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July 8, 2022 andreweverett360

Helping Customers Avoid Bad Choices

Northeastern University marketing professor Bruce Clark wrote an article on marketing ethics titled Helping Customers Avoid “Bad” Choices.

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July 2, 2022 andreweverett360

Netflix: cash incineration strategy

Evan Johnson wrote a blog post titled The End of Streaming’s Golden Age (July 1, 2022).

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June 29, 2022June 28, 2022 andreweverett360

Anti-personalization

Samuel Brealey and Michael Taylor wrote an article for WARC titled Anti-Personalization: The best ad for one is the best ad for all (June 2022).

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June 28, 2022June 28, 2022 andreweverett360

Cultural imprinting

Kevin Simler wrote an article titled Ads Don’t Work That Way posted on the Melting Asphalt website.

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June 20, 2022June 17, 2022 andreweverett360

Marketing in a Recession

Prof. Koen Pauwels wrote a blog post titled Myths on marketing in recession (April 10, 2020).

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June 17, 2022June 16, 2022 andreweverett360

George P. Schultz on Trust

George P. Schultz (1920-2021) wrote an Opinion piece for the Washington Post titled The 10 most important things I’ve learned about trust over my 100 years (December 11, 2020).

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June 16, 2022 andreweverett360

Is it Complicated or Complex?

Sonja Blignaut asked: “How would you explain to an average person (CEO, teacher, housewife, parent) how to identify that they are in complexity or facing a complex problem? I.e. how do you know something is complex? Without using any of the technical terms or jargon.”

Rick Nason responded:

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June 14, 2022 andreweverett360

Conjoint Analysis Can Undercut Price for Innovations

Doug Garnett wrote a blog post titled Pricing and Complexity (Part 2): Conjoint Analysis Can Undercut Price for Innovations (Feb 9 2020).

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June 9, 2022 andreweverett360

Dr. Courtney Conley on stress management

Los Angeles radio station KNX aired a segment called Optimism could keep you alive longer on its In Depth program (June 8, 2022). KNX hosts interviewed Dr. Courtney Conley, founder of the Expanding Horizons Counseling and Wellness. The segment starts at [34:42]

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June 9, 2022 andreweverett360

The Next Feature Fallacy

Andrew Chen wrote a blog post titled The Next Feature Fallacy: The fallacy that the next new feature will suddenly make people use your product (2015).

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