“A brand is an emotional construct. It helps you to project an image to the world which you'd like to own.” Quote by 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
“Because we're always more woundable when caught at exactly the time where we're in the mood for that particular product or service - and as Big Data increasingly are able to pick up on clues revealing desire - automated systems are increasingly able to hit at exactly those moments, across those channels we move - with an offer matching exactly what we're desiring.” MomentsBigsAbleMovingDesireParticularProductsOffersPicksCaughtMoodDataClueRevealingMatching Author:Martin Lindstrom