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Repositioning with Crisis Communication

Click here to play video. "Repositioning" in a Time of Competition, Crisis Communication, and Change

On April 29, nearly five hundred business and marketing executives gathered at the John S.

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Fifty Years of Positioning: the 1990s

From fanny packs to Beanie Babies and from the Macarena to untucked flannel shirts, some fads in the 1990s might take a little while to come back into style (if they ever do).

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Planning Your Participation in Social Media

In the first two installments on planning social media, Innis Maggiore provided perspective and specific categories and examples that define the social media space.

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Joining the Social Media Conversation

The most popular question we are asked on the topic of social media is how to join the conversation. When joining social media (the third level of participation) conversation, an organization intentionally commits to developing relevant content published on a regular basis.

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Niche Differentiation Strategy: Mine riches in niches

Charlie Munger knows a bit about making money. Charlie, 94, is worth close to $2 billion. He is the very longtime partner of Warren Buffett, 87. Together they run Berkshire Hathaway. Both still go to work every day. Munger said, “The No.

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Super Bowl Advertising: Will advertisers ‘show me the new’ in Super Bowl LII?

In Super Bowl advertising, it might be the year of the familiar — familiar advertisers, familiar celebrities, familiar teasers, familiar promotional stunts and humor. Familiar is not all bad.

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Super Bowl Advertising Effectiveness: winners and losers

Silly and sentimental. Advertisers play it safe this year.  

According to Nielsen, 51 percent of viewers prefer watching the Super Bowl commercials to watching the big game itself.  

Super Bowl advertisers are known for using Trojan horse strategy to slip their ad messages inside our gated minds.

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Philly Dilly: Eagles Fly. Ads Flop.

Super Bowl advertisers are known for using Trojan horse strategy to slip their ad messages inside our gated minds. The strategy relies on creating commercials so entertaining and popular, culturally or socially relevant, silly or sentimental that viewers actually want to pay attention.

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Think like a start-up when developing your company mission

Early and often over the history of this column our counsel has been about the importance of strategy in marketing our products and services and in the company mission. We say it often because it is so critical. It cannot be overstated.

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Company Mission: Why does your company do what it does?

Why do we pay $1,000 for an iPhone X? Why do we pay $5 for a cup of coffee?

Many companies struggle to find their “why,” also known as their company mission.

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