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Positioning in Digital Marketing: Start with positioning to win online search
In the 1970s, Jack Trout and Al Ries first coined the term “positioning” for use in the field of marketing. It made an immediate impact, and nearly a half-century later, the term has become ubiquitous in the business world.
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Your brand DNA sets the course
The end of another year is a good time to reflect and work on your business rather than in your business.
Your business deserves the attention and a good place to start is inside your company.
There are two kinds of companies: product-focused and customer-focused.
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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Supporting Local Business: Think outside ‘big box’
According to a recent report, Stark County’s population will continue to decrease, get older and have fewer dollars if our community stays on its current trajectory.
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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.
Company Focus: Know your ‘why’ to focus on ‘where’ and ‘how’
In last week’s column, we discussed the importance of finding your “why” — the reason your company does what it does beyond making money. It’s wrapped around a higher purpose. The why is considered immutable. The answer, we learned, comes from the customer’s perspective.
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Focus key to our Stark County economy
Whether local leaders who are mustering up an initiative to reverse our community’s economy will succeed depends largely on the resources at their disposal, the degree to which true collaboration is achieved and the quality of their ultimate plan.
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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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Brand a place like Canton: We can score big if we go all in
Canton and the National Football League have been the perfect pair for nearly 100 years, the peanut butter and jelly of the sports world. Pro football is in our DNA.
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