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	<title>B2B Marketing Blog &#187; Positioning</title>
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		<title>Are You Positioned as one of Few Credible Substitutes in Your Market?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Galen De Young ( @GalenDY )</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Positioning]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[B2B Positioning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s economy, no one wants to turn away business. But smart marketers are positioning themselves to do just that. Most companies fall into the trap of positioning the company as broadly as possible, trying to be relevant to the broadest number of potential purchasers. That way, any lead or inquiry has opportunity. But this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steer Clear of Price-Only Positioning</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Hatch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Positioning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In another life, I worked in automotive marketing. A domestic brand. Every time the market tanked, the client, along with their domestic rivals, would predictably do the inevitable. Slap on rebates, trump one another&#8217;s incentives, slash prices, sweeten the deal, give away the store, compromise the brand and train customers already accustomed to never paying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Rebranding Often Fails</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Galen De Young ( @GalenDY )</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Positioning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[B2B Positioning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[branding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[repositioning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As competition heats up and sales start to stagnate, companies often seek to breathe new life into the brand through rebranding. In all too many cases, however, those expensive rebranding efforts fail to yield the desired business results. Here are some of the key reasons why rebranding often fails. More than executional mistakes that blunt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Market Share or Profit? Pick One.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buzz Baker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Positioning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing strategy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In their 1981 marketing strategy classic (it must be a classic, there’s even a 20th Anniversary Edition!), Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind, Al Ries and Jack Trout noted that if a brand occupies the category leadership position on the “ladder of consideration” of a customer, that position was essentially unassailable. The “high ground”, if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Words May Reposition a Brand.  But They Must Also Define the Task.</title>
		<link>http://www.proteusb2b.com/b2b-marketing-blog/index.php/word-define-brand-task/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buzz Baker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Positioning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customer service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employee engagement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internal alignment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We who’ve been in the marketing communications business for years have certainly been exposed to a myriad of brand repositionings in our professional careers…and most likely participated in more than a few as well.  Some simple and easy, some incredibly complex, but all with the intention of moving the perception of the brand closer to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Want to Position Your Brand “Righteously”?  It May Not be Your Call.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buzz Baker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Positioning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[B2B Positioning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Positioning Strategy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Years ago I was exposed to a psychographic segmentation model developed by Dr. John Cragan, at that time a Professor of Communications at Illinois St. University. By the time my colleagues and I became involved with Dr. Cragan and his model, it had be tested and applied in a number of B2B categories. Most importantly, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would Ebert and Roeper Give your Positioning a “Thumbs Up?”</title>
		<link>http://www.proteusb2b.com/b2b-marketing-blog/index.php/ebert-roeper-positioning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Marn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Positioning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[B2B Positioning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I saw a headline on CNN that made me laugh the other day. It said “Ebert and Roeper to leave ‘Ebert and Roeper.’” Boy, I’ll bet that show will never be the same! Clearly, a B2B company isn’t a TV show. But this little news item might be a good excuse to do a little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Marketing.  How Associative Positioning Breaks All Ties.</title>
		<link>http://www.proteusb2b.com/b2b-marketing-blog/index.php/green-marketing-positioning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buzz Baker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Positioning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone has likely heard a few jokes starting with “A duck walks into a bar…”, and immediately become interested because of the unexpected imagery. Today, however, I walked into the office bathroom and was confronted with real imagery that also piqued interest. On top of the commode was a role of toilet paper fully packaged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory</title>
		<link>http://www.proteusb2b.com/b2b-marketing-blog/index.php/positioning-line-extensions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buzz Baker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Positioning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Line Extenstions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When we last visited the Prussian military strategist, General Carl von Clausewitz, we noted that his tactical direction for armies attempting to cross wide rivers was not always appropriate for marketers attempting to aggressively reposition themselves. But the good general also has other advice for aggressive marketers that may well be worth heeding. And while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Repositioning Your Brand, You May Want to Disregard Von Clausewitz</title>
		<link>http://www.proteusb2b.com/b2b-marketing-blog/index.php/believable-positioning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.proteusb2b.com/b2b-marketing-blog/index.php/believable-positioning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buzz Baker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Positioning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[B2B Positioning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Prussian military strategist, General Carl Von Clausewitz, once said: “No army wanting to cross a wide river would cross only half of it first.” His point was simple. Once the decision was made to cross the river, the objective was to get to the other side. No ifs, ands or buts…and certainly no dawdling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t Let your Business Get Caught in the Middle</title>
		<link>http://www.proteusb2b.com/b2b-marketing-blog/index.php/positioning-in-middle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 15:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Marn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Positioning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A recent post by my colleague, Dick Hatch (about the slogan &#8220;Our people make the difference&#8220;) got me thinking. There are a number of common ad themes whose trite familiarity makes them invisible at best, laughable at worst. I&#8217;d like to nominate another candidate. I&#8217;ve seen dozens, maybe hundreds, of banks, CPAs, furniture stores, builders, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our People Make the Difference (Yea, Right) and Other “Unbelievable” Claims</title>
		<link>http://www.proteusb2b.com/b2b-marketing-blog/index.php/poor-positioning-taglines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Hatch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Positioning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taglines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For kicks, I tried Googling this tagline. On this particular day, the results produced several construction companies, a few carpet cleaners, realtors and brokers, hospitals, therapeutic clinics, a TV station, a web page from Deloitte Touche, a security firm, machine and metal fabricators, a change management consultant, staffing firms, a used car dealer, various banks, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Positioning inside the company</title>
		<link>http://www.proteusb2b.com/b2b-marketing-blog/index.php/positioning-inside/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Galen De Young ( @GalenDY )</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Positioning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[B2B Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employee engagement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internal alignment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Positioning starts at home. If you can&#8217;t get positioning right inside the organization, there&#8217;s little chance it will be successful in the marketplace. Typically, B2C marketing and sales have little personal interaction. If the purchase is fairly substantial, e.g., say for a $500 piece of consumer electronics, we may do some purchase research and talk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Positioning Strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Galen De Young ( @GalenDY )</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Positioning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[branding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing strategy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today I ran across a great blog posting at Brandeo regarding positioning strategy. I couldn’t agree more with the sentiments expressed in it. While the blog post mentions two consumer-marketing examples, the issues are equally relevant and critical to B2B marketing. Concurring with the author, I believe that there is often too little time paid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wisdom of Crowds?</title>
		<link>http://www.proteusb2b.com/b2b-marketing-blog/index.php/b2b-positioning-strategy-safe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Galen De Young ( @GalenDY )</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Positioning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[B2B Positioning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[repositioning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Look all too familiar to you? Getting input from advisors is important. And necessary. But chiseling and rounding your positioning until it pleases everyone inside the company ensures it won&#8217;t mean much to anyone outside the company. Your goal in positioning should be to make it easier for customers and prospects to understand exactly why [...]]]></description>
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