Descripción
Libro Buy-Ology. Truth and Lies About why we buy (libro en Inglés). Sinopsis libro, reseña libro. How much do we know about why we buy? What truly influences our decisions in today’s message-cluttered world? An eye-grabbing advertisement, a catchy slogan, an infectious jingle? Or do our buying decisions take place below the surface, so deep within our subconscious minds, we’re barely aware of them?In BUYOLOGY, Lindstrom, who was voted one of Time Magazine’s most influential people of 2009, presents the astonishing findings from his groundbreaking, three-year, seven-million-dollar neuromarketing study, a cutting-edge experiment that peered inside the brains of 2,000 volunteers from all around the world as they encountered various ads, logos, commercials, brands, and products. His startling results shatter much of what we have long believed about what seduces our interest and drives us to buy. Among the questions he explores:Does sex actually sell? To what extent do people in skimpy clothing and suggestive poses persuade us to buy products? Despite government bans, does subliminal advertising still surround us – from bars to highway billboards to supermarket shelves? Can «Cool» brands, like iPods, trigger our mating instincts? Can other senses – smell, touch, and sound – be so powerful as to physically arouse us when we see a product? Do companies copy from the world of religion and create rituals – like drinking a Corona with a lime – to capture our hard-earned dollars? Filled with entertaining inside stories about how we respond to such well-known brands as Marlboro, Nokia, Calvin Klein, Ford, and American Idol, BUYOLOGY is a fascinating and shocking journey into the mind of today’s consumer that will captivate anyone who’s been seduced – or turned off – by marketers’ relentless attempts to win our loyalty, our money, and our minds. Libro Buy-Ology. Truth and Lies About why we buy (libro en Inglés).
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What did I think (that teasing little prompt to write a review)? Lindstrom’s book reads more like a piece of fiction!
If you can wade through the overblown prose (read author’s sense of self-importance, borrowed deux ex machina and cliff-hanger endings to various chapters, all of which fizzle out along the way), Lindstrom actually has some sound advice for consumers!
If you value your purchasing sovereignty, read this book (and borrow it from the library, so as to avoid ‘buying’ into Lindstrom’s hype). Marketeers are already implementing some of the ideas in this book, rightly or wrongly (and not considering the ethics and the funding of the research Lindstrom undertook).
How does a brand smell? Taste? Feel? Look like? Sound? And specifically, given the demographic in which you, as the customer, most likely fit, which representation of these characterisics should a brand/product have in order to engage your ‘impulse buy’ mechanism?
Ultimately, if you can determine what it is that drives you to purchase something, you’re better protected against mindless consumerism. It might have not been the point Lindstrom wanted to make, but that’s certainly the message I took from the book. Buyer beware.