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Book details for Don't Think Pink: What Really Makes Women Buy -- and How to Increase Your Share of This Crucial Market Buy Don't Think Pink: What Really Makes Women Buy -- and How to Increase Your Share of This Crucial Market
Don't Think Pink: What Really Makes Women Buy -- and How to Increase Your Share of This Crucial Market
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Lisa Johnson Andrea Learned

Marketing to Women

Sales rank 125,337 Customers rating (based on 9 reviews)
Don't Think Pink: What Really Makes Women Buy -- and How to Increase Your Share of This Crucial Market

Brief description of Don't Think Pink: What Really Makes Women Buy -- and How to Increase Your Share of This Crucial Market

Purchases by women now total trillions of dollars annually, accounting for 85% of all consumer expenditures. So, reaching women should be considered the number one priority for most businesses.

Don't Think Pink will help marketers see their brands through a woman's eyes, unlocking the secrets to developing products, services, and marketing strategies that truly resonate with female buyers.

Based on painstaking research into women's experiences and perceptions, Don't Think Pink reveals:

* How generational history, culture, life stages, and daily realities influence a woman's buying mind * How the manner in which women buy is more critical than what's being sold * How listening to women earlier and more often leads to more powerful strategies * How to use the Internet and other technology -- both in market research and during the buying process -- to gain a greater understanding of female consumers * How to gain a bigger share of the awesome purchasing power of women

There's no question that women buy. Don't Think Pinkexplains what drives their buying decisions, and how businesses can capitalize on this enormous (and evergreen) market.

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PublisherAMACOM
Release date06/2004
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EditionHardcover
List price$23
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Websitehttp://www.reachwomen.com/book.php
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Jack Covert Selects: Don't Think Pink: Written with style and wit, don't think it's only for girls. It's for everyone who wants to sell something to women and understand the way they think (@ 800ceoread.com)

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Comments by amazon customers about Don't Think Pink: What Really Makes Women Buy -- and How to Increase Your Share of This Crucial Market

Great book that helps one think...
It not only encourages thinking like a woman, but also thinking like your customer does when she... or he... makes the purchase decision.


Bland book with some useful information
I started reading this book and was bored out of my skull fro about 40 pages. I thought it was shallow and no more informative than a magazine article. I'm still not sure the material in here is book-worthy, but I guess that's true of a lot of business books - thin premises bulked up for publishing. Not that it's bad or I didn't learn anything. Actually I resented my boredom so I went back and started "genius reading" it - a speed-reading method. In this way I was able to tear through it fairly quickly and extract some useful nuggets - perhaps affirming stuff I already had guessed at but useful nevertheless. I don't read a lot of market research books - so compared to others perhaps this one is a star. I get the feeling that this book was really written so junior executives could use it as ammunition in the boardroom to get their ideas through to a management with antiquated notions of women's buying behavior. The treatment of generational distinctions was helpful... generation X (I'm part of it) and generation Y (the kids today) are both comfortable with technology but the younger generation is expects a crazy level of catering to their tastes and whims... they are accustomed to instant gratification in a way no group of people aside from the extremely wealthy ever has been. That's an insight worth keeping - and it goes across gender boundaries so it applies to young men as well.

Excellent Perspective for All Marketers
It is an honor to review this book from a male's perspective. In my opinion it's more important for men to read, hear and understand these distinctions. The marketplace as explained in Don't Think Pink is what most marketers need to consider. I found it helpful in relating our products to women and men after the first read. What "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" did for the conversations in personal relationships "Don't Think Pink" does for business language. I highly recommend this book for anyone in sales, marketing, product development, advertising and management in any organization that is attempting to connect with the primary buyers. PS. I first read the book about 18 months ago and had my fair share of revelations and just read it again and it surprised me how much more I took away. I'll let you know what I think of their next book guys.

Solid Advice on All Types of Women Shoppers
This book provides a thorough analysis of women shoppers, including those of all ethnic, age, geographic, educational, and socio-economic groups and marital statuses. It gives solid, workable advice on how to attract today's saavy, busy, informed, educated, female customers. It also tells how to help others in the company to overcome outdated, stereotypical thinking about female consumers. I may use this book along with Why We Buy as a text in my visual merchandising course.

Delightful language
Don't Think Pink is indeed insightful as well as approachable in style. I myself gained a deeper appreciation for corporate lingo, a small selection of words which many people will say has been drained of real meaning. Leverage, actionable, synergies, proactive, relatable, networking, and resonate are all words deserving of more attention, especially from people like me who are not primarily interested in marketing. I did note that it took until page 199 for the authors to actually use "paradigm shift," and I was titillated thoroughly when I read it. "Empower" and its variants were used almost once every page, and this book will indeed empower not only you as a marketer, but the women you will inveigle, in whatever roles they fill. This book was packed with useful information, and well-formatted. With examples drawn from many industries, it is sure to strike a chord with a good portion of its readers. The references at the back were largely web sites, which should facilitate your filling out your own background in this topic. In fact, if you don't give a hoot about marketing strategies, you should still read it. If you're looking at this page, it must interest you in some manner, and I say the book is well worth the price. Go for it, ladies!



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