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2012 Super Bowl Ad Survey Reveals Readers Liked Car, Truck and Flower Ads
Today we send out a hearty "thank you" to all of our positioning friends who read and responded to Lorraine Kessler's excellent analysis of the best (and worst) Super Bowl TV commercials, and especially to all who commented and voted in our 2012 Super Bowl ad survey.
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Search: Still the Most Strategic Internet Marketing Tool
It's 2012 so surely we've moved past the humdrum of basic search. Search engine optimization (SEO) and pay per click (PPC) are yesterday's news when it comes to strategic Internet marketing, right?
If you judge by what everyone's discussing, then you'd be right.
FedEx's Strategic Positioning Concept Absolutely, Positively Disrupted
FedEx founder Fred Smith wrote an economics paper while at Yale. The paper was about his idea to make an overnight delivery service more efficient by using the "hub and spokes" concept. His professor told him that it would never work and gave poor Fred a C.
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A Brand Position Lesson: Is 31 Years in the Same Position Too Long?
Ad agency Carmichael Lynch's most recent campaign for Harley Davidson featured the rebel slogan, "Screw it. Let's ride. " After decades of communicating Harley's brand position, it seems the agency has told its long-time client to just "screw it. " There's a brand position lesson to be learned here.
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Think bothism to liberate your marketing
Many pundits in the world of marketing and advertising are obsessed with stuff dying. “Radio is dead in 10 years. This study proves it. ”
“TV is dying. ”
“Twitter learns to thrive or die. ”
“The end of advertising as we know it. ”
“Branding is dead.
Social Media Communication: Social Is Anything But
It is said social media has changed communication. It hasn't. Communication is the same as it always has been. Message. Sender. Receiver. Social media's problem is the receiver. Most times there isn't one.
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Can Volvo be the Safe Luxury Car?
A little history first: Do you remember when Volvo was shaped like a tank and even drove like one? It was engineered tough and reliable. The controls on the dashboard were few. It was all about safety. Decision making throughout the organization was filtered first through the safety lens.
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Ground control to Elon Musk
Elon Musk is widely known for his willingness to invest his mind and his riches to stretch the envelope on a variety of frontiers, from automobiles to software to outer space travel. Along the way, Musk has been the architect of brands that are leaders in their respective categories.
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Please Pass the ... All-Purpose Sauce?
Quick! What's A. 1. ? (You answered, "Steak sauce. ")
Quick! Name a steak sauce. (You said, "A. 1. ")
Positioning marketing theory calls this "equivalence. " Steak sauce is A. 1. ; and A. 1. is steak sauce.
Building Durable Competitive Advantage
Warren Buffet, the “Oracle of Omaha” and arguably one of the greatest investors of all time, is a man whose perspective is widely respected across a variety of business disciplines. His yardstick for selecting companies in which he might invest also measures up in the brand-building world.
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