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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.”

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.

Stranger in a strange land

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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.

Marketing research and insights professionals must flip the switch…instead of starting with “The Project” we should start with the digital river. Now we live in a world where there is a river of information that pre-dates the marketing question and flows continuously as it is fed by digital tributaries from social media, search, navigation pathways.

Brand equity refers to the size of a brand; brand health refers to its trajectory. Here are 8 signs if your brand is healthy.

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