Consumer Behavior

In this up to the minute account of the current financial crisis, Dan Gross goes step by step through the timeline leading up to the October 2008 bail-out and explains what exactly happened. Using information and statistics only weeks old, he offers a thorough and enlightening analysis of where we all go from here.

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.

Do you want to know exactly how to get the upper hand in conversations, debates, and negotiations? Do you desire the ability to persuade individuals as well as audiences? Persuasion often gets a bad rap; naysayers call it manipulative. However, persuasion is all around us. You are affected by it every day. Simple choices like the colors of a company logo influence the way you think. You may already practice persuasion without even realizing it.

Depending upon your specific circumstances, there are distinctive ways to deal with escaping obligation. How about we examine them right now so you can choose which approach will work better for you, in view of where you are monetarily at this moment.

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.

Bitter fighting over deficits, taxes, and spending bedevils Washington, D.C., even as partisan gridlock has brought the government to the brink of default. Yet the more politicians on both sides of the aisle rant and the citizenry fumes, the more things seem to remain the same. White House Burning looks squarely at the burgeoning national debt and proposes to defuse its threat to our well-being without forcing struggling middle-class families and the elderly into poverty.

From the shuttered factories of the rust belt to the look-alike strip malls of the sun belt---and almost everywhere in between---America has been transformed by its relentless fixation on low price. This pervasive yet little examined obsession is arguably the most powerful and devastating market force of our time---the engine of globalization, outsourcing, planned obsolescence, and economic instability in an increasingly unsettled world.

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.

Cheap. It's a dirty word laden with negative meanings. It is also the story of Lauren Weber's life. As a child, she resented her father for keeping the heat at 50 degrees through the frigid winters and rarely using his car's turn signals - to keep them from burning out. But as an adult, she found herself walking 30 blocks to save $2 on subway fare. In Cheap We Trust teases out the meanings of cheapness and examines the wisdom and pleasures of not spending every last penny.

The greatest threat to privacy today is not the NSA, but good-old American companies. Internet giants, leading retailers, and other firms are voraciously gathering data with little oversight from anyone. In Las Vegas, no company knows the value of data better than Caesars Entertainment. Many thousands of enthusiastic clients pour through the ever-open doors of their casinos. The secret to the company’s success lies in their one unrivaled asset: they know their clients intimately by tracking the activities of the overwhelming majority of gamblers.

Say the Magic Words is your passport to mastering these daily encounters. You'll find the most effective way to get what you want and need, and know what not to say and do. The insights and information come directly from the pros, people who have spent years in their particular line of work, and their advice is entertaining and unnervingly candid.

What if your customers had a vested interest in guiding your company toward greater success? What if your employees had a personal as well as professional commitment to elevating your organization? Imagine how different your results would be if investors, vendors, and even analysts treasured the relationships they have built with you. Most important...is your company capable of setting aside a bit of its own self-interest to become part of dramatically more rewarding collaborative effort?

Chi era Elmer Wheeler e perché è così importante conoscere e seguire i suoi principi sulla vendita a così tanti anni di distanza? Perché Elmer Wheeler, classe 1904, oltre a essere considerato il più grande venditore al dettaglio di tutti i tempi, può vantare l'investitura di primo venditore "scientifico" della storia. Con il suo lavoro sul campo, infatti, Wheeler ha letteralmente traghettato il marketing e la vendita nell'epoca moderna, fondandolo su princìpi sicuri - verificati nel corso di decenni di esperienza diretta - e su modelli replicabili in ogni settore della comunicazione e della vendita di un prodotto o servizio.

Persuasion: The Complete Step by Step Guide on Persuasion, Mind Control and NLP is a simple, step-by-step guidebook that enables you to access your natural power of persuasive abilities. You possess a natural talent within you that allows you to guide others in your preferred direction and achieve your desired results. You have the power to attain anything you want in life, and to personally design the exact life you thought you would only lead in your dreams.

In Cool, the neuroscientist and philosopher Steven Quartz and the political scientist Anette Asp bring together the latest findings in brain science, economics, and evolutionary biology to form a provocative theory of consumerism, revealing how the brain's "social calculator" and an instinct to rebel are the crucial missing links in understanding the motivations behind our spending habits.

Marketing executives and consumer advocates alike predict a future of brand-proof consumers, armed with technology and a sophisticated understanding of marketing techniques, who can effectively tune out ad campaigns. But as Rob Walker demonstrates, this widely accepted misconception has eclipsed the real changes in the way modern consumers relate to their brands of choice. Combine this with marketers' new ability to blur the line between advertising, entertainment, and public space, and you have dramatically altered the relationship between consumer and consumed.

Nancy Cooklin, coach in PNL, specializzata in tecniche di vendita, ritorna con una pubblicazione completamente dedicata alle donne...

Assemblage guides you through the art and science of creating transformative brands by combining personal, social, and cultural components.

The Review Cycle is a disruptive new consumer behavior model developed by social innovator, Matt R. Vance. This four-phase model illustrates the cyclical consumer decision-making process, informed by online reviews. Such decisions include everything from what we buy and where we eat to what doctor we use and where we apply for jobs.

In Making Millions, Going Broke, Gary Arblaster provides you with a firsthand look at the most basic characteristics he has witnessed working with people since 1994 who have retired well. He not only provides a behind the scenes look of the financially independent, he also provides you with thought-provoking questions for you to consider in your own financial situation.