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Index
Praise for The New Chameleons
The New Chameleons
Contents
List of figures and tables
About the author
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Endnotes
01 The evolution of marketing categories
Marketing categories are cultural categories
Gain insights by studying consumer chameleons in their real-world habitats
Understanding and marketing to the new consumer
Create new products that defy conventional categories
Endnotes
02 Consumers who defy demographic labels
Do familiar demographic market segments still matter?
Haves vs. have nots
Young vs. old
My race/ethnicity vs. whatever you are
Endnotes
03 Consumers who defy traditional purchasing behavior
How we buy: linear decision making
How we buy today: nonlinear decision making
The new chameleon buys by committee
Social shopping creates the hive mind
Endnotes
04 Consumers who defy the bricks vs. clicks debate
The always-on digital native
Reaching the online/offline consumer in digital environments
Reaching the online/offline consumer in physical environments
Endnotes
05 Consumers who defy buyers vs. sellers
A peek under the kimono: use your consumers as co-creators
How to engage with chameleons who produce as well as consume
Retailers vs. shoppers
Owning vs. leasing
Endnotes
06 Consumers who defy traditional sex roles and gender stereotypes
Sex roles and gender identity are fluid
How men are evolving beyond stereotypical male
How women are evolving beyond stereotypical female
Appearance matters for all genders
Evolving gender roles create new consumer markets
Endnotes
07 Consumers who defy the separation of brand and identity
Why brands really matter
We buy what we are
Sacred vs. profane consumption
Improving the brand experience
We are what we buy
Endnotes
08 Consumers who defy boundaries of traditional media
Three media buckets: paid, owned, and earned
Are marketers poisoning the well? Separating fact from marketing fiction
Manage for media anarchy (it’s where your chameleons live)
Endnotes
09 A fond farewell to dichotomies we love
The seven (obsolete) dichotomies
Let’s add two more disappearing dichotomies to the list
Consumers who defy humans vs. computers
Consumers who defy place-based work vs. play
Now, feed your chameleons!
Endnotes
Index
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