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There is a marketing story of a company that created a cake mix with everything in the box: "just add water and bake". Sales were poor, and market research an
by dmckeon 9y ago
There is a marketing story of a company that created a cake
mix with everything in the box: "just add water and bake".
Sales were poor, and market research and perhaps focus groups
determined that people felt slightly guilty that they weren't
doing enough work in creating a cake - so the company went back, removed the egg components from the mix, changed the
instructions, and sales rebounded.
- ValentineC 9y agoIt's also somewhat similar to the "IKEA effect": https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1057740811000829 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105774081...