Consumer Behavior

In Demand, Adrian Slywotzky provides a radically new way to think about demand, with a big idea and a host of practical applications - not just for people in business but also for social activists, government leaders, non-profit managers, and other would-be innovators. To succeed in their various missions, all these groups need to master such ground-breaking concepts as the hassle map (and the secrets of fixing it); the curse of the incomplete product (and how to avoid it); why “very good” does not equal “magnetic”....

Uma história sobre o misterioso comportamento dos consumidores: quem são, por que os perdemos e como trazê-los de volta. Uma nova abordagem para compreender o que o cliente realmente quer, hoje e no futuro. Os clientes podem ser um verdadeiro mistério–e para desvendar seu comportamento é preciso pensar como um detetive. Neste audiolivro, David S. Duncan conta a história da rede fictícia de cafés Tazza, que está perdendo sua clientela mais fiel às vésperas de abrir o capital na bolsa.

A BMW in a Costco parking lot? A working-class family with a 50-inch plasma TV? What’s going on in the mind of the new consumer? TREASURE HUNT takes us into the homes of real people making real decisions, and into the CEO's offices of innovative companies finding new ways to accommodate them...

Revealing the Invisible provides a front-row seat to the mind-blowing future, where businesses of the 21st century can read consumers’ minds and make informed decisions based on their behaviors and tendencies. The world is at the precipice of a disruptive new era in which the ability to track every behavior will predict our individual and collective futures. Using artificial intelligence to analyze trillions of once-invisible data (behaviors) across vast digital ecosystems, companies and governments now have unimagined insight into our every behavior.

It’s a new era of business and consumerism - and you play a role in defining it.

Today’s biggest trends - the mobile web, social media, real time - have produced a new consumer landscape. The End of Business As Usual explores this complex information revolution, how it has changed the future of business, media, and culture, and what you can do about it. This is the end of business as usual and the beginning of a new era of relevance.

Engage Gen Z. Future-Proof Your Brand. In today’s fast-changing digital landscape, brands are struggling to capture the attention of Gen Z, a generation that values authenticity, collaboration, and community like never before. The old playbook of one-way messaging and transactional loyalty programs is no longer enough. Enter web3 marketing, a revolutionary approach that builds lasting connections through gamification, transparency, and a community-first ethos. This groundbreaking guide provides everything you need to thrive in the web3 era.

Online shopping continues to grow at an astounding rate. In 2012 more than $1 trillion were spent in online retailers alone. The nature of shopping is drastically changing - but with so little information on how best to interact with online customers, how are businesses to succeed?

Drawing on insights from across the social, behavioral, and natural sciences, Michelle Baddeley explores contexts in which behavior is driven by the herd. She analyzes the rational vs nonrational and cognitive vs emotional forces involved, and she investigates why herding only sometimes works out well. With new perspectives on followers, leaders, and the pros and cons of herd behavior, Baddeley shines vivid light on human behavior in the context of our ever-more-connected world.

What was a Buddhist monk doing at the 2014 World Economic Forum in Davos lecturing the world's leaders on mindfulness? Why do many successful corporations have a chief happiness officer? What can the chemical composition of your brain tell a potential employer about you? In the past decade, governments and corporations have become increasingly interested in measuring the way people feel: the Happiness index, Gross National Happiness, well-being and positive psychology have come to dominate the way we live our lives.

Plastic surgery has become the answer for many Americans, and in American Plastic sociologist Laurie Essig explores how we arrived at this particular solution. Over the last decade there has been a 465 percent increase in cosmetic work, and we now spend over $12 billion annually on procedures like liposuction, face-lifts, tummy tucks, and boob jobs.

Vorteile: • Mehr Marketing-Power trotz weniger Geld fürs Marketing • Mehr Kundenerlebnis trotz weniger Geld fürs Kundenerlebnis • Mehr Innovation trotz weniger Geld für die Innovationsabteilung Zum Hörbuch: Die Verhaltensökonomie (engl. Behavioral Economics) untersucht, wie Menschen Entscheidungen treffen. Für Unternehmen sind darum die Erkenntnisse von Wirtschaftsnobelpreisträgern und Bestsellerautoren wie Daniel Kahneman (»Schnelles Denken, langsames Denken«) oder Richard Thaler (»Nudge: Wie man kluge Entscheidungen anstößt«) äußerst wertvoll.

A social media expert with global experience with many of the world's biggest brands - including Nike, Toyota, and Motorola - Simon Mainwaring offers a visionary new practice in which brands leverage social media to earn consumer goodwill, loyalty, and profit, while creating a third pillar of sustainable social change through conscious contributions from customer purchases. These innovative private sector partnerships answer perhaps the most pressing issue facing business and thought leaders today: how to practice capitalism in a way that satisfies all needs.

Why is it that some things explode online, while others linger in anonymity for years? Why do some things hook our attention, while others flop? Is there a pattern behind how social media captivates us? Viral fame is not just a coincidence. There is an easy-to-learn strategy behind it. Whether your dream is YouTube stardom, or just creating opportunity with a personal brand, The Art of Going Viral is your blueprint for digital success. Stand out, get noticed, and captivate online.

The most novel collection of unknown insights about Africa's consumer markets.

Companies spend millions of dollars every year trying to court consumers. They invest in flashy advertising, celebrity endorsements, loyalty programs, websites ... you name it. And they spend millions more trying to build their businesses through elaborate "relationship management" software. The result? Most marketers still aren't emotionally connecting with consumers. Married to the Brand tells the story of what makes profitable brand relationships work - through the eyes of the consumer, not the marketer.

In "The Consumer's Journey to Purchasing Funeral Services: A Marketing Roadmap for Growing Market Share and Revenue," Bill A Johnston, a leading expert on Facebook ads for the funeral home industry, reveals the strategic marketing insights you need to become the market leader in your area. This comprehensive guide takes you through the consumer's journey from initial awareness to becoming a loyal, retained customer.

Customers demystified! The truth and nothing but the truth! Simply the best thinking on how you can move customers to buy... buy more... and keep on buying! This book reveals 50 bite-size, easy-to-use techniques for finding and keeping highly profitable customers.

Wilber Winkle was called a "national treasure" by no less than TV's Larry King, and his book was dubbed the funniest in decades by American Bookseller. What does Mr. Winkle do? Without fear, he writes letters to the massive corporations responsible for popular consumer products, demanding satisfaction and complaining about even the most minor of flaws. And miraculously, the corporations answer.

In today’s world, a woman can be overwhelmed by the expectations put upon her—people who don’t know her, what she wants, or who she wants to be. Where do you turn when you know you want more, but your “more” doesn’t look like everyone else’s? Shop Social goes beyond the traditional understanding of buying from friends and shows how building a microcommunity of people who know you and who are personally invested in your well-being can be a life-changing experience that saves time and money, while putting you in control of your own health, happiness, and fulfillment.

Taking behavioral economics from the cocktail party to the boardroom, with dramatic results Books like Predictably Irrational and Nudge have brought behavioral economics into the mainstream. But while we all marvel at how different-and weird-real people behave compared to the "rational actors" of traditional economics, in the end we go back to business as usual.