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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.

For consumer insights teams, shopper insights research feels foreign; it requires a different set of approaches and a totally different mindset.  Shopping is about action more than preferences.  It’s about the shopping trip rather than a single product category. Yet, shopper insights are critical for making shopper marketing work for your brand, enhancing your relationships […]

How Advertising Works; The Second Right Answer

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The second right answer must come from knowledge. It must be compelling because you are challenging the incumbent, the first right answer.

Markets seem to evolve in one of two ways that imply very different strategies for launching new offerings: •    Market entrenchment •    Market reinvention Market entrenchment looks like this.  Someone creates an innovation that establishes a new market.  The second wave of “innovation” is comprised of a few differentiated nationally branded products, but really serves […]

Brand engagement, turning people into ambassadors for your brand, getting them to be social media Johnny Appleseed-s all SEEM like the holy grail in a social media world. Certainly, a marketer should position a brand in that magical way that creates a special “walk on hot coals” kind of love between customer and brand. Right? […]

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