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Did Jaguar Commit Brand Suicide?

I’ve been asked about a couple dozen times now, “What did you think of that Jaguar ad?” My response is always, “Well, it’s interesting…” and I stop there because most people have already formed their opinions, and it’s typically, “It’s awful.

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We've crossed the 'creepy' line

Have Google and Facebook crossed the creepy line?

Former Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt once said, "There's what I call the creepy line, and the Google policy about a lot of these things is to get right up to the creepy line but not cross it.

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Booking.com, Doritos, Hellmann’s, Michelob Ultra, and Reese’s Win the Super Bowl Commercial Test™

Last year, we published “How to Critique Super Bowl Commercials” and the details of our proprietary, secret-sauce Super Bowl Commercial Test™.

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Political Advice for Candidates and Marketers: Brand Perception Trumps Rationality

One of the primary principles of positioning is that minds don't change, at least not easily. If you are like me, the natural inclination is to argue with this principle.

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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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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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Holding the Market Leader Position Swings on the Hinge of "IF"

Of all the ways to differentiate a brand, none is better than leadership. Leadership is its own credential. People naturally believe if you hold the market leader position, your product or service is better. The benefit of becoming a category leader goes well beyond bragging rights.

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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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Differentiated Content: The Key to Content Marketing

The likely key to content marketing has been discovered; It's probably not what you think.  

Remarkably, 95 percent of CEOs whose companies use content marketing as a marketing tactic report they believe it has had no effect on their businesses.

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Internal Positioning Will Have a Staggering Impact on Your Brand

We tell our clients and prospects every day that their company's position is never some outlandish idea with little relation to who they are and what they're all about. It's really quite simple and, in fact, in the words of Jack Trout, it's almost always "obvious.

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