EVEolution: The Eight Truths of Marketing to Women - Softcover

Faith Popcorn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007107153 ISBN 13: 9780007107155

Publisher: HarperCollins Business, 2001

Synopsis

If men and women are different, why do we market to them the same way? Today, women make 80 percent of all purchasing decisions. The time has come, says Faith Popcorn, author of The Popcorn Report and Clicking, two bestselling books on consumer trends, for businesspeople everywhere to realize that you cant succeed in business without successfully marketing to women. Whether you make cornflakes or concrete, pillows or pixels, women should be your chief target. Popcorns prediction: within a decade, the companies that do the best job of marketing to women will dominate every significant product and service category. Popcorn calls this EVEolutiona trend that will redefine the way companies create profitable and lasting relationships with their key consumerswomen. Using business case studies, cultural signals, statistical data, and in-depth interviews with CEOs, entrepreneurs, and consumers, Popcorn presents the eight essential truths about marketing to women.

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Review:

Faith Popcorn isn't shy about telling you who she is or what she can share with you: "I am a futurist. A trend-spotter. A cultural detective." Nor does she beat around the bush in relaying the importance of her theory: "Understanding EVEolution and implementing it ... means the difference between building healthy brands and profitable relationships with women ... or building a flimsy, fluffy foundation with no future." Her vision is large and her passion is palpable, and what she offers in EVEolution is an effective way to know and tap into the increasingly important and lucrative female market.

After establishing men and women are biologically and "shop-ologically" different, Popcorn delivers her central message--that there's a huge difference between a customer who buys your brand and one who joins it. The former is good for the moment, while the latter is good for life. Popcorn believes attracting and engaging the lifelong customer requires rethinking traditional marketing methods using her eight "truths" of marketing to women. These include making your brand a contributing and worthwhile member of the community you create; acknowledging that women lead multiple lives simultaneously--marketing to only one at a time is limiting for you and annoying for them; and remembering to be subtle--women think laterally and notice things peripherally. These and the five other "EVEolutionary" truths are followed by dozens of companies, most of which have gotten the point and are reaping the rewards of an effective brand.

Popcorn definitely has her finger on the pulse (or the popper), though this kind of slick analysis of our too-fast-paced modern age can sometimes get a little tiresome--like an extended session of navel gazing. But someone has to do it, and Popcorn's ability to spot the trends and spout the zeitgeist gives her a healthy leg up on the nonsavvy marketers out there. If you're one of them--and don't have a clue about the complexities of women and how to market to them--read this book. Popcorn will get you into shape in no time. --S. Ketchum

About the Author:

Faith Popcorn is an acknowledged top forecaster of consumer trends, and a key advisor to many Fortune 500 companies. She is the founder of Faith Popcorn's BrainReserve, a New York-based marketing consultancy whose clients include Bell Atlantic, BMW, Cigna, GE Capital, Hasbro, IBM, Lipton, McDonald's, Nabisco, and Procter & Gamble. She is also the author of the national bestseller The Popcorn Report and co-author of the national bestseller Clicking. An internationally known speaker on consumer trends, Popcorn lives in New York City and Wainscott, NY, with her daughter, g.g.

Lys Marigold was BrainReserve's Creative Director for twelve years and is the mother of five-year-old Sky Qi. She co-created The Popcorn Report and co-authored Clicking. When she's not winging the globe from Petra, Jordan, to Beirut, Lebanon, to Istanbul, Turkey, to Shanghai, China, fulfilling her passion for archaeology and travel, she resides in East Hampton, NY, and occasionally New York City. She's currently at work on three books: Ancient Games, The Art of Change, and The Homelife of Slugs.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Business
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0007107153
• ISBN 13: 9780007107155
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 287