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Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
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J. Elliott Cunningham, Westgate Marketing is accomplished marketing strategist with a career distinguished by impressive achievements in driving marketing initiatives generating outstanding returns utilizing a “positioning” approach to marketing, sales, and advertising.
Top of My Mind
Any viable internet strategy needs to include conversion concepts. Sometimes that might be economic, as in sales. But it... More...
A friend of mine just Facebooked, “Thinking there has to be some way to unite indies rockers.” To which I replied, "If... More...
Clay Shirky recently wrote a great article on Cato Unbound. What he describes in the news industry is a mirror of what has... More...
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I'm a big believer that in this environment, there is no one way to get to market. Both online and traditional media work in unique ways. You need to find the right mix of both that will serve and reach your audience. But right now, major media has a problem, and it isn't necessarily the internet. Sure, the internet has changed how print media needs... More...
Every business does its commerce in some community square, just like the grand old days. It may look and feel different, but the principles and fundamentals are the same. I have worked on projects where the shipping department said “that’s not our job, that’s marketing’s job.” But Good to Great companies know that everyone is in marketing. When... More...
Over the years I have begun projects with companies and organizations, and one of the first things I ask for is their plan. Normally I am then handed an Excel Spreadsheet, ironically followed up by a statement that says “we never hit our plan.” One company I worked with actually took 12 months to develop the budget and miraculously “hit it”... More...

