Radiant Insights: Nudging, Brand Trust and Netflix

Nudge, How Subtle Influences Can Shift Motivations and Change Behavior.  When it comes to marketing or forming strategies in economics that shift how people do things we usually see the goal of direct incentives—rules or penalties that are supposed to get folks to do the right thing, make the right choices. In the New York…

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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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The Toilet Paper Conundrum

Buying behavior is based on some of the most basic emotional drivers: survival and status. What people believe they need is more important than any information that may inform them otherwise. How we act is essentially an emotionally-based experience that drives us and we then translate our choices into logical and rational reasoning that we have carefully figured out after the fact.

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Telling Visionary Stories, 2019 Visionary Awards Videos

For RadiantBrands it’s all about the stories brands can tell through a unique design, marketing strategy or video, stories that people remember and connect with. This year we had the opportunity to shoot four videos for the 2019 Berkeley Visionary Awards held at Freight and Salvage Theatre in downtown Berkeley…

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Business Strategy or Brand Strategy?

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.0.47″ custom_padding=”0|0px|0|0px|true|false”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” custom_padding=”0|0px|27px|0px|false|false” _builder_version=”3.0.48″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.17.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] The Power of Aligning Your Business Strategy and Your Brand. In developing business strategies executives often focus on key metrics related to growth, personnel, and finances. Obviously, these are critical to a company’s survival in today’s complex business environment.…

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Eat a Bar, Drink a Beer and Go Climb A Rock

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ custom_padding=”0|0px|26.3125px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_row custom_padding=”0|0px|13.1562px|0px|false|false” _builder_version=”3.0.48″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.17.2″] Three companies who have souls and sales. How innovative, mission driven-brands can collaborate on consumer values. ClifBar, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, and REI have something in common– their values and their customers.  What’s this mean though? Having a product with a significant market share…

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