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Advertise Responsibly®
After a recent lecture at Grove City College, a discerning student asked me the following question, “Do you ever find yourself losing sleep at night because of a marketing campaign you created that conflicted with your morals?”
My answer was easy and without hesitation. “No.
Market Positioning and the Context Filter: Stanley vs. Kodak
In a recent planning session for our 50th anniversary events, I was surprised to learn that our senior project manager had specified a Stanley mug for our kickoff celebration swag bag. I’m a Yeti fan, so this choice raised my curiosity. I might have even expected Hydro Flask.
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How to Critique Super Bowl Commercials
Every year, friends and family ask me if I watch Super Bowl commercials differently because I’m in the ad business.
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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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Fifty Years of Positioning: the 1980s
From mullets to parachute pants and leg warmers to Rubik’s Cube, the 1980s featured some wildly hot fads that ended up being relatively short-lived. But for Innis Maggiore, the 1980s spawned a new marketing philosophy that most certainly has stood the test of time — positioning.
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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.
It’s a dog-eat-dog world: the rise of challenger brand advertising
There have always been brands like McDonalds, Nike, and Amazon, that dominate the headspace of consumers. Despite massive control of their respective markets, this shield isn’t entirely impenetrable. Challenger brand advertising has historically found gaps in their armor by bringing attention to consumer desires left unsatisfied.
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Unified ID 2.0 (UID2) – The Promise of a Third-Party Cookie-less World
Google twice delayed the demise of the third-party cookie, the means by which all advertisers were able to track and analyze their marketing performance. With the delays, we who operate in a digital world breathed a sigh of relief. Why?
Because a plausible substitute wasn’t yet available.
Fifty Years of Positioning: the 1990s
From fanny packs to Beanie Babies and from the Macarena to untucked flannel shirts, some fads in the 1990s might take a little while to come back into style (if they ever do).
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Don’t Dare Call It “McDonut”!
How sweet is the McDonald’s/Krispy Kreme cross-promotion strategy?
Lots of people like McDonald’s. Lots of people like Krispy Kreme.
