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A Marketer's Guide to the Multiverse of Madness
The multiverse-obsessed are exploring counterfactual modality to help predict what's next. Can marketers use these tactics as well?
By
Brian Lange
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A Marketer's Guide to the Multiverse of Madness
By
Brian Lange
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Wellness Brands: The New Pornographers
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Phillip Jackson
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I Think, Therefore I Brand
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Ingrid Milman Cordy
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Tread Lightly: Coupon Blogs, False Advertising and the Role of the FTC
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Phillip Jackson
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Women: Help Other Women in eCommerce
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Erin DaCruz
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NO DAYS OFF: Use Data To Build a Peak Subscription Channel
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Working in the Metaverse
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Three Lessons to Empower Merchant Teams
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Ingrid Milman Cordy
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The Death & Rebirth of Neutrality
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Brand-Up Comedy: When the Mayo Brand Punches Down
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Phillip Jackson
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Brinkmanship
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Phillip Jackson
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PUSH!
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Phillip Jackson
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Dude Where's my Brand Awareness?
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Alex Greifeld
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Spirit Guide: Making Me a NA Beverage Believer
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Future Commerce Guide to Black Friday
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The Idolatry of the Algorithm.
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Dork Mode: An Antidote To The Sea Of Sameness
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Alex Greifeld
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More Than Consumers: Enabling Altruistic Commerce
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Brian Lange
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Cybersquatting in the Age of Decentralization
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Phillip Jackson
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The eCom Brain Drain
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Phillip Jackson
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The Texting Trial: Making SMS Marketing Feel Human
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Brian Lange
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The Good, The Bad, The Totally Absurd: The Corporate Merch Alignment Chart
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Jesse Tyler
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Mall Luxury Experience
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Alex Greifeld
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"Live Better": Part 2
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Brian Lange
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I Reject the Simulation
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Phillip Jackson
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Live Better: Part 1
By
Brian Lange
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The Duh Moment was when I Spent $169 on a Steam Cleaner
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The Great Bundling
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Brian Lange
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The Four Forgotten eCommerce Disciplines
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Phillip Jackson
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The Experience Impact Score: A Framework for Brand Interaction
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Phillip Jackson and Brian Lange
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These Brands I Trust
By
Jesse Tyler
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Digital Luxury Experiences: An Exercise in “Skinnovation”
By
Alex Greifeld
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About That Away Ad
By
Phillip Jackson
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How Now Brand Cow: On Operational Efficiency in eCommerce Tech
By
Brian Lange
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Paula’s Choice: On Blind Spots and Phase Cancellation
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Phillip Jackson
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A Sonnet: A Brand’s New Infatuation Dissipates Like Early Dew
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Brian Lange
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On Loyalty and Posthypnotic Suggestion
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Dazed and Confused: Post-Pandemic Puberty
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Brian Lange
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The Good Friction Opportunity
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Phillip Jackson
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Marketing is a Relationship That’s “Til Death Do Us Part”
By
Phillip Jackson and Brian Lange
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On Sacrificial Lambs, The Guardians, and the Everlane Hype Cycle
By
Melissa Lee, with Phillip Jackson and Callen Hutton
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The Rising Tide and the Erosive Effect of Digital Platforms
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Phillip Jackson
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Rethinking Brand Power Structures
By
Brian Lange
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AdTech and the Cookieless Future
By
Phillip Jackson and Brian Lange
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Brands and the Snyder Cut
By
Phillip Jackson and Brian Lange
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So You Think You're a Collector
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Brian Lange
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Grocery in 2021 Feels More Like 2035
By
Erik Wallin
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The Outlier Problem
By
Phillip Jackson
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Experimentation as Insurance Against Expectation Inflation
By
Brian Lange
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How Platform Maturation Begat Product Innovation
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Phillip Jackson
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Embracing Your Brand’s “Unsavory” Provenance
By
Mitch C. Olsen, Ph.D.
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The Changing of the Guard Signals A Coming Post-Innovation Age
By
Phillip Jackson
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Vision 2021: Forecasting the Future of Consumerism Shaped By Recent Rapid Shifts in Digital Engagement
By
Phillip Jackson
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Phenomenological Brands
By
Brian Lange
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In Corporations We Trust
By
Phillip Jackson
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Proselytize
By
Brian Lange
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Resolution Season: Context is Everything
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Phillip Jackson
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Your 2020 Body is a Dataland
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Brian Lange
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The Comfort Index
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Phillip Jackson
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Black Friday Aubade
By
Brian Lange
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On Digital Neighborhoods, Discovery and Virtual Foot Traffic
By
Phillip Jackson
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A Call to Nurture
By
Jesse Tyler
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Yet Another Gift Guide
By
Brian Lange
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"The Election Made Me Do It"
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Phillip Jackson
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Virtual Influencers Killed the Dead Celebrity
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Phillip Jackson
Announcements
The DIY Era: Retail Opportunity in the Passion Economy
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Phillip Jackson
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The Existential Brand Part 2: Risks Are All We Have Left
By
Brian Lange
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The DIY Economy
By
Jesse Tyler
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We All Need Some Channel to Lean on
By
Ingrid Milman Cordy
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An Anecdoted Topography of Brands
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Jesse Tyler
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The Existential Brand Part 1: Teleological Progress
By
Brian Lange
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Disruptor, Disrupted: The Rebirth of Payless ShoeSource and the Dawn of the Internet
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Phillip Jackson
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Merchandizing the Innovations of Operations
By
Kris Gösser - Head of Marketing, Shipium
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Build Your Own House
By
Jesse Tyler
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The Enthusiast Economy
By
Brian Lange
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The New Formal (Education)
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Phillip Jackson
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Storytelling is Insufficient
By
Brian Lange
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Checkoff’s Run and Chekhov’s Gun
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Phillip Jackson
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Retail is being reborn
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Phillip Jackson
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The New Formal
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The New Dada: Absurdism, Maximalism, and the Generational Divide
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The Anti-Design Design Club
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Baby Steps: An Innovation Framework
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Brian Lange
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How to Do Nothing
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Phillip Jackson
Announcements
New report details brands that will survive in 2020
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Phillip Jackson
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One Brand at a Time
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Phillip Jackson
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Nostalgia as a Security Blanket
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Brian Lange
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Retail Swan Lake
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Home Gardens: A Leading Indicator of Changing Consumer Defaults
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Data is King. Long Live the Queen.
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Ingrid Milman Cordy
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Freaky Friday
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Mourning the Loss of Retail Therapy
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Lianne Hikind
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The New Abnormal
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We're All Retailers, Now
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Phillip Jackson
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When Authentic... Isn't
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From Plows to Swords
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Small-Town USA in March 2020: A Photo Essay
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Late-Stage Retail
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Outdoor Voices: A Vision Statement For A Future Community
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