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In this second of three Great Takes from CRC episodes, I share an interesting discussion I had with Paul Bolls, director of media mind insights and neuromarketing research group at Texas Tech University, and Colette Thayer, senior consumer insights research advisor at AARP.
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It’s not every day that you get to chat with the NASA project manager on a mission to Mars, but today is that day! My guest Tom Hoffman is the project manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA’s InSight Mission to Mars. InSight will be landing on November 26th, 2018. It’s primary mission is to do a “check-up” on the health of Mars for the very first time. Tom and I discuss the tech and planning that went into this first-of-its-kind mission and how a project of this magnitude and complexity is managed and executed.
(Originally posted on the Engagious Blog.) Good Ethics is Good Business: Jonathan Haidt at BSPA Every year behavioral psychology’s best and brightest (and those who aspire to be) gather at the Behavioral Science & Policy Association (BSPA) conference to drop knowledge, meet people, and learn new things. This year’s […]
(Originally posted on the Engagious Blog.) @seanbland reminds us about the flaw of “False-consensus bias” – the assumption that other people are like us: that what we are, what we like, the ideas we cherish, are “normal.” (Well, duh.) We surround ourselves with people like us, watch shows that […]
(Originally posted on the Engagious Blog.) As the Manager of a Marketing team, I’m responsible for hiring outside agencies for customer insights research and messaging. No matter how many times I do this, choosing an agency is never easy. The stakes are high and it’s crucial to make the […]
Here at Dialsmith, we’re as guilty as anyone of getting caught up in the business of our business. So every once in a while, we need to remind ourselves that there’s important work being done outside of our focus area. That’s why every September, Dialsmith gets involved in supporting the […]
9/11, Climate Change, Women in Congress, Football—and more. In conjunction with media company Axios, Engagious conducted dial tests in Canton, Ohio, with 12 swing voters: six Romney-Clinton voters, and six Obama-Trump voters. Rich Thau, Engagious president, moderated. (To receive a written write up of results, go here.) To see how Axios […]
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Hot on the heels of our Harris III conversation, we have another great podcast episode featuring master storyteller Carla Johnson. What makes Carla unique is her focus on shifting people from being recipients of a story to actually having an experience related to the story. We explore how that can be done, the benefits to consumers, and which brands are already starting to embrace that technique.
(Originally posted on the Engagious Blog.) Because everyone else is doing it Bagels, cookies, vodka, and even humus. Love it or hate it (is there an in-between?), you can’t escape it: Fall means pumpkin spice everything. Everybody is getting on the pumpkin spice bandwagon. Thank you, Starbucks. So, how does […]
