Frank About Women

Word of mouth: measuring the share value of your brand and messaging

Posted by Nicole Green on 01/20/10

For women, sharing information (recommendations, experiences, advice) is important, but certainly not a purely altruistic act. Information is social currency. And while exchanging information is faster and easier than ever (copy, paste, click), information as social currency isn’t new. From medieval soothsayers to Gossip Girl, the woman in the know [...]

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Mad women: which service brands have women seeing red?

To fuel the female-centric creative that we’re developing for our clients, Mullen’s Frank About Women took a current pulse on how women are feeling about customer service and service brands. We fielded a national consumer study covering a wide spectrum of service-based categories, and our findings reinforce just how tenuous the relationship is between women [...]

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The best way to find a woman: The Frank map.

We know men (and some women) don’t like to ask for directions, so we created this map. Seriously, it won’t show you the fastest way from your brand to her hand, but it IS a great thought-starter, conversation-catalyst, office-art and all around reminder of the incredible complexity of women. It captures the worries, the joys, [...]

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The top 5 Ways women will forever spend differently

Accept that women will forever spend differently. Less is more. In stuff and spending. Women who used to live by the “more-more-more” mantra are today behaving more responsibly when it comes to money. They’re re-imagining the American dream and taking both old-fashioned frugality and fringe creative consumption mainstream. There’s no use hoping things will “go [...]

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