“Small Data is not about testing concepts - it is more to create the foundation for innovative brand thinking.” Quote by 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
“Spinning out of my neuromarketing work where, based on scanning the brains of 2,000 respondents' brains using fMRI, we learned that there's a huge correlation between religion and branding - and thus the way that brands intend to generate customer evangelism are to be constructed.” WayBrainHugeCustomersBrandsBrandingSpinningEvangelismCorrelationScanning Author:Martin Lindstrom
“The cornerstone of religion, a clear vision can inspire great action and firm conviction.” ActionVisionClearInspireConvictionFirmCornerstonesClear Vision Author:Martin Lindstrom
“What do Harley-Davidson, LEGO, and Apple have in common? They're all based on communities.” CommunityCommonApplesHarleyLegosHarley Davidson Author:Martin Lindstrom
“Considering LEGO's considerable brand equity, you might expect that the company must have a marketing budget in the billions. Not so. In fact, LEGO's marketing budget is so modest that if I recorded it here, you'd probably think it was a typo. LEGO doesn't do its own talking; it lets LEGO maniacs talk for it.” IfsThinkingFactsMightCompanyTalkingMarketingBillionsBrandsBudgetsConsideringModestEquityManiacsLegosTypos Author:Martin Lindstrom