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What would happen if the general consumer market suddenly made an attempt to buy items just once?
A car – just once. A bicycle – just once. Clothing and shoes – just once. How would this effect marketing and bottom lines for businesses? Below are a few interesting articles that helped me think about these ideas, all from varying perspectives: as the consumer, as the maker and as the entrepreneur.
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— Taj Reid on Points of Interest
So, I haven’t been posting for a while, but there’s a good reason for this. I’ve been working on a new website and business plan for Plannerzone, the consumer insights practice I work for.
If you’re a planner, strategist, marketer, creative, troubadour, etc. Please check out our site. I hope you enjoy!
www.plannerzone.com
Writing begets writing, so I’m getting back on the Tumblr train.
I posted this on Quora and thought it would fit here as well. Some thoughts on new ways to structure market research:
Applying Product and Service Design Methodologies
"The most famous cognitive obstacle to innovation is functional fixedness — an idea first articulated in the 1930s by Karl Duncker — in which people tend to fixate on the common use of an object. For example, the people on the Titanic overlooked the possibility that the iceberg could have been their lifeboat. Newspapers from the time estimated the size of the iceberg to be between 50-100 feet high and 200-400 feet long. Titanic was navigable for awhile and could have pulled aside the iceberg. Many people could have climbed aboard it to find flat places to stay out of the water for the four hours before help arrived. Fixated on the fact that icebergs sink ships, people overlooked the size and shape of the iceberg (plus the fact that it would not sink)."
— Why We Can’t See What’s Right in Front of Us - Tony McCaffrey - Harvard Business Review
"It may seem crazy for an ad man to assert that we really don’t “persuade” anybody to do anything. I believe, however, that pitches are won — and people are willing to follow you — not because you’ve twisted someone’s arm, but because people see that you understand them, that you’ve applied the time and the sensitivity to do so, and that you possess a special gift that can help them reach their heart’s desire. And that, my friends, is priceless."
— Win the Pitch: Tips from Mastercard’s “Priceless” Pitchman - Kevin Allen - Harvard Business Review
"If most of the value is now in the initial creative act, there’s little benefit to traditional hierarchical organization that’s designed to deliver the same thing over and over, making only incremental changes over time."
— Valve: How I Got Here, What It’s Like, and What I’m Doing | Valve
