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Brand Positioning Fundamentals: Frame of Reference

In Building a Brand by Axle Davids

In our last post on brand positioning fundamentals, I reviewed the target audience need. The Motorola Droid was used as our example to illustrate the key elements in a classic positioning statement which are: 1. Your target customer 2. Their need 3. Their frame of reference 4. Your dramatic difference(s) 5. Your reason(s) to believe Together they …

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Brand Positioning Fundamentals – The Need

In Building a Brand by Axle Davids

In my last post, I reviewed the classic brand positioning model we use here at Distility for 1day1brand. As well, we reviewed getting the target audience right. The Motorola Droid was used as our example to illustrate the key elements in a classic positioning statement which are: 1. Your target customer 2. Their …

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Brand Positioning Fundamentals – The Customer

In Building a Brand by Axle Davids

As noted in the post Positioning – Much Abused. How to Use here at Distility Branding, for 1day1brand, we use the classic positioning statement that is made up of the elements in the above diagram. 1.Your Target Customer 2.Their Need 3.Their Frame of Reference 4.Your Dramatic Difference(s) 5.Your reason(s) to believe Together …

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Choosing a Brand Personality

In Building a Brand by Axle Davids

You Don’t Want Your Brand to be Cold and Lifeless – You Want it to Have Personality Imagine your company as an actual person that your target audience is meeting for the first time. What first impression do you want to make on your target audience? Here, your answer shouldn’t …

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Positioning – Much Abused, How to Use

In Building a Brand by Axle Davids

Positioning – Much Abused. How to Use. Sales Guy #1: So What’s Your Positioning? sales Guy #2: We’re a global leading manufacturer of rubber chickens. Ouch. Poor Positioning. She is so misunderstood. Maybe even the most abused term in Marketing. Here’s the bottom line. Positioning needs to be relative to …