Month: May 2016

6 ways Standard Life is disrupting the insurance industry

Rachel Gee

Standard Life faces the often difficult task of marketing long term investments to consumers more interested in the here and now. Having benefited to the tune of almost 1 million new customers due to the new auto-enrollment for pensions, the brand’s marketing MD Stephen Ingledew explains the six methods it uses to ensure its marketing is relevant and resonates.

Suggested reading May 2016: a digest of new marketing literature

Mindi Chahal

‘Emotion regulation and young children’s consumer behaviour
’ Young Consumers, Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2016 Researchers explore how children’s growing ability to effectively regulate their emotions influences their consumer behaviour. The authors use direct observations of children and a survey of parents about their child’s emotional development to give predictions of consumer behaviour. They explore […]

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Ed Pilkington, Diageo: Your marketing epitaph should be ‘highly effective’, not ‘creative genius’

Ed Pilkington

Effectiveness may not be a word that stirs the blood. However, when you think that being effective means “being successful in producing a desired or intended result”, and we all work in the results business, then there is no escaping that effective marketing should lead to success. The question therefore is how to be effective. […]