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Building Your Brand “Buddy the Elf” Style – Part 1 :: Women on.

Women on Business

For others, adults, Buddy was a “chemically imbalanced” adult man who thinks and dresses like an elf running around through the streets of New York City. Buddy is a human raised by elves, therefore, does he fall into the “human” or “elf” category? For some, say children (most likely his primary target audience), Buddy is an elf.

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Beware the Truthiness of Charts

Harvard Business Review

The information given was minimal, akin to what might appear in a company’s press release or advertising.) We found the same to be true for chemical formulas (and other research has shown that brain scans and scientific jargon operate in a similar way). They were then asked to rate the medication.

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How to Actually Put Your Marketing Data to Use

Harvard Business Review

Man-Wai Chow is leading the strategic intelligence efforts at Eastman, a chemical company. ” But as marketers know, marketing is no longer about advertising or press releases alone. Form hypotheses — and test them. His intelligence process is hypothesis-driven.