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
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.
Sep
19
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.”
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.
Jan
3
Stranger in a strange land
In: advertising, digital marketing
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Marketers have become strangers in a strange digital land. The rules of thumb the best of us mastered in an analog world have lost their completeness to understand, anticipate, and create growth in a digital world.