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When Stan Stanunathan, global insights leader at Coca-Cola says, “Data quality doesn’t matter”, what he means is “data quality is not enough”. He advises that we researchers must not have an eternal debate about data quality. We must move on to insights that “inspire the marketer”. This is a great wakeup call to researchers that data quality is a means to an end.

Make people curious about your brand

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In a world of the long-tail of choices that are sometimes not very functionally different, use curiosity as a way of getting people to think about your brand. Being interesting might be a new way of being better.

Someone who hacks a game finds a different way. Let’s hack marketing. Make something important that wasn’t important before to consumers. Social media offers the ability to hack and even reprogram the marketing game…for both the marketer and the consumer.

The ARF launches a “Quality Enhancement Process” (QeP) that is intended to have research buyers and sellers work collaboratively and transparently towards a common goal—to once again be able to take data quality for granted so we can focus energies on key marketing issues.

In a broadcast marketing world, we think of brand communications as being chunked up into campaigns. In a social media world, you are creating a permanent commitment to be part of the conversation and obey the 6 rules of authenticity.

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