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Should Deep Discounting Be One of Your Positioning Tactics?

As I mentioned in my first article of the year on 2011 new media trends, there are a lot of exciting trends on the horizon and many new media options starting to settle in as excellent positioning tactics.

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Does Your Marketing Message Align With Your Brand Positioning Strategy?

The best thing you can do to strengthen your brand is to develop a brand positioning strategy that differentiates it from competitors. *

And one of the worst things? Create an ad campaign or advertising message that doesn't align with that position.

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Social Marketing ROI: July 2011 Update

In 2011 New Media Trends, I covered the trends we're seeing with Facebook and its climb to a billion members. According to its statistics page, the social network is now at 750 million plus members. One billion should be achieved by the end of 2011.

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Chevy's Brand Positioning Attempt

It Sure is Deep in Here: Chevy is "retooling" and "reinvigorating" so that you'll be "resonating"

Apparently, brand positioning and resulting sales no longer matter in the automotive business. It's all about resonating. Recently, GM Chief Marketing Officer Joel Ewanick told the world that the time had come.

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Search: Still the Most Strategic Internet Marketing Tool

It's 2012 so surely we've moved past the humdrum of basic search. Search engine optimization (SEO) and pay per click (PPC) are yesterday's news when it comes to strategic Internet marketing, right?

If you judge by what everyone's discussing, then you'd be right.

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Determining the Best Social Media Positioning Strategies

Innis Maggiore attended three weeks of Facebook Bootcamp this past fall in search of the best social media positioning tips. Most of our associates attended the six-webinar series.

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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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Brand Meaning: Can a Brand Change Its Spots?

Famed Apple Stores leader and Silicon Valley wunderkind Ron Johnson thought so. He swept in as JC Penney's new CEO with celebratory bravado. He promised to change the stodgy brand meaning to a younger, hipper and more upscale image. Seventeen months later, JC Penney's board fired him.

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Can Volvo be the Safe Luxury Car?

A little history first: Do you remember when Volvo was shaped like a tank and even drove like one? It was engineered tough and reliable. The controls on the dashboard were few. It was all about safety. Decision making throughout the organization was filtered first through the safety lens.

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Positioning Storytelling.

Is the advertising industry losing its way? The recent Wall Street Journal article about the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity seems to point that the answer to that question is yes. Positioning storytelling is weak.

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