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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.

Behavioral economics explains why surveys sometimes give ridiculously wrong answers and 7 tips for how to avoid pitfalls

Brand engagement marketing is incomplete. Marketers need to use advertising and shopper marketing to lift sales among less loyal consumers and social and owned media to build EXCLUSIVE meaning, leading to advocacy and engagement.

A holiday gift of food…for thought

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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.

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.

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