Consumer Behavior

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.

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.

The postmodern revolution requires marketers to revisit the walls they have erected over many years. That's not an easy thing to do. Conventional marketing strategies are built upon predictability, stability, and the comfort in knowing that we can understand our customer yesterday, today, and tomorrow. We love to put people into categories, and often into super-neat dichotomies, and call it a day. Those walls used to be solid, and marketers relied upon them to build a structure that formed the basis of their traditional strategic worldview.

Persuasion is a seductive and elusive skill to master, and one that comes with tremendous power. Who wouldn't want to be able to talk anyone into doing anything they want? Well, there's good news about that: Persuasion is something you can learn with the help of this book! The tips, tricks, and techniques in this guide will serve as the perfect introduction to persuasion and then you can start influencing everyone around you and exerting your new powers.