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The100: Smorgasbords of blandness, jingles & a helping of “I don’t care”
The pig in the python is passing through You’re no doubt aware that we’re all ignoring “the most valuable generation in the history of marketing”? So which of these do you think is a banal excuse for not including the over-50s in most marketing strategies: Brand loyalty won early will last a lifetime? Everyone aspires …
Project Manager – no exp necc.
There you are! You may not know it yet but you could be our next STAR! Most likely you’re a recent graduate (though exceptions of course exist) looking to gain experience in a fast paced yet fun working environment. Obviously you are an asset to any pub quiz team. Someone who has the brains and …
The100: Insider-outsiders, geriatric millennials and conversational gambits
When the numbers don’t add up (on their own) Among the many problems with the world? Our tendency to favour analysis of hypotheses over an open, unbiased mind and inquisitiveness: Pinning all your faith on an economic model alone, say, is like walking through a dark wood at night with a compass and only staring …
The100: Marketing myopia, mirror neurons and Posh Spice
The over-focus on the present The right honorable gentleman, Tom Roach, has written a stupendous piece on whether marketing is losing perspective. No guesses as to what his answer is. Having modern marketing myopia means not lifting your head up to look out at the real worlds and lives of real people […] It means …
The100: Improving focus, the world’s oldest companies and Boris Becker
In the spirit of a New Mexican monk Email has long siphoned my focus into a cavity of distraction. Yet I’m not convinced that burning my inbox is the sea-parting solution many have been calling for. Not just because I’d have a hard time setting my laptop on fire, but we’d also simply replace it …
The100: Brand health, the end of averages and cargo cults
The world’s biggest database of human intentions The Parish of Brand Tracking uncorked a new metric late last year: Share of Search. Les Binet convincingly explains that share of search can predict market share; where share of search goes, market share follows. 30 minutes in the egg timer flies by. And Les starts the talk …
The100: Acquisitions, artaraxy and nuns’ brains
$1.85 gold filled spectacles Amazon is often served dishes of disdain in response to their in-house brands, with Peak Design’s 90 seconds of (understandable) snark being a recent example. Yet, as Ben Evans pointed out, Amazon isn’t doing anything different to those that came before them. Sears, for example, was even doing private label back …
The100: Slow-motion multitasking, faster horses and dreamscapes
I sent a researcher to 1890 The misuse of the Henry Ford ‘faster horses’ quote has long rumpled my stiltskins. All too often it’s oversimplified and used to pooh-pooh the need for innovation research. Indeed the quote is correct, participants aren’t going to invent the car. But that isn’t the point of research either. As …
The100: Internal presentations, problem solving and orange peel
At the first signs of smoke As First Mate in the House of Vince during these lockdowns (the real boots are not on my feet) recent advice from the gang at Farnham Street held particular relevance for both home and office life. The maritime approach to solving problems before they happen: If a leader can’t …
Breadth and Depth: How to become a better Market Researcher
Despite (or perhaps because of!) the growing number of training courses in consumer / market research, it can be difficult to know where to start. So, as someone who once found themselves wondering that exact thing, here are a few tips. A good researcher needs to build two things: Breadth: A strong technical skill set …