Marketing Today With Alan Hart

193: Brand Hacks with Author Emmanuel Probst

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Synopsis

During this 193rd episode of “Marketing Today,” host Alan Hart interviews Dr. Emmanuel Probst, the author of "Brand Hacks: How to Build Brands by Fulfilling the Human Quest for Meaning." He holds a doctorate in consumer psychology and teaches market research at UCLA. He also works for Ipsos, advising clients on how to measure and optimize their marketing efforts.Probst has been studying "why people buy" for about 15 years and shares with us his definition of "meaning" and what he means when using that term. We discuss his book and the tools and tactics a brand manager has at their disposal.Probst shares that he got into the industry because he is "curious about people, and I like to understand why people do what they do, and how people make decisions as individuals, but also as a community, as a group, or as a society." He wrote the book because he "wanted to take a different stance at building brands... let's take a step back, understand what consumers, as people want to achieve as indivi