… and you didn’t even know it! Welcome to our first post in our series on CONSUMER INVOLVEMENT MARKETING. The song “How Much is That Dog in the Window” and the hit 80’s movie “Mannequin” have two things in common – they both speak to the willingness we have as consumers to be attracted to… […]
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Marketing with Humor.
I was standing in the grocery isle with my wife, she turns to me and says “Why don’t you pick up some beer for the house” and before finishing her sentence I’m already halfway to the beer section. As I’m standing there looking at the vast selection of cold beverages, beer slogans start to clutter […]
By MIKE GORDON,CHRIS MUSSO, ERIC REBENTISCH And NISHEETH GUPTA “Is your company finding it hard to develop new products? If so, you might try learning from the masters.” The Wall STREET Journal Report Originally, I when I first posted this article, I really wanted everyone to just read it; I didn’t realize I probably should add my “2 Cents” […]
Yes friends Mario and Luigi, these lovable Italian stereotypes have represented Nintendo since the company’s inception. And of course we have Apple; represented by an apple. So what does this blog title really mean? Team Alpha submits to you our Marketing Strategy of the day. What’s this strategic plan? You guessed it – Integrative Growth! […]
As consumers today, we are regularly bombarded with surveys, recorded calls to ensure quality, and platforms such as Yelp to voice our pleasure or dismay as the case may be. As businesses providing products and/or services our focus has been increasingly directed away from purely transactional tenets toward relationships. The “Customer Experience” or “CX” is […]
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Cross Cultural Marketing Mishaps
Good afternoon EMBA class of 2014. After going with many of my fellow classmates and spouses this weekend to South Coast Repertory to see the play Chinglish it inspired me to create a blog on cross cultural marketing mishaps. For those of us that have seen Chinglish the examples below reinforce the importance of working […]
How does a company know what consumers want? In the case of Nexflix, executives simply look at the selection of videos that consumers choose to watch. Last year, NPR produced a segment on the importance of algorithms as a critical aspect of Netflix’s consumer research. The company uses algorithms to analyze consumer choices, and armed […]
Individuals who try to eat healthy have the best of intentions, but sometimes don’t know how to make the best choices. That’s when marketing for “healthy” food products enter the picture. Food companies have learned to capitalize on consumers’ desire for fitness by marketing their products accordingly, using language such as “organic” or “heart healthy.” […]