How do people spend time engaging with your brand? This is critical to learn and the answer might surprise you. It is likely that owned media is first and Facebook might be at the bottom.
Apr
7
How do people spend time with your brand?
In: advertising, branding, social media
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Sep
9
Supermarket shopping in the real world
In: branding, retail, shopper insights, shopper marketing
3 Comments
Marketers are in a world where the great majority of brand-consumer relationships are based on non-exclusive brand beliefs which explains why many brand purchase decisions are made at retail. Marketers need to dial up the exclusivity of what their brand means or will remain challenged to support their price differential vs. store brands.
Sep
1
Is brand awareness a useful research measure in an era of digital and shopper marketing?
In: behavioral economics, branding, digital marketing, market research, marketing, retail, shopper insights, shopper marketing, social media
9 Comments
I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with measuring brand awareness, especially aided awareness. What a CPG marketer really wants to know is how to get their brand noticed at retail.
Jul
27
What if it all STARTS with the purchase?
In: advertising, behavioral economics, market research, marketing, retail, shopper insights, shopper marketing, social media
5 Comments
Traditional marketing theory tells us that the purchase is the successful outcome of consumer-directed messages that create awareness which begets interest, desire, and action.
what happens when that is wrong? What does marketing do when it STARTS “store back” with the purchase? Based on shopper insights research, I believe that, for grocery products, over half of first-time purchases are unplanned;
Jun
24
Digitization is transformational to the media experience, advertising possibilities and media businesses. Now, the media property is the organizing principle and it must live synergistically across platforms. Advertising on traditional media no longer has to be static and served to a whole audience.