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Consumer Zeitgeist

Consumer Zeitgeist

Marketing rules. It plays an extensive function in business’ practice and scholars provide pivotal evidence about the phenomenon. Anyway, the academic discourse seeking to define the concept of marketing and its measurable economic relevance is still ongoing: in the wrong direction I might add.
Even though the essential marketing practice is old as human trade is, [...]

The rush for increased productivity

Personal Productivity

In all likelyhood, unless you work as a freelance1, you will spend most of your professional career worrying about a variety of issues, most of which are not strictly related to your core expertise. Dreaming of your career as a super-duper manager, I bet you can figure on all sorts of cool things happening to [...]

Branding

Branding

Generally speaking, in and out of academic circles, people agree that brands play a central role in marketing. Introduced during XVIII century as symbols standing for quality and tradition, brands suddenly became a pervasive socio-economic phenomenon. Due to the astonishing variety of effects revealed by their impact on emerging cultures, brands stimulated a lot of [...]

Marketing is everything. Hardly…

Someone said marketing is everything

If you work in the Marketing field, you will spend most of your professional career worrying about a lot of very similar, yet totally different concepts. You’ll deal with relationship marketing, experience marketing, permission marketing, whatever. If you understand what they are for, why they have been introduced and if they really differ from one [...]