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Thinking about advertising budgets? Think like Henry Ford

Ad agency people frequently hear the question, “How much money should we spend on marketing?” The question is pretty basic, but the answer is not a simple sum or percentage. Advertising budgets are challenging.

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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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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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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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Branding is Dead in the Amazon Economy

We’re going to have to close our doors. We heard it declared twice last week that branding is dead because of Amazon. It is going to own everything. Differences won’t matter. And everything will be ordered through Alexa. We. Give. Up.

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Artificial intelligence and marketing, the next big thing

Few would argue the impact of the wheel, the printing press, steam and gasoline engines, the telephone, electricity and the light bulb, nuclear power, the airplane, penicillin, the computer and the internet. Major inventions have shaped human development and powered society, culture and civilization.

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What’s a brand anyway? The basics of brand positioning

Dunkin’ Donuts is planning to change its name to Dunkin’. The move is the latest example of corporate repositioning to make news that mainstream media will report. It's a brand positioning case study.

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Merging Data and Creative: Path to head goes through heart

Like scientists, many business folks have a deep-rooted belief that if they have all the information — all the data — they’ll be able to come up with the precise solution. We want to believe things don’t happen by chance.

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Building a Brand: Differentiate, strategize, target and shout from rooftops

Have you found your brand’s positioning idea? Southwest Airlines is low cost. FedEx is overnight delivery. Volvo is safety. When building a brand, you must differentiate.

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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.

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