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With 80% of new products failing and with most of the breakthroughs actually being line extensions, we have to admit the CPG approach to innovation is broken. here is how to fix it

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.

In a digital age, how people seek out your brand is their choice, not yours so you need a digital strategy that makes it natural and easy for people to find you given the purpose they have in mind.

Media is no longer a force exerted against a passive audience. In a digital age, brand communication lives in an action environment and its purpose should be to amplify and shape consumer activities along the digital path to purchase.

In the end, the role of research is to inform. The role of a marketer is to develop ideas. That’s why business should be “data-informed, idea-led.”

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