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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.

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;

“Dealer Franchise Laws” are federal and state laws that protect auto dealerships. However, they also institutionalize business practices in a way that are no longer serve the consumer but cannot be easily changed.

Marketers want to use brand extension strategies as much as possible today because it is a more affordable way to introduce products but the key is having enough rocket fuel, i.e. brand equity, to get the rocket (i.e. brand extension) off the ground.

Understanding “Path to Purchase” will change marketing and media priorities. In most cases, it is likely to increase the budget for search, comparison shopping, and particularly in-store shopper marketing vs. using a media habits approach because those places don’t have a big share of media time but they are where the “lean-forward” action is.

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