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    Innovation

    Don’t think different, think new.

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    Steve Poppe
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    Have you ever gone back to your old neighborhood and noticed that everything looks smaller?  It’s not because you have gotten bigger, it is because we tend to fill up empty spaces with more stuff: bigger houses, sheds, plantings and more houses.  It’s what man does. We build and we plant.

    This is how I view the media world.  Man likes to build more forms of media. And we add clutter and density to the existing ones. Our job as marketers, planners and media agents it to find new ways to share out targeted messages. New exciting ways.  Ways that move customers closer to a sale. Let’s not add clutter, let’s open new vistas.

    Think new. Don’t think add-ons or media extensions.  New.

    Peace.

    Amazon’s next, next business.

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    Steve Poppe
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    “Because we’re selling millions of set top boxes already, we hear what’s working and we hear what’s not working,”  said Peter Larsen, Amazon VP yesterday during his presentation of the Fire TV set top box.

    No one has to tell you Jeff Bezos is smart and that Amazon is juggernaut to end all juggernauts, but this quote points to a market research revenue stream that will be a new business for Amazon. One smart big-data nerd with some UI chops is going to create an algo and process to tap, parse and quantify sales, comments, and loyalty behavior that few, if any, companies can match. And it will happen at Amazon.

    Have you ever tried to purchase data from IRI, Mintel or Euromonitor?  It like ten grand.  Since web companies like to give it away, why not do so with market research? There are crazy amounts of data available to Amazon and SMBs are data-starved. I was kidding about giving it away, but only a little.  With a low price point for qual and quant, Amazon can build $100M business in 12 months. And it will grow and grow.

    Remember when Sabre (American Airline’s ticketing system) became more profitable than their fannies in seats business? Of course you don’t.

    This will take some work, however. Have you ever sold consumer products on Amazon’s and been inside its data portal?  Oy. OY.  It’s like Excel clones from another planet. Think one man with one pick looking at the side of an ore mountain. Even so, the data opportunity is impressive. Especially aggregated category data.

    Data waiting to be mined has got to be Amazon’s next business. Fergus O’Daly, a smart mentor of mine, once said about marketing “nothing happens until somebody buys something.” There’s a whole lot of that going on at Amazon. Peace.

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