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Fish Or Cut Bait In Product Naming

Products come and products go. The same goes for product naming.  Whether the consumer gravitates to particular products has everything to do with positioning, the quality of the products' differentiation and the perceptions associated with them. Perceptions begin anywhere the consumer encounters the product.

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Positionist Picks: 2010 Super Bowl Ads

Most Super Bowl Ads Fumble Great Positioning Opportunities

Positioning is how you differentiate a brand. Differentiation provides the reason why someone should buy from you and not another.

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Living Your Brand Position

What I Learned On My 800-Mile Trek Across Texas Interviewing 85-Year-Old Widows

If you're a regular reader of PositionistView, you're well aware of our brand position philosophy -- employing a differentiating idea, a strategy of differentiating your brand against your competition in all of your marketing messages.

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Repositioning: Can BP Clean Up Its Marketing Mess?

I worked for BP 11 years, as copywriter and creative director at its agency prior to the Amoco merger.

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Measuring Apple's Brand Strategy

In the 2008 book, Killer Differentiators: 13 Strategies to Grow Your Brand, authors Jacky Tai and Wilson Chew conclude that Apple's brand strategy of consolidating software and hardware has "crippled its growth. " Are they right?

The answer to this brand strategy question may be a matter of perspective.

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Living the Life of a Positioning Consultant

There was a time when advertising and PR agencies not only wanted to be marketing partners with their clients, but they actually were. In a 2008 Advertising Age article, positioning consultant Al Ries said, "An advertising partnership should operate in much the same way as a marriage partnership.

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Is Mobile the Future of Position Marketing?

The merits of mobile strategies to enhance a brand's position marketing have come more into focus these days. In the United States, smartphone ownership is rising dramatically, driven mainly by ever-dropping prices and the promise of new 4G networks. By mid-2011, 49 percent of U. S.

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Should Deep Discounting Be One of Your Positioning Tactics?

As I mentioned in my first article of the year on 2011 new media trends, there are a lot of exciting trends on the horizon and many new media options starting to settle in as excellent positioning tactics.

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Quality Isn't Good Enough to Differentiate Your Brand

If you are tempted to say "quality" helps differentiate your brand, think again. Do you know how many times I've heard people say "quality" is one of the distinguishing features of their company's product or service? Fact is, I really can't give you a number tallying the total.

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Does Your Marketing Message Align With Your Brand Positioning Strategy?

The best thing you can do to strengthen your brand is to develop a brand positioning strategy that differentiates it from competitors. *

And one of the worst things? Create an ad campaign or advertising message that doesn't align with that position.

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