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Consumer: somebody who uses a product or service. A consumer may not be the purchaser of a product or service and should be distinguished from a customer, who is the person...; Consumer definition on BNET »

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Rediscovering Market Segmentation: Fifty-nine percent of recently surveyed companies executed a major market-segmentation initiative in the previous two years. Yet only 14% derived real value from the exercise. What's wrong with market segmentation? Segmentation typically focuses on consumer...; Tags: Marketing Research, Branding, Customer, Segment, Brand, Market-segmentation, Segmentation, Consumer, Marketing, Harvard Business Review, In Brief, Daniel Yankelovich, David Meer, Strategy, Market Segmentation; Articles 2008-05-06
What Is Behavioral Targeting?: Better, more sophisticated software analytic tools are allowing Web advertisers to precisely target ads to their most coveted consumers How It Works ...; Tags: Advertising, IP Address, Cookies, Web Marketing, Behavioral Targeting, Lori Deschene, Ad Networks, BNET Briefing, PepsiCo, TripAdvisor, Ford Motor Co., Procter & Gamble Co., Sony Corp., FAO Schwarz, Consumer, Web, Advertisement, Network, Web Site, Advertiser, Ad Network; Articles 2008-05-01
Green Advertising: Consumers Notice It, But Distrust It: The Find: Most consumers recall green advertising claims but many don't trust or understand them. The Source: The "2008 Green Gap Survey," conducted by Cone LLC and The Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship and a recent survey from Burst Media. The Takeaway: When...; Tags: Consumer, Jessica Stillman, Advertisement; Blog posts 2008-04-28
Three Reasons Why Trust Matters Online: Gone are the days that a local hardware store built its foundations upon local trust by word of mouth. No longer do you have to know the first name of your clients or take them out for a game of golf. Today, transactions are done online -- sometimes even without...; Tags: Consumer, Advertisement, Social Bookmarking, Microsoft Word, Marketing Research, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Marketing, Jonathan Haeber; Blog posts 2008-03-03
Stopwatch Marketing: Worth Some Time: Iâ€™ve started Stopwatch Marketing, a look at how to get the attention of consumers when theyâ€™re actually in the market to buy something. The book is timely, because the combination of tight credit and recession or fear of such should dampen buying here, so catching consumers in those reduced windows...; Tags: Michael Fitzgerald, Marketing, Marketing Research, Consumption, Consumer; Blog posts 2008-02-15

HBR IdeaCast: Don't Bother with the Green Consumer: Companies that try to go both green and mainstream could be setting themselves up for failure. Green consumers want to solve the planet's needs before their own, but mainstream consumers care more about their personal needs. Steve Bishop explains how consumer behavior actually has a bigger impact than product design,...; Tags: Product Marketing, Consumer, Product Design, Marketing, BNET staff; Blog posts 2008-02-11
Top 10 Misconceptions about Doing Business in China: Think you know the basics of the business relationship between China and the U.S.? From safety recalls to the trade imbalance, issues surrounding the two countries' business dealings have been in the news a lot lately. Nonetheless, the Kiplinger Business Resource Center has an eye-opening article dispelling ten common misconceptions...; Tags: Finance, Financial Accounting, Investment, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), China, U.S., Consumer, Jessica Stillman; Blog posts 2007-12-14
If Brands Are Built Over Years, Why Are They Managed Over Quarters: The Idea in Brief ...; Tags: Davenport Co., Consumer, Brand, Carl F. Mela, In Brief, Leonard M. Lodish, Marketing Research, Branding, Sales Strategy, Harvard Business Review, Marketing, Brand Management, Sales; Articles 2007-12-11
Cybersquatting's Impact: Picture a consumer typing in a domain name that intends to reach you. Instead, the consumer slips up in typing the address and ends up with a goody bag full of spyware, viruses, and trojan horses on their computer. That hypothetical occurrence is far more common than you may think....; Tags: Business Operations, Consumer, Cybersquatting, Domain Name, Domain Names, Intellectual Property, Internet, Jonathan Haeber, Research & Development, Security, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms; Blog posts 2007-11-21
Roger Fishman: Reaching Consumers in the Digital World: How do you help the corporation you work for foster new ideas? Quit. Roger Fishman worked some very big jobs at some very big companies before founding The Zizo Group. Now, he helps huge corporations such as Procter & Gamble be more agile and adaptive to consumers' needs in a...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Marketing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, The Zizo Group, niche marketing, Roger Fishman, P&G, streamlining, outsourcing, strategy, brand building, Consumer, Branding, Corporation; Videos 2007-10-25
Perfectionists Despair: Digital World "Always in Beta": Today we mentioned that Craigslist CEO, Jim Buckmaster, will be answering questions on the always engaging Freakonomics blog. One of the principles of his management philosophy: Put speed over perfection: â€œGet something out there. Do it, even if it isnâ€™t perfect.â€ Buckmaster is...; Tags: Consumer, Jessica Stillman, Management, Strategy, Leadership, Beta, Innovation; Blog posts 2007-10-03
"Sale-over-sale" or Just "Sale"?: Will a consumer respond best to a price cut on a previous markdown, or is a single albeit larger price cut going to make the sale? According to findings by the Journal of Consumer Research, a sale-over-sale is the best bet, even when it nets less savings for the consumer...; Tags: Consumer, Sale, Jonathan Haeber; Blog posts 2007-09-19
Are Your Customers Consumers or Citizens?: Last week Consumerist.com conducted a poll of its readers asking whether they thought of themselves first and foremost as consumers or citizens. It wasn't exactly scientific, but nearly 70% of people responded that they thought of themselves as citizens first. Our somewhat schizophrenic nature as American citizen/...; Tags: Corporate Social Responsibility, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Citizen, Consumer, Corporate Law, Leadership, Management, Business Operations, Jessica Stillman, Business Ethics; Blog posts 2007-09-14
Using Your Web Site to Gather Consumer Data: If your business has a Web site, you can collect very useful data on consumers—either directly, by asking them for information, or indirectly, by analyzing their behavior while on your site. If you treat consumers fairly, respect their privacy, and analyze the resulting data properly, you can use your findings...; Tags: consumer, data, Web site, Web site development, Internet; Articles 2007-04-20
Rent-A-Center Beats Wal-Mart to Financial Services, Provides Warning: Rent-A-Center has been getting a boost in the recession, seeing higher comparable store sales as consumers turn to it for furniture, appliances and electronics, but it has been tripped up a bit by an expansion into financial services, which might be an object lesson for Wal-Mart as it looks for...; Tags: Consumer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Financial Service, Retail Company, Income, Rent-A-Center, Income Consumer, Financial Planning, Retail, Financial Services, Sales Strategy, Personal Finance, Finance, Sales, Mike Duff; Blog posts 2009-02-19
Wal-Mart's Scott Says Recession Remaking Consumers: Speaking at the National Retail Federation convention in New York today, Lee Scott, outgoing Wal-Mart ceo, said the current recession is fundamentally changing consumers in the United States. Among his comments about the state of retailing and the economy, Scott said younger consumers particularly are becoming more...; Tags: Consumer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Recession, Credit Card, Sales Channel, Retail, Financial Services, Mortgages, Sales, Finance, Capital Structures, Mike Duff; Blog posts 2009-01-12
Outlook is Cloudy, for Diesels in U.S. Market: Gas prices have fallen around 60 percent since edging past $4 per gallon last summer. Diesel fuel has fallen, too, but not as much, from a peak of about $4.72 per gallon. As a result, U.S. demand for diesels could stay tiny. by Jim Henry; Tags: Consumer, U.S., Microsoft Outlook, Automobile Company, Gasoline, Diesels, American Consumer, Manufacturing, Jim Henry; Blog posts 2008-12-29
Holiday Relief May Emerge as Mirage: Chicken Little might be right this time. Every year, after the National Retail Federation makes its annual prediction about holiday season sales, which this year were pegged to gain about 2%, some one or more statistics alarm observers who immediately predict that the sky is falling on...; Tags: Consumer, NPD Group Inc., Retail Company, NRF, Holiday Sale, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Retail, Sales, Mike Duff; Blog posts 2008-12-24
Frugal Consumers Could Stay that Way: There's no surprise in the results of an analysis by Rabobank of the consumer food economy: people worldwide have abruptly changed their spending patterns and are increasingly looking for bargains and avoiding extravagance. Interestingly, though, Rabobanks, a Dutch agricultural lender, says that even after the recession...; Tags: Consumer, Food, Analysis, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Dan Mitchell; Blog posts 2008-12-22
Look Again at Shopping Trends, say UK Retail Leaders: The UK retail sector may be in dire straits at the moment, but the great and the good put on a brave face at this year's Retail Week Conference. In his keynote, Sainsburyâ€™s chief executive Justin King insisted consumers are not purely gong for the cheapest option on...; Tags: Consumer, Retail Company, Leader, U.K., Own-brand Range, Retail, Food & Beverage, Leadership, Manufacturing, Management, Julian Goldsmith; Blog posts 2009-03-18