A glimpse into the minds of the Positioning Pioneers

  • What can a red nose do?

    What can a red nose do? It can build a brand. A red nose is the visual hammer for Red Nose Day, a campaign...

  • Political Branding – 2016 Preview

    Running for President of the United States means building a brand that at least 51% of the country is willing to buy on Election...

  • The product versus the brand.

    In the marketing community, there is a struggle between two schools of thought. One school is focused on the product. The other school is...

  • Super Bowl 2014

    Unless you were a Seattle fan, the 2014 Super Bowl wasn’t a super game to watch. The puppy bowl was more competitive. So that...

  • iPhone was first, but so was Motorola.

    Motorola invented the category of cellphones. Nokia brought cellphones to the masses. BlackBerry invented the keyboard phone for email. Samsung brought better designs. iPhone...

  • Yahoo! From fun to serious and dark.

    Yahoo took a memorable, unique logo and after 30 days and 30 designs ended up with a rather average, boring, uninspired one. Marissa Mayer...

  • America’s Visual Hammer

    Happy Birthday America! We are celebrating the Fourth of July holiday in the United States today! I’m also using today to kick-off my new...

  • Google Today, Gone Tomorrow?

    What’s a Google? It’s a search engine. Want to find something online, you Google it. After domination of a category like search, the question...

  • Social Media is a Tactic not a Strategy

    It’s the headline of our times “Brand X Moves to Social Media.” It’s the hottest trend in marketing with executives from the corner offices...

  • McDonald’s Goes Above & Beyond

    McDonald’s moved at lightning speed and initiated a voluntary recall of its popular Shrek glasses that contained trace amounts of a toxic metal. While...

  • BP has a Brand Problem

    BP talked the talk but never walked the walk. Like many companies in unpopular industries, BP launched a massive advertising campaign to put a...

  • What should Goldman Do?

    What does Goldman Sachs need to do to save its brand? In a word, nothing. A powerful, leading brand is practically bullet-proof. It’s not...

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