Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Do You Insult Consumer Intelligence With Entertainment Value? I wrote recently about the advertising business’s mis-understanding of the idea of “likability”. I think we have a similar problem… 0 April 29, 2011
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Does “Likability” Create Advertising That Consumers Hate? Long ago studies began to suggest that advertising tends to be more effective when it’s “likable”. And very quickly, likability… 0 April 13, 2011
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Humanity, Humility, Statistics & Brands. Thoughts About “How Brands Grow” by Byron Sharp For all the grand ad agency theorizing about brands, it’s ironic that the most human sense of brands that I’ve… 0 March 25, 2011
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Reading the Fossil Record: Why Mobile Retail Tracking Can’t Replace Focus Group Research There was a post on Retail Wire this morning that pondered whether retailers will need traditional research once mobile tracking… 0 February 17, 2011
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email Squirrel! Advertising Agencies Chase Utopian Theories There’s nobody easier to sell to than other salesmen. Unless, of course, you’re promising a consumer revolution to advertising agencies.… 0 February 14, 2011
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email DRTV Finds What Nielsen Misses: An Audience That Will Take Action Nielsen ratings are often attacked for a variety of problems with their statistical reliability and I certainly don’t disagree with… 0 January 28, 2011
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email The Yell & Sell Approach to DRTV Decreases Retail Impact. There’s no myth I hate more than the idea that DRTV’s primary role for companies is driving direct sales. Yes,… 0 January 20, 2011
Facebook Google+ Twitter Email The Key Truths About Social Media Are Already Known by Direct Marketers Social media experts have spent the last few years telling us how hard it is to calculate the value of… 0 December 9, 2010
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