Radiant Insights: Millennial Housing, Experience-Retail and B2B Marketing

Marketing Apartments to Millennials —  Social Media, Fitness Centers and A Dog Wash.  Lifestyle and Housing for Millennials is Online, Social and Connected As one of the largest living generations in America, millennials have come of age and officially proven themselves a force to be dealt with just about everything. Born sometime in the early…

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Radiant Insights July

Big Data May Be Great, but Interviews Give You Hidden Insights.  Easily accessible analytics for digital campaigns, website traffic, and ad responses give many marketers the false impression that they know who their customers are and what they want. Well, these kinds of results do show trends and provide much-needed insights into what’s working but…

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Not Enough Microchips or Ketchup, Now That’s a Problem

How human behavior shifts everything in markets. When the pandemic came, how people lived, what they did and how life occurred for millions of people changed overnight. Restaurants were shuttered, toilet paper and cleaning supplies disappeared off the shelves and people stopped driving and worked from home, hunkered down with their laptops. Human behavior is…

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An inventor walked into a bar one day….

How innovation and ideas thrive where people mix and connect informally. Bars, taverns, pubs, and saloons have long acted as social hubs that stimulate ideas, conversations, and innovation. English taverns were the primary social gathering place for both the high and low classes into the late 17th century. The innovative ideas of the American Revolution…

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What’s With All the Rebrands?

At the end of last year and moving into 2021 there’s been a flurry of corporate rebranding moves by some very big companies. Everyone from Target to GM to Pfizer has shifted their look, rebranded, and created or updated a new brand story around this. Many of them are recognizing they need to live in…

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You’re everywhere and nowhere and nobody’s listening

Lost in the Digital World. Brands for the most part now exist only online. As we deal with the continued pandemic we’re all disconnected and have little physical interaction with places, people, companies, and experiences. With the exception of that occasional grocery store visit, it’s impossible to have in-person contact for just about any connected…

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How 2020 Disrupted Our World, Redefined Brands and How We Connect.

From presidential elections to a global pandemic the world we were so familiar with has dramatically changed to a virtual and isolated world. But there is a silver lining. Although we’re not exactly connecting the way we did in the past our completely disrupted world is creating whole new possibilities. When normal ways of doing…

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Even Uphill – Branding a Venture Firm Driven by Innovation.

Focusing on the dynamics of change. When a freshly-minted global venture firm came to RadiantBrandsand asked us to build a brand and marketing presence we saw a clear opportunity to differentiate them. Having worked with numerous Silicon Valley VC’s we knew much of how they presented their firms and investment strategies. So how is this…

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It’s About the Game, The Goal, Not the Players

What kids, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch have taught us about virtual teams and Zoom. When I watched my then 15-year-old son play Fortnight on his Nintendo Switch I realized he was playing with kids in New Zealand, Germany, and New York. The same with Xbox games. They form global teams, create goals, and mutually connect.…

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