Aaron Shields’s Mind Terroir

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Operant Marketing

August 4th, 2009 No Comments

Your brain isn’t wired to make the change: since your marketing strategy worked at some point, it became a learned behavior—you unknowingly engaged in operant conditioning

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Why Targeting Influentials Doesn’t Work

July 13th, 2009 1 Comment

The most important factor in creating a viral movement isn’t reaching highly connected people, it’s the willingness of a group in a society to accept the trend.

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Who’s In Control: Gary Vaynerchuk, Wine Library TV, and Why Coauthored Brands Will Rule The World

July 9th, 2009 1 Comment

Great brands have always realized that, just like in all aspects of life, there are two parts to great relationships—it’s a constant give and take.

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Godin Misunderstanding Apple

June 23rd, 2009 No Comments

Godin’s saying that Apple’s advertising isn’t effective, but technology only succeeds if the marketing works. And, Apple’s obviously succeeding, so I’m not sure I follow the logic.

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Spending In A Recession

June 18th, 2009 No Comments

Spending on marketing and innovation during a recession is what companies should be doing to take advantage of their competitors taking a misguided approach

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Motivating Positive Word of Mouth

June 16th, 2009 No Comments

Driving long-term, positive talk requires innovating around what customers love about your brand and exceeding their expectations.

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Back to Basics: Drivers of Choice and Drivers of Differentiation

June 16th, 2009 No Comments

It’s not enough just to be different; you must be different in ways that matter. Your drivers of differentiation should layer onto your category drivers of choice.

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Why Neuromarketing Doesn’t Have All The Answers

June 1st, 2009 1 Comment

Neuromarketing helps downstream as a final test, but real power comes from knowing where to start upstream. And, it saves time and money, too.

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Cultivating Customer Loyalty Through Brand Communities

May 27th, 2009 No Comments

A key in driving brand loyalty (which leads to profitability) is the formation of communities around the ideals held in common by the brand and its customers.

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Drucker, Apple, Palm, and The Purpose and Functions of Business

May 22nd, 2009 No Comments

Next time you make a product or design a new marketing strategy, instead of trying to outdo the main competition look to what you do best and what your best customers love about you and innovate from there.

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