Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Industries - Retailing

While immediately recognizable throughout the U.S. and many other countries, media mainstays like X-Men, Star Trek, and Transformers achieved such familiarity through constant reincarnation. In each case, the initial success of a single product led to a long-term embrace of media franchising--a dynamic process in which media workers from different industrial positions shared in and reproduced familiar cultureacross television, film, comics, games, and merchandising.

Engage thoroughly examines the social media landscape and how to effectively use social media to succeed in business--one network and one tool at a time. It leads you through the detailed and specific steps required for conceptualizing, implementing, managing, and measuring a social media program. The result is the ability to increase visibility, build communities of loyal brand enthusiasts, and increase profits.

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Blogs, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and other platforms are giving everyone a -voice, - including organizations and their customers. So how do you create the stories, videos, and blog posts that cultivate fans, arouse passion for your products or services, and ignite your business? Content Rules equips you for online success as a one-stop source on the art and science of developing content that people care about. This coverage is interwoven with case studies of companies...

Proprietary audience development is now a core marketing responsibility.

Every company needs audiences to survive. They are where you find new customers and develop more profitable relationships. And yet, most companies today treat their email, mobile, and social media audiences like afterthoughts instead of the corporate assets they are.

With AUDIENCE, Jeff Rohrs seeks to change this dynamic through adoption of The Audience Imperative. This powerful mandate challenges all companies to use their paid, owned, and earned media to not only sell in the...

How do leading retailers create value for their customers? They craft unique experiences at compelling prices. This book introduces a new and effective way to manage those experiences based on three critical factors - environment, selection, and engagement (ESE) - that separate successful retailers from those that fail and are forgotten.

The ESE framework is derived from the academic literature on retail management and consumer marketing, and supplemented by hundreds of hours of interviews with executives and marketers from Canada's leading companies, including Loblaw, Indigo Books...

Perry's Department Store: A Product Development Simulation simulates the product development experience of a buyer or product developer at fictional department store Perry's, while exposing students to the principles, concepts, knowledge, and skills needed for success in a real-world setting. This project-based text covers the entire process of developing a new line of jeans, from defining the customer to conceptualizing the product line and selecting fabric/trims to completing a specpack. The accompanying CD-ROM provides resources and worksheets to complete the...

As one of the first textbooks to present a comprehensive view of multichannel retailing-the practice of trading through several selling channels concurrently-Multichannel Retailing is critical for any student preparing for today's job market. This timely and compelling textbook identifies and explains the underlying principles of e-retailing and its relationship with conventional retail methods. Strategic integration of brick-and-mortar stores, electronic retailing, and direct marketing methods form the core of the text. Multichannel Retailing examines the roots of the...

The area of retail buying relies heavily on mathematical formulas and forecasting. The formulas themselves remain unchanged. However, the context in which they are analyzed is constantly evolving. The most successful retail buyers are able to withstand the highs and lows of business trends by utilizing analytical skills, trend forecasting, and customer knowledge. As a retail buyer for almost 20 years with various retailers, Connell draws on her experience providing practical fundamental mathematical formulas while also giving context in the current retail environment. This text gives...

The Cult of LEGO introduces us to fans and builders from all walks of life. People like professional LEGO artist Nathan Sawaya; enigmatic Dutch painter Ego Leonard (who maintains that he is, in fact, a LEGO minifig); Angus MacLane, a Pixar animator who builds CubeDudes, instantly recognizable likenesses of fictional characters; Brick Testament creator Brendan Powell Smith, who uses...

Fashion Retailing Issues and Strategies presents case studies of nine US fashion and luxury retailers that analyze the ways in which successful retailers use key methods and strategies to set themselves apart in an increasingly competitive environment. The text provides an overview of current trends in retailing, including the growth of nonstore retailing, the importance of private labels, and corporate social responsibility. Each case study presents a condensed history, business description, and relevant financial statements, graphs, and/or photos. Chapters follow a...

With crisp and insightful contributions from 47 of the world s leading experts in various facets of retailing, Retailing in the 21st Century offers in one book a compendium of state-of-the-art, cutting-edge knowledge to guide successful retailing in the new millennium. In our competitive world, retailing is an exciting, complex and critical sector of business in most developed as well as emerging economies. Today, the retailing industry is being buffeted by a number of forces simultaneously, for example the growth of online retailing and the advent of radio frequency identification (RFID)...