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Show Dad a Little Dove®
This Father's Day, Dove® wants to sell more product. So, it has jumped gender and journeyed into product line extension land. Unilever, the parent company, wants to sell dad antiperspirant, deodorant and soap. Yes, Dove for dads -- brand androgyny.
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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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Competitive Positioning: Wal-Mart vs. Target
Times are topsy-turvy and one of the great reversals can be seen in the world of retail. And a lesson in competitive positioning is left to be learned. While Wal-Mart, the largest company in the world, has always dwarfed rival Target in size ($406 billion in annual revenue vs.
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Brands should heed this warning: Be careful with culture in advertising
Don’t be like Bud Light — unless you have a billion to spare!
What would you do if you woke up to find out that you’ve lost over a billion dollars? You probably would never go back to sleep.
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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Differentiating Your Brand
Differentiating your brand may prove quite a challenge. When we work with our clients on determining their differentiating idea we put them through our proprietary Appreciative Discovery®.
As part of the Appreciative Discovery, the following differentiating filter was developed.
Listening to customers improves understanding
Jack Welch, longtime CEO of General Electric, was known for his wise counsel on all manner of business matters. One of his famous quotes really hits home for companies as they come to terms with the importance of their relationships with customers.
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Advertise better with 22 immutable laws of marketing as inspiration
Jack Trout and Al Ries inspired a generation of advertising and marketing executives and creative directors when they published “The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing,” and for good reason. Their immutable laws of marketing, as we have learned over the past two installments of this series, remain relevant.
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Differentiation in Business: A marketing lesson from Mickey Mouse
Winning brands are desirably different in consumers’ minds. Differentiation in business is what helps them win.
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Podcast promotion isn’t just entertainment, it’s marketing.
If you’re attentive to advertising’s current landscape, you may have already paired digital marketing media like social and paid search with traditional media like radio, print, and television. Yet if you think you’ve exhausted available marketing tactics, you’re only just beginning.
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