Email marketers claim emails are all about building relationships. Well, they would, wouldn’t they? It’s what they do for a living, after all. What I do for a living, on the other hand, is conduct research that ensures brands to better engage customers, increase...

How logos help brands meet consumer expectations
OK, (regrettably) everyone recognizes the "spiky ball” COVID logo—the large spherical mass with protruding red spikey suckers that was plastered across television, the internet, pretty much every day, everywhere, for a couple of years. When that logo was introduced,...
Four consumer trends for 2022—from 4.3 million customers
Brand Keys, the New York-based brand loyalty and engagement research consultancy, annually translates behavioral and emotional engagement metrics from our Customer Loyalty Engagement Index to identify marketing trends. This year, we did something completely different....
Market research has to earn its place at the table—here’s how to do it
Recently I received an email from the international market research organization, ESOMAR, hyping a webinar entitled, “Selling Research Results Internally: Thinking like a marketer instead of a researcher to drive insights into action.” My first thought was, “Wow, a...