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So, is this the end of branding? What should marketers and retailers do if shoppers are forever transformed into system beaters? Here are 6 tips for brands to build loyalty in this new marketing environment.

A holiday gift of food…for thought

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A gift of food for thought to thank you for a great year of learning and accomplishment for Rubinson Partners and I wanted to thank my clients, academic sponsors at NYU, network of resources and thought partners such as Judah Phillips web analytics guru at Monster, Erwin Ephron, Dave Lundahl founder at InsightsNow, Pat Hanlon (author of Primal Branding), and Frank Cotignola at Kraft.

Following experts on a given subject via Twitter is like a masterclass. However, the velocity of tweets can be like drinking from a firehose. Here are tools and an approach for coping.

When we study the top social media success stories, we still tend to focus on the splashy campaigns that went viral. There is more to social media than that. Social media is a way of serving customers, of exuding your brand essence, and of creating lifestyle themes that is about your customer’s challenges in daily life. It’s about brands showing loyalty to consumers.

Last year, social media was still a little theoretical. Now it’s real. The advertising models are starting to emerge, consumer-created beverages via Facebook and proprietary environments have gotten launched. Listening is now being used a source of shopper insights that manufacturers are sharing with retail partners.

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