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		<title>How Mobile Consumer Surveillance could shape future Marketing decisons</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lowell D&#39;Souza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Wall Street Journal, the true future of consumer surveillance is taking shape inside the cellphones at a weather-stained apartment complex in Cambridge, Mass. For almost two years, Alex Pentland at MIT has tracked 60 families living in campus quarters via sensors and software on their smartphones—recording their movements, relationships, moods, health, calling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phatic Communication &#8211; Grant McCracken&#8217;s definition</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lowell D&#39;Souza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was mildly interested when an associate at work recommended &#8216;Chief Cultural Officer&#8217; by Grant McCraken. Expecting another endless stream of ruminations like Thomas Friedman&#8217;s mighty tim &#8211; The World is Flat, I was pleasantly surprised to see that Mr. McCraken is a writer who is both astute and concise in his delivery. His insightful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 Compelling Call-to-Action Tips</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lowell D&#39;Souza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The big visitor conversion question? Are your prospects doing what you want &#8216;em to do on your site? Are they ordering your product, opting into your brand via email or RSS or clicking on your links? If not, you’re missing out on something very simple. It&#8217;s called a Call-To-Action. You have to get your visitors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Technology has affected Quality &amp; Fidelity in our lives</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lowell D&#39;Souza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Digital media has penetrated our lives completely through electronic and digital devices. We listen to music digitally on our iPods, iPhones and iPads. We also watch video on these devices and communicate with our friends through email or social networks. Our new wi-fi ready blu-ray players along with broadband connections give us access to movies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internet Usage by Generations &#8211; 6 Observations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 03:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lowell D&#39;Souza</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Access to the internet is better than before with newer technologies and lower prices. The results is that new users from all age groups are getting online. Back in early 2009, research was conducted by the Pew Research folks about the internet access habits of the various generations. I&#8217;ve included some salient finds and also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Motivated Reasoning &#8211; Or Reasoning without Thinking</title>
		<link>http://marketingbones.com/motivated-reasoning-or-reasoning-without-thinking/</link>
		<comments>http://marketingbones.com/motivated-reasoning-or-reasoning-without-thinking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 21:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lowell D&#39;Souza</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What do we call it when people form beliefs based on popular misconception and then convince themselves subconsciously that those beliefs are true? Psychologists would call that delusional behavior. Realists probably call it &#8220;human behavior in some form&#8221;. I&#8217;m not surprised. As humans, we&#8217;ve been thinking without reason for centuries now. Think about the Salem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Consumer Behavior can shape Landing Page Optimization</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lowell D&#39;Souza</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tim Ash, CEO of sitetuners.com and the author of landing Page optimization wrote a blogpost here explaining how roles, personas and cognitive styles of website visitors help in shaping a website&#8217;s online experience for them. Additionally, any internet marketing firm would do well to understand these personality and  behavioral nuances and create a web experience [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consumer Behavior 2010 &#8211; Some insights</title>
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		<comments>http://marketingbones.com/consumer-behavior-2010-some-insights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lowell D&#39;Souza</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing Concepts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As humans we seek happiness or things that give and/or extend the feeling of happiness. As consumers, unfortunately, we think the same way. A major reason for why we think this way is because of the successful manipulation that Madison Ave has carried out on the population to make us desire things we don&#8217;t need. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Jack Trout doesn&#8217;t like WOM Marketing</title>
		<link>http://marketingbones.com/why-jack-trout-doesnt-like-wom-marketing/</link>
		<comments>http://marketingbones.com/why-jack-trout-doesnt-like-wom-marketing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lowell D&#39;Souza</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Social Media Optimization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no secret, folks! My admiration for Jack Trout and his works are evident enough in the way I go about using his ideas to  propagate marketing concepts during work and in my writings on my blog. Here&#8217;s the thing: I challenge anyone who speaks about &#8216;viral&#8217; marketing. To me viral marketing is an &#8216;X&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consumer Behavior 2009: Why I don&#8217;t agree with Forrester</title>
		<link>http://marketingbones.com/consumer-behavior-2009-why-i-dont-agree-with-forrester/</link>
		<comments>http://marketingbones.com/consumer-behavior-2009-why-i-dont-agree-with-forrester/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lowell D&#39;Souza</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, Forrester Research released a study on the changing habits of today&#8217;s consumer and how tech savvy they had become. The conclusion of the study as noted by the New York Times was that nifty technological gadgetry which, in the past, was highly desired by a small segment of the (early [...]]]></description>
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