Posts by: James T. Berger

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Nations and Cities as “Brands”

By James T. Berger April 1, 2006

Prof. Sid Levy of Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management was the first to develop the “broadening concept” of marketing. Levy…

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Creating “Monopolies” from Customer Value Propositions

By James T. Berger March 1, 2006

I have always believed that essence of creativity is the ability to see relationships. As a student of today’s super-competitive marketing environment,…

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Peeling the Customer Loyalty Onion

By James T. Berger February 1, 2006

As marketers seek to develop lasting relationships with customers and clients, the conventional wisdom focuses on developing these relationships through loyalty programs.…

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Thoughts on Relationship Marketing

By James T. Berger January 1, 2006

Like so many ideas in modern marketing, the concept of relationship marketing began as a smart, sensible realization that the then-existing paradigm,…

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Profiting with Yield Pricing

By James T. Berger December 5, 2005

Increasing numbers of companies are taking elements of “yield pricing” or “yield management,” a pricing strategy originally developed for perishable service sector…

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The Peril of Price Cuts

By James T. Berger December 5, 2005

When I first started teaching marketing to DePaul University undergraduates, I used a textbook that had short one-page cases. In solving the…

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Is Sales/Marketing Budgeting Really a Necessity Or Is It Just a Big Waste of Time and Money?

By James T. Berger November 5, 2005

With yearend approaching, many companies are thoroughly immersed in the annual rite of autumn – the sales and marketing budgeting process. Increasingly,…

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Customer Profitability A Key to M&A Success

By James T. Berger October 5, 2005

Often overlooked by the numbers crunchers in the urge to merge is a crucial principle of modern marketing – analysis of customer…

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How “Intervention” Can Improve Sales Management for Smaller Firms

By James T. Berger September 12, 2005

When it comes to sales management, there is a forgotten market segment crying out for professional help. This forgotten market segment are…

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What’s In a Name?

By James T. Berger August 10, 2005

Microsoft might very well have shot itself in the foot with the branding of its new Windows operating system. The code name…

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About The Author

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James T. Berger, Senior Marketing Writer of The Wiglaf Journal, through his Northbrook-based firm, James T. Berger/Market Strategies, offers a broad range of marketing communications, research and strategic planning consulting services. In addition, he provides expert services to intellectual property attorneys in the area of trademark infringement litigation. An adjunct professor of marketing at Roosevelt University, he previously has taught at Northwestern University, DePaul University, University of Illinois at Chicago and The Lake Forest Graduate School of Management. He holds degrees from the University of Michigan (BA), Northwestern University (MS) and the University of Chicago (MBA). Berger is an often-published free lance business writer who has developed more than 100 published articles in the last eight years. For more information, visit www.jamesberger.net or telephone him at (847) 328-9633.