"While many consumers profess a desire to help end climate change by engaging in more sustainable behaviors, consumer behavior experts note the "say-do" gap between expressed intention and behavior. How do we explain this? What, if anything, can consumers be encouraged to do to …
"While many consumers profess a desire to help end climate change by engaging in more sustainable behaviors, consumer behavior experts note the "say-do" gap between expressed intention and behavior. How do we explain this? What, if anything, can consumers be encouraged to do to …
"While many consumers profess a desire to help end climate change by engaging in more sustainable behaviors, consumer behavior experts note the "say-do" gap between expressed intention and behavior. How do we explain this? What, if anything, can consumers be encouraged to do to …
"While many consumers profess a desire to help end climate change by engaging in more sustainable behaviors, consumer behavior experts note the "say-do" gap between expressed intention and behavior. How do we explain this? What, if anything, can consumers be encouraged to do to …
Despite the resources spent on market research, nearly 80 percent of new offerings fail. The pattern is predictable: customers say they want something, companies create it, and once it's available, customers don't buy it. Why? Is it because customers just don't know what they wa…
This is a practical synthesis of the cognitive sciences. Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, sociology & linguistics, Zaltman offers a methodology for understanding how customers think. He demonstrates research tools, such as metaphor elicitation & response latency.
Despite the time and money spent on market research, 60% to 80% of new offerings fail. Why do consumers often say one thing to marketers--yet act differently in the market? Industry innovator Gerald Zaltman argues that the answer lies in how the mind works. When it comes to bu…
Illustrates how leading companies are "mining the unconscious" with remarkable results, and introduces innovative tools and techniques that help marketers.
For too long marketers have been asking the wrong question. If consumers make decisions unconsciously, why do we persist in asking them directly through traditional marketing research why they do what they do? They simply can't tell us because they don't really know. Before mark…