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Page 1: Tom Peters’ Re-Imagine! Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age La-Z-Boy/Las Vegas/06.24.2003.

Tom Peters’

Re-Imagine!Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age

La-Z-Boy/Las Vegas/06.24.2003

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Slides at …

tompeters.com

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1. All Bets Are Off.

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“Uncertainty is the only thing to be sure of.” —Anthony Muh,

head of investment in Asia, CitiGroup Asset management (FT/03.27.2003)

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“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like

irrelevance even less.” —General Eric Shinseki, Chief

of Staff, U. S. Army

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Forget>“Learn”

“The problem is never how to get new, innovative

thoughts into your mind,

but how to get the old ones out.”

Dee Hock

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2. IS/ IT/ Web … “On the Bus” or “Off the

Bus.”

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100 square feet

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Impact No. 1/ Logistics &

Distribution: Wal*Mart … Dell … Amazon.com …

Autobytel.com … FedEx … UPS … Ryder … Cisco … Etc. … Etc.

… Ad Infinitum.

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Autobytel: $400.

Wal*Mart: 13%.Source: BW(05.13.2002)

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Case: CRM

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Amen!

“The Age of the

Never Satisfied Customer”

Regis McKenna

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“CRM has, almost universally, failed

to live up to expectations.”

Butler Group (UK)

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No! No! No!

FT: “The aim [of CRM] is to make customers feel as they did in the pre-electronic age

when service was more personal.”

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CGE&Y (Paul Cole): “Pleasant

Transaction” vs. “Systemic Opportunity.” “Better job

of what we do today” vs. “Re-think overall

enterprise strategy.”

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Here We Go Again: Except It’s Real This Time!

Bank online: 24.3M (10.2002); 2X Y2000.

Wells Fargo: 1/3rd; 3.3M; 50% lower

attrition rate; 50% higher growth in balances than off-line; more likely to cross-purchase; “happier and stay

with the bank much longer.”

Source: The Wall Street Journal/10.21.2002

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3. The Heart of the Value

Added Revolution: The “Solutions

Imperative.”

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Base Case: The Sameness Trap

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“While everything may

be better, it is also increasingly the same.”

Paul Goldberger on retail, “The Sameness of Things,” The New York Times

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“The ‘surplus society’ has a surplus of

similar companies, employing

similar people, with similar educational backgrounds, coming up

with similar ideas, producing

similar things, with similar prices

and similar quality.”

Kjell Nordström and Jonas Ridderstråle, Funky Business

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The Big Day!

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09.11.2000: HP bids

$18,000,000,000for

PricewaterhouseCoopersconsulting business!

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“These days, building the best server isn’t enough. That’s the

price of entry.”Ann Livermore, Hewlett-Packard

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Gerstner’s IBM: Systems Integrator of

choice. Global Services:

$35B. Pledge/’99: Business Partner Charter. 72 strategic partners,

aim for 200. Drop many in-house

programs/products. (BW/12.01).

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“We want to be the air traffic

controllers of electrons.”

Bob Nardelli, GE Power Systems

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“Customer Satisfaction” to “Customer Success”

“We’re getting better at [Six Sigma] every day. But we really

need to think about the customer’s profitability. Are customers’

bottom lines really benefiting from what we provide them?”

Bob Nardelli, GE Power Systems

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Keep In Mind: Customer

Satisfaction versus

Customer

Success

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Nardelli’s goal ($50B to $100B by 2005):

“… move Home Depot beyond selling ‘goods’ to selling ‘home services.’ …

He wants to capture home improvement dollars wherever and

however they are spent.” E.g.: “house calls” (At-Home Service: $10B by ’05?) … “pros shops” (Pro Set) … “home project management”

(Project Management System … “a deeper selling relationship”).

Source: USA Today/06.14.2002

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And the Winners Are …

Televisions –12%Cable TV service +5%

Toys -10%Child care +5%

Photo equipment -7%Photographer’s fees +3%

Sports Equipment -2%Admission to sporting event +3%

New car -2%Car repair +3%

Dishes & flatware -1%Eating out +2%

Gardening supplies -0.1%Gardening services +2%

Source: WSJ/05.16.03

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4. A World of Scintillating/

Awesome/ WOW “Experiences.”

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“Experiences are as distinct from services as services are from

goods.”Joseph Pine & James Gilmore, The Experience Economy:

Work Is Theatre & Every Business a Stage

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“Club Med is more than just a ‘resort’; it’s a means of rediscovering oneself, of inventing an

entirely new ‘me.’ ”

Source: Jean-Marie Dru, Disruption

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“The [Starbucks] Fix” Is on …

“We have identified a ‘third place.’ And I really believe that sets us apart. The third place is

that place that’s not work or home. It’s the place our

customers come for refuge.”Nancy Orsolini, District Manager

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Experience: “Rebel Lifestyle!”

“What we sell is the ability for a 43-year-old accountant to dress in black leather, ride

through small towns and have people be afraid of him.”

Harley exec, quoted in Results-Based Leadership

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WHAT CAN BROWN DO FOR YOU?

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The “Experience Ladder”

Experiences Services

Goods Raw Materials

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1940: Cake from flour, sugar (raw materials economy): $1.00

1955: Cake from Cake mix (goods economy): $2.00

1970: Bakery-made cake (service economy): $10.00

1990: Party @ Chuck E. Cheese (experience economy) $100.00

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It’s All About EXPERIENCES: “Trapper” to “Wildlife Damage-control Professional”

Trapper: <$20 per beaver pelt.

WDCP: $150/“problem beaver”; $750-$1,000 for flood-control

piping … so that beavers can stay.

Source: WSJ/05.21.2002

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Experience …

Cirque du Soleil

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DO YOU MEASURE UP?*

*If not, why not?

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First Step (?!): Hire a theater director, as

a consultant or FTE!

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“Most executives have no idea how to add value to a market in the metaphysical

world. But that is what the market will cry out for in the future. There is no lack of ‘physical’ products to

choose between.”

Jesper Kunde, A Unique Moment [on the excellence of Nokia, Nike, Lego, Virgin et al.]

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<TGWvs.

>TGR

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Words!

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MinusWords!

“Satisfaction”“Exceeds Expectations”

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PlusWords!

“WOW”“BHAG”

“Make it immortal”“Astonish Me!”“Experience”

Delight”“Dramatic Difference”“Dream Fulfillment”

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Love

&

Money

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Extraction & Goods: Male dominance

Services & Experiences: Female

dominance

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5. Experiences+: Embracing the

“Dream Business.”

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DREAM: “A dream is a complete moment in the life of a client.

Important experiences that tempt the client to commit substantial resources. The essence of the desires of the consumer. The

opportunity to help clients become what they want to be.” —Gian Luigi

Longinotti-Buitoni

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The marketing of Dreams (Dreamketing)

Dreamketing: Touching the clients’ dreams.

Dreamketing: The art of telling stories and entertaining.

Dreamketing: Promote the dream, not the product.

Dreamketing: Build the brand around the main dream.

Dreamketing: Build the “buzz,” the “hype,” the “cult.”

Source: Gian Luigi Longinotti-Buitoni

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(Revised) Experience Ladder

Dreams Come True Awesome Experiences

SolutionsServicesGoods

Raw Materials

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“No longer are we only an insurance provider. Today,

we also offer our customers the products and services that help them

achieve their dreams, whether it’s financial security, buying a car, paying

for home repairs, or even taking a dream vacation.”—Martin Feinstein, CEO,

Farmers Group

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6. “It” all adds up

to … THE BRAND.

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The Heart of Branding …

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“WHO ARE WE?”

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“WHAT’S OUR

STORY?”

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“We are in the twilight of a society based on data. As information and intelligence become the domain of computers, society will place more value on the one human ability that cannot be automated: emotion.

Imagination, myth, ritual - the language of emotion - will affect everything from our purchasing decisions

to how we work with others. Companies will thrive on the basis of their stories and myths. Companies will need to understand

that their products are less important than their stories.”

Rolf Jensen, Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies

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“EXACTLY HOW ARE WE

DRAMATICALLY DIFFERENT?”

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“EXACTLY HOW DO I PASSIONATELY CONVEY THAT

DRAMATIC DIFFERENCE TO THE

CLIENT ?”

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DO THE HOUSEKEEPERS & CLERKS “BUY

IT”? [ARE YOU V-E-R-Y SURE?]

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?????

A & P Fun in the Sun Store

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RC: Ladies and Gentlemen

serving Ladies and Gentlemen.

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Rules of “Radical Marketing”

Love + Respect Your Customers!Hire only Passionate Missionaries!Create a Community of Customers!

Celebrate Craziness!Be insanely True to the Brand!

Sam Hill & Glenn Rifkin, Radical Marketing (e.g., Harley, Virgin, The Dead, HBS, NBA)

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Branding: Is-Is Not “Table”

TNT is not: TNT is: TNT is not:

Juvenile Contemporary Old-fashioned

Mindless Meaningful Elitist

Predictable Suspenseful Dull

Frivolous Exciting Slow

Superficial Powerful Self-important

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Message …

Is Not >> Is

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Experience = Brand = Expert Sales and Design Consultants + Unique In-store Design Tools + In-home Design Assistance +

Superior Delivery + Satisfaction Guarantee + Service Plus

+ Pixie Dust

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7. Boss Job One:

The Talent Obsession.

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Model 25/8/53

Sports Franchise GM*

*48 = $500M

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Les Wexner: From sweaters to people!

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From “1, 2 or you’re out” [JW] to …

“Best Talent in each industry segment to build

best proprietary intangibles” [EM]

Source: Ed Michaels, War for Talent

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“AS LEADERS, WOMEN RULE: New Studies find that female managers

outshine their male counterparts in almost

every measure”Title, Special Report, Business Week, 11.20.00

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Women’s Strengths Match New Economy Imperatives: Link [rather than rank] workers;

favor interactive-collaborative leadership style [empowerment beats top-down decision making]; sustain fruitful collaborations; comfortable with sharing information; see redistribution of power

as victory, not surrender; favor multi-dimensional feedback; value technical & interpersonal skills, individual & group contributions equally; readily accept ambiguity; honor intuition as well as pure

“rationality”; inherently flexible; appreciate cultural diversity.

Source: Judy B. Rosener, America’s Competitive Secret

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“TAKE THIS QUICK QUIZ: Who manages more things at once? Who puts more effort into their appearance? Who usually takes care of the details? Who finds it

easier to meet new people? Who asks more questions in a conversation? Who is a better

listener? Who has more interest in communication skills? Who is more inclined to get involved?

Who encourages harmony and agreement? Who has better intuition? Who works with a longer ‘to do’ list? Who enjoys a recap to the day’s events? Who is

better at keeping in touch with others?”

Source: Selling Is a Woman’s Game: 15 Powerful Reasons Why Women Can Outsell Men, Nicki Joy & Susan Kane-Benson

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“Investors are looking more and more for a relationship with their financial

advisers. They want someone they can trust, someone who listens. In my experience, in general,

women may be better at these relationship-building skills than are

men.”

Hardwick Simmons, CEO, Prudential Securities

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Brand = Talent.

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8. Trends I:

Women Roar.

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Women & the Marketspace.

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?????????

Home Furnishings … 94%Vacations … 92% (Adventure Travel … 70%/ $55B travel

equipment)

Houses … 91%D.I.Y. (“home projects”) … 80%

Consumer Electronics … 51% Cars … 60% (90%)

All consumer purchases … 83% Bank Account … 89%

Health Care … 80%

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2/3rds working women/50+% working wives > 50%

80% checks61% bills

53% stock (mutual fund boom)

43% > $500K95% financial decisions/

29% single handed

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1970-1998

Men’s median income: +0.6%Women’s median income: + 63%

Source: Martha Barletta, Marketing to Women

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91% women: ADVERTISERS DON’T

UNDERSTAND US. (58% “ANNOYED.”)

Source: Greenfield Online for Arnold’s Women’s Insight Team (Martha Barletta, Marketing to Women)

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Carol Gilligan/ In a Different Voice

Men: Get away from authority, familyWomen: Connect

Men: Self-orientedWomen: Other-oriented

Men: RightsWomen: Responsibilities

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FemaleThink/ Popcorn

“Men and women don’t think the same way, don’t communicate the same

way, don’t buy for the same reasons.”

“He simply wants the transaction to take place. She’s interested in

creating a relationship. Every place women go, they make

connections.”

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“Men seem like loose cannons. Men always move faster through a store’s

aisles. Men spend less time looking. They usually don’t like asking where things are.

You’ll see a man move impatiently through a store to the section he wants,

pick something up, and then, almost abruptly he’s ready to buy. For a

man, ignoring the price tag is almost a sign of virility.”

Paco Underhill, Why We Buy* (*Buy this book!)

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Women's View of Male Salespeople

Technically knowledgeable; assertive; get to the point; pushy;

condescending; insensitive to women’s needs.

Source: Judith Tingley, How to Sell to the Opposite Sex (Martha Barletta, Marketing to Women)

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Read This: Barbara & Allan Pease’s

Why Men Don’t Listen & Women Can’t Read Maps

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“It is obvious to a woman when another woman is upset, while a man generally has to physically witness

tears or a temper tantrum or be slapped in the face before he even has a clue that anything is going on. Like most female mammals, women are equipped with far more finely tuned

sensory skills than men.” Barbara & Allan Pease, Why Men Don’t Listen & Women Can’t Read Maps

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“Resting” State: 30%, 90%: “A woman knows her children’s

friends, hopes, dreams, romances, secret fears, what they are

thinking, how they are feeling. Men are vaguely aware of some short people also living in the house.”

Barbara & Allan Pease, Why Men Don’t Listen & Women Can’t Read Maps

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“As a hunter, a man needed vision that would allow him to zero in on targets in the distance … whereas a woman needed eyes

to allow a wide arc of vision so that she could monitor any predators sneaking up on the nest. This is why modern men can find their way effortlessly to a distant pub,

but can never find things in fridges, cupboards or drawers.”

Barbara & Allan Pease, Why Men Don’t Listen & Women Can’t Read Maps

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“Female hearing advantage contributes significantly to what is

called ‘women’s intuition’ and is one of the reasons why a woman can read between the lines of what people say. Men, however, shouldn’t despair.

They are excellent at imitating animal sounds.”

Barbara & Allan Pease, Why Men Don’t Listen & Women Can’t Read Maps

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Senses

Vision: Men, focused; Women, peripheral.

Hearing: Women’s discomfort level I/2 men’s.

Smell: Women >> Men.Touch: Most sensitive man <

Least sensitive women.

Source: Martha Barletta, Marketing to Women

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Editorial/Men: Tables, rankings.*

Editorial/Women: Narratives that cohere.*

TP/Furniture: “Tech Specs” vs. “Soul.” **

*Redwood (UK)**High Point furniture mart (04.2002)

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Read This Book …

EVEolution: The Eight Truths of Marketing to Women

Faith Popcorn & Lys Marigold

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EVEolution: Truth No. 1

Connecting Your Female Consumers to Each

Other Connects Them to Your Brand

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“The ‘Connection Proclivity’ in women starts early. When asked,

‘How was school today?’ a girl usually tells her mother every

detail of what happened, while a boy might grunt, ‘Fine.’ ”

EVEolution

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“Women don’t buy

brands. They join them.”

EVEolution

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2.6 vs. 21

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“War has broken out over your home-improvement dollar, and Lowe’s has

superpower Home Depot on the defensive. It’s not-so-

secret ploy: Lure women.” —Forbes.com

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“Home Depot is still very much a guy’s chain. But women, according to Lowe’s

research, initiate 80 percent of all home-improvement purchase decisions,

especially the big ticket orders like kitchen cabinets, flooring and bathrooms. ‘We

focused on a customer nobody in home improvement has focused on. Don’t get me

wrong, but women are far more discriminating than men,’ says CEO Robert

Tillman, 59, a Lowe’s lifer.” —Forbes.com

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Ad from Furniture /Today (04.01):“MEET WITH THE EXPERTS!: How

Retailing’s Most Successful Stay that Way”

Presenting Experts: M = 16;

F = ?? (94% = 272)

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“Please … just

one couch or

chair where my feet hit the ground!” —Owner,

5 furniture stores, UK

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1. Men and women are different.2. Very different.3. VERY, VERY DIFFERENT.4. Women & Men have a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y nothing in common.5. Women buy lotsa stuff.6. WOMEN BUY A-L-L THE STUFF.7. Women’s Market = Opportunity No. 1.8. Men are (STILL) in charge.9. MEN ARE … TOTALLY, HOPELESSLY CLUELESS ABOUT WOMEN.10. Women’s Market = Opportunity No. 1.

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9. Trends II: Boomer

Bonanza/ Godzilla Geezer.

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Subject: Marketers & Stupidity

“It’s 18-44, stupid!”

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Subject: Marketers & Stupidity

Or is it: “18-44 is stupid,

stupid!”

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2000-2010 Stats

18-44: -1%

55+: +21%(55-64: +47%)

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Aging/“Elderly”

$$$$$$$$$$$$“I’m in charge!”

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“NOT ACTING THEIR AGE: As Baby Boomers

Zoom into Retirement, Will America Ever Be the

Same?”USN&WR Cover/06.01

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50+

$7T wealth (70%)/$2T annual income50% all discretionary spending

79% own homes/40M credit card users41% new cars/48% luxury cars

$610B healthcare spending/74% prescription drugs

5% of advertising targets

Ken Dychtwald, Age Power: How the 21st Century Will Be Ruled by the New Old

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“Households headed by someone 40 or older enjoy 91% ($9.7T) of

our population’s net worth. … The mature market is the dominant

market in the U.S. economy, making the majority of

expenditures in virtually every category.” —Carol Morgan & Doran Levy, Marketing to

the Mindset of Boomers and Their Elders

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“Marketers attempts at reaching those over 50 have

been miserably unsuccessful. No market’s motivations and needs are so poorly understood.”—Peter

Francese, founding publisher, American Demographics

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“Focused on assessing the marketplace based on lifetime

value (LTV), marketers may dismiss the mature market as

headed to its grave. The reality is that at 60 a person in the U.S. may enjoy 20 or 30 years of life.” —Carol

Morgan & Doran Levy, Marketing to the Mindset of Boomers and Their Elders

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“ ‘Age Power’ will rule the 21st century, and we are woefully

unprepared.”Ken Dychtwald, Age Power: How the 21st

Century Will Be Ruled by the New Old

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No: “Target Marketing”

Yes: “Target

Innovation” & “Target Delivery Systems”

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Hispanics: 38.5%

growth, 1990-2000, vs. 9.3% overall*

*Source: Communispace/2003

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“Relative to the demand, the success

stories are pitifully few.” —Andrew Nuttney, Research Director, The

Research & Advisory Group; on marketing effectively to Hispanics

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10. Leading in Screwed

Up Times: The Passion

Imperative.

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G.H.: “Create a ‘cause,’ not a ‘business.’ ”

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The greatest dangerfor most of us

is not that our aim istoo high

and we miss it,but that it is

too lowand we reach it.

Michelangelo