While smoking may be going out of fashion and cigarette advertising has been banned in many parts of the world, cigarette brands do provide marketers with an excellent introduction to how to position a brand in a cluttered and competitive market. This is primarily a visual-based activity for students and a great opportunity to learn more about positioning.
Experts in Positioning: Cigarette Brands Review the Teaching Activity
This is a great exercise for connecting target market needs and positioning. Students are presented with profiles of 5 consumer segments and the positioning of 9 competing supermarkets. Helpful activity for connecting the STP dots.
Matching Positioning and Target Market Needs Review the Teaching Activity
Students review Zennials, the micro-generation between Millennials and Gen Z and consider the value of understanding and using age and generational cohorts in their marketing actions.
Understanding Generation Zennial Review the Teaching Activity
In this video-based task, students review an ad for McDonald’s UK where they are promoting their McCafé offering, as compared to visiting a “trendy” coffee shop. This is considered a classic case study for marketers as it clearly shows the concepts of positioning and differentiation.
Classic Case Study: What is Positioning? Review the Teaching Activity
In this activity, students explore Aldi supermarkets and their operations in the United States and how they managed to grow and become successful in the “generic” supermarket retailing sector.
Aldi Supermarkets Differentiation Case Study Review the Teaching Activity
In this activity, students will help an accounting firm decide on the best approach for segmenting their B2B market. They will review an excerpt of a management team meeting where they debate various B2B market segmentation approaches.
What’s the Best Approach to Our B2B Segmentation? Review the Teaching Activity
In this B2B market segmentation exercise, students will identify the bases that companies are using to segment their business markets.
Which B2B Segmentation Base? Review the Teaching Activity
This role play exercise puts in a meeting scenario for a sustainable clothing company contemplating market expansion. Participants assume key roles within the management team, debating the merits and risks of entering new segments while maintaining the brand’s eco-conscious identity.
Should We Expand? Role Play Activity Review the Teaching Activity
This activity involves analyzing market segments for Greenhills Shoes, a sustainable footwear company. Students will identify how to expand the brand without compromising its eco-friendly values, focusing on understanding brand positioning and the importance of sustainability in marketing.
Tapping into Customer Value Review the Teaching Activity
In this activity students will consider the value of a brand (Specsavers) utilizing a long-term tag-line. While tag-lines are often helpful for communicating positioning and guiding IMC campaigns, they may need to be refreshed at times to keep the brand modern and adaptive.
Do Tag-Lines Eventually Wear Out? Review the Teaching Activity