Best Selling Books by Martin Lindstrom

A humorous yet practical five-step guide to ridding ourselves--and our companies--of the bureaucratic bottlenecks and red tape that plague every office You try to reserve a conference room for a crucial client meeting via your company''s new-and-improved computer service, only to find that every conference room is booked-seemingly forever. Your weekly conference call is hijacked by video screens freezing, cords not working, and employees dropping in and out. You then sit through an endless Power Point presentation that everyone claims they''ve read, no one has, and that could have been summarized in one page. What has happened to common sense? And how can we get it back? Companies, it seems, have become so entangled in their own internal issues, and further beset by reams of invisible red tape, that they''ve lost sight of their core purpose. Inevitably, they pay the price. Best-selling author Martin Lindstrom combines numerous real-life examples of corporate common sense gone wrong with his own ingenious plan for restoring logic--and sanity--to the companies and people that need it most. A must-read for today''s executives, managers, and office workers, The Ministry of Common Sense is funny, entertaining, and immensely practical.

Praise and Reviews "This is a must read book... Lindstrom provides fascinating stories taking you into the mental and emotional life of this new generation..."- Philip Kotler, S C Johnson & Sons Distinguished Professor of International Marketing, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management"BRANDchild will be a valuable addition to our industry''s literature."- Lester Wunderman, Chairman Emeritus and founder of Wunderman Cato Johnson"Lindstrom''s fascinating tour-de-force may have you staying awake for 60 hours in order to mine the kids-focused marketing wisdom."- Stann Rapp, MRM Partners Worldwide and co-founder of Rapp CollinsTweens (8- to 14-year-olds) are an increasingly powerful and smart consumer group that spent $300 billion across the globe last year and influenced another $350 billion spend through their parents. Based on the world''s most extensive study of tween attitudes and behaviours, and now available in paperback, BRANDchild is the first book to look in-depth at the phenomena behind global kids and their relationships with brands.Conducted by Millward Brown, the leading global market research agency, the BRANDchild survey involved several thousand kids from more than 70 cities in 14 countries (throughout Europe, Asia, the United States and South America). Several renowned experts share their unique views on kids'' trends and fascinating marketing techniques.Packed with practical advice on how to create kids'' brands, including more than 50 previously unpublished case studies, BRANDchild proposes innovative ways of marketing to this young audience.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A fascinating look at how consumers perceive logos, ads, commercials, brands, and products.”—Time How much do we know about why we buy? What truly influences our decisions in today’s message-cluttered world? In Buyology, Martin Lindstrom presents the astonishing findings from his groundbreaking three-year, seven-million-dollar neuromarketing study—a cutting-edge experiment that peered inside the brains of 2,000 volunteers from all around the world as they encountered various ads, logos, commercials, brands, and products. His startling results shatter much of what we have long believed about what captures our interest—and drives us to buy. Among the questions he explores: • Does sex actually sell? • Does subliminal advertising still surround us? • Can “cool” brands trigger our mating instincts? • Can our other senses—smell, touch, and sound—be aroused when we see a product? Buyology is a fascinating and shocking journey into the mind of today''s consumer that will captivate anyone who''s been seduced—or turned off—by marketers'' relentless attempts to win our loyalty, our money, and our minds.

Marketing visionary Martin Lindstrom has been on the front line of the branding for over twenty years. In Brandwashed, he turns the spotlight on his own industry, drawing on all he has witnessed behind closed doors, exposing for the first time the full extent of the psychological tricks and traps that companies devise to win our hard-earned money. Lindstrom reveals eye opening details such as how advertisers and marketers target children at an alarmingly young age (starting when they are still in the womb), what heterosexual men really think about when they see sexually provocative advertising, how marketers and retailers stoke the flames of public panic and capitalize on paranoia over diseases, extreme weather events, and food contamination scares. It also presents the first ever evidence to prove how addicted we are to our smartphones, and how certain companies (like the maker of a very popular lip balm), purposely adjust their formulas in order to make their products chemically addictive, and much, much more. Brandwashed is a shocking insider''s look at how today''s global giants conspire to obscure the truth and manipulate our minds, all in service of persuading us to buy.

Martin Lindstrom, a modern-day Sherlock Holmes, harnesses the power of "small data" in his quest to discover the next big thing Hired by the world''s leading brands to find out what makes their customers tick, Martin Lindstrom spends 300 nights a year in strangers'' homes, carefully observing every detail in order to uncover their hidden desires, and, ultimately, the clues to a multi-million dollar product. Lindstrom connects the dots in this globetrotting narrative that will enthrall enterprising marketers, as well as anyone with a curiosity about the endless variations of human behavior. You''ll learn... • How a noise reduction headset at 35,000 feet led to the creation of Pepsi''s new trademarked signature sound. • How a worn down sneaker discovered in the home of an 11-year-old German boy led to LEGO''s incredible turnaround. • How a magnet found on a fridge in Siberia resulted in a U.S. supermarket revolution. • How a toy stuffed bear in a girl''s bedroom helped revolutionize a fashion retailer''s 1,000 stores in 20 different countries. • How an ordinary bracelet helped Jenny Craig increase customer loyalty by 159% in less than a year. • How the ergonomic layout of a car dashboard led to the redesign of the Roomba vacuum.

The definitive book on sensory branding, shows how companies appeal to consumers’ five senses to sell products. Did you know that the gratifying smell that accompanies the purchase of a new automobile actually comes from a factory-installed aerosol can containing “new car” aroma? Or that Kellogg’s trademarked “crunch” is generated in sound laboratories? Or that the distinctive click of a just-opened jar of Nescafé freeze-dried coffee, as well as the aroma of the crystals, has been developed in factories over the past decades? Or that many adolescents recognize a pair of Abercrombie & Fitch jeans not by their look or cut but by their fragrance? In perhaps the most creative and authoritative book on how our senses affect our everyday purchasing decisions, global branding guru Martin Lindstrom reveals how the world’s most successful companies and products integrate touch, taste, smell, sight, and sound with startling and sometimes even shocking results. In conjunction with renowned research institution Millward Brown, Lindstrom’s innovative worldwide study unveils how all of us are slaves to our senses—and how, after reading this book, we’ll never be able to see, hear, or touch anything from our running shoes to our own car doors the same way again. An expert on consumer shopping behavior, Lindstrom has helped transform the face of global marketing with more than twenty years of hands-on experience. Firmly grounded in science, and disclosing the secrets of all our favorite brands, Brand Sense shows how we consumers are unwittingly seduced by touch, smell, sound, and more.

A book that won''t age: Each copy includes a code for 4-month membership to DualBook.com, which provides constant online updates and email bulletins to readers Sensible and practical plan to transfer your brand to the electronic age Extremely successful when published in cloth in 2001 Packed with new and updated global cases Contributors Peppers and Rogers [inventors of the ""1-to-1 marketing concept] are two of the world''s top marketing and Internet experts This is the world''s first interactive business book, updated weekly on the DualBook.com website. It examines the controversial marriage between offline retailers and online e-tailers, and tries to anticipate the direction that traditional retailing will take over the next few years and how e-tailers will contend with low earnings, weak distribution and limited customer support. It also includes contributuions from two respected online marketing experts, Martha Rogers and Don Peppers. With an intriguing mix of theory, case study, practical advice and weekly updates on the DualBook website, this respected Internet authority gives retailers and dot.com companies clear guidelines for a successful clicks-and-mortar marriage. The exclusive case studies and candid exposes reveal how the world''s leading retailers and e-tailers are operating their clicks and mortar strategies. Cases include Toys ''R'' Us, Nokia, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, 7-Eleven, The Body Shop, CVS.com and others.

¿Crea adicción el iPhone? ¿Existen sustancias químicas que nos obligan a ser fieles a una marca de pintalabios? ¿Se puede persuadir a un bebé desde el momento en que está en el vientre de su madre? Todas estas preguntas y muchas más encuentran su respuesta en el nuevo y revelador libro de Martin Lindstrom, Así se manipula al consumidor.El experto en marketing acusa a la que ha sido su industria durante los últimos veinte años. Ser testigo privilegiado de todo lo que ocurría a puerta cerrada dentro de las grandes multinacionales ha permitido a Lindstrom exponer por primera vez la magnitud de los trucos y las trampas psicológicas que las empresas utilizan para lavarnos el cerebro y conseguir que compremos sus productos.