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2015 Review: the best campaigns Posted on December 22, 2015 by Iosetta Santini

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckMCjMZxzA[/embed] “Airbnb’s ‘Never a stranger’ ad campaign. The brand represents such an exciting proposition at the moment, and looks likely to push forward the trend of disintermediation further.” Virginia Monk, MD, Network Research. Source: 2015 Review: the best campaigns

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Post-Demographics and Generational Marketing Posted on December 15, 2015 by Iosetta Santini

In the area of customer experience and loyalty, demographic profiling is king. Building an outline of your customers through traditional demographic data, and tailoring customer experience and engagement programmes through this data has been standard for decades. But the landscape is changing. Two years ago, David McCorquodale, head of retail at KPMG claimed “age structure, ethnicity, household composition and demographic distribution of the UK population are all undergoing significant change and its implications are important for retailers to understand and

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Analyse this: get in deep with Google Analytics to take your B2B website to the next level Posted on December 10, 2015 by Simon Dunn

With the end of the fiscal year quickly wrapping up, it’s the perfect time to tackle Google Analytics in order to report your B2B website’s performance. We know you probably already have Google Analytics set up, as the majority of do. Unfortunately we also know that most of you rarely log in.  In fact, this is one of the first questions we ask new clients, and sadly the reply is often “yes we have it, but we never actually look

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Attitude Replaces Age For Targeting Consumers Posted on November 30, 2015 by Iosetta Santini

Marketers could be missing out on appealing to receptive consumers. After a recent study by Network Research revealed consumers are relating to brands based on rational and emotional attitudes, Omnilotus is urging brands to change their marketing approach to appeal to attitude and emotions Source: Attitude Replaces Age For Targeting Consumers

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Brands should be targeting attitudes and emotions, claims Omnilotus Posted on by Iosetta Santini

After a recent study by Network Research revealed consumers are relating to brands based on rational and emotional attitudes, Omnilotus is urging brands to change their marketing approach to appeal to attitude and emotions Source: Brands should be targeting attitudes and emotions, claims Omnilotus

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Five steps to uncovering the real customer experience journey – Engage Customer Posted on by Iosetta Santini

For a business like Starbucks, the product is not the focal point; it is the customer experience the company delivers say Matt Inman and Nigel Clover. Source: Five steps to uncovering the real customer experience journey - Engage Customer

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Can you do your own PR? Posted on November 23, 2015 by Iosetta Santini

In September our Communications Manager here at Mustard Towers, Adam Warner, presented a webinar at NewMr’s Cutting Edge series. He talked about the pitfalls of PR for market research agencies and highlighted the key considerations you need to take into account when considering doing it in-house. Listen to Adam’s full presentation here and let us know what you think at @keenasmustard (https://twitter.com/keenasmustard)

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Keen as Mustard accepts the Best of the Best Business Award! Posted on November 18, 2015 by Iosetta Santini

The team at Mustard Towers was recently awarded a Best of the Best Business Award in the Best Marketing category. According to the chairman of the judges they awarded us the title because: “Keen as Mustard Marketing has put into practice what it preaches and has grown its business with a carefully orchestrated marketing campaign. Using conferences, email marketing, social media and PR, it harnessed the same tools it uses for its clients and has proved that excellent marketing raises

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Mustard in The Big Apple Posted on November 11, 2015 by Lucy Davison

Monday 21 September was a beautiful day in New York as Mustard directors Simon Dunn and Lucy Davison left their digs in Long Island City and headed to JWT’s swanky new offices in Manhattan to speak at GreenBook’s second annual Insights Marketing Day. Sadly, we didn’t get to experience much of the city as we were totally absorbed by the flow of great content, interesting presentations and friendly networking that was on offer all day. Dana Stanley, GreenBook’s director of

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Dublin hosts ESOMAR 2015 Posted on November 9, 2015 by Iosetta Santini

Colonel Lucy Davison and Adam Warner participated in the three-day ESOMAR Congress in Dublin via live tweets, blogging and networking. Themed “Revelations,” the 68th annual conference brought together the largest international research audience to discuss the latest news and disclosures in research, marketing and advertising. During the event, Lucy was interviewed about the value of communicating research in a powerful way, live on ESOMAR TV. Click here to see what Lucy had to say. For a personal account and summary

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