“A brand is an emotional construct. It helps you to project an image to the world which you'd like to own.” WorldHelpingEmotionalProjectsBrandsConstructs Author:Martin Lindstrom
“Branding is not about what something says or what it means, but how it makes us feel.” FeelsMeanBranding Author:Martin Lindstrom
“Where big data is all about seeking correlations - and thus to make incremental changes - small data is all about causations - seeking to understand the reasons why.” ReasonBigsSeekingDataReason WhyCorrelationCausationIncremental Change Author:Martin Lindstrom
“Once you know the reason why - you've defined your white space of canvas on which you can paint and create a new concept idea. No matter how creative you are - and thus how much creative space you need - there's always some fundamental values and drivers your brand should seek to address - in order to become successful.” KnowsNeedsShouldIdeasMatterReasonValuesOrderSpaceWhiteCreativeSuccessfulConceptsFundamentalsPaintDefinedBrandsReason WhyAddressesDriversCanvasBecoming SuccessfulWhite SpaceCreative Space Author:Martin Lindstrom
“Small Data defines this space, identifies the imbalances we all have and thus the gap these imbalances represents for your new innovation.” SpaceInnovationDataGapsImbalance Author:Martin Lindstrom
“Small Data is not about testing concepts - it is more to create the foundation for innovative brand thinking.” ThinkingConceptsFoundationBrandsDataTestingInnovative Author:Martin Lindstrom
“The consumer has become increasingly sophisticated in the way they obtain and digest information - of the simple reason that they've become comfortable about building and maintaining their own personal brands. This has thickened their "filter" and as a result made them become more critical towards advertising and communication.” WayMadeReasonSimpleResultsInformationBuildingCommunicationComfortableCriticalAdvertisingBrandsConsumersSophisticatedMaintainingFilters Author:Martin Lindstrom
“Thus ideas like subliminal advertising today rarely works and or even exists.” IdeasTodayAdvertisingSubliminal Author:Martin Lindstrom
“New techniques - often spinning out of technology and lack of privacy has resulted in new manipulative communication formats.” TechnologyCommunicationTechniquePrivacySpinningFormatManipulative Author:Martin Lindstrom
“Here in particular the idea of contextual communication - i.e. communicating the right message, at the right time to the right audience - seems to generate an increasing effect on the consumer in a manipulative way.” WayIdeasSeemsAudienceEffectsParticularCommunicationMessagesCommunicateConsumersRight TimeManipulative Author:Martin Lindstrom