<p>For more than half a century, marketers have bombarded customers with more and more choices in products and services. What is the result? Unprecedented anxiety. Our mental circuit breakers are on overload. In fact, pioneering brand strategists Steven M. Cristol and Peter Sealey assert that we have reached our manageable threshold for making decisions -- and a watershed in product proliferation. In this pathbreaking book, the authors argue with compelling evidence that the next generation of marketing successes will belong to those brands that simplify customers' lives or businesses in ways that are inextricably tied to brand and product positioning. They contend that if a brand is not reducing customer stress, it is creating it -- and it is vulnerable to losing market share to more customer-empathetic competitors. Writing especially for product or brand managers who are struggling to simplify their portfolios, Cristol and Sealey have created a breakthrough framework that is itself a lesson in simplicity.After presenting two essential guideposts for managers to assess where their brand sits on the stress spectrum, the authors turn to the heart of Simplicity Marketing -- the 4 R's of simplification: Replace, Repackage, Reposition, and Replenish. Using scores of real-world company examples, Cristol and Sealey show how each of the 4 R's interacts with the others in powerful ways to relieve customer stress and how these strategies may be executed individually or in combination to build brand loyalty.Here for the first time are ten specific strategies to relieve customer stress through consolidating, aggregating, or integrating products and services, repositioning brands for more relevance to stress reduction, and decluttering customers' decision-making requirements. The final pages of this brilliant manifesto for a simplicity revolution provide a guide to managing simplicity strategies, leveraging information technology to simplify rather than complicate customers' lives, and integrating all the tools in the book into an executional blueprint.</p>

Simplicity Marketing: End Brand Complexity, Clutter, and Confusion

Business & Money

Cristol, Steven M.

Sealey, Peter

Marketing & Sales

Free Press

Essentials of Media Planning: A Marketing Viewpoint

Barban, Arnold M.

Ntc Business Books

In six concise, highly readable chapters, "Essentials of Media Planning" explains the key elements behind every successful media program. With an emphasis on the role of media planning in marketing decision making, this practical, hands-on guide is the first step towards structuring a complete and workable media plan for any product or service. New to This Edition Actual media plans by leading agencies for top new consumer and business-to-business products--Levi Dockers, Sun Microsystems, and Samsonite Luggage An illustrated analysis of the media decision-making process The enhanced role of database marketing in media planning to reach individual consumers with targeted messages Expanded coverage of market segmentation devices, including new VALS 2 and SMRB data Up-to-date media sources and statistics Critical evaluation of newly developed online media selection services, including SMRB's CHOICES and Telmar's "MicroNetwork N3P" Authoritative and easy-to-use, "Essentials of Media Planning" is a "real-world," back-to-basics guide for every media specialist, advertiser, marketer, and media student.

Kopec, Frank J.

NTC Pub. Group

<p>In six concise, highly readable chapters, Essentials of Media Planning explains the key elements behind every successful media program. With an emphasis on the role of media planning in marketing decision making, this practical, hands-on guide is the first step towards structuring a complete and workable media plan for any product or service. New to This Edition Actual media plans by leading agencies for top new consumer and business-to-business products--Levi Dockers, Sun Microsystems, and Samsonite Luggage An illustrated analysis of the media decision-making process The enhanced role of database marketing in media planning to reach individual consumers with targeted messages Expanded coverage of market segmentation devices, including new VALS 2 and SMRB data Up-to-date media sources and statistics Critical evaluation of newly developed online media selection services, including SMRB's CHOICES and Telmar's MicroNetwork N3P Authoritative and easy-to-use, Essentials of Media Planning is a "real-world," back-to-basics guide for every media specialist, advertiser, marketer, and media student.</p>

Essentials of Media Planning

For more than half a century, marketers have bombarded customers with more and more choices in products and services. What is the result? Unprecedented anxiety. Our mental circuit breakers are on overload. In fact, pioneering brand strategists Steven M. Cristol and Peter Sealey assert that we have reached our manageable threshold for making decisions -- and a watershed in product proliferation. In this pathbreaking book, the authors argue with compelling evidence that the next generation of marketing successes will belong to those brands that simplify customers' lives or businesses in ways that are inextricably tied to brand and product positioning. They contend that if a brand is not reducing customer stress, it is creating it -- and it is vulnerable to losing market share to more customer-empathetic competitors. Writing especially for product or brand managers who are struggling to simplify their portfolios, Cristol and Sealey have created a breakthrough framework that is itself a lesson in simplicity. After presenting two essential guideposts for managers to assess where their brand sits on the stress spectrum, the authors turn to the heart of Simplicity Marketing -- the 4 R's of simplification: Replace, Repackage, Reposition, and Replenish. Using scores of real-world company examples, Cristol and Sealey show how each of the 4 R's interacts with the others in powerful ways to relieve customer stress and how these strategies may be executed individually or in combination to build brand loyalty. Here for the first time are ten specific strategies to relieve customer stress through consolidating, aggregating, or integrating products and services, repositioning brands for more relevance to stress reduction, and decluttering customers' decision-making requirements. The final pages of this brilliant manifesto for a simplicity revolution provide a guide to managing simplicity strategies, leveraging information technology to simplify rather than complicate customers' lives, and integrating all the tools in the book into an executional blueprint.

Management & Leadership

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Simplicity Marketing: End Brand Complexity, Clutter, and Confusion

Essentials of Media Planning: A Marketing Viewpoint

Essentials of Media Planning: A Marketing Viewpoint

Essentials of Media Planning

Simplicity Marketing: End Brand Complexity, Clutter, and Confusion