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Great company slogans are difficult to create, but worth extra effort

Other than creating the brand’s name, the development of tagline might be marketer’s most important task. Great company slogans roll off our tongues like sweet candy, and many are so popular that people use them in their everyday conversations. Great company slogans, though, are much more than clever words.

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Perception in marketing is reality

Brand can’t stand for two disparate ideas or dominate two categories. Perception in marketing will not allow it.  

The decision not to allow your brand to stand for more than one cohesive idea is difficult, but not as difficult as actually sticking with the decision.

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Culturalism Trumps Commercialism in Super Bowl LI

By Lorraine Kessler, Principal | Strategy & Client Service

The Super Bowl is over. Maybe one of the best games ever. But also, one of the most memorable in terms of politics and culturalism.

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FedEx Brand Strategy: Packages and Positioning

FedEx brand strategy delivered results. Changes in industry, however, leave company searching for new winning tagline. FedEx founder Fred Smith wrote an economics paper while studying at Yale. The paper was about making an overnight delivery service more efficient by using the “hub and spokes” concept he conceived.

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Repositioning a Brand: JCPenney showed brand reinvention can stretch only so far

The fortunes of JCPenney in recent years have ebbed and flowed (ebbed, mostly) in a manner that has become a textbook case about the folly of reinventing a brand with little regard to the position it already owns. This shows the challenges behind repositioning a brand.

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Marketing strategy and laws guide wins in marketing warfare

In science and society, laws come together in systems to lend order, guide actions and produce results or outcomes.

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Support Local Retail: It’s a jungle out there

As Amazon and other online operators change retail’s landscape, who will survive? If we don't support local retail, it may disappear. Not so many years ago, if you heard someone explaining the Amazon effect, you could assume it was about trashing the rain forest.

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ArtsinStark: The arts color Stark County’s brand

If I were a painter, I would love adding color to my canvas. If I could sculpt, my clay would take the shape of inspirational people. If I could sing, my song would be joyful.

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R.I.P., Jack Trout, and Thank You for Positioning

Jack Trout helped put Naugahyde under our butts and Betty Crocker back in our kitchens, but most of all he put positioning top of mind for generations of marketers from Canton to China. When we think positioning, we think Jack Trout Positioning.

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Jack Trout and Positioning: Legacy is brand success strategy

Jack Trout’s counsel to 500 Ohio business leaders in 2009 rings as true today as it did the day he delivered it. Times like these, he said, are opportunities for companies and brands.

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