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Know where to aim with focused marketing strategies

No matter how great the tactics, you can’t win without the right strategy. How can you know where to aim if you don't start with focused marketing strategies?

Time and time again, we find that great execution can’t overcome bad strategy.

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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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Strategic Leadership: CEOs must define, promote differentiation

The foundation for effective strategic leadership is thinking through your organization’s difference, defining it and establishing it, clearly and visibly. For so many years, CEOs have focused on doing things better. Today, however, we realize this approach no longer is enough.

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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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Positioning 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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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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Lots to learn from the hedgehog and the fox

To understand the spiny hedgehog and the sly silver fox, we must go back nearly three millennia. It started with a verse from 7th century BC Greek poet Archilochus: “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows only one big thing.

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Positioning in Digital Marketing: Start with positioning to win online search

In the 1970s, Jack Trout and Al Ries first coined the term “positioning” for use in the field of marketing. It made an immediate impact, and nearly a half-century later, the term has become ubiquitous in the business world.

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Sears' saga found in snowblowers

Former Sears executive Steve Goldstein was so shocked when he found snowblowers for sale at his company’s Miami store that he wrote the book, “Why are there Snowblowers in Miami?”

That is but one of myriad anecdotes in Sears’ 120-year history, yet it reveals much about the thinking of those who…

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Old-Fashioned Approach Still Works for Adam’s Men’s Clothier

Friendly faces, quality products, on-site tailoring and competitive prices make store Stark County’s men’s clothing king. Adam Goldman took a shot at opening his own men’s specialty clothing store 26 years ago. The lessons he’s learned serve him well today.

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