Recession Begets “Serial Loyalty” for Brands

June 22, 2009

Premium consumer packaged goods, or fmcg, brands can lose consumers during recessions. Market research is showing loyalty suffers as price sensitivity increases.

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What is a Sustainable Competitive Advantage?

June 17, 2009

Through our work with many brands we’ve developed a framework for classifying competitive advantages. This simple classification is derived from the customer’s perspective on brand selection – namely how a customer might consciously or sub-consciously choose one brand over another. It all boils down to four simple “utilities” that matter to customers and that marketers [...]

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Strategy

June 13, 2009

Michael Porter once asked, “What Is Strategy?”
Of course, he then proceeded to answer with an excellent, brief summary and a longer “The Idea in Practice” and 20 page article in the Harvard Business Review in 1996. This work was a great update and refresher for those of us who studied his books on strategy back in [...]

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Navigating the Marketing Frontier

May 31, 2009

Applying strategic marketing and financial analysis acumen to brands and businesses large and small.

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