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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.

Why social media shouldn’t scare marketers

In: listening, social media
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Most marketers don’t PERSONALLY understand social media well enough and are scared by it. Our goal is to help companies understand how they can be the chief storytellers for their own brands within the midst of all of the noise and conversations.

Trust is the easier part of the branding equation. The harder part of branding-building is creating desire for YOUR brand. Brands are delisted by retailers not because of lack of trust but when they are viewed as redundant.

What’s a Researcher Like Me Doing in a Place Like This?

In: advertising, branding, innovation, listening, Research is Cool, research transformation
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Could a marketing researcher bring a new, edgy perspective that others would find compelling? Yes! Blogging for Fast Company Magazine on marketing, advertising, and innovation.

Cracking the code; creating great brands

In: branding
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My interview with Pat Hanlon, author of Primal Branding on the role of stories at creating great brands. Joel Rubinson: You have said that a great brand needs a great creation story. What do you mean by that and why is it so important? Patrick Hanlon: Actually, what I have said is that great brands […]

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