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Brand Meaning: Can a Brand Change Its Spots?

Famed Apple Stores leader and Silicon Valley wunderkind Ron Johnson thought so. He swept in as JC Penney's new CEO with celebratory bravado. He promised to change the stodgy brand meaning to a younger, hipper and more upscale image. Seventeen months later, JC Penney's board fired him.

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Bender's Tavern Brings Good Taste & Good Times to Stark County

Many people hungry in body and spirit have come to be fed and partake in the hospitality of ‘Canton’s Oldest and Finest’ tavern. If walls could talk, the ones inside Bender’s Tavern, 137 Court Ave. SW in Canton, would have plenty to say.

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Vern Dale’s Approach to Business as Refreshing as its Water Solutions

Family-owned Canton company’s quality equipment, products and customer service have made it a leader for more than 60 years. The crystal-clear water from Vern Dale’s Water Center systems is refreshing. So, too, is the way this leading water treatment company conducts its business.

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Viral Video Marketing: How Being Different, Relevant, & Good Can Get You Far

By now, you and nearly the entire world has had the opportunity to see and hear about the viral video for Susan Boyle, the dowdy-looking Scottish woman who appeared as a contestant on Britain's Got Talent, and shocked everyone with her incredible voice.

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Brand Analytics: Measuring Via Online Positioning Analysis

Is it possible that brand analytics about how well your position resides in the customer's mind is as simple as googling your brand name? Or perhaps searching your difference?

This approach almost seems too elementary, but if you don't rank in the top position for the basic keywords that make up your…

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2012 Super Bowl Ads

Winning Ads of Super Bowl XLVI

Before getting to the winners and losers among the 2012 Super Bowl ads, allow me to digress. Borrowing from ancient practical wisdom, two is better than one, three is better than two. Consider a cable. A cable is a stranded cord.

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2012 Super Bowl Ad Survey Reveals Readers Liked Car, Truck and Flower Ads

Today we send out a hearty "thank you" to all of our positioning friends who read and responded to Lorraine Kessler's excellent analysis of the best (and worst) Super Bowl TV commercials, and especially to all who commented and voted in our 2012 Super Bowl ad survey.

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Trump Aside, HP's Problem Is Botched Brand Positioning

Ever since the second Republican debate, Trump has railed on rival Carly Fiorina, claiming "The Compaq computer deal," made when Fiorina was CEO of HP, "was one of the worst deals made in business history. " HP was guilty of botched brand positioning.

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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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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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