Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Five Reasons Consumers will “Friend” Your Company. In my last post, I noted six hard truths or axioms I’ve developed about social media. And while these are… 0 November 12, 2010
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email “Most Consumers Don’t Want to Be Your Friend”: Six Axioms of Social Media. We’ve been sold the grand myth of social media marketing based on some rather flakey ideas. In particular, the ad… 0 November 11, 2010
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Impact Driver or Impact Wrench? Confused Names Keep Products on the Shelf There are many ways that companies conspire to keep their products sitting lazily on the shelf (safe from consumer purchase).… 0 November 8, 2010
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Impact Driver or Impact Wrench? Once More Hardware Marketers Hurt Themselves with Names Tool makers have created a wilderness of product, category and project names that stand in the way of revenue and… 0 November 8, 2010
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Key to New Product Success: Avoid “Death by Brand Advertising” When you have a new product, the first order of business is getting consumers to love the product – love… 0 October 1, 2010
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email The Politics of Potatoes Assuming you have a product that has become a shelf potato and it looks like you can bring it alive,… 0 August 17, 2010
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Tech Products Fail to “Cross the Chasm” Because of Communication Communication is all-to-often the reason that products don’t make it across the chasm. Yet this is under-reported in the literature,… 1 July 23, 2010
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Eight (8) Reasons Products Sit on the Retail Shelf Grills nearly identical to George Foreman’s lingered on store shelves for nearly 20 years. Then, the Foreman infomercial blew the… 0 July 21, 2010
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Snuggie wasn’t a new product. So what should brands learn (and not learn) from it’s DRTV success? This is a post on my other blog – “TheShelfPotato”. Talks about Snuggie AND about the lessons brands should learn… 1 July 12, 2010
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Don’t Underestimate the Value of Focus Groups A recent post discussed how powerful focus groups are for guiding advertising development. And, why most arguments against them are,… 1 July 6, 2010