Generation Ageless—an authoritative and eye-opening look at the past, present, and future of Baby Boomers
Think Baby Boomers are all alike? Think again. This dynamic generation is nearing the traditional age of retirement, but is in no mood to slow down. Learn how to market, sell to, do business with, or just understand this remarkable generation, from Yankelovich, Inc., the organization that knows them better than anyone else. 
Yankelovich actually coined the term "Baby Boomer" back in the late 1960s, when they first started collecting data on this influential generation. Now, more than thirty years later, they have the most complete information on Boomers ever assembled. And they have put it all together in this groundbreaking look at America's largest and most powerful generation. 
In Generation Ageless, Yankelovich president J. Walker Smith, Ph.D., and senior partner Ann Clurman, Boomers themselves, dig deep into what makes this generation tick. With fresh, original data and a wide-ranging look at everything about Boomers, they dissect Boomers into six major segments—Straight Arrows, Due Diligents, Maximizers, Sideliners, Diss/Contenteds, and Re-Activists—to provide new insights into the world's most talked-about generation. The results show key imperatives invaluable to anyone selling a product, service, or idea to this 78-million strong group.
Boomers are the dominant generation in America. Their values and aspirations set the tone for everyone. Advances in medicine and health mean that this youth-obsessed generation is now focused on an everlasting prime of life. They are literally middle age–less: holding onto their position at the top of the pyramid for as long as possible, and not fading away to their golden years. Today's fifty- and sixty-year-old Boomers are not eagerly anticipating lives of disengaged retirement. Instead, middle age–less Boomers expect another twenty or thirty years of impact and influence—albeit in a variety of ways reflective of a surfeit of agendas and ambitions they have yet to fulfill.

Generation Ageless: How Baby Boomers Are Changing the Way We Live Today . . . And They're Just Getting Started

Business & Money

Smith, J. Walker

Clurman, Ann S.

Marketing & Sales

Harper Business

Offers a guide to America's consumer behavior, discussing the three major consumer generations and their distinctive attitudes, lifestyles, values, experiences, tastes, and spending patterns

Rocking the Ages: The Yankelovich Report of Generational Marketing

Yankelovich Partners

Management & Leadership

HarperBusiness

You've done the research. You know your customer's income, where he lives, what he drives. But you don't know whether he prefers Bob Dylan or Alanis Morisette. Or Pepsi, or Snapple or tap water. And you don't know why. 
 Why, for that matter, are Baby Boomers acting nothing like their parents did in their fifth decade? Why does the 40-year-old of today have much more in common with her 20y-year-old self than with today's college student? 
 The hidden force at work in each of these examples and many others is generational. Generational ties link widely disparate individuals of varying education, income and life stage. And let's face it, reliable data about today's three living generations can be a vital element in a marketer's arsenal -- in some instances more important than any sort of demographic information. 
 To an astonishing degree, your generational cohort -- Mature (born 1909-1949), Boomer (born 1946-1964), or Xer (born 1965-present) -- defines who you are, what you believe and what you buy. You don't need us to tell you this; you know it instinctively. 
 For nearly 30 years, researchers at Yankelovich Partners, the world-famous research firm, have been compiling comprehensive information about consumers -- their preferences, habits and lifestyles -- mostly for the exclusive proprietary use of Yankelovich's corporate clients. 
In order to prepare this remarkable book, two leading Yankelovich analysts have mined that incredibly deep data to generate an unprecedented wealth of marketing information about the three active consumer generations: Generation X, the Boomers and the Matures. 
 Rocking the Ages provides marketers with the strategies they need to understand and target these incredibly cohesive groups, including specific data on where they live, what they earn, what they buy and what motivates them to buy. Brimming with graphs and charts -- and real-life, real-product examples of families, individuals and their buying patterns -- Rocking the Ages is the definitive guide to targeting your business's products and services to your ideal consumers. 
 Founded by Dan Yankelovich in 1958, Yankelovich Partners, the nation's leading consumer research organization, has published each year since 1971 a proprietary report on consumer behavior, The Yankelovich MONITOR, and has also provided highly specialized custom research for corporate clients, as well as public opinion research for Time (for 22 years) and Time/CNN (since 1989).

Rocking the Ages: The Yankelovich Report on Generational Marketing

International

Harper Paperbacks

Nearly 70 percent of consumers say they are interested in products that shield them from all marketing and advertising. For marketers who rely on "force-feeding" marketing messasges to their prospects and clients, that is very bad news. Their marketing productivity is going to plummet. And people now possess the tools to exert control and block intrusive messages. In this groundbreaking books the authors, leading executive s in one of hte world's leading research organizations, ouitline tomorow's blueprint for success. The model rsts on four corners of Precision, Relevance, Power, and REciprocity. ALl of this is driven by the ability to find Addressable attitudes of potential customers and speak to those attitudes with relevance, precision, power and reciprocity. The result will be the solution to the growing crisis to Marketing Productivity.

Coming to Concurrence: Addressable Attitudes and the New Model for Marketing Productivity

Wood, Craig

Clurman, Ann

Racom Communications

In no small way, our lives have been defined by work. In order to support our work ethic, we need to refresh ourselves. And, even more important, we need to find a balance between work and the rest of life.

Life Is Not Work, Work Is Not Life: Simple Reminders for Finding Balance in a 24/7 World

Business Culture

Council Oak Books

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