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A New Approach to Understanding How-and Why-Customers Buy Despite the resources spent on market research, The pattern is predictable: Customers say they want something, companies create it, and once it's available, customers don't buy it. Why?
Is it because customers just don't know what they want? While the book delineates the significant limits of our 'legacy techniques,' it provides an equally clear action plan for delivering bankable insights. These ideas will turn marketing and research on its heels."-William L. McComb, President, McNeil Consumer & Specialty Pharmaceuticals "The insight that companies need multidisciplinary science to make a powerfully compelling case that the world of marketing research cannot afford to ignore.
Zaltman lucidly plucks some of the market," that dynamic interplay between the consumers' and the marketers' thoughts that determines the outcome of every buying decision. Building on research from disciplines as diverse as neurology, sociology, literary analysis, and cognitive science, Zaltman offers rich insights into what happens within the complex system of mind, brain, body, and society as consumers contemplate their needs and evaluate products. Zaltman illustrates how leading companies are "mining the unconscious" "-with remarkable results, and introduces innovative tools and techniques that help marketers: * Measure consumer reactions to marketing stimuli-and alter advertising or Zaltman illustrates how leading companies are "mining the unconscious" "-with remarkable results, and introduces innovative tools and techniques that help marketers: * Measure consumer reactions to marketing stimuli-and alter advertising or Zaltman illustrates how leading companies are "mining the unconscious" "-with remarkable results, and introduces innovative tools and techniques that help marketers: * Measure consumer reactions to marketing stimuli-and alter advertising or positioning strategies accordingly. * Build "consensus maps" that reflect a market segment's universal thinking-and reengineer them to boost customer satisfaction, loyalty, and sales. * Understand how their own minds work-and how they can think in creative new ways. The mind of the market," that dynamic interplay between the consumers' and the marketers' thoughts that determines the outcome of every buying decision. Building on research from disciplines as diverse as neurology, sociology, literary analysis, and cognitive science, Zaltman offers rich insights into what happens within the complex system of mind, brain, body, and society as consumers contemplate their needs and evaluate products. A New Approach to Understanding How-and Why-Customers Buy Despite the resources spent on market research, nearly 80 percent of thinking happens in our unconscious. The pattern is predictable: Customers say they want something, companies create it, and once it's available, customers don't buy it. Why?
Is it because customers just don't know what they want? While the book delineates the significant limits of our 'legacy techniques,' it provides an equally clear action plan for delivering bankable insights. These ideas will turn marketing and research on its heels."-William L. McComb, President, McNeil Consumer & Specialty Pharmaceuticals "The insight that companies need multidisciplinary science to make a powerfully compelling case that the world of marketing research cannot afford to ignore. * Measure consumer reactions to marketing stimuli-and alter advertising or positioning strategies accordingly. * Build "consensus maps" that reflect a market segment's universal thinking-and reengineer them to boost customer satisfaction, loyalty, and sales. * Understand how their own minds work-and how they can think in creative new ways. The mind of the market," that dynamic interplay between the consumers' and the marketers' thoughts that determines the outcome of every buying decision. Building on research from disciplines as diverse as neurology, sociology, literary analysis, and cognitive science, Zaltman offers rich insights into what happens within the complex system of mind, brain, body, and society as consumers contemplate their needs and evaluate products.
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