A matter of dialing ‘it’ up or down

As a strategic planner, I try to make choices clear for a marketer: for example, whether a campaign needs to talk about ‘new ingredients’, ‘benefit of new ingredients’, ‘advantage of the product’, emotional pitch for the brand and so on. Now, for a reasonable person, making that choice, though not easy, is possible. All it […]

What is “Positioning”? Separating faff from fact.

<Cryptic high brow summation> Knowing simply what something is, is not enough. One must know what is it for, to know it well. </Cryptic high brow summation> 1. Positioning as a consumer’s idea of your brand Recently, I was left scratching my head after an hour of brainstorming session with my colleagues for re-positioning a […]