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Panic! At The Disco Dream Help?

  • Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:23 am

This is a realllllly weird dream but here it goes:
I went to a Panic! At The Disco concert at the UCF Dome and was walking around with my friend Ashley. We met Jon out by the busses and we talked for a long time and then he had to go for meet and greets. We said our good-byes and then went into the concert after browsing around the campus a bit more. I don’t remember the concert but after I was crying on a curb. Jon came up (because he remembered me) and asked me why I was crying. I told him that I really wanted to meet Ryan (to talk about his lyrics and really try and understand him). He smiled and told me to get in his car (everyone rented a car because they had the next few days off and all wanted to do something different). We got in a small silver Honda (?, I think it was a Honda…) and I got in the back. There was a girl who looked about 5 in the back with me and he said that she was his daughter. I was playing games with her in the back until we pulled up at this mind-blowingly beautiful mansion. I walked in and looked around. People were everywhere. Fans, teenies, adults. Jon told me to go have fun and be responsible. I was walking around and needed to talk to Jon to see if Ryan was even here. I couldn’t find him so I found his daughter (I think her name was either Hope or Destiny) and asked her where her dad was. She took me to a small room and Jon was sitting in there working on a computer (he was hiding from the teenies at a party he decided to go to). I asked him where the rest of the band was and he didn’t know. I walked outside to get some air and then saw Brendon. He was totally drunk and out of it. I was talking to him and he kept hitting on me. I flirted back (which is really weird because in real life I had never thought of anyone in Panic! At The Disco that “way”). Brendon grabbed my arm and told me to follow him. I don’t remember anything after that and then we were at a coffee shop and Brendon was still drunk. I was staring at his face and, out of impulse, started to make-out with him. It was really weird because when I woke up, I felt like I had just made-out with someone. I couldn’t have because I was in my room and never drink (rules out drunkness), I couldn’t have kissed someone in my sleep because my door was locked and I never sleep walk. The weirdest part was that his lips were really thin and moist and he had braces. In real life, he has big, pouty lips and no braces. The weird part is that the person I like, in real life, has thin, lip-glossed lips and braces…
He was a horrible kisser too…
Then I remember nothing…
Then I was in Jon’s car, he was taking me home. I was playing with his daughter and then say Ryan and Keltie, through the windshield, in a red or green (can’t remember) Jeep. Keltie was driving and Ryan was arguing on which way to go. I started to squeal and Jon told me I couldn’t go and talk to him or give him a hug because Keltie is a “jealous B**ch” and things were not going well between Ryan and her. It was weird because Keltie always seemed nice and like things were perfect between her and Ryan.
Then I woke up (unwillingly) and felt like I had made-out with Brendon and I had tears dried down my face (I think I cried in synchronization with my dream) and was squealing.
It was weird because it was so real.

Could someone help me decipher what my dream meant?
I had never thought of anyone in Panic! At The Disco in anything other than an awesome best friend way…

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How To Deal With Consumer Motivation Research

  • Posted on July 1, 2009 at 7:56 pm

Consumer motivation research is all about understanding the most important aspect of a business – the customer. Studying consumer motivation helps businesses and organizations develop marketing strategies that work. Simply put, consumer motivation refers to the needs or desires of a consumer that drives their purchasing behavior. In studying consumer motivation, one needs to look at the following aspects:

- The consumer’s psychology that deals with their thoughts and feelings that affect how they choose among different products and brands.
- The customer’s surrounding environment that may influence purchasing decision such as family or the media.
- The consumer’s behavior during actual shopping or deciding on a purchase

Aside from the above, a complete study of consumer motivation should take into consideration the fact that consumers value some products as more important than others or they find some products interesting, and others not. This is important because consumer motivation would of course vary depending on whether the consumer regards the product as important or interesting. How they select products would also differ if they were to choose a product that is important to them than something that they care less about.

It is not only the business world that can benefit from studies on consumer motivation. It can also be useful in creating social awareness campaigns and delivering messages to the public effectively.

There are several methods used to research consumer motivation. The two basic categories are primary research, which is an original study conducted specifically for a business or company either by an in-house team or a third-party research group, and secondary research, which is existing research conducted by another group such as the US Census.

Some of the methods used in consumer motivation research include surveys for gathering specific data; focus groups where discussion leads to the discovery of customer concerns; personal interviews that allow in-depth understanding of consumer motivation and experiment tests, which is used to prove that there is only a single explanation for a specific observation.

Take note, however, that the choice of words used in a survey can influence the respondent’s answer or the list of answers is limited so the response is not that accurate. Interviews are also highly vulnerable to creating a bias in the respondent not to mention conducting such sessions is quite expensive. High cost is also true for focus groups. In this method also, the so-called “social desirability bias” can affect the response of participants who instead of giving their honest opinion may only be saying what they think will impress the group or make them likeable. With experiments, the environment is highly controlled and the result of the study may not accurately reflect the behavior of consumers when they are in their natural surroundings.

As you can see, all the research methods have their own advantages as well as disadvantages so choose the suitable method based on the needs of the customer motivation research.

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