marketing concept

How to Map Brand Positioning

Last week I posted an article explaining the basics of Product and Brand Positioning (a marketing concept). I have received several messages asking for techniques for evaluating positioning. Below therefore is a tutorial of how to map your brand or product against that of a competitor. In this example we’ll use three well known car [...]

Product Positioning Explained

Product Positioning is about consistency in consumer perception. It is a marketing concept popularised by Ries and Trout in their 1980s book ‘Positioning: The Battle for your Mind’. Very simply, Positioning is about creating an identity in the mind of the consumer; Consumers have vast choice of products and the overall perception of the product [...]