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Growth Strategy: Grow your company by growing your reach

Marketers have heard for generations that 80 percent of our business comes from 20 percent of our customers, but a strong case can be made that this generalization doesn’t much apply anymore — if it ever did. Pareto PrincipleYou might have heard of the Pareto Principle.

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Grading the New Big Ten Logo

As the "resident expert" on logo design at the nation's leading agency in the practice of positioning, I was asked to provide a critique on the new Big Ten logo created by international design firm Pentagram.

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Nike's campaign with Kaepernick brilliant

Nike just did it. We were taught in business school not to mix the brand with politics. Conventional branding wisdom says it would be brand suicide.

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Earning Customers' Trust Helps Grove Appliance Stand the Test of Time

Some things haven’t changed much since E. J. Grove started his own refrigeration business in Alliance in 1935. The foundation of E. J. ’s business model was to provide quality workmanship and products at a fair price with excellent service. Fast-forward 83 years to 2018.

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Scratch me behind the ears. Chewy does — with something called positioning alignment.

A picture is worth a thousand loyal customers every week. We want to call out Chewy for a job well done and celebrate this positioning alignment. Pets mean a lot to their owners. And Chewy has come to mean a lot to those people.

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How to Rate the Most Winning Super Bowl Ads

(Special to the Canton Repository)

In this year's National Football League AFC Divisional Round playoff game, Cleveland Browns Coach Kevin Stefanski was accused of playing it safe.

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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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Studio Arts & Glass Spreads Stark County Color Throughout the World

Stark County studio’s leaded stained glass artwork is on display in all 50 states and can be seen as far away as Asia, the Bahamas, Canada and Europe. Every single element of Studio Arts & Glass is strikingly colorful.

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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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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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