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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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Toyota. Big Brand. Big Trouble

We've all heard the adage, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall. "  Nowhere is this truer than in corporate business today. The first decade of the 21st century has opened like a Greek tragedy with financial empires and kingdoms tumbling.

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Dove For Men: From Line Extension To Line Extinction

The latest miscalculation in line extension is brought to you by Unilever, maker of Dove, the world's first "beauty bar. " Dove was one of the first products in advertising history to "be positioned.

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Keyphrase: Online Positioning

SEO, search engine optimization, search engine marketing, page rank, keyword strategy, online positioning . . . all words or phrases used to refer to achieving the optimal goal of a first-page result in a search engine.

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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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Visualizing Your Brand Perception with a Positioning Map: Part 1

Welcome to the first half of a discussion on the positioning map, a visual representation of your brand's perception as related to competing products. It's interesting to note that visual thinkers, people who describe thinking in pictures, are thought to represent about 60%-65% of the general population.

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A Tale of Brand Meaning: LeBrand, The Champ. We, The Chumps.

It was 9:27 p. m. on July 8, 2010 that redefined Greenwich Mean Time, as that was the time LeBron James changed his brand meaning and kicked Clevelanders in their nether regions with malice on a nationally televised unspectacular spectacle from the Connecticut suburb.

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Using Online Video in Your Positioning Advertising Mix

The times . . . they are a-changin'. Remember the days of dial-up? Slow downloads? Those days seem in the distant past. Viewing videos online is no longer cumbersome. Online video has moved into the mainstream, and that's good news for your positioning advertising mix.

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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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