"Suck" : Worst Case Scenarios in Media, Culture, Advertising and the Internet Karen Pinkus The Art of Thinking Clearly

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Aaker offers readers step-by-step advice on what to do when confronting scenarios such as the • Brands are underleveraged• The business strategy is at risk because of inadequate brand platforms• The business faces a relevance threat caused by emerging subcategories• The firm's brands are tired and bland• Strategy is paralyzed by a lack of priority among the brands• Brands are cluttered and confusing to both customers and employees• The firm needs to move into the super-premium or value arenas to create margin or sales volume• Margin pressures require points of differentiationRenowned brand guru Aaker demonstrates that assuring that each brand in the portfolio has a clear role and actively reinforces and supports the other portfolio brands will profoundly affect the firm's profitability

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"Suck" : Worst Case Scenarios in Media, Culture, Advertising and the Internet Karen Pinkus The Art of Thinking ClearlyPresents thirty two rants, essays, and parodies taken from Suck, the daily column on the World Wide Web