Public marks with search consumer Public marks with search consumer http://blogmarks.net/marks/search/consumer Google URL Shortener http://goo.gl/ Google URL Shortener at goo.gl is a service that takes long URLs and squeezes them into fewer characters to make a link that is easier to share, tweet, or email to friends. The core goals of this service are: * Stability – ensuring that the service has very good uptime * Security – protecting users from malware and phishing pages * Speed – fast resolution of short URLs Google URL Shortener is currently available for Google products and not for broader consumer use. The Google privacy policy applies to the Google URL Shortener. Please note that Google may choose to publicly display aggregate and non-personally identifiable statistics about particular shortened links, such as the number of end user clicks. 2009-12-15T00:54:44Z oqdbpo service, google, url

Google URL Shortener

by oqdbpo & 1 other(s)

Google URL Shortener at goo.gl is a service that takes long URLs and squeezes them into fewer characters to make a link that is easier to share, tweet, or email to friends. The core goals of this service are: * Stability – ensuring that the service has very good uptime * Security – protecting users from malware and phishing pages * Speed – fast resolution of short URLs Google URL Shortener is currently available for Google products and not for broader consumer use. The Google privacy policy applies to the Google URL Shortener. Please note that Google may choose to publicly display aggregate and non-personally identifiable statistics about particular shortened links, such as the number of end user clicks.

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]]> Boffswana http://www.boffswana.com/news/ Boffswana is an award winning creative technology solutions company that supplies the advertising industry with specialist services. We are a group of designers, animators, developers, coders and thinkers with a brand communications focus. We love ideas and finding ways to create more interesting consumer experiences in a time when there are very few barriers to how we can communicate with each other. 2009-12-08T11:21:01Z sbrothier augmented reality

Boffswana

by sbrothier & 2 other(s)

Boffswana is an award winning creative technology solutions company that supplies the advertising industry with specialist services. We are a group of designers, animators, developers, coders and thinkers with a brand communications focus. We love ideas and finding ways to create more interesting consumer experiences in a time when there are very few barriers to how we can communicate with each other.

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]]> Bulletin April/May 2009 http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Apr-09/AprMay09_Potente-Salvini.html <blockquote><p>The design of a physical space can and should take advantage of information architecture (IA) deliverables, in particular when designing an integrated model of IA across environments. The user must be able to easily consult technology-dependent environments such as digital media or printed paper catalogs in line with the information flow carried through the website. Conveying the relevance of information to the user/consumer by means of applying IA principles with a view to designing a crisscross-connecting model of human-information interaction is the focus of these studies.</p></blockquote> 2009-11-26T18:39:17Z karlcow architecture, ux, apple, ikea

Bulletin April/May 2009

by karlcow

The design of a physical space can and should take advantage of information architecture (IA) deliverables, in particular when designing an integrated model of IA across environments. The user must be able to easily consult technology-dependent environments such as digital media or printed paper catalogs in line with the information flow carried through the website. Conveying the relevance of information to the user/consumer by means of applying IA principles with a view to designing a crisscross-connecting model of human-information interaction is the focus of these studies.

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]]> My year of living without money - Is it possible to live without spending any cash whatsoever? After becoming disillusioned with consumer society, one man decided to give it a try | The Guardian http://envrac.posterous.com/my-year-of-living-without-money-is-it-possibl via guardian.co.uk ... 2009-11-11T11:29:10Z paulantoinem

My year of living without money - Is it possible to live without spending any cash whatsoever? After becoming disillusioned with consumer society, one man decided to give it a try | The Guardian

by paulantoinem

via guardian.co.uk ...

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]]> Building Support for Use-Based Design into Hardware Products http://www.dubberly.com/articles/use-based-design.html <blockquote><p>Increasingly, hardware products (especially consumer electronics) include computers, sensors, and connections to the Internet. These capabilities enable changes in what products “know,” how they are used, and how we develop them. They are becoming more like websites. This simple fact became apparent to me during my work at Dash Navigation as their design director.</p></blockquote> 2009-10-15T02:13:43Z karlcow design

Building Support for Use-Based Design into Hardware Products

by karlcow

Increasingly, hardware products (especially consumer electronics) include computers, sensors, and connections to the Internet. These capabilities enable changes in what products “know,” how they are used, and how we develop them. They are becoming more like websites. This simple fact became apparent to me during my work at Dash Navigation as their design director.

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]]> Implementers' Draft: Portable Contacts 1.0 Draft C http://portablecontacts.net/draft-spec.html <blockquote><p>This API defines a language- and platform- neutral protocol for Consumers to request address book, profile, and friends-list information from Service Providers. As a protocol, it is intended to be easy to understand and implement, either as a Service Provider or Consumer, using any language or platform of choice. It is also intended to be implemented by both individuals and small services as well as large providers, in any case where a service contains data about who a user knows and wishes to make that information portable, under the user's control.</p></blockquote> 2009-10-15T01:06:30Z karlcow addressbook, api, FreeData

Implementers' Draft: Portable Contacts 1.0 Draft C

by karlcow

This API defines a language- and platform- neutral protocol for Consumers to request address book, profile, and friends-list information from Service Providers. As a protocol, it is intended to be easy to understand and implement, either as a Service Provider or Consumer, using any language or platform of choice. It is also intended to be implemented by both individuals and small services as well as large providers, in any case where a service contains data about who a user knows and wishes to make that information portable, under the user's control.

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]]> Digital Photographers, Welcome Back to 1999 | PixSylated | Digital Photography, Canon Flash, Shooting Tethered http://pixsylated.com/2009/09/digital-photographers-welcome-back-to-1999/ Why the value of still images is collapsing It’s that old supply-and-demand thing. The supply of digital images is way, way up. At the same time, advertising in magazines and newspapers is sinking. If you want to continue earning a living at something you already do, it’s helpful if your trade is difficult to do and expensive to get started. Photography during the film-era was this way. Every time I pushed the shutter-button a couple of bucks flew out the window. Now the cost of getting into the pro photography game is virtually nothing (aside from the cost of the camera, the computer, the software, the training… still a relatively low investment for what you’re able to accomplish). I’m grateful that HDSLR cinematography is expensive and problematic right now. The Trib Is Dead. Long Live The Trib. For several generations, ads in magazines and newspapers were the leading consumer of commercial stills. Sorry Charlie, those days are gone. Today advertisers are increasingly moving their efforts over to web-based campaigns. It’s not personal. It’s demographics. OK. So that means that it is personal. The web, with it’s ability to provide instantaneous feedback to advertisers enables those spending the ad bucks to target their message exactly where it needs to be within minutes. For an ad placed in the wrong magazine, the response time is measured in weeks or months. Print advertising is plummeting (stats here). It’s not the economy, stupid. It’s the medium. Check out MagazineDeathPool if you’re not already a regular reader. Now is not be the time to launch a career as a magazine shooter. 2009-09-29T08:17:38Z mozkart photo

Digital Photographers, Welcome Back to 1999 | PixSylated | Digital Photography, Canon Flash, Shooting Tethered

by mozkart

Why the value of still images is collapsing It’s that old supply-and-demand thing. The supply of digital images is way, way up. At the same time, advertising in magazines and newspapers is sinking. If you want to continue earning a living at something you already do, it’s helpful if your trade is difficult to do and expensive to get started. Photography during the film-era was this way. Every time I pushed the shutter-button a couple of bucks flew out the window. Now the cost of getting into the pro photography game is virtually nothing (aside from the cost of the camera, the computer, the software, the training… still a relatively low investment for what you’re able to accomplish). I’m grateful that HDSLR cinematography is expensive and problematic right now. The Trib Is Dead. Long Live The Trib. For several generations, ads in magazines and newspapers were the leading consumer of commercial stills. Sorry Charlie, those days are gone. Today advertisers are increasingly moving their efforts over to web-based campaigns. It’s not personal. It’s demographics. OK. So that means that it is personal. The web, with it’s ability to provide instantaneous feedback to advertisers enables those spending the ad bucks to target their message exactly where it needs to be within minutes. For an ad placed in the wrong magazine, the response time is measured in weeks or months. Print advertising is plummeting (stats here). It’s not the economy, stupid. It’s the medium. Check out MagazineDeathPool if you’re not already a regular reader. Now is not be the time to launch a career as a magazine shooter.

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]]> Creative-Weblogging.de http://www.creative-weblogging.de/ the blog network for the discerning consumer and professional 2009-09-16T15:35:29Z jakamos Blogging.Quellen

Creative-Weblogging.de

by jakamos

the blog network for the discerning consumer and professional

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]]> Des collections de statistiques sur Google http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats/ Google propose désormais une interface pour retrouvez les publication des résultats de sondages, enquêtes et autres statistiques. Vous retrouverez 5 domaines d'application principaux: Macro Economic Trends, Technology, Consumer Trends, Media Consumption, Media Landscape; eux mêmes redécoupés en sous domaines. 2009-09-11T10:24:06Z Giraultises google, internet, statistique

Des collections de statistiques sur Google

by Giraultises & 1 other(s)

Google propose désormais une interface pour retrouvez les publication des résultats de sondages, enquêtes et autres statistiques. Vous retrouverez 5 domaines d'application principaux: Macro Economic Trends, Technology, Consumer Trends, Media Consumption, Media Landscape; eux mêmes redécoupés en sous domaines.

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]]> The Museum of Weird Consumer Culture http://www.indiana.edu/~wanthro/weird_museum.htm 2009-08-30T00:34:11Z rwatuny référence, museum, étrange, bizarre, culture, culture-populaire

The Museum of Weird Consumer Culture

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]]> Polaroid veut mettre en vente sa collection de photographies instantanées - Site Artclair http://envrac.posterous.com/polaroid-veut-mettre-en-vente-sa-collection-d En avril 2009, la majorité des actifs de Polaroid, la célèbre entreprise de photographies instantanées, en faillite a été dispersée dans une vente aux enchères à Hilcon Consumer Capital ... 2009-08-18T09:36:11Z paulantoinem

Polaroid veut mettre en vente sa collection de photographies instantanées - Site Artclair

by paulantoinem

En avril 2009, la majorité des actifs de Polaroid, la célèbre entreprise de photographies instantanées, en faillite a été dispersée dans une vente aux enchères à Hilcon Consumer Capital ...

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]]> Customer-centered Business - Peter Drucker and Web Marketing | Management Tools for Startups and Small Businesses http://riversidesystems.biz/wordpress/archives/53 <blockquote><p>What is our business is not determined by the producer but by the consumer. It is not defined by the company’s name, statutes, or articles of incorporation but by the want the consumer satisfies when he buys a product or service. The question can therefore be answered only by looking at the business from the outside, from the point of view of the customer and the market what the consumer sees, thinks, believes and wants at any given time must be accepted by management is an objective fact deserving to be taken as seriously as the reports of a salesman, the tests of the engineer or the figures of the accountant — something few managements find it easy to do. In management must make a conscious effort to get honest answers from the consumer himself rather than attempt to read his mind.</p></blockquote> 2009-07-29T16:06:56Z greut web, business, tools

Customer-centered Business - Peter Drucker and Web Marketing | Management Tools for Startups and Small Businesses

by greut

What is our business is not determined by the producer but by the consumer. It is not defined by the company’s name, statutes, or articles of incorporation but by the want the consumer satisfies when he buys a product or service. The question can therefore be answered only by looking at the business from the outside, from the point of view of the customer and the market what the consumer sees, thinks, believes and wants at any given time must be accepted by management is an objective fact deserving to be taken as seriously as the reports of a salesman, the tests of the engineer or the figures of the accountant — something few managements find it easy to do. In management must make a conscious effort to get honest answers from the consumer himself rather than attempt to read his mind.

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]]> Bits Of Destruction Hit the Book Publishing Business: Part 1 http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/bits_of_destruction_hit_book_publishing_part1.php <blockquote><p>One massive wave crashing down is confusing enough. But when three crash at the same time, even seeing what's going on (let alone predicting how things will play out) becomes really difficult. These three big new waves are:</p><p>1. The digitization of print books by Google Book Search.</p><p>2. Increasing consumer acceptance of e-books, mostly because of the Kindle.</p><p>3. Print on demand.</p></blockquote> 2009-07-16T10:26:19Z karlcow livre, societé

Bits Of Destruction Hit the Book Publishing Business: Part 1

by karlcow

One massive wave crashing down is confusing enough. But when three crash at the same time, even seeing what's going on (let alone predicting how things will play out) becomes really difficult. These three big new waves are:

1. The digitization of print books by Google Book Search.

2. Increasing consumer acceptance of e-books, mostly because of the Kindle.

3. Print on demand.

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]]> Alimentación | CONSUMER EROSKI http://www.consumer.es/alimentacion/ 2009-07-14T16:00:35Z m.meixide gastronomía

Alimentación | CONSUMER EROSKI

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]]> consumer finance attorney car loans http://viselka.com/Finance.htm consumer finance attorney car loans 2009-06-29T11:45:28Z newandforever consumer, finance, attorney, car, loans, sashatornadova, consumer finance attorney car loans

consumer finance attorney car loans

by newandforever

consumer finance attorney car loans

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]]> iSmashPhone http://www.ismashphone.com/ The whole consumer world was in a frenzy over iPhone news, reviews, apps, web apps, tips, hacks, and everything else. And that is the spirit in which iSmashPhone.com was created. This site is updated daily and brings you the freshest information in the iPhone world. We are dedicated to keeping you up to date and in the know. iSmashPhone.com is a reputable site, having been featured on major tech sites such as Engadget, Gizmodo, Life Hacker, and Boy Genius Report on multiple occasions. Our main goal is finding, creating, and breaking original stories. Focus sur /2009/06/how_to_use_best_40_features_of_iphone_3.html 2009-06-17T12:29:36Z e_D_D_y gfx, reviews, news, tips, iphone, apple, blog

iSmashPhone

by e_D_D_y

The whole consumer world was in a frenzy over iPhone news, reviews, apps, web apps, tips, hacks, and everything else. And that is the spirit in which iSmashPhone.com was created. This site is updated daily and brings you the freshest information in the iPhone world. We are dedicated to keeping you up to date and in the know. iSmashPhone.com is a reputable site, having been featured on major tech sites such as Engadget, Gizmodo, Life Hacker, and Boy Genius Report on multiple occasions. Our main goal is finding, creating, and breaking original stories. Focus sur /2009/06/how_to_use_best_40_features_of_iphone_3.html

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]]> What is a Magazine? - Tony Silber - Blogs Consumer @ FolioMag.com http://www.foliomag.com/2009/what-magazine At the Independent Magazine Advisory Group’s sixth annual meeting in Boulder, Colorado this week, Bob Sacks, president of Precision Media Group, offered six key properties for what a magazine is. Tellingly, his were platform-neutral: 1.    It’s metered. It’s paginated. It has a beginning, middle and end. 2.    It’s edited, or curated. 3.    It’s designed. 4.    It’s date-stamped. 5.    It’s permanent. Once created, it can’t be changed. 6.    It’s periodic. It has a calendar or rhythm. It has a series of issues. 2009-05-24T21:05:53Z mozkart media

What is a Magazine? - Tony Silber - Blogs Consumer @ FolioMag.com

by mozkart

At the Independent Magazine Advisory Group’s sixth annual meeting in Boulder, Colorado this week, Bob Sacks, president of Precision Media Group, offered six key properties for what a magazine is. Tellingly, his were platform-neutral: 1.    It’s metered. It’s paginated. It has a beginning, middle and end. 2.    It’s edited, or curated. 3.    It’s designed. 4.    It’s date-stamped. 5.    It’s permanent. Once created, it can’t be changed. 6.    It’s periodic. It has a calendar or rhythm. It has a series of issues.

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]]> Social Advertising Best Practices http://www.iab.net/socialads Social media is big and getting bigger, providing marketers with a combination of reach, relationships, and relevance: * Reach: Social media has overtaken email as the most popular consumer activity, according to a recent Nielsen study. Importantly, consumer growth is coming from an older demographic than social media's historical base; for example, Facebook's strongest growth is coming from 35-49 year-olds, adding twice as many 50-64-year-olds as opposed to those under 18. (Nielsen “Global Faces and Networked Places,” March 9, 2009; MediaPost Blogs Research Brief, “Social Networking Is No Respecter of Age,” March 18, 2009.) * Relationships: Social media's strength is in the personal connections it enables, the peer-to-peer contact, providing reasons for consumers to visit regularly and for extended periods of time. * Relevance: Consumers are extremely engaged with the content and connections that their friends are creating because of its personal relevance. 2009-05-19T16:50:54Z sbrothier advertising

Social Advertising Best Practices

by sbrothier

Social media is big and getting bigger, providing marketers with a combination of reach, relationships, and relevance: * Reach: Social media has overtaken email as the most popular consumer activity, according to a recent Nielsen study. Importantly, consumer growth is coming from an older demographic than social media's historical base; for example, Facebook's strongest growth is coming from 35-49 year-olds, adding twice as many 50-64-year-olds as opposed to those under 18. (Nielsen “Global Faces and Networked Places,” March 9, 2009; MediaPost Blogs Research Brief, “Social Networking Is No Respecter of Age,” March 18, 2009.) * Relationships: Social media's strength is in the personal connections it enables, the peer-to-peer contact, providing reasons for consumers to visit regularly and for extended periods of time. * Relevance: Consumers are extremely engaged with the content and connections that their friends are creating because of its personal relevance.

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]]> Hacking as a Way of Knowing - Digital History http://digitalhistory.wikispot.org/Hacking_as_a_Way_of_Knowing <blockquote><p>This three-day workshop ([WWW]InterAccess, Toronto, 1-3 May 2009) will explore the theme of E-waste and environmental data. Working in small groups, participants will be given the task of hacking some typical consumer e-waste to create reflective technological assemblages that incorporate 'nature' in some form while calling one or more of our basic assumptions into question.</p></blockquote> raté. :) 2009-05-16T23:23:37Z karlcow hacking, toronto, canada, diy

Hacking as a Way of Knowing - Digital History

by karlcow

This three-day workshop ([WWW]InterAccess, Toronto, 1-3 May 2009) will explore the theme of E-waste and environmental data. Working in small groups, participants will be given the task of hacking some typical consumer e-waste to create reflective technological assemblages that incorporate 'nature' in some form while calling one or more of our basic assumptions into question.

raté. :)

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]]> One Floor Up: Subprime http://www.onefloorup.com/2009/04/subprime.html <blockquote><p>Mike Winkelman of Beeple has created an animated editorial on over-consumption. His short video features a spinning house being upgraded, expanded, and refurnished over and over again. The rotating and rebuilding visuals are completely captivating. The whole thing makes you question your own need vs want, consumer self. I will even, just this once, forgive them their isometric ways (perspective people, PERSPECTIVE).</p></blockquote> 2009-05-16T20:58:20Z karlcow video, économie, architecture

One Floor Up: Subprime

by karlcow

Mike Winkelman of Beeple has created an animated editorial on over-consumption. His short video features a spinning house being upgraded, expanded, and refurnished over and over again. The rotating and rebuilding visuals are completely captivating. The whole thing makes you question your own need vs want, consumer self. I will even, just this once, forgive them their isometric ways (perspective people, PERSPECTIVE).

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]]> Gigapixel Photography - Creators of High-Resolution Images http://gigapixelphotography.com/ A gigapixel image is a digital image composed of more than one billion pixels. It contains more than 150 times the detail captured by a typical 6-megapixel consumer camera. 2009-05-03T00:24:58Z gregg photographie

Gigapixel Photography - Creators of High-Resolution Images

by gregg

A gigapixel image is a digital image composed of more than one billion pixels. It contains more than 150 times the detail captured by a typical 6-megapixel consumer camera.

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]]> The End of Form / The Beginning of Form - Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect http://www.janchipchase.com/blog/archives/2009/04/the-end-of-form.html <blockquote><p>That ad-space put up there and lovingly maintained by JCDecaux? There for the taking - for the company with the right augmentable-ad-platform, the right amount of consumer pull.</p></blockquote> cela me rappelle une discussion avec hubert guillaud à propos du livre 2009-04-19T22:35:10Z karlcow societé, publicité, towrite, livre

The End of Form / The Beginning of Form - Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect

by karlcow

That ad-space put up there and lovingly maintained by JCDecaux? There for the taking - for the company with the right augmentable-ad-platform, the right amount of consumer pull.

cela me rappelle une discussion avec hubert guillaud à propos du livre

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]]> MIT Media Lab: Design Ecology / Information Ecology http://eco.media.mit.edu/#projects <blockquote><p>The Information Ecology group (formerly the Physical Language Workshop) explores ways to connect our physical environments with information resources. Through the use of low-cost, ubiquitous technologies, we are creating seamless and pervasive ways to interact with our information—and with each other. We focus on projects that harness the ecology of consumer electronics and sensor devices—present and future—to more smoothly mediate the boundaries between the physical and information worlds we inhabit.</p></blockquote> 2009-04-15T02:21:21Z karlcow design, information

MIT Media Lab: Design Ecology / Information Ecology

by karlcow

The Information Ecology group (formerly the Physical Language Workshop) explores ways to connect our physical environments with information resources. Through the use of low-cost, ubiquitous technologies, we are creating seamless and pervasive ways to interact with our information—and with each other. We focus on projects that harness the ecology of consumer electronics and sensor devices—present and future—to more smoothly mediate the boundaries between the physical and information worlds we inhabit.

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]]> Google Ventures http://www.google.com/ventures/ Google Ventures seeks to discover and grow great companies - we believe in the power of entrepreneurs to do amazing things. We're studying a broad range of industries, including consumer Internet, software, hardware, clean-tech, bio-tech and health care. We invest anywhere from seed to mezzanine stage and embrace the challenge of helping young companies grow from the garage to global relevance. 2009-04-02T21:52:59Z Spone google, vc

Google Ventures

by Spone & 1 other(s)

Google Ventures seeks to discover and grow great companies - we believe in the power of entrepreneurs to do amazing things. We're studying a broad range of industries, including consumer Internet, software, hardware, clean-tech, bio-tech and health care. We invest anywhere from seed to mezzanine stage and embrace the challenge of helping young companies grow from the garage to global relevance.

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]]> Brand loyalty http://www.springerlink.com/content/l480730t35182442/ Abstract Brands are important in the consumer market. They are the interface between consumers and the company, and consumers may develop loyalty to brands. This study proposes that trust in a brand is important and is a key factor in the development of brand loyalty. Factors hypothesized to influence trust in a brand include a number of brand characteristics, company characteristics and consumer-brand characteristics. Respondents representing a broad spectrum of Singapore consumers were surveyed. The findings reveal that brand characteristics are relatively more important in their effects on a consumer's trust in a brand. The results also show that trust in a brand is positively related to brand loyalty. Marketers should, therefore, take careful consideration of brand factors in the development of trust in a brand. 2009-03-30T17:31:18Z irols marketing, marques

Brand loyalty

by irols

Abstract Brands are important in the consumer market. They are the interface between consumers and the company, and consumers may develop loyalty to brands. This study proposes that trust in a brand is important and is a key factor in the development of brand loyalty. Factors hypothesized to influence trust in a brand include a number of brand characteristics, company characteristics and consumer-brand characteristics. Respondents representing a broad spectrum of Singapore consumers were surveyed. The findings reveal that brand characteristics are relatively more important in their effects on a consumer's trust in a brand. The results also show that trust in a brand is positively related to brand loyalty. Marketers should, therefore, take careful consideration of brand factors in the development of trust in a brand.

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