Marketing is changing at a faster rate than it ever has before. Yet marketing practitioners simply aren’t evolving at the same pace. In the analogue age, marketers researched where lots of people congregate (TV, sport, music), sized them, profiled them and then ‘matched’ segments versus...
Happy New Year from the Sonder Insider! Goodbye to 2016 then, a year when the world said “we’ve had enough” and voted against the status quo, against doing things the way they’ve always been done, against mediocrity. Whilst this is an oversimplification of events in Europe...
Part retrospective, part playlist and part discovery, welcome to Sonder Insider’s look at what we’ve learned this past year in life, in business and in marketing: Immortals are mortal Prince, Bowie, Ali People are rebelling against norms America, Razorlight & Anarchy In The U.K, Sex Pistols ...
The concept of an addict is an intriguing one. On the one hand, the term conjures up negative images of people hooked on drugs or alcohol, but if you think about it in a marketing sense, addicts are exactly what businesses want. They command authenticity,...
Today marks a seminal day in the short history of Sonder. Today we launch a new product. A product which until now did not exist anywhere on the planet. A product which is going to revolutionise how businesses view their own assets. A product which is...
I was once told I didn’t have any EQ (by my boss, not my wife, I hasten to add!), but even I have since learnt the power of EQ in business, leadership & customer understanding. EQ stands for Emotional Quotient (also known as Emotional Intelligence)...
Have you been drinking the Kool Aid? We hear this phrase a lot in business. Typically referring to someone espousing the values of “the corporation” a little too passionately or over-zealous leaders who have started believing their own hype. But, do you know where the...
What if I said to you that you could buy the most innovative product on the market, that is a genuine improvement on an established category, that actually delivers on its promise and costs only 10% of the value of its components. You’d be interested...
You don’t hear much about flashers anymore. Growing up it was quite common to hear about strange men in trench coats flashing themselves in the park, giving old ladies a fright and a story to tell. So where have all the flashers gone? What has driven...
From a very young age the importance of being first is drilled into us. First to walk, first in the sack race, first to write your name, first to finish and first to hear about something new. Whilst we may mature into a perspective that...
