Temporal Discounting and Product Launches: Strategies for Overcoming Short-Term Bias || Season 8 || Behavioral Economics in Marketing Podcast

In this episode, we unravel the subtle but powerful cognitive bias that leads individuals to place greater value on immediate rewards while discounting the significance of delayed gratification. Temporal discounting poses a unique challenge for marketers seeking to orchestrate successful product launches, as consumers are inherently wired to prioritize short-term gains. Join us as we navigate the strategies and psychological insights that can counteract the allure of instant rewards, offering marketers a roadmap to overcome temporal discounting and shape product launches that resonate with the complexities of human decision-making.

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