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Pedigree Shelter Dogs “Heroes”

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Pedigree Shelter Dogs “Heroes”

After 24 years, Pedigree was ousted as the dog food sponsor from the prestigious Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. Why? Reports now reveal it was because they were producing somber ads like this one that feature sad music and sad-eyed pooches.

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Coke’s Branding Strategy: The Essence of Companionship

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Coke’s Branding Strategy: The Essence of Companionship

To its fans, Coke is like an old friend who has been there for the best and worst moments of their lives. Emotional marketing master Graeme Newell reveals how Coke has built such a powerful brand.

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The Power of Focus: Essentials for Simplifying a Marketing Message

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The Power of Focus: Essentials for Simplifying a Marketing Message

It is said that perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. In this three-minute marketing lesson, emotional marketing expert Graeme Newell shows how marketers can avoid creating over-complicated messages.

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Best Strategies to Build Marketing to Beat a Competitor

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Best Strategies to Build Marketing to Beat a Competitor

A marketers worst habit? We fall hopelessly in love with their own brand – often at the expense of the customer. Marketing expert Graeme Newell tells how to avoid common pitfalls in product feature marketing.

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The Anal-Retentive Achiever – Building Brands for Confident People

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The Anal-Retentive Achiever – Building Brands for Confident People

  • Order and control are two powerful emotional motivators that are particularly endearing to people who see themselves as achievers.
  • Don't forget that success means much more than career or monetary achievement. Stay-at-home moms, low-wage earners, and retirees often use different criteria to gauge life success.
  • There are two primary ways to market using success - feed the need through identification, or deny the need through derision.
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    Best Practices for Marketing to the Control Freak that Lives Inside All of Us

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    Best Practices for Marketing to the Control Freak that Lives Inside All of Us

  • Marketing that appeals to the control freak deep inside of us uses one of two primary emotional motivators: fear or success.
  • The process of using fear has two critical steps: frighten, but then quickly reassure.
  • Fear should be a catalyst that drives the feeling of reassurance.  Peace of mind, not angst, should be the goal of the marketing.
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    What Liquor can Teach us about Smart Marketing Strategy

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    What Liquor can Teach us about Smart Marketing Strategy

    by Graeme Newell gnewell@602communications.com http://www.602communications.com   Highlights: -When most of the products in a category aren’t much different from each other, brands must transition from belaboring minuscule feature differences to building the ego of their customers. -Companies must have the courage to honestly assess when their product category has matured, then decisively move away from feature marketing. -Great companies have one thing in common – their products are usually not that special, but they have...

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    How to Use Emotional Marketing to Build a Powerful Marketing Plan

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    How to Use Emotional Marketing to Build a Powerful Marketing Plan

  • The primary goal of traditional ads is to inform the customer about the product, but emotional marketing takes the opposite tack. Emotional marketing's primary goal is to elicit an emotional response from the customer, not to showcase a product.
  • Customers evaluate products with their head, but they buy with their heart.
  • Emotional marketing is more effective because it attaches the brand to feelings that customers already feel about themselves.
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    Ways to Avoid a Self-Obsessed Marketing Strategy

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    Ways to Avoid a Self-Obsessed Marketing Strategy

  • Many times the primary motivation behind a brand preference has nothing to do with the product and its direct effects.
  • Most marketers study the customer’s passion for their product, not the more motivating passions of how customers feel about themselves.
  • Never underestimate the prowess of the average consumer. Most of them are masters at sniffing out disingenuous advertising. Your commitment to your customers must be real, or you should just go home.
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    Best Practices for Marketing Product Features

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    Best Practices for Marketing Product Features

  • Companies tend to define success as beating a competitor even though winning a customer should be their aim. This has lead to a flood of feature-comparison marketing that overwhelms potential customers with information.
  • Don't brand your product's features; instead, show how those features demonstrate the brand.
  • Don't kid yourself into thinking that your product feature is special. Odds are, you'll need to wrap that feature in a tested creative vehicle such as metaphor, special effects, or comedy.
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