Recently I found a very interesting and not at all boring consumer research on Trendwatching. The guys made 6 simple, easy and catchy survey-footages among usual common people.
They went out on the streets and asked people from London, Tokyo, Singapore and such other cities what mobile phones they carry. You would be surprised to hear most of the answers. And in case you want to develop a brand, of any kind, the next footage might reveal you some precious facts about branding & positioning versus sameness.
To which category of the two above would you subscribe your brand?
Our dear Sturmdrang Institute deals, among other nice stuff, with research. Here’s what they lately discovered, on one of the daily breakfast sessions.
We all consume one thing or another. That’s why we’re writing about it, it’s in ourselves and everywhere around us.
One of the first people that categorized consumers was Everett M. Rogers, after some studies made by Ryan and Gross. He defined four types of consumers in connection to their perspectives towards innovation: innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority and laggards.
However, we’re facing a paradigm upgrade which might configure the present categories in a different manner. One of the criteria used for the Rogers model was gender and sexual orientation. Nevertheless, the new worldwide attitude towards gay couples is changing and they start being perceived as not-to-be-neglected-anymore entities by the legal and social rules. Therefore, they become consumers by this new input, which brings us to personalized targeting, which brings us to this Levi’s ad:
Here’s one thing that never goes out of fashion: GENEROSITY. It’s always welcome, painless, free and it implies a minimum of emotional effort.
Some big names noticed this and embedded it in their activity, with multiple great results. Apart from the predictable ones that related to fame, money, satisfaction and so on, I will state the two ones that I find most resuming:
1. People that weren’t consumers of their brand, became consumers over night with no kind of effort whatsoever.
2. Some of these people were really happy about all of this. Simple words, great results.
More on generosity as a trend you can find here or here. Or everywhere around you, let’s hope:).
Well, here we are.
Virtual reality and “real virtuality”.
Consumers, brands, users, products, networks, passwords, e-mails, marketers, buyers, numbers, words, thoughts and so on. Each of us trying to find the way.
So many dots, so many lines and no maps.
Only “the six honest serving men
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.”
A few good and very good people experienced in creation, PR, strategy and
project management with whom you can freely communicate here or at
aquarium@friendsadvertising.ro
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