The Truth About What Customers Want

Customers demystified! How you can move them to buy...buy more...and keep on buying! The truth about what customers really want, think, and feel The truth about keeping current customers happy–and loyal The truth about the newest trends and advances in consumer behavior Simply the best thinking THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH This book reveals 50 bite-size, easy-to-use techniques for finding and keeping highly profitable customers “Michael Solomon’s The Truth About What Customers Want contains great insights into consumer behavior and is a must-have tool for anyone working in a consumer-driven field. His 50 truths take the guesswork out of marketing intelligence and give insight into navigating today’s technology-driven world.” Tim Dunphy, Senior Marketing Manager, Consumer Insights, Black & Decker

Customers demystified! How you can move them to buy...buy more...and keep on buying! The truth about what customers really want, think, and feel The truth about keeping current customers happy–and loyal The truth about the newest trends and advances in consumer behavior Simply the best thinking THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH This book reveals 50 bite-size, easy-to-use techniques for finding and keeping highly profitable customers “Michael Solomon's The Truth About What Customers Want contains great insights into consumer behavior and is a must-have tool for anyone working in a consumer-driven field. His 50 truths take the guesswork out of marketing intelligence and give insight into navigating today's technology-driven world.” Tim Dunphy, Senior Marketing Manager, Consumer Insights, Black & Decker

Describes 50 crucial facts and insights one must know to successfully attract and keep profitable customers, including how changing gender roles are impacting marketing, how to shape your brand's personality market by lifestyle, building brand communities and consumer tribes, and how to generate low-cost buzz via guerrilla and viral marketing.

From the bestselling author of What the CEO Wants You to Know? How to rethink sales from the outside in We have to face the truth: the process of selling is broken. Customers have more choices and are under intense pressure. Yet few companies are facing this reality. When they don't, a lingering malaise sets in. More than ever these days, the sales process tends to be a war about price-a frustrating, unpleasant war that takes all the fun out of selling. But there's a better way to think about sales, says bestselling author Ram Charan, who is famous for clarifying and simplifying difficult business problems. What the customer wants you to know is how his or her business works, so you can help make it work better. It sounds simple, but there's a catch: you won't be able to do that with your traditional sales approach. Instead of starting with your product or service, start with your customer's problems. Focus on becoming your customer's trusted partner, someone he can turn to for creative, cost-effective solutions that are based on your deep knowledge of his values, goals, problems, and customers. This book defines a new approach to selling which Charan calls value creation selling-that while radical is nonetheless practical. VCS has been battle-tested in companies in a variety of industries, such as Unifi, Mead-Westvaco, and Thomson Financial. It will enable you to: • Gain a deeper knowledge of your customer's problems • Understand how your customer's company really makes decisions • Help your customer improve margins and drive revenue growth • Connect sales with other key functions such as finance and manufacturing • Come up with new customized offerings • Make price much less of an issue VCS gets you out of the hell of commoditization and low prices. It differentiates you from the competition, paving the way to better pricing, better margins, and higher revenue growth, built on win-win relationships that deepen over time. Someday, every company will listen more closely to the customer, and every manager will realize that sales is everyone?s business, not just the sales department?s. In the meantime, this eye-opening book will show you how to get started.

This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About What Customers Want (9780137142262), by Michael R. Solomon. Available in print and digital formats. How you and your customers are influenced by others (from celebrities to experts to groups)...and what that means for marketing. In Like Mike, the main character believes that he can fly higher when he dons his magical Air Jordans. Even those of us who would need a rocket pack to jump higher still get caught up in beliefs like this–if we didn’t, all those sweet celebrity endorsement deals would be nothing but net. Many of our product choices are strongly influenced by what others do.

Why do people buy? A behavioral economist explains the science of consumer behavior in “the most important business book to come out in years” (Michael F. Schein, author and columnist for Inc., Forbes, and Psychology Today). What Your Customer Wants and Can’t Tell You explains the neuroscience of consumer behavior. Learn exactly why people buy—and how to use that knowledge to improve pricing, increase sales, create better “brain-friendly” brand messaging, and be a more effective leader. Behavioral economics is the marketing research future of brands and business. This book goes beyond an academic understanding of behavioral economics and into practical applications. Learn how real businesses and business professionals can use science to make their companies better. Business owner, consultant, and behavioral economics expert Melina Palmer helps leaders like you use the psychology of the consumer, innovation, and truly impactful branding to achieve real, bottom-line benefits. Discover information and tools you can actually use to influence consumers. Go beyond data science and learn how the consumer brain works. Dramatically improve your effectiveness as a leader and marketer with: · Real-world examples that bring a concept to life and make it stick · Ideas to help you with problem solving for your business · Ways to hack your brain into coming up with innovative programs, products, and initiatives “A stand-out guide for anyone fascinated by customer behavior and the science of decision-making.” —Madeline Quinlan, cofounder of Salient Behavioral Consultants

150 powerful bite-size solutions for winning entrepreneurs! Get started, find profitable customers, build great brands and marketing programs, and more! Three full books of powerful, quick, actionable solutions for every entrepreneur! Discover how to choose, plan, launch, and grow a winning business… raise capital, build teams, and get the right advice… find and keep highly profitable customers… profit from new customer behavior trends… develop powerful brand meaning… advertise, price, and segment more effectively… and much more! From world-renowned leaders and experts, including Michael R. Solomon, Brian D. Till, Donna Heckler, and Bruce Barringer