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We've crossed the 'creepy' line
Have Google and Facebook crossed the creepy line?
Former Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt once said, "There's what I call the creepy line, and the Google policy about a lot of these things is to get right up to the creepy line but not cross it.
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.
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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7 greatest brand positions excel in 3C test
Brands that become great do so because their positions pass the 3C's test with straight A's. All great brands have clearly defined ideas that differentiate against competitors. That's the first C. Their ideas are highly meaningful and relevant with customers, the second C.
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Advantages to being first
One of the easiest ways to be remembered is to be first. Do you remember who was the first person to fly solo across the North Atlantic? Charles Lindbergh, of course. But who was the second? He was Bert Hinkler, considered a better aviator than Lindbergh.
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Want to be like Buffet and Socrates? Read!
No less an authority than Warren Buffett believes reading is essential to business success. A Columbia University student asked Buffett what he could do to prepare for his career. Buffett thought for a few seconds and then said, “Read 500 pages a week. That’s how knowledge works.
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Trout's Seven 'Abouts' Shape Marketing Strategy
Marketing strategy is first about finding your difference, then finding the best way to get your differentiating idea into the minds of your prospects and customers. The explosion of choice for the consumer is the direct result of the explosion of competition.
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Seven ways to win in a commodity market
Many of the more than 5 million businesses in the United States compete as commodities hamstrung by not understanding how to grow and thrive. On the monopoly-to-commodity continuum, the closer one is to the commodity side, the more price becomes a key factor.
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Brand Purpose: Beyond features and benefits, companies win with their whys
Not too long ago, the popular advertising strategy was to promote product features like low calories, shavers with pivot heads and toothpaste that removes stains. Then we shifted to something with more personal relevance: product benefits.
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Sharpen your focus for marketing magnificence
Smart marketers recognize they become stronger when they focus and reduce the scope of their activities. As powerful as the sun is with trillions of kilowatts of energy, the oceans aren't boiling. A laser, with only a few watts of energy, can drill a hole in a diamond.
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