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Find your brand positioning: Play your Cs to win in marketplace

Do you ever feel like you’re throwing a wad of spaghetti against the wall and hoping some will stick?

That is no way to win in the marketplace. The business with the right strategy and the commitment to carry it out inevitably will win.

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Deming’s gift to marketers: Test. Optimize. Repeat.

William Edwards Deming is credited with launching the Total Quality Management movement that is the groundwork for our modern emphasis on efficient and effective manufacturing. Among his many accomplishments, Deming popularized statistical testing and analysis, which, it turns out, today helps marketers gain confidence in our work.

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7 greatest brand positions excel in 3C test

Brands that become great do so because their positions pass the 3C's test with straight A's. All great brands have clearly defined ideas that differentiate against competitors. That's the first C.  Their ideas are highly meaningful and relevant with customers, the second C.

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Want to be like Buffet and Socrates? Read!

No less an authority than Warren Buffett believes reading is essential to business success. A Columbia University student asked Buffett what he could do to prepare for his career. Buffett thought for a few seconds and then said, “Read 500 pages a week. That’s how knowledge works.

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Trout's Seven 'Abouts' Shape Marketing Strategy

Marketing strategy is first about finding your difference, then finding the best way to get your differentiating idea into the minds of your prospects and customers. The explosion of choice for the consumer is the direct result of the explosion of competition.

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Seven ways to win in a commodity market

Many of the more than 5 million businesses in the United States compete as commodities hamstrung by not understanding how to grow and thrive. On the monopoly-to-commodity continuum, the closer one is to the commodity side, the more price becomes a key factor.

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Old World Values, Quality Foods Drive DioGuardi's Success

Word about Canton’s “best-kept secret” starting to get out; locally owned market and deli brings unique taste of Italy right here to Stark County. It’s not easy to sneak into DioGuardi’s Italian Market and Deli, 3116 Market Ave. N. in Canton.

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Squirrels Paddles Along, Prepares to Catch Next Technology Wave

Stark County software developer’s next move is building and selling its own hardware; could double local employment to 80 in the next 18-24 months. Most Northeast Ohio squirrels are content high in an oak tree collecting acorns to stuff into their cheeks.

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As the World Changes, Much Stays the Same at Pizza Oven

DiPietro family employs more than 400 Stark Countians; invests millions of dollars into its multiple businesses and our community. Some things have changed since Joe “Papa Bear” and Georgia DiPietro opened the first Pizza Oven in 1956 on West Tuscarawas in Canton.

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From Canton to Grand Rapids, Mary Ann Donuts Gets a Lot of Love

Favorite local donut shop continues to build on its successes; Will soon service four states with its "made fresh daily" donuts. While there are definitely holes in some of Mary Ann Donuts’ products, there appear to be none in the Welden family’s business model.

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