Preconceptions and Prior Experience in Marketing: Today we’re covering an interesting topic, potentially most useful for those looking to do some market research but also with applications in marketing. The idea is quite similar to framing, which we’ve discussed previously on the Rippleout blog. In short, I want to talk about how prior knowledge or experience (i.e. preconceptions) can impact perceptions of later events and later actions. Before we go… read more →
Is Marketing Always Important? Given we’re a marketing agency, I feel like you may be able to guess the conclusion that this article may come to when asked ‘Is marketing always important?’ Still, I’ve recently started working with a client who, despite being a relatively big company (around £1 million in turnover), have almost no presence or profile. When I say almost no profile, I mean that when you Google… read more →
Marketing and Decision Fatigue: Decision fatigue is a psychological term for the deterioration of decision making by individuals as they become increasingly fatigued in a cognitive sense; in short hand, the more decisions you make, or the harder you have to think as part of making those decisions, the worse those decisions become. It’s an odd paradox of society that almost ubiquitously, choice and freedom of choice are seen as… read more →
Stillage Company Success: With the majority of posts on the Rippleout blog are related to the theory behind marketing, as well as a few observations and thoughts, we thought it was high time to highlight the successes of some of the companies we work with – and where better to start than an industry commonly thought of as being more traditional: engineering. Specifically, JS Burgess Engineering is a stillage company… read more →