Contributed by Allen Weiss
- Industry Foresight: Forecasting the Future of Your Market
A vital component of any marketing strategy is thinking about what the future might look like. In strategy parlance, that's ...
- Customer Benefits: A Brief Introduction to Why Customers Buy Your Products
When as a marketer you identify and focus on benefits, you ensure that you are focusing your attention on what ...
- Perceptual Maps and Competition: How to Understand and Improve Your Position in the Market
Perceptual maps are the only way to understand what your position is in the market and how the market views ...
- Market Segmentation: Where Companies Go Wrong and Why You Need Differential Advantage Analysis
Welcome to a highly misunderstood topic: segmentation. This article explains what marketers tend to get wrong about segmentation, what's a ...
- Gain Differential Advantage Over Your Competitors: Core Competencies
A central goal of marketing strategy is to get an advantage over the competition. But how do you do that?
- What Is Marketing Strategy? A Brief Introduction
"What is the definition of marketing strategy?" is a common question among marketing professionals and others in the business world. ...
- Positioning as the Foundation for Great Messages
The goal of positioning, which is a strategic process, is to create benefit associations in the minds of your prospective ...
- Why Some New Products Get Adopted Quickly: A Lesson From Infomercials
If you've ever wondered what gets a new product adopted quickly, look no further than late-night infomercials. Their use of ...
- Yes, Customers Always Know What They Want
Supposedly, customers don't know what product they want until someone creates it. But that's not true: Customers do know what ...
- Proving Marketing to Execs (Part 2): Marketing's Language Problem
Every business function has its specialized vocabulary, but marketing terms are often vague or undefined—or their meaning is not agreed ...
- Proving Marketing to Execs (Part 1)
If you want to prove Marketing's worth to your executives, you have to think in their terms—that is, sales, profit, ...
- How to Create Successful B2B Relationships
B2B marketers have many partnerships—with intermediaries, customers, and others. Some are close relationships, and some aren't. How can you tell ...
- What Is a Market, Really?
Part of the problem that marketers face in positioning their product or service and confirming product/market fit is the term ...
- Buyer-Centric Demand Generation
Buyer-centric demand generation is all about putting your customer first. Simple enough, if done right. But to do it right ...
- Creating Content for Effective Demand Generation
A successful demand generation campaign relies on content that's targeted to the personas who influence the ultimate purchasing decision. Learn ...
- Why You're Always Wrong and Your Customers Are Always Right
If you're like most people, you live in a world where blame often happens in a systematic and predictable way. ...
- 5 Reasons Why Online Sales Aren't a Bigger Share Of The Holiday Pie
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- The End of Internet Advertising?
I typically visit a number of technology sites to learn about new technology, Internet companies and products - not to ...
- What the Young People Say About Social Media
Once upon a time I wrote a weekly column for an online technology magazine. When new Internet technologies and web ...
- What I Learned at XDrive
One of the benefits of being a tenured academic is the sabbatical. This is time when you get to do ...
- Is Twitter Really Social?
About one month ago decided to put some effort into becoming a Twitter devote and, sometimes even a fanatic. Given ...
- Saving Social Media with a Business Model?
There is a great deal of talk these days about social media companies and their need to find a business ...
- MarketingProfs 'Classic Truths': How Do I Love Thee? Building a B2B Relationship to Last a Lifetime
With the emphasis recently on customer relationship management (CRM), it seems there's a customer love-fest in the making. It's an ...
- (Un)Proven Strategies
I just received an email touting a download of some research that purported to give me proven strategies for success. ...
- Is Price *Really* the Most Important Factor in Consumer Loyalty?
"Research finds price is the most important factor in consumer This is the headline from a just-released report by DoubleClick ...
- How to Get Rid of Certain Marketers
As someone who has dedicated themselves to marketing for the past 20 years, you might find it surprising to hear ...
- The Wisdom of Wikipedia?
It seems to be that searching the web is getting stranger and stranger. Oh, not because of the various sites ...
- Intimate Intruders
Cell phone service providers are desperate to find new revenue streams, so it's not surprising that is making the step ...
- Can Marketing Tactics Be Proven?
The other day I was reading a press release. The company said it wrote articles on "proven tactics" that marketers ...
- Technorati Turns 3: Can We Get Some Service?
Congratulations to Technorati for turning 3 and changing the look and feel of its Web site, which you can read ...
- Thought Leaders & Gurus: Too Big for Their Niches
I just don't understand why people love the words "guru" and Whenever I see these words used by the business ...
- Back at It: The E-book Believers
E-book evangelists are still at it. They still think that e-books will make regular old paper books This, according to ...
- Meaningless Words Lead to Stupid Marketing Surveys
I participated in a survey today for a big magazine that deals with the computer industry. The survey used words ...
- Fads and New Rules: Enough Already!
Before you go out and buy a book about the next marketing fad, you ought to read a down to ...
- Another Test Poll
Here is a second test of the poll concept. This also can be very short or somewhat longer. It will ...
- Do You Suffer From Technology Migration Migraines?
Technology migration refers to the movement of customers from one (old) technological generation to another (new). But convincing customers to ...
- What is Marketing?
We thought it would be good to balance out some recent talk on the web about what is marketing. ...
- Wireless Free-Riding
The wireless web is taking off and Skygo.com reports that web ads may work. Well, watch out for free-riding! ...
- The Case for Banner Ads
Internet advertising and banner ads are in the news these days. Here's an article we ran last year that gives ...
- Learning from Napster
We first published this back in March of 2000. As we wait for a definitive ruling on Napster by the ...
- Holiday E-Marketing Insights
The holidays are over, but what have we learned about e-marketing? It turns out that people's basic social needs ...
- What's So Different About the Internet?
Marketing on the internet is no different than traditional marketing, at least that's our view.
- Most New Products Fail
The truth is Most New Products Fail. Here are the major reasons why. Use these to avoid your ...
- Has Amazon Gone Too Far?
Amazon is going into the furniture business. Are they stretching their brand name too far?
- Is Marketing About Fulfilling Needs?
This is the biggest debate in marketing - is it about creating or fulfilling needs? This view argues that whether ...
- Miscomprehension in Communication
Firms often confuse consumers with their marketing communications. Here are some examples.
- Is Michael Dell a Visionary?
Everyone says Michael Dell is a Visionary. But what is a visionary? In this SoapBox, we argue that Dell ...
- New Research on Internet Consumers
Learn how to think more critically about research in internet consumers by examining the latest research.
- 20th Century Products
Here are some of the most useful products from the 20th century.
- What Do Customers Really Buy?
But what are they, and can you tell when you have identified a customer benefit?
- Political Positioning
Positioning is the key to marketing. But an inflexible position can ultimately hurt you. See how this works ...
- Dot-Coms and the Super Bowl
The Super Bowl in 2000 was the beginning of a flood of dot.com ads. Everyone was looking for a ...
- The Internet Causes Social Demise?
The results of a recent study, flashing across the Internet and reported by the news media, says the more we ...
- Predicting Your Online Behavior
Doubleclick and CMGI are battling it out for determining your likely purchases, using different methodologies. Will either one really ...
- Priceline.com - Gambling for Groceries?
With the stock of online grocers plummeting, some analysts think the priceline.com auction model will win for groceries. I don't ...
- Has Michael Porter Turned Into a Marketing Person?
He couches it in new jargon, but underneath its the same old marketing ideas of years ago.
- That's (not) Entertainment
Sites like pop.com and others are showing Hollywood's moves onto the Internet. But the Internet has a long way ...
- The Problem with E-Books
Barnes & Noble and others are making a serious attempt at the market for e-books. But they're missing a key ...
- A Letter About Loyalty
We get letters from thoughtful visitors. Here is one on the subject of consumer loyalty. Everyone talks about loyalty, but ...
- Revelations on the New World?
Research studies come out all the time about consumer behavior on the net. Most report the obvious. Internet companies don't ...
- A Letter about the Fallacies and Failures of Start-Ups
We get letters from thoughtful readers. Here is one that continues our previous article on the problems with start-up companies
- The New E-Marketing Rules
This is an updated version of our debunking article. The point: There are no new e-marketing rules...just people who think ...
- Wireless Web Browser Woes
Sprint's service is lousy, and they make it hard to upgrade to the wireless web. But will the rest ...
- Trailblazers on the Internet
Venture capitalists have been talking a lot about the "myth" of the first mover advantage. But they are responsible ...
- How to Target Your Public Relations Toward the Press
To do good PR you need to understand what journalists are looking for. This tutorial is based on our insights ...
- Channel Conflict: Is Sony Going Too Far?
Channel conflict is one of those internet buzzwords that unlike other cute transplants from the offline world has real and ...
- Of Hype and Honesty on the Web
With Stephen King’s entrance into direct marketing and publishing of his new novel "The Plant" last week, we are witnessing ...
- Customer Loyalty is Underwater
E-tailers don't seem to be creating close relationships with customers, according to a new study by the Gartner Group. ...
- Useless Research
Research that costs money but is useless.
- Wireless Advertising to the Rescue?
Shares of Yahoo fell last week over concerns about online advertising. Will wireless achieve the elusive relationship between advertising and ...
- How to Determine the Size of Your Market - Part I
Perhaps the most important question when thinking about starting a company or marketing a product is the size of the ...
- Demand Side Capitalism in the New Market
Another fallacy of Internet startups is thinking they can create needs. We argue that not even the PC industry created ...
- Will Pricing Innovations on the Web Survive?
Iderive.com has a new pricing model for the web. Will it survive? In fact, will any of the ...
- New Marketing Models: Easy in Theory, Difficult in Practice
Visionaries and gurus told us the Internet would change marketing as we know it. Regis McKenna is now forecasting ...
- Part 2: Segmentation
Before getting into how one can think about the various ways to practically segment a market, let's first consider some ...
- Part 3: Segmentation
So what are the bases for segmentation? While it is difficult to determine what will segment a market into ...
