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Seeing Red, Consumers Pay More (or Less)

“Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways,” wrote Oscar Wilde in The Critic as Artist. That’s just the problem for market research and consumer behavior.  Few design aspects of products, packages, brands, logos, advertising, and environments are more subjective than color.  Which…

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Dilbert’s Actionable Deliverables

If you ever feel like strangling the next research consultant who promises to deliver “actionable insights” then you can join me and the Dilbert team in making fun of it instead.  Not only is it a horrid phrase, but it is unfortunately meaningless now that every research firm claims to be different from others by…