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SD#45: IKEA’s tricks, cognitive scripts and discounting

November 20, 2022 Hi friends, Welcome to another edition of Seven Dawns, your weekly newsletter on marketing, productivity, psychology and more. Our seven ideas this week: 1. (Marketing) 60% of IKEA purchases are impulse buys, how Ikea tricks you into buying more stuff IKEA’s creative director has said that only 20% of the store’s purchases […]

SD#43: Pricing, systems, and friendships

November 6, 2022 Hi friends, Welcome to another edition of Seven Dawns, your weekly newsletter on marketing, productivity, psychology and more. Our seven ideas this week: 1. (Marketing) People tend to evaluate prices in a relative, rather than an absolute, manner A product isn’t judged solely on its own merits but in contrast with a […]

SD#40: Fake content, shorter work week and brands

October 16, 2022 Hi friends, Welcome to another edition of Seven Dawns, your weekly newsletter on marketing, productivity, psychology and more. Our seven ideas this week: 1. (Marketing) The important things in life are nothing at all, ever, to do with retailers and brands Most of the people who inhabit our world cannot see the […]

SD#38: B2B, stoics, and idea generation

October 2, 2022 Hi friends, Welcome to another edition of Seven Dawns, your weekly newsletter on marketing, productivity, psychology and more. Our seven ideas this week: 1. (Marketing) B2C is our past, B2B is our future The fastest-growing companies in the world don’t sell fizzy drinks and designer shoes anymore. These days, the fastest-growing companies […]

SD#36: Inspiring emotion, failure and savings

September 18, 2022 Hi friends, Welcome to another edition of Seven Dawns, your weekly newsletter on marketing, productivity, psychology and more. Our seven ideas this week: 1. (Marketing) The best ideas don’t start with a grand theory, they start with a little tinker In 1971 Carolyn Davidson was a young graphic design student at Portland […]

SD#32: Availability bias, financial sorcerers and climate action

August 21, 2022 Hi friends, Welcome to another edition of Seven Dawns, your weekly newsletter on marketing, productivity, psychology and more. Our seven ideas this week: 1. (Marketing) Creating assets specifically for each channel is more effective than repurposing them Most marketers know the potency of spreading their media dollars across multiple channels. But the […]

SD#31: Digital delusion, Brahman and Einstein’s focus

August 14, 2022 Hi friends, Welcome to another edition of Seven Dawns, your weekly newsletter on marketing, productivity, psychology and more. Our seven ideas this week: 1. (Marketing) The digital delusion of the marketing industry Digital media have been the primary cause and the primary beneficiary of delusional thinking in marketing. The fascinating thing is […]

SD#23: Drama in ad fraud, millennials and productivity addiction

June 19, 2022 Hi friends, Welcome to another edition of Seven Dawns, your weekly newsletter on marketing, productivity, psychology and more. Our seven ideas this week: 1. (Marketing) Ad fraud shenanigans getting out of control Last week, the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) released a mind-blowing report on ad fraud. For years Bob Hoffman and […]