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Harrison Paint Thrives on Making Others Look Good

Company’s products protect and beautify surfaces throughout the Midwest; new Belden Village design center showcases products. When brothers and business partners Mark and Patrick Lauber heard of the opportunity to take over Harrison Paint in 2000, it seemed like a perfect situation. There was just one minor issue.

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Niche Up for Success

With a GDP of nearly $20 trillion and a citizenry accounting for more than a quarter of the global household consumption, the United States is inarguably the most hyper-consumer economy in the history of the world. Hyper-consumerism begets hyper-competition. Hyper-competition is the No. 1 problem facing marketers today.

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Advertise During a Recession?

Fast-food giant McDonald's made a critical choice during the early 1990s recession that ultimately resulted in a loss of market share: McDonald’s chose to not advertise during a recession. Spending by consumers was declining, and the fast-food sector was hit particularly hard.

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2024 Super Bowl Ads Winners and Losers

If you read our “How to Critique Super Bowl Commercials” PositionistView article last week, you know we have a fairly critical eye when judging the commercials. Along with a crazy overtime Chiefs’ win, the ads also provided plenty of chatter at our watch party.

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Uncovering the Social Media Landscape

In the first installment on social media planning, Innis Maggiore suggested that you always insist on a media plan regardless of the media. Social media is simply a subset of all available (traditional and new) media. Avoid the newness hype and be wise.

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Ten Common Online Marketing Mistakes

At Search Engine Strategies Conference in New York, I shared experiences with search marketers from around the world. We love sharing our successes. But by scratching the surface you can find a wealth of tips learned from mistakes.

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Repositioning The Competition

Click here to play video. "Repositioning" in a Time of Competition, Crisis, and Change

On April 29, nearly five hundred business and marketing executives gathered at the John S.

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Change Communication: Repositioning

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"Repositioning" in a Time of Competition, Crisis, and Change Communication

On April 29, nearly five hundred business and marketing executives gathered at the John S.

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Blogging Your Corporate Positioning Strategy

Are blogs dead? Certainly they are no longer mentioned as a marketing panacea as they were at the turn of the millennium, but to call them dead would be far from accurate. Blogs are alive and very well, especially as a means to communicate a company's corporate positioning strategy.

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Grading the New Big Ten Logo

As the "resident expert" on logo design at the nation's leading agency in the practice of positioning, I was asked to provide a critique on the new Big Ten logo created by international design firm Pentagram.

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