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Listening to customers improves understanding
Jack Welch, longtime CEO of General Electric, was known for his wise counsel on all manner of business matters. One of his famous quotes really hits home for companies as they come to terms with the importance of their relationships with customers.
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Differentiated Content: The Key to Content Marketing
The likely key to content marketing has been discovered; It's probably not what you think.
Remarkably, 95 percent of CEOs whose companies use content marketing as a marketing tactic report they believe it has had no effect on their businesses.
Brand Repositioning Misses: Lessons from Toys ‘R’ Us
Beyond my office window, directly across Whipple Avenue, sits the once mighty, and now vacant, Toys “R” Us building.
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Branding & Social Responsibility: Ability to respond an important responsibility
Terrell Owens, the former NFL All-Pro receiver, unprecedentedly is passing on attending his Pro Football Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Canton. It's a case study in branding and social responsibility.
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‘Positioning map’ can reveal your competitive advantage
Today, more than ever, businesses need the right strategies to compete and win in the hyper-competitive marketplace. No market or industry is exempt from the need to focus on and adjust the way they’re doing business.
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Think digital branding in today's B2B sales
Brand positioning is designed to tee up sales — a mission as important as ever with today’s plethora of digital branding opportunities to engage and motivate our customers and prospects. The brand’s position is the distinctive idea that separates it from its competitors.
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Brand Extension: Mayo move spread Heinz too thin to win
It happens every time I give talks here and around the country on brand positioning and brand extension. Rather than using PowerPoint presentations, I use products as props.
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Nike's campaign with Kaepernick brilliant
Nike just did it. We were taught in business school not to mix the brand with politics. Conventional branding wisdom says it would be brand suicide.
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Ground control to Elon Musk
Elon Musk is widely known for his willingness to invest his mind and his riches to stretch the envelope on a variety of frontiers, from automobiles to software to outer space travel. Along the way, Musk has been the architect of brands that are leaders in their respective categories.
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Want to win in business? Google it.
Your business and your competitors have been Googlized. Google is the new Yellow Pages for everything. If we want to know how many times man landed on the moon, we Google it.
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