A gift of food for thought to thank you for a great year of learning and accomplishment for Rubinson Partners and I wanted to thank my clients, academic sponsors at NYU, network of resources and thought partners such as Judah Phillips web analytics guru at Monster, Erwin Ephron, Dave Lundahl founder at InsightsNow, Pat Hanlon (author of Primal Branding), and Frank Cotignola at Kraft.
Dec
15
A holiday gift of food…for thought
In: advertising, behavioral economics, digital marketing, facebook
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May
24
Concept testing and choice experiments throw the insight that consumers are creatures of habit out the window. We force people to tell us if they are interested in a particular new product idea without studying how to disrupt existing consumer habits and rituals.
Apr
29
As behavioral economists know, Adoption of new choices requires breaking consumer habits. In this way, marketing is fundamentally about disruption.
Nov
29
How to create brand led shopping
In: advertising, behavioral economics, market research, shopper marketing
5 Comments
Introducing a new concept called brand led shopping which gives advertising an integrate shopper and consumer purpose. Touchpoints must be used strategically as they are not interchangeable in this new model.
Sep
1
Is brand awareness a useful research measure in an era of digital and shopper marketing?
In: behavioral economics, branding, digital marketing, market research, marketing, retail, shopper insights, shopper marketing, social media
9 Comments
I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with measuring brand awareness, especially aided awareness. What a CPG marketer really wants to know is how to get their brand noticed at retail.

