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Positioning A President’s Brand, Round II: The State of the Union

February 9, 2012 by comments 0

(NOTE: This is the second post in a series on the role of marketing and brands in this year’s Presidential election. For Part I, see Positioning A President: A Marketing Case Study.) Recap: Holland-Mark’s branding approach is based on the observation that people have a tendency to boil things down to One Simple Thing™ (“OST” for short.)…

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Positioning a President: A Marketing Case Study (Part 1)

January 27, 2012 by comments 0

Holland-Mark’s branding approach is based on the observation that people have a tendency to boil things down to One Simple Thing™. We all do it, it’s part of our genetic code and an important adaptation to a modern world overrun by complexity. We do this not only for brands (Volvo = Safety, BMW = Performance, Zappos…

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Startup Positioning Talk

November 9, 2011 by comments 0

Slides from today’s talk at CriticalMass in the Cambridge Innovation Center. Thanks to everyone who came! Mike Selling the Dogfood: Startup Marketing Before & After Product/Market Fit View more presentations from Holland-Mark

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Groupon, we have the answer…

October 25, 2011 by comments 2

But something tells us this is not what you were hoping to hear. Let’s start at the beginning. Two things happening at Holland-Mark right now. First, we’re in deep with the start up community. As of last night, the MassChallenge 2011 Awards sent a new batch of financed and confident entrepreneurs out into the world,…

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TechProm – Video World Premiere

September 26, 2011 by comments 0

I caught a great presentation by Sean Lindsay last week, and it really hammered home for me how the Boston startup and digital marketing community is coming into its own. Social events have and will continue to play an important role in knitting us all together, which is why I’d like to take a moment…

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