Too Busy to Shop: Marketing to Multi-Minding Women

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Too Busy to Shop: Marketing to Multi-Minding Women Pub. Date: 3/30/2009 Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated

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Research indicates that most women do it at least ten times every five minutes. What is it? Multi-minding—mentally juggling a complex mix of family, career, and self-care decisions at any given moment, with little time for commercial messages to seep into the mix. How do marketers reach women, who still make 85% of all consumer purchasing decisions? This book, based on research, interviews, and Kelley Skoloda's twenty years of leading-edge work in brand marketing with major clients, explains how to connect with multi-minding women, gain their trust, and tap into their purchasing power.

Multi-minding is a cultural phenomenon that is here to stay. A multi-minding woman, even if she appears to be relaxing in front of a late-night television show, reading a magazine in the pediatrician's office, or tackling a complicated analytic study at work, is at the same time thinking about and preparing for the other dimensions of her life. She's weighing the benefits of changing her 401k plan, plotting out her organic vegetable garden, ticking off birthday-party logistics, and longing for a neck massage. That's why one study shows women feel they are packing 38 hours of activity into a 24-hour period. But studies also show that most women feel marketers are ignoring their needs. That's a big mistake considering women spend $3.3 trillion annually on consumer products. Too Busy to Shop explains what marketers need to know about multi-minding—a word coined by Skoloda and Ketchum—and its implications for companies seeking to speak to women buyers. Besides theory and insight, readers get how-tos and action items designed to ensure women view their brands favorably and hear the marketing message. The book also contains insiders' views of some of the most successful marketing-to-women campaigns of recent times. In short, Too Busy to Shop helps marketers understand multi-minding in depth—an essential task if they want to reach today's overloaded female consumer.

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Publishers Weekly

If you still consider women a marketing "niche segment," this book by brand expert Skoloda is a must-read. The author reveals that women not only "control $3.3 trillion in consumer spending," but also make more than 80% of household purchase decisions and increasingly control this country's wealth. She asserts that women are far beyond multitasking-they actually "multi-mind": simultaneously juggle home, family, work, social and financial obligations. In order to reach them, advertisers need to change their tactics, as her research illustrates that these busy women are immune to conventional marketing methods (they routinely Tivo through commercials and are inconvenienced rather than drawn in by new product displays). She presents studies that show women increasingly get shopping advice from friends and family, make purchasing decisions before entering stores and are drawn by "cause connectivity," a company's involvement in issues that are meaningful to them. While occasionally repetitive and geared more toward professional marketers than general readers, this book offers a treasure trove of timely insights on how to better understand and engage women consumers. (Mar.)

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780313354878
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/30/2009
Pages: 200
Sales rank: 1,139,602
Product dimensions: 6.30 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

KELLEY MURRAY SKOLODA, partner/director of Ketchum's Global Brand Marketing Practice, is the recognized authority on marketing to women. In her career with Ketchum, she has counseled dozens of Fortune 500 companies and blue-chip brands. Skoloda's work has been featured in BusinessWeek online, BrandWeek magazine, CNNMoney.com, Fast Company, Today's Chicago Woman, The Washington Post, PRWeek magazine, and others.

Foreword by Geraldine Laybourne

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Staggering Stats: Buying Power of the Female Consumer

Chapter 2: She's the Apple of Many Eyes: Women Buyers Getting More Attention from Marketers

Chapter 3: What's Wrong? Why Current Marketing Efforts Are Not Working

Chapter 4: Why Are We So Hard to Reach? The Challenge of Marketing to Women 25 to 54

Chapter 5: Remaking the Clock: Women and the 38-Hour Day

Chapter 6: Yes, I Multi-Mind: New Ways to Understand and Reach

"Multi-Minding" Audiences

Chapter 7: Before Women Go Shopping, They CROP: The CRedible Opinions Shortcut

Chapter 8: The Keys to Connecting with "Multi-Minding" Women

Chapter 9: The Better Way: A New Approach to Reach Female Consumers

Chapter 10: What Really Matters? Credibility

Chapter 11: Time Is of the Essence: "Quick-Connect" Messages

Chapter 12: The 360-degree "E-Surround" Method to Reach Women

Chapter 13: She's Looking for a Commitment: Consistent Confirmation

Chapter 14: What Does the Future Hold? Multi-Minders Becoming Co-Brand Managers

Bibliography

About the Interviewees

About the Author

Notes

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