i 2010 January | Joel Rubinson on Marketing Research
Thoughts by Joel Rubinson, Chief Research Officer of The ARF
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True listening is scary, that’s what’s up. It’s a big change from our traditional way of thinking. So, the single biggest opportunity in the history of consumer marketing lays dormant.

Marketers, take note: the curiosity impulse can lead people to discover and engage with your brand. Curiosity short-circuits the linear funnel from awareness to interest to desire, blah blah. Curiosity leads to purchases that are serendipitous and often spontaneous.

In a long-tail world of choices that are sometimes not very functionally different, perhaps “interesting” is the new “better”.