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AI-Powered Marketing Offers One-to-One Personalization
AI-powered marketing is a buzz term in most of the online marketing pubs we read. A question typically posed is: Do any of us know how artificial intelligence will affect our marketing efforts? The answer is: not perfectly. Yet AI-powered marketing is beginning to show glimpses of viable use.
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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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Effective Advertising: Big question is whether to entertain or inform
Every ad person wrestles with the conundrum whether effective advertising should focus more on entertaining or more on informing.
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Test, learn, tweak to formulate business strategy
Learning to write and solve equations is the foundation of formal education for many of us. There are thousands of equations and formulas that guide work in many industries, from making special alloy steel to building spacecraft that can travel to the end of our solar system and beyond.
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Southwest Airlines: Aligning business strategy to brand positioning
Anyone who has been lost at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport knows the secret to effective marketing. First, determine where you are. Next, figure out where you want to be. And, finally, craft a plan to get there. That’s the equation for finding and executing effective business strategy.
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Building a Brand: Differentiate, strategize, target and shout from rooftops
Have you found your brand’s positioning idea? Southwest Airlines is low cost. FedEx is overnight delivery. Volvo is safety. When building a brand, you must differentiate.
View Web PagePositioning and Papa John's: Backstory of how positioning propelled pizza giant
Papa John’s had brand positioning, but didn’t know it until a chance conversation. Positioning and Papa Johns go way back. John Schnatter, the founder and namesake of Papa John’s Pizza, started making pies in an oversized closet in his family’s tavern.
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Southwest Airlines Value Proposition Soars on Low-Price Strategy
Many of us have a Southwest Airlines experience to share, but the story that most resonates with marketers is how the company found and executed its successful business strategy. The Southwest Airlines value proposition is a great example of aligning business strategy with the brand positioning idea.
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Walking line between corporate social responsibility, social division
We care more today about supporting companies whose values are aligned with our values. Corporate social responsibility is important. The reason might be due to the power of social media. Maybe it’s what matters most to millennials. Maybe it’s where we are moving as a society overall.
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Forging strategy for strengthening Stark County
An important report about recommendations for strengthening Stark County has huge ramifications for those of us who live, work and play here.
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