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Understanding Drivers – ‘Make or Break’ for your Brands
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Strategically Rooted Brand Building. Understanding Drivers 'Make or Break’ for your Brands. Leonora Polonsky - Monday, July 29, 2013. One of the most important ingredients in successful Brand Positioning is fully understanding both Category Drivers and Brand Drivers. This alone can make or break a Brand, and is surprisingly often not well understood. A classic positioning dilemma is whether to try to establish differentiation on key Category driver(s). Two questions on Category and Brand drivers can ...
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Counterintuitive Brand Differentiators Terminix story
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Strategically Rooted Brand Building. Counterintuitive Brand Differentiators (Terminix story). Leonora Polonsky - Wednesday, April 30, 2014. I recently returned from a 2-week trip late Friday night. Exhausted, I slept-in on Saturday, forgetting a routine Terminix Pest Control visit I had scheduled. When I awoke, after the appointment time, I wondered if I’d missed the doorbell? Or was this service was an outdoor only visit? I’d need to find out. Listen to option lists. And more option lists! Consider pers...
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How Heroism Hurts Brands?
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Strategically Rooted Brand Building. How Heroism Hurts Brands? Leonora Polonsky - Friday, September 12, 2014. A new study by Wharton Professor, Keisha Cutright, has broad implications for Brand building. The study -. Doing It the Hard Way: How Low Control Drives Preferences for High-Effort Products and Services. Finds that “ when people feel a. Lack of control over their lives. They will seek out products that. Require them to put in some effort. Do it all for you… we make it very easy. Demographically, ...
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Are you following “Reliability” off a cliff?
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Strategically Rooted Brand Building. Are you following Reliability off a cliff? Leonora Polonsky - Friday, November 01, 2013. Observation: Emphasis on reliability over validity. Unwittingly stifles Marketing innovation. Roger Martin (former Director of Monitor Company and Dean of the Rotman School of Management) teaches the following lesson on reliability and validity:. Roger asks: “Do you want consistency or do you want an outcome you’ll really like? Another example is in the targeting realm. Using ...
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New Years Resolutions & Brand Stewardship
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Strategically Rooted Brand Building. New Years Resolutions and Brand Stewardship. Leonora Polonsky - Wednesday, January 28, 2015. In our personal lives, there are principles we can follow to beat the odds. A simple one is “Implementation Intention”. The more specific we are about what we will change, the more likely that we will succeed. “Changing for Good” by Dr. James Prochaska is a wonderful book about habit change, with ‘how to’ guidance. Same with Brand building. There are principles we can foll...
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De Novo Dezign Web Strategy and Design Testimonials
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Web Strategy and Design. Maria did a great job on our new website, www.acupoll.com. She was very strategic in her approach towards the structure and messaging as well as to graphic design elements. She has a good design eye and she was a pleasure to work with. I'd recommend her without hesitation. Jeff Goldstein, President, AcuPOLL. Cindy Tripp, Cindy Tripp and Company. Josefa Rangel, MD Innate Medicine. Catherine Banson, The Acorn Within. Leonora Polonsky, Leonora Polonsky and Associates. Above all, the...
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De Novo Dezign Web Strategy and Design Portfolio
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Web Strategy and Design. Acupoll Precision Research visit. Maria did a great job on our new website, www.acupoll.com. She was very strategic in her approach towards the structure and messaging as well as to graphic design elements. She has a good design eye and she was a pleasure to work with. I'd recommend her without hesitation. Ndash; Jeff Goldstein, President at AcuPOLL Precision Research Inc. Cindy Tripp and Company visit. Ndash; Cindy Tripp, Cindy Tripp and Company. The Acorn Within visit. Above al...
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On Empathy: Why Should You Care?
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Strategically Rooted Brand Building. On Empathy: Why Should You Care? Leonora Polonsky - Tuesday, May 14, 2013. Article contributed by Cindy Tripp, Design Thinking Specialist, Leonora Polonsky and Associates LLC. I love Tire Discounters. How can that be? It’s simple - Tire Discounters has empathy for me:. They greet me with respect and have a comfortable waiting room. Often they provide immediate service, even without an appointment. Even the weekly humor on their signs makes me smile. Imagine her story ...
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Consumers Best Interest at Heart
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Strategically Rooted Brand Building. Consumers Best Interest at Heart. Leonora Polonsky - Wednesday, February 05, 2014. Consumers want to do business with companies that have their. Best interest at heart. But what does this look like to consumers? In "Essential Insights into the Mind of the Market", Dr. Zaltman documents dignity. As a central characteristic of a "best interest at heart" company. Related thoughts include moral character. Again I told them that there was a problem and this time I knew tha...
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Powerful Marketing Lessons from Canyon Ranch®
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Strategically Rooted Brand Building. Powerful Marketing Lessons from Canyon Ranch. Leonora Polonsky - Monday, August 11, 2014. I just spent a transformational week at Canyon Ranch, a health and wellness resort in Arizona. I went at the suggestion of a client who had just been… I learned a lot about health and wellness, as expected. I also got some powerful lessons on brand building:. Power of word of mouth. My decision to go was entirely due to ONE person’s personal testimony. Power of building Trial.