How AI-Focused Marketing Will Change Everything for Commercial Real Estate

Imagine if Siri or Alexa could help your marketing be more agile, help you think outside the box, and provide nuanced conversations with campaigns In 2024, Artificial Intelligence (AI) will do this and more. And it certainly is more than just a tech trend; it’s a vital part of marketing moving forward, offering long-term solutions…

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Listening to Customers, Fake Friends, and Consumer Behavior

Listen and Learn: What Are Your Customers Thinking? If you don’t listen to your customers — really know them and understand them — you can’t build a valued relationship. Many brands wrongly believe that selling consists mostly of pitching a product, a solution, or an idea. In fact, the most important part of selling is listening to…

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A Different Kind of Brand Guide For Startups

Having advised early-stage startups at the UC Berkeley SkyDeck and worked with mid-stage series C round funded companies, I’ve seen a wide range of business models with amazing ideas. Some take off others do not. The challenges are many and they really test your focus and commitment. Here are some thoughts that might be helpful…

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Radiant Insights: Millennial Housing, Experience-Retail and B2B Marketing

Marketing Apartments to Millennials —  Social Media, Fitness Centers and A Dog Wash.  Lifestyle and Housing for Millennials is Online, Social and Connected As one of the largest living generations in America, millennials have come of age and officially proven themselves a force to be dealt with just about everything. Born sometime in the early…

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Radiant Insights July

Big Data May Be Great, but Interviews Give You Hidden Insights.  Easily accessible analytics for digital campaigns, website traffic, and ad responses give many marketers the false impression that they know who their customers are and what they want. Well, these kinds of results do show trends and provide much-needed insights into what’s working but…

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Not Enough Microchips or Ketchup, Now That’s a Problem

How human behavior shifts everything in markets. When the pandemic came, how people lived, what they did and how life occurred for millions of people changed overnight. Restaurants were shuttered, toilet paper and cleaning supplies disappeared off the shelves and people stopped driving and worked from home, hunkered down with their laptops. Human behavior is…

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An inventor walked into a bar one day….

How innovation and ideas thrive where people mix and connect informally. Bars, taverns, pubs, and saloons have long acted as social hubs that stimulate ideas, conversations, and innovation. English taverns were the primary social gathering place for both the high and low classes into the late 17th century. The innovative ideas of the American Revolution…

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