The Behavioral Economics in Marketing's Podcast

Choice Overload | Choice Overload is a cognitive impairment that occurs as a result of having too many choices available. 📎 Definition Minute is a new subset of the Behavioral Economics in Marketing podcast. In these mini-episodes, I will define economic theories, in a minute or two. The topics will be review, introductory or discrete in nature.    Behavioral Economics in Marketing Podcast | Understanding how we as humans make decisions is an important part of marketing. Behavioral economics is the study of decision-making and can give keen insight into buyer behavior and help to shape your marketing mix. Marketers can tap into Behavioral Economics to create environments that nudge people towards their products and services, to conduct better market research and analyze their marketing mix. Sandra Thomas-Comenole | Host | Marketing professional with over 15 years of experience leading marketing and sales teams and a rigorously quantitative Master’s degree in economics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Check out her Linkedin profile here: Sandra Thomas-Comenole, Head of Marketing, Travel & Tourism

Keynesian Economics and Natural Disasters | In this episode, we discuss Keynesian economics in relation to natural disasters. Keynesian economics is all about stimulating aggregate demand through government spending to increase economic growth. In the wake of a natural disaster, government spending and consumer spending is stimulated in a sizeable, systematic and calculable way. Behavioral Economics in Marketing Podcast | Understanding how we as humans make decisions is an important part of marketing. Behavioral economics is the study of decision-making and can give keen insight into buyer behavior and help to shape your marketing mix. Marketers can tap into Behavioral Economics to create environments that nudge people towards their products and services, to conduct better market research and analyze their marketing mix. Sandra Thomas-Comenole | Host | Marketing professional with over 15 years of experience leading marketing and sales teams and a rigorously quantitative Master’s degree in economics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Check out her Linkedin profile here: Sandra Thomas-Comenole, Head of Marketing, Travel & Tourism Lessons From the Fire | Lessons From the Fire, Season 5 of the Behavioral Economics in Marketing podcast will be dedicated to those that along with our family lost everything in the Marshall Fire in Boulder, Colorado, as well as to those that have been affected by natural disasters. My hope is that listening to this season of the Behavioral Economics in Marketing podcast will help others in their healing process. But I also believe that this season will be full of marketing wisdom for marketing professionals and business leaders.

Risk vs Reward Ratio | The risk versus reward ratio is a systematic approach to assess the relationship between the cost or risk of an undertaking to the prospective reward. 📎 Definition Minute is a new subset of the Behavioral Economics in Marketing podcast. In these mini-episodes, I will define economic theories, in a minute or two. The topics will be review, introductory or discrete in nature.    Behavioral Economics in Marketing Podcast | Understanding how we as humans make decisions is an important part of marketing. Behavioral economics is the study of decision-making and can give keen insight into buyer behavior and help to shape your marketing mix. Marketers can tap into Behavioral Economics to create environments that nudge people towards their products and services, to conduct better market research and analyze their marketing mix. Sandra Thomas-Comenole | Host | Marketing professional with over 15 years of experience leading marketing and sales teams and a rigorously quantitative Master’s degree in economics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Check out her Linkedin profile here: Sandra Thomas-Comenole, Head of Marketing, Travel & Tourism  

Lessons From the Fire | Through this season, I will be applying lessons that I learned from the Marshall Fire in Boulder Colorado to marketing and business development, as well as professional and personal growth. Additionally, listeners can expect to hear poignant self-revelation, interesting tidbits on human behavior in the wake of a natural disaster and economic truths about everyday occurrences. Here are just a few of the episodes that listeners can expect to hear about in season 5 of the Behavioral Economics in Marketing podcast, Lessons From the Fire: Achieving optimal outcomes with backwards induction, Keynesian Economics and Natural Disasters, Corporate philanthropy in relation to natural disasters, Altruism vs Self Seeking Behavior in Marketing and Leadership, Zero Sum Games and Insurance, Loss Aversion and the Breakdown of Societal Norms in Response to a Natural Disaster. I will also spend quite a bit of time camping out in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs as it applies to marketing and personal development. Lessons From the Fire, Season 5 of the Behavioral Economics in Marketing podcast will be dedicated to those that along with our family lost everything in the Marshall Fire, as well as to those that have been affected by natural disasters. My hope is that listening to this season of the Behavioral Economics in Marketing podcast will help others in their healing process. But I also believe that this season will be full of marketing wisdom for marketing professionals and business leaders. #####   Behavioral Economics in Marketing Podcast | Understanding how we as humans make decisions is an important part of marketing. Behavioral economics is the study of decision-making and can give keen insight into buyer behavior and help to shape your marketing mix. Marketers can tap into Behavioral Economics to create environments that nudge people towards their products and services, to conduct better market research and analyze their marketing mix.   Sandra Thomas-Comenole | Host | Marketing professional with over 15 years of experience leading marketing and sales teams and a rigorously quantitative Master’s degree in economics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Check out her Linkedin profile here: Sandra Thomas-Comenole, Head of Marketing, Travel & Tourism

Boulder Colorado Fires Announcement from host, Sandra Thomas-Comenole On December 30th, 2021, a wildfire blazed through the residential communities of Boulder Co, including the community that my family and I call home. Around 12 noon on that day, we noticed our neighbor's house two doors down on fire and called 911. They had no idea that there was even a fire in the area. My husband and I quickly got our 4 children and ourselves out of our house, leaving with the clothes on our backs and without shoes on our feet. We made it safely out as we could see the fire make its way into our own backyard. That day over 34,000 people were evacuated from our community as the fire tore its way and destroyed approximately 1000 homes including our own.  For this reason, I will be taking a break from producing new episodes of the Behavioral Economics in Marketing Podcast. But do not worry, I have several episodes written and ready to record. And will do so as soon as we can stabilize our situation. For those wishing to expedite that process, please consider donating to my family's GoFundMe page: https://gofund.me/1639415b Please feel free to share it as well.   Thank you for your commitment to the Behavioral Economics in Marketing podcast and I look forward to cueing up new episodes as soon as I can.   Donate to help our family recover from the Boulder Colorado Fires https://gofund.me/1639415b

During the last few episodes, we have been hanging out in a series on the customer journey and doing a deep dive into what they are, why they are important and how to optimize customer journeys through behavioral economics. In this episode, we will discuss dual process theory and several ways to apply it to customer journey optimization. Dual process theory is a psychological term that describes the two different modes or systems of thinking. System 1 is the automatic mode of thinking, where System 2 is the calculating mode of thinking. In this episode, we used examples of toothpaste buying, grocery stores and amusement parks to better understand our customers' mode of thinking during purchasing.  Behavioral Economics in Marketing Podcast | Understanding how we as humans make decisions is an important part of marketing. Behavioral economics is the study of decision-making and can give keen insight into buyer behavior and help to shape your marketing mix. Marketers can tap into Behavioral Economics to create environments that nudge people towards their products and services, to conduct better market research and analyze their marketing mix. Sandra Thomas-Comenole | Host | Marketing professional with over 10 years of experience leading marketing and sales teams and a rigorously quantitative Master’s degree in economics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Check out her Linkedin profile here: Sandra Thomas-Comenole, Head of Marketing, Travel & Tourism

During the next few episodes, we will go on a deep dive into customer journeys. What they are, why they are important and how to optimize customer journeys through behavioral economics.  The customer journey map is a tool that helps marketers to understand the series of connected experiences that customers desire and need — whether that be completing a desired task or traversing the end-to-end journey from prospect to customer to loyal advocate. In this episode, we explored a simple framework for developing a customer journey map including establishing goals, conducting market research and taking inventory of your resources.  Behavioral Economics in Marketing Podcast | Understanding how we as humans make decisions is an important part of marketing. Behavioral economics is the study of decision-making and can give keen insight into buyer behavior and help to shape your marketing mix. Marketers can tap into Behavioral Economics to create environments that nudge people towards their products and services, to conduct better market research and analyze their marketing mix. Sandra Thomas-Comenole | Host | Marketing professional with over 10 years of experience leading marketing and sales teams and a rigorously quantitative Master’s degree in economics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Check out her Linkedin profile here: Sandra Thomas-Comenole, Head of Marketing, Travel & Tourism

Replay: Priming Effect is such an integral part of marketing that marketing professionals should really take the time to understand how to leverage Priming Effect in their marketing. This episode focuses on leveraging the Priming Effect in customer experience (CX) optimization through branding, engagement and placement. Behavioral Economics in Marketing Podcast | Understanding how we as humans make decisions is an important part of marketing. Behavioral economics is the study of decision-making and can give keen insight into buyer behavior and help to shape your marketing mix. Marketers can tap into Behavioral Economics to create environments that nudge people towards their products and services, to conduct better market research and analyze their marketing mix. Sandra Thomas-Comenole | Host | Marketing professional with over 10 years of experience leading marketing and sales teams and a rigorously quantitative Master’s degree in economics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Check out her Linkedin profile here: Sandra Thomas-Comenole, Head of Marketing, Travel & Tourism

During the next few episodes, we will go on a deep dive into customer journeys. What they are, why they are important and how to optimize customer journeys through behavioral economics. In the last episode, we defined customer journeys. In this episode, we consider the 6 common phases of the customer journey including awareness, evaluation, consideration, purchase, retention and advocacy. Behavioral Economics in Marketing Podcast | Understanding how we as humans make decisions is an important part of marketing. Behavioral economics is the study of decision-making and can give keen insight into buyer behavior and help to shape your marketing mix. Marketers can tap into Behavioral Economics to create environments that nudge people towards their products and services, to conduct better market research and analyze their marketing mix. Sandra Thomas-Comenole | Host | Marketing professional with over 10 years of experience leading marketing and sales teams and a rigorously quantitative Master’s degree in economics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Check out her Linkedin profile here: Sandra Thomas-Comenole, Head of Marketing, Travel & Tourism

During the next few episodes, we will go on a deep dive into customer journeys. What they are, why they are important and how to optimize customer journeys through behavioral economics. For this reason, this episode provides a thorough foundation into what a customer journey is, from a consumer standpoint and a marketing professional standpoint, as well as other definitions that are important to customer journey mapping. Additionally, we offer an excellent case study into how customer journey mapping can improve user experience (UX) and directly impact conversion rates. Behavioral Economics in Marketing Podcast | Understanding how we as humans make decisions is an important part of marketing. Behavioral economics is the study of decision-making and can give keen insight into buyer behavior and help to shape your marketing mix. Marketers can tap into Behavioral Economics to create environments that nudge people towards their products and services, to conduct better market research and analyze their marketing mix. Sandra Thomas-Comenole | Host | Marketing professional with over 10 years of experience leading marketing and sales teams and a rigorously quantitative Master’s degree in economics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Check out her Linkedin profile here: Sandra Thomas-Comenole, Head of Marketing, Travel & Tourism