Best Selling Books by Martin Lindstrom

Martin Lindstrom wordt ingehuurd door de toonaangevendste merken ter wereld om uit te vinden wat hun klanten drijft. Hij besteedt 300 nachten per jaar bij hen thuis om door zorgvuldige observatie van alle details hun verborgen verlangens te ontdekken en zo, in het ultieme geval, aanwijzingen te vinden voor een miljoenenproduct. Lindstrom voert je mee in een wereldomvattend verhaal dat ondernemende marketeers en iedereen die geïnteresseerd is in de eindeloze rijkheid van menselijk gedrag zal boeien en verbazen. Hoe een afgetrapte sneaker van een 11-jarige Duitse jongen leidde tot de ongelooflijke wederopstanding van LEGO. Hoe een magneet op een koelkast in Siberië een Amerikaanse supermarktrevolutie veroorzaakte. Hoe een knuffelbeer in de slaapkamer van een meisje een kledingretailer hielp met de optimalisatie van 1.000 winkels in 20 landen. Hoe een doodgewone armband de klantenloyaliteit met 159 procent verbeterde in minder dan een jaar. Hoe de ergonomische lay-out van het dashboard van een auto aanleiding gaf voor het redesign van de Roomba-stofzuiger.

A shocking insider''s look at how global giants conspire to obscure the truth and manipulate our minds. Marketing visionary Martin Lindstrom has been on the front lines of the branding wars for over twenty years. Here, 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 dollars. Picking up from where Vance Packard''s bestselling classic, The Hidden Persuaders, left off more than half-a-century ago, Lindstrom reveals: New findings that reveal how advertisers and marketers intentionally target children at an alarmingly young age - starting when they are still in the womb! Shocking results of an fMRI study which uncovered what heterosexual men really think about when they see sexually provocative advertising (hint: it isn''t their girlfriends). How marketers and retailers stoke the flames of public panic and capitalize on paranoia over global contagions, extreme weather events, and food contamination scares. The first ever neuroscientific evidence proving how addicted we all are to our iPhones and our Blackberry''s (and the shocking reality of cell phone addiction - it can be harder to shake than addictions to drugs and alcohol). How companies of all stripes are secretly mining our digital footprints to uncover some of the most intimate details of our private lives, then using that information to target us with ads and offers ''perfectly tailored'' to our psychological profiles. How certain companies, like the maker of one popular lip balm, purposely adjust their formulas in order to make their products chemically addictive. What a 3-month long guerrilla marketing experiment, conducted specifically for this book, tells us about the most powerful hidden persuader of them all. And much, much more. This searing expose introduces a new class of tricks, techniques, and seductions - the Hidden Persuaders of the 21st century- and shows why they are more insidious and pervasive than ever.

A collection of family recipes which originated in Vermont and southeast Texas.

Giới thiệu những câu chuyện thú vị về cách khách hàng phản ứng đối với những thương hiệu như Marlboro, Nokia, Calvin Klein, Ford và chương trình giải trí American Idol... giúp các nhà tiếp thị và các ông chủ doanh nghiệp nắm bắt được tâm lý của khách hàng, chiếm được lòng tin, sự trung thành, tiền bạc và cả tâm trí của khách hàng.

"Hired by the world''s leading brands to find out what makes their customers tick, Martin Lindstrom spends 300 nights a year overseas, closely observing people in their homes. His goal: to uncover their hidden desires and turn them into breakthrough products for the world''s leading brands. In a world besotted by the power of Big Data, he works like a modern-day Sherlock Holmes, accumulating small clues to help solve a stunningly diverse array of challenges. In Switzerland, a stuffed teddy bear in a teenage girl''s bedroom helped revolutionize 1,000 stores, spread across twenty countries, for one of Europe''s largest fashion retailers. In Dubai, a bracelet strung with pearls helped Jenny Craig offset its declining membership in the United States and increase loyalty by 159 percent in only a year. And in China, the look of a car dashboard led to the design of the Roomba vacuum - a great American success story. How? Lindstrom connects the dots in this globetrotting narrative that will fascinate not only marketers and brand managers, but anyone interested in the infinite variations of human behavior. The Desire Hunter combines armchair travel with forensic psychology into an interlocking series of international clue-gathering detective stories. It presents a rare behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to create global brands; and along the way, reveals surprising and counter-intuitive truths about what connects us all as humans"--