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.
Aug
29
How loyal are your loyal buyers, really?
In: behavioral economics, branding, market research, shopper insights
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Jul
18
Behavioral economics explains why surveys sometimes give ridiculously wrong answers and 7 tips for how to avoid pitfalls
Jul
2
Marketing must build both halves of the sales equation
In: advertising, behavioral economics, branding, shopper marketing, social media
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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.
Dec
15
A holiday gift of food…for thought
In: advertising, behavioral economics, digital marketing, facebook
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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.
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.