{"id":34,"date":"2009-06-12T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BrandTwist.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2018-10-18T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T20:15:00","slug":"go-out-and-explore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/inspiration\/go-out-and-explore\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Out and Explore!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Too often we substitute the ease of exploration on the internet for actual experience. But it\u2019s really not the same.<\/p>\n

Maybe we\u2019re too busy, maybe we\u2019re lazy\u2026but I think if you are really serious about innovation you\u2019ve got to get out and experience the world.<\/p>\n

A few years back I was working as part of a team of consultants on a re-positioning for a pet food brand.<\/p>\n

We met with the clients, read the research decks, did our competitive scavenger hunt online.<\/p>\n

But it was months into the project when I realized we had yet to come face to face with an actual dog or cat, or their human companions for that matter.<\/p>\n

So we quickly turned that around. We went into pet stores and talked to people who worked there and people who shopped there.<\/p>\n

We went to the famous \u201cdog run\u201d in Central Park and observed and interacted with pet owners and their offspring and got to see first hand the behaviors and rules of social interaction on \u201cdoggie play dates\u201d.<\/p>\n

We did an in-home interview with a puppy owner who calmly told us how she didn\u2019t treat her dog like a human baby, but her body language revealed something all together different as she lovingly stroked her Cockapoo.<\/p>\n

The reserach decks and internet gave us valuable information for the project. But the real world and person to person efforts gave us something that was much more valuable…insight.<\/p>\n

A great team exploration activity that I\u2019ve used successfully for both clients and internal audiences is a Brand Safari.<\/p>\n

Here’s how it works: split the group into smaller teams, pick neighborhoods or landmarks, equip each with a map, a camera and a list of tasks or questions and then send them off into the real world.<\/p>\n

Set a time limit so there\u2019s a sense of urgency and healthy competition. Encourage interaction with real consumers at their destinations. Re-group when everyone comes back to the office and share what you\u2019ve learned.<\/p>\n

The best way to get insight into consumers and brands is to go out and experience the world – not the computer generated world- the real one.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s my point of view. What\u2019s your twist?
What inspirational places would be on your Brand Safari list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Too often we substitute the ease of exploration on the internet for actual experience. But it\u2019s really not the same. Maybe we\u2019re too busy, maybe we\u2019re lazy\u2026but I think if you are really serious about innovation you\u2019ve got to get out and experience the world. A few years back I was working as part of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-inspiration"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16678,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/16678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}