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Holding the Market Leader Position Swings on the Hinge of "IF"

Of all the ways to differentiate a brand, none is better than leadership. Leadership is its own credential. People naturally believe if you hold the market leader position, your product or service is better. The benefit of becoming a category leader goes well beyond bragging rights.

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Social Marketing ROI: July 2011 Update

In 2011 New Media Trends, I covered the trends we're seeing with Facebook and its climb to a billion members. According to its statistics page, the social network is now at 750 million plus members. One billion should be achieved by the end of 2011.

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Breaking Positioning Principles -- Marketing Google+

Raise your hand if you think Google+ is Google's first attempt at a social network. OK, put all those hands down. Ever hear of Google Wave or Google Buzz? Not many have, so don't fret if you raised your hand.

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Open, Sesame! Bert and Ernie Put Veggies On Kids' Wish List

It's easy to slide into cynicism, as the world tends to be a pretty heavy place sometimes. Today we fret more than ever that we are hurtling toward a gloom-and-doom destiny, so we fear.

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Pepsi brings the "craft" to cola

The craft beer industry is booming. But rather than fighting the trend, big brewers like MillerCoors and Anheuser-Busch are joining in and creating their own microbrews. Smaller, premium beverages bring a personalization to the drinking experience that mass-produced ones just can't match.

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Solving a Whale of a Problem: Is it Time for a SeaWorld Positioning Change?

For generations, families have trekked to SeaWorld to see "Shamu, the killer whale. " More than the main attraction, Shamu is the face of the theme park.

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Crisis positioning: Enhancing your image

A crisis can be the undoing of a company. Crisis positioning can also be handled professionally and soon forgotten. Rare is the crisis that actually enhances a company's reputation and position. Many PositionistView® readers remember the 1982 cyanide-in-the-Tylenol crisis.

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Brand Differentiation Is Why We Care

Positioning is the foundation to building a stronger, more valuable and sustainable product or service. Consumers come face to face with the principle of brand differentiation every day but hardly pay much attention because, well, it’s just there.

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Getting your company messaging into the mind

Customers’ minds don’t like confusion and can be tough to change. So what’s a business to do? Focus! And find the marketing value in a brand name. And get their company messaging into the mind. Businesses’ prospects and customers are bombarded with nearly 10,000 messages every day.

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Brands must be smart about their social media content strategy

Businesses churn out more and more messages, but ‘engagement’ from customers isn’t keeping pace. There’s only so much an audience can absorb. Businesses churned out three times more messages in the past year, but their prospects and customers didn’t pay any more attention to them. Not good.

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