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Fifty Years of Positioning: the 1970s
Some things have changed since Dick Maggiore and his stepdad, the late Chuck Innis, founded Innis Maggiore in 1974 at the kitchen table of their home in Canton. But some things haven’t changed one bit.
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Nike Tagline: How to execute the perfect tagline
Gary Gilmore was strapped to a chair on the morning of Jan. 17, 1977, wearing a T-shirt and a bag over his head. He was to become the first person in the United States to be executed in a decade.
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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.
2024 Super Bowl Ads Winners and Losers
If you read our “How to Critique Super Bowl Commercials” PositionistView article last week, you know we have a fairly critical eye when judging the commercials. Along with a crazy overtime Chiefs’ win, the ads also provided plenty of chatter at our watch party.
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The Magnificent Seven: Best marketing books ever
If you want to get better and better at running your business, you would do well to read a few of the best marketing books of all time. Hewlett-Packard co-founder David Packard famously said, “Marketing is far too important to leave to the marketing department.
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55 Years Later: Revisiting Jack Trout’s Original Article on Positioning
If you haven’t read Jack Trout’s original article on positioning, you can read it here. Published in Industrial Marketing in June of 1969, this single article was the foundation upon which Trout and Ries built their principles of positioning.
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The Pendulum Of Brand Change
Vision without execution is hallucination. Your strategy determined and decisions made, it's time to execute. Turning the vision into reality, Business Strategy and marketing is where things can fall apart. Americans elected Barack Obama, then eight years later elected Donald Trump.
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Winning, compelling content inspires audience to engage, buy
In a recent column, we quoted marketing guru Seth Godin’s profound observation, “Content marketing is the only marketing left. ”
Yes, compelling content marketing is that important. Content includes many tactics, from blogging, vlogging and social media posting to e-books, webinars, podcasts and email.
Positioning for Success: The Value of Designing a New Category
Want to dominate a business category? There’s only one sure way to do it: create a NEW category. As we learned from Jack Trout’s, Marketing Warfare, “if you’re not #1 or #2, be something new!” As positionists, we’re always encouraging our clients to stand apart.
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Brand categories great for selling, lousy for unifying our world
The numbers are mind boggling. Our amazing brains are wired with 100 billion cells, which researchers have found on average send signals 10 times per second. Each brain cell connects to 5,000 other brain cells, which means every time a cell fires, 5,000 other cells receive a signal.
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