NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS FOR MARKETERS

We, at BDNI are dedicated to sharing our learning and experiences, gleaned from working with leadership companies and brands throughout the world, to "making marketing matter." This issue offers some potential "New Year's Resolutions for Marketers" for your consideration.

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The DISPATCHESTM for January 15, 2012 can be found here:
http://www.bdn-intl.com/NYResolutionsForMarketers.php

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INSIGHT, OR UNSIGHT

With the start of a New Year, what better time than now to come up with a new word? Over the past years we have, from time-to-time, coined some new marketing terms: for example, Marketect, Pro-sitioning, and Add-valuate. Typically, we coin these words to make more memorable a best marketing practice. This time, however, we're proposing a word that makes more memorable -- even better, more obvious -- one of our most frequent marketing shortcomings; namely, calling something an insight that isn't an insight. So, allow us to introduce the unsight.

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The DISPATCHESTM for December 4, 2011 can be found here:
http://www.bdn-intl.com/InsightOrUnsight.php

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