How to turn online visitors into enthusiastic purchasers

Dares business owners to start stripping - losing their scripted messages, coming out from behind their logos, and revealing some reality to increase their social media impact and finally start seeing results. The author delivers a new answer to every business owner's social media question - how can I make social media work for me?

Everything needed to turn Twitter into a game-changer, driving the conversations and buzz to your small business

Looking at consumption from the child's perspective this book differs from the competition by uncovering what being a consumer means to the children themselves - from their perspective - giving them a voice in the debate

Taking a rounded view of the debates that have emerged around copyright in the digital age, this book looks across a broad range of industries to consider the issues of media power and policy.

Understanding the Consumer brings together marketing theory and practice in a truly consumer-centric approach. It challenges the lip service usually paid to this concept and demonstrates that a fundamental understanding of the consumer is critical to the future of effective marketing. Drawing on cutting-edge developments in the literature it reconceptualizes how consumers respond and act in the marketplace with particular attention to: relationships with suppliers, products and brands; their innovative, creative and resistant behaviour; the complexity and unpredictability of their consumption behaviour; and their increasing need to get closer to production. The book challenges existing functionally driven marketing thinking and shows how a more holistic approach to the marketplace will drive better theory and practice.

Presents a cutting edge, strategic framework to help marketers capably and confidently integrate artificial intelligence into unparalleled marketing practice.

Packed full of lively debate and anecdotes, this title covers topics marketing students are familiar with, such as key thinkers and concepts. It looks at areas such as the development of marketing as a discipline and as an academic subject, and raises arguments that students haven't heard about in their lectures.

Looking beyond the usual colonial narrative of the subject, Amanda Earley encourages the reader to think reflectively and critically about overlooked aspects of International Marketing such as power relations, history, ethics, culture and politics.

Why are companies still trying to build products for the masses? Why are we still acting like the masses even exist? This book answers this question.

Explores the process of branding, and shares insights that can be applied to practical challenges. Outlining the components of branding (positioning, storytelling, design, price, and relationships), what it can be applied to, and what it can achieve, this work explains what makes them work, why they matter, and what can be learnt from them.

Is there a method to the madness when it comes to shopping? Hailed by the "San Francisco Chronicle" as "a Sherlock Holmes for retailers," author and CEO Underhill answers with a definitive "yes" in this witty, eye-opening report on the nation's ever-evolving consumer culture.

Jim Pooler explores the emotions of shopping in today's society. What does it mean for consumers, retailers, marketers? He seeks the answers to paradoxes of behaviour and explanations for the rituals of acquisition.

The Retail Distribution Review (RDR) is a reality. 2013 will herald a new dawn for the retail financial services industry. This book delves deep into the RDR ramifications for both the industry and its clients and works through the major issues to answer the key questions.