A glimpse into the minds of the Positioning Pioneers

  • Super Bowl Ads 2010

    Laura Ries says the best ads of Super Bowl 2010 are: Google, Doritos, Snickers, Budweiser, Denny’s Coca-Cola. Among the worst: Audi, Volkswagen, Dodge, Boost...

  • What good are the words without the music?

  • Verizon and its Atomic Bomb

    In the current Cellphone War, Verizon has dropped the atomic bomb of marketing on rival AT&T. Marketing wars are fought with lots of words,...

  • Domino’s Should Apologize

    Everybody knows the rule. When you do something wrong, you say you are sorry. As a society we love to scold but we also...

  • It’s what Tiger does next that counts

    Tiger Woods was a rare breed. A phenomenal athlete who delivered consistent record-shattering victories on and off the course with style, grace and integrity....

  • Under Armour: Too Big for its Shirt?

    It’s amazing how many of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs quickly forget what made them famous. The latest example is Kevin Plank, CEO of...

  • Metric Madness.

  • Category builders and category killers.

  • What’s wrong with General Motors.

    What happened to General Motors happens to all companies, even yours. New products, new technologies and new distribution channels cause brands to become unfocused...

  • The amazing Amazon.com.

    As part of its 75th anniversary celebration, Business Week is profiling the greatest innovators of the past seven-and-a-half decades. In its December 20, 2004...

  • The power of the name.

    You probably missed the news, but Schlotzsky’s Deli, a 513-unit sandwich chain, recently filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition. What went wrong at Schlotzsky’s?...

  • Brand Journalism vs. Positioning

    “The end of positioning as we know it,” declared McDonald’s CMO, Larry Light at last month’s AdWatch conference in New York City. McDonald’s, he...

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