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because of specialization, insight functions are driven to dehumanize the customer experience. What we can do about it…

Here is how wrong marketing beliefs come from bad marketing research mistakes turned into compelling narratives.

Brands are in a dogfight for purchases. Marketers are misled about building brand engagement by consultants’ stories that retrospectively explain marketing cases with false certainty.

In my interview with Google, they flunk CPG marketers, “You get a 3 out of 10″. If you look at where the dollars are still spent, the shift isn’t happening as dramatically as it should. Mentality: I’ll leave it to the next guy to jump off the cliff.

My interview with Google revealed searches on Google.com related to recipes are up 38% in 2011 over 2010. And it’s a huge number. It’s 7.8 billion recipe-related searches on Google.com.

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