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What Advertising Testing Might Have Been, If We Had Only Known

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2004

SPIKE CRAMPHORN
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Add+Impact International, spike@addimpact.net
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Abstract

Today's pretesting is based on concepts of consumer behavior that were devised over a hundred years ago and which were largely discarded in the 1980s. What would it look like if we had known, and then applied what we know now, 25 years ago?

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© Copyright © 1960-2004, The ARF

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