.
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Find your business’ marketing Holy Grail
In the Christian tradition, the vessel Jesus and his disciples used to drink wine at the Last Supper is called the Holy Grail. Through the centuries, the Holy Grail has come to be known as something very special and highly sought for its miraculous powers.
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Positioning Storytelling.
Is the advertising industry losing its way? The recent Wall Street Journal article about the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity seems to point that the answer to that question is yes. Positioning storytelling is weak.
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