Consumer Research

How do we stay safe? Should we? What if our attempts are exposing us even more to the very risks we are avoiding? Would acceptance of danger make us more secure? Is there such a thing as foolproof? In Foolproof, Greg Ip presents a macro theory of human nature and disaster that explains how we can keep ourselves safe in our increasingly dangerous world.

How do I attract new clients and retain existing ones? This is the central question when marketing any product, service, or idea. This book helps you discover the 'hook' that makes what you are offering irresistible, the words that resonate, the stories that sell to your ideal customers over and over again so you can develop evergreen marketing collateral and stay top-of-mind with the passing parade of prospects and clients and keep increasing your profits.

Ratschläge und Tipps zum Thema: Verkaufen leicht gemacht! Verkaufen ist hart, denn nicht jeder Kunde springt auf die Ratschläge und Tipps eines Verkäufers gleich gut an. Trotzdem fordern Unternehmen und Verkaufsleiter gleichermaßen immer und immer wieder, auch in schwierigen Zeiten die Verkaufszahlen zu steigern. Dieses Hörbuch beweist: Wer es sich leichter macht, ist ein guter Verkäufer. Weniger Fachkenntnis und Fleiß entscheiden über den Erfolg, sondern vor allem Menschenkenntnis.

Rethink your business model to incorporate the power of "user" experiences. What’s the Future of Business? will galvanize a new movement that aligns the tenets of user experience with the vision of innovative leadership to improve business performance, engagement, and relationships for a new generation of consumerism. It provides an overview of real-world experiences versus "user" experiences in relation to products, services, mobile, social media, and commerce, among others.

Money Anxiety is a behavioral economics book exploring how financial anxiety impacts consumer behavior. The book explains why we make instinctive financial decisions, why we are more risk averse when stressed, and why we hate to lose more than we love to win.

What is embryonic stem cell research? Why is it so controversial? What is its relationship to human cloning? Events are moving so fast and biotechnology seems so complicated that many of us don't have an informed opinion about issues that are remaking the human future before our very eyes.

This audiobook lists, and then analyzes, many of the highest paying jobs in America that either do, or don’t, require some sort of college education. Many people don’t realize that there are jobs in many industries that pay over a hundred thousand dollars a year that don’t require anything other than a high school diploma, or that don’t require any education of any kind whatsoever at all. Countless millions of people have become millionaires, or have retired with over a hundred thousand dollars a year in passive income sources.

As humans, we are greatly influenced by our relationships. We each enjoy being members of loyalty programs and networking groups that align with our goals. We have selected and continue to go to the same supermarkets, gas stations, banks, and purchase from only select companies. This happens because of an unspoken relationship that exists with these businesses and brands. They make us happy, we trust them, and their consistency is calming in a chaotic world with too many choices.

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.

Lee Eisenberg's The Number hit the New York Times best-seller list and became an instant classic with those wanting to learn more about retiring comfortably. Here he investigates the forces that compel Americans to shop till they drop. A timely exploration, Shoptimism takes a critical look at an often downplayed aspect of American economic prosperity.

Through Market Like a Human, you will learn ways to incorporate a more human-centric approach in your marketing campaigns to better develop trust, create rapport, and establish authority. We have to do more and be better in our marketing to truly connect with our audience.

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.

In Customer Service Is Dead, author, serial entrepreneur, and customer-service expert Mitche Graf draws on 35 years of experience developing best-in-class customer-care departments and improving communications in businesses of all sizes to offer you new and innovative methods for reinventing customer-service policies and training employees in your business to improve customer satisfaction, focus on the customer experience, and maximize business growth.

The purpose of this book is to emphasize the value of emotions and explore mental behavioral and emotional dimensions that affect consumers of all age groups, societies, and cultures. This book is an excellent reference for students, executives, marketers, researchers, and trainers. It includes the different elements of emotion, evidence of how emotions govern and organize consumer life, and emotion and individual functioning, including psychological disorders and well-being.

¿Estás utilizando inteligentemente toda la data recopilada y almacenada? En un escenario de feroces transformaciones digitales, debemos ser capaces de ayudar a nuestras organizaciones a salir airosas de estos cambios y ser competentes al desarrollar empresas basadas en datos (data driven). No se trata de trabajar con hojas de cálculo u otros mecanismos tradicionales, sino de emplear una gestión eficaz de los datos que genere enormes beneficios para las instituciones y para todo aquel que emprenda en el mundo de hoy.

What inspires incredible connection? Is it possible to create more of them more often? And if so...how do we do it? The truth is creating meaningful connection (whether it be in business, love or friendship) can be learnt and used to help you connect with new people that truly matter to you. Parallel explores a range of distinct rules to help the reader understand how they can create better relationships going forward, but also make better sense of the ones that haven't worked in the past.

¿Estás animado a empezar a buscar los ingresos pasivos? Ya ves que aunque es un camino que logra una buena libertad financiera, el iniciarlo implica que tienes que trabajar un poco, pero es como todo, se comienza dando los primeros pasos y posteriormente poco a poco vas creciendo.

Fair trade, eco villaggi, transition towns, banche del tempo, slow fashion: è il vocabolario del consumo critico, in cui contano non solo il prezzo e la qualità dei prodotti ma anche il comportamento dei produttori e la sostenibilità ambientale e sociale della filiera produttiva. Una rivoluzione degli stili di vita, che può trasformare i processi decisionali promuovendo la capacità di creare nuovi legami di solidarietà dentro e fuori il mondo del lavoro.

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 is one of the most important skills to acquire and it 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.

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.