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Rachel Morris7 min read

Strategic positioning: How to shape what consumers think about your brand

Marketers need to stop over complicating things and take a simple, bothist approach to ...
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Mark Ritson8 min read

For Elon Musk’s Tesla, there is such a thing as bad publicity

Tesla’s woes are a rare example of bad press that does harm the brand, because its CEO’s ...
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Rachel Morris4 min read

Climbing the benefit ladder: How far is too far?

Have you climbed too far up the benefit ladder? Double up the 3Cs as a final acid test, ...
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Mark Ritson7 min read

Nike’s turnaround has begun – but it will take a long time

Nike has triumphantly returned to its roots, focusing on sport while overinvesting in ...
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Mark Ritson11 min read

Jaguar has rebranded when it needed to revitalise

Jaguar’s bizarre new campaign marks a complete overhaul of its positioning, when instead ...
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Mark Ritson9 min read

Starbucks needs to cut the crap from its brand positioning

The coffee chain is a serial offender at producing esoteric mission statements, so can ...
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Mark Ritson13 min read

Copy KitKat on your quest for ‘double D marketing’

Tight positioning, a respected brand heritage and refusal to overcomplicate things means ...
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Mark Ritson10 min read

Good purpose, bad purpose: Marketers shouldn’t oversimplify the arguments

Brand purpose campaigns underperform ‘traditional’ marketing on average, but for the ...
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Mark Ritson9 min read

Tiffany’s brand needs an update – in fashion, that means alienating loyal customers

The new ‘Not your mother’s Tiffany’ campaign has angered the brand’s older customers, but ...
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