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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817165003321

Autore

Trout Jack

Titolo

In search of the obvious : the antidote for today's marketing mess / / Jack Trout

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley & Sons, c2008

ISBN

1-282-00371-2

9786612003714

0-470-39930-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 p.)

Classificazione

85.40

Disciplina

658.8

Soggetti

Marketing

Advertising - Brand name products

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-197) and index.

Nota di contenuto

In Search of the Obvious: The Antidote for Today's Marketing Mess; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Chapter 1: In Search of the Obvious; Chapter 2: What Gets in the Way of the Obvious; Chapter 3: The Internet Can Be an Obvious Problem; Chapter 4: Advertising People Can Be an Obvious Problem; Chapter 5: Marketing People Can Be an Obvious Problem; Chapter 6: An Obvious Look at the Marketing Process; Chapter 7: Some Help in That Search for the Obvious; Chapter 8: You Must Be Aware of Some Obvious Ground Rules; Chapter 9: Some Observations about Obvious Marketing Problems

Chapter 10: The Future Is Never ObviousEPILOGUE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first book that states the obvious: Marketing is a mess. Marketing guru Jack Trout intends to make a lot of people, who made the mess, very uncomfortable: Advertisers are criticized as people who look for the creative and edgy, not the obvious. They will not be happy. Marketing people are criticized for getting hopelessly entangled in corporate egos and complicated projects. They will not be happy. Research people are criticized for generating more confusion than clarity. They will not be happy. Some big companies are criticized for their ill-fated marketing programs or lac