Consumer Research

For the next 20 years, roughly 10,000 citizens will hit medicare eligibility each and every day. Understanding their attitudes, interests, spending patterns, buying preferences and the emerging opportunities for profiting by targeted development and marketing of products and services to them is vital to the forward thinking entrepreneur and marketing executive.

Emotional Branding is the best-selling revolutionary business book that has created a movement in branding circles by shifting the focus from products to people. The “10 Commandments of Emotional Branding” have become a new benchmark for marketing and creative professionals, and emotional branding has become a coined term by many top industry experts to express the new dynamic that exists now between brands and people.

Often the decision between a customer choosing you over someone like you is your ability to know exactly what to say, when to say it, and how to make it count. Phil M. Jones has trained more than two million people across five continents and over 50 countries in the lost art of spoken communication. In Exactly What to Say, he delivers the tactics you need to get more of what you want.

Why do some products capture our attention, while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of habit? Is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook us? This audiobook introduces listeners to the "Hooked Model", a four-step process companies use to build customer habits. Through consecutive cycles through the hook, successful products reach their ultimate goal of bringing users back repeatedly - without depending on costly advertising or aggressive messaging.

In Magnetic Story Selling, Russell Brunson and Dan Kennedy pull back the curtain on the science of storytelling in marketing and sales, revealing their proven frameworks for crafting stories that captivate audiences, build authority, and drive massive sales. This book combines exclusive, never-before-released transcripts and presentations from two of the most influential marketers of all time, along with modern strategies for digital storytelling that convert like wildfire.

Black Ops Advertising dissects this rapid rise of "sponsored content," a strategy whereby advertisers have become publishers and publishers create advertising - all under the guise of unbiased information. Covert selling, mostly in the form of native advertising and content marketing, has so blurred the lines between editorial content and marketing message that it is next to impossible to tell real news from paid endorsements.

Joe Girard, "le plus grand vendeur du monde", partage le système de vente qui a fait de lui un succès reconnu dans son domaine. "On ne naît pas vendeur, on le devient. Si je l'ai fait, vous pouvez le faire." Joe Girard.

Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans - predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hilarious account of the struggle to bring an academic discipline back down to earth - and change the way we think about economics, ourselves, and our world.

This audiobook provides evidence-based answers to the key questions asked by marketers every day. Tackling issues such as how brands grow, how advertising really works, what price promotions really do and how loyalty programs really affect loyalty, How Brands Grow presents decades of research in a style that is written for marketing professionals to grow their brands.

Are you struggling to sell your products or services in a crowded, competitive marketplace? If so, you’re likely making one of the biggest mistakes in marketing—selling repair and improvement instead of selling opportunity. Legendary marketing expert Dan Kennedy reveals why opportunity-based marketing outperforms traditional sales methods and how you can transform your offers to create massive demand.

Avez-vous déjà remarqué que les fruits et légumes sont toujours placés à l'entrée des supermarchés ? Qu'il n'y a jamais de caisse visible dans les boutiques de luxe ou les Apple stores ? Ou que les mascottes des céréales regardent presque toujours vers le bas ? On pourrait croire à des détails. En réalité, rien n'est laissé au hasard. Tout est pensé pour influencer notre cerveau, déclencher l'envie, installer la confiance et provoquer l'achat –; sans jamais le forcer.

Martin Lindstrom, a modern-day Sherlock Holmes, harnesses the power of "small data" in his quest to discover the next big thing. Hired by the world's leading brands to find out what makes their customers tick, Martin Lindstrom spends 300 nights a year in strangers' homes, carefully observing every detail in order to uncover their hidden desires and, ultimately, the clues to a multimillion-dollar product.

Ever since Adam Smith, the central teaching of economics has been that free markets provide us with material well-being, as if by an invisible hand. In Phishing for Phools, Nobel Prize-winning economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller deliver a fundamental challenge to this insight, arguing that markets harm as well as help us. As long as there is profit to be made, sellers will systematically exploit our psychological weaknesses and our ignorance through manipulation and deception.

An informative and entertaining account of how actions send signals that shape behaviors and how to design better incentives for better results in our life, our work, and our world.

Happy Money offers a tour of new research on the science of spending. Most people recognize that they need professional advice on how to earn, save, and invest their money. When it comes to spending that money, most people just follow their intuitions. But scientific research shows that those intuitions are often wrong.

En esta obra revolucionaria que ocupa desde hace años los primeros puestos en las listas de ventas de Estados Unidos, Gladwell, un auténtico gurú de los negocios, analiza la trayectoria de varios productos y tendencias de gran éxito hasta descubrir cómo y por qué se alcanza el punto de inflexión a partir del cual algo se convierte en un fenómeno de masas: el punto clave.

The Mobile Wave argues that the changes brought by mobile computing are so big and widespread that it’s impossible for us to see it all, even though we are all immersed in it. Saylor explains that the current generation of mobile smart phones and tablet computers has set the stage to become the universal computing platform for the world. In the hands of billions of people and accessible anywhere and anytime, mobile computers are poised to become an appendage of the human being and an essential tool for modern life.

La persuasión es una habilidad imprescindible en cualquier actividad profesional a todos los niveles en organizaciones y empresas. Pero, ¿cuáles son las mejores técnicas de persuasión?, ¿qué elementos de la comunicación permiten conquistar al público?, ¿cuáles son los momentos fundamentales en una argumentación? y ¿qué diferencia a un comunicador eficaz de un auténtico persuasor?

In Branding Is Sex, brand dominatrix Deb Gabor explains how proper brand positioning gets your customers in the mood. In just seven short and sweet chapters, Deb covers these juicy topics and more: how the most successful brands in the world get their customers laid; how to never fail the Bullshit Test; and who your brand should hop in the sack with (and it’s not who you think).

Depois de passar anos caindo na lábia de vendedores, arrecadadores de doações e operadores de telemarketing, o psicólogo Robert B. Cialdini resolveu se dedicar ao estudo da persuasão. Reunindo dados das mais recentes pesquisas científicas sobre o assunto, his­tórias de gente comum e a experiência adquirida ao se infiltrar em organizações que treinam os chamados "profissionais da persuasão", Cialdini criou uma obra acessível, informativa e indispensável a todos aqueles que querem saber como influenciar pessoas e, ao mesmo tempo, se defender dos manipuladores.