Valentine’s Day Index 2008: Price of Love = $113.00

Brand Keys’ Valentine’s Day Index 2008
“More and more gifts are being exchanged between friends and family in the name of St. Valentine, and that’s turned Valentine’s Day into a major retail holiday,” said Robert Passikoff, president of Brand Keys, Inc., a New York-based brand and customer engagement research consultancy.
“Again this year consumers report higher after-Christmas [...]

Faith Popcorn’s BrainReserve sees 2008 as a “transitional year”, as a turbulent global society seeks a new “core focus.”

by Faith Popcorn
Our world continues to be rife with unrest, uncertainty and angst since we were turned upside down with the events of 9/11 and the cascade of events which can be traced to direct bi-products of that world changing event. With the War in Iraq, new global tensions among nations, and a heightened [...]

Guess what Wednesday? You are now the new “IT” day for email newsletter senders.

I have an email mailing list of just over 30K people. Every week before I hit send I’m faced with the conundrum – are my readers in the mood to receive this newsletter now?
One instance of email overload and they hit the unsubscribe button or – horrors – the spam button causing all ISPs to [...]

Generation Flex: Millennials are the Messaging Amplifiers

In Deloitte’s second “State of Media Democracy” survey, the younger generations of Americans - not surprisingly - are leading the way in embracing new technologies and creating a trickle up effect where older generations are learning from the younger ones.

Fielded by independent research firm the Harrison Group in late October, this latest online survey [...]

“High Engagement” Sites of Food, Beverage Brands Top CPG Website Rankings

Consumer packaged goods brand sites attracted a total of 66.4 million U.S. visitors, an increase of 10 percent versus the same period last year, - republished here from a recently released comScore, Inc. study. All of the top ten positions were taken by food or beverage brands. The average visitor made 3.9 visits to [...]

Happy Holidays from eBrandMarketing

Happy Holidays to all our readers and writers. While we won’t be disappearing over the holidays, we will be taking it a bit easier while also gearing up for an exciting New Year. I would like to thank everyone who contributed to eBrandMarketing since its inception for some really really great original posts, commentaries and [...]

Branding Power to the People

Marketers are all familiar with the underlying model of branding in the mass media. Depending on the author it looks something like Awareness>Familiarity>Positive Imagery>Transaction. We also recognized that it wasn’t entirely valid even in the mass media era. Behavior sometimes came before attitude. We had the high-involvement model (attitude precedes behavior) and the low-involvement model [...]

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