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Lifestyle Marketing Reaching the New American Consumer
Ronald D. Michman, Edward M. Mazze, Alan J. Greco
ISBN: 0-313-36156-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-36156-2
256 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 10/30/2008
List Price: $20.00 (UK Sterling Price: £13.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Paperback
Also Available: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Awards:
  • Choice Outstanding Academic Titles, 2004
Reviews:
  • For sales and marketing professionals as well as anyone interested in contemporary marketing, this book provides an easy-to-read introduction to the influence of lifestyles on modern sales and marketing strategies. The excellent bibliography will lead readers to other relevant publications. This work should be a part of every serious business collection. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through professional collections.
    —Choice
    5/1/2004
  • [A] useful handbook to marketers, illuminating the ways to reach varying identity markets.
    —Sage Race Relations Abstracts
    8/1/2005
  • New Markets, New Media Web Addendum [T]o be considered for public and academic library collections. To give your collection more depth....[r]ecommended.
    —LibraryJournal.com
    10/1/2005
Description: In today's competitive economic environment, knowing your customer has never been more important. Research shows that most companies do not segment their market by lifestyle. Instead, they rely solely on demographic factors to define their customers. This book helps marketers understand how to reach customers from children to tweens and singles to seniors. It demonstrates how such trends as cross-shopping and the blurring of gender roles can be accounted for by one's overall marketing strategy.

Table of Contents:
  • Illustrations
    Preface
    Acknowledgments
    The Basis for Competitive Lifestyle Market Segmentation Strategies
    Lifestyles and decision Making
    Purchasing Behavior
    Changing Values and Lifestyles
    Subcultural Segmentation and Targeting Changing Lifestyles of the Singles Market
    Targeting the Changing Lifestyles of Children, Tweens, Teens, and College Markets
    Targeting the Changing Lifestyles of the Senior Market
    Culture and Targeting the Changing Lifestyles of the Black and Hispanic Markets
    Social Class and Targeting the Changing Lifestyles of the Asian, Jewish, and Italian Markets
    Epilogue
    Bibliography
    Index
About the Author: Ronald D. Michman is Professor Emeritus of Marketing, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. He is the author or co-author of nine books, including Specialty Retailers: Marketing Triumphs and Blunders (Quorum Books, 2001), The Food Industry Wars: Marketing Triumphs and Blunders (Quorum Books, 1998), and Lifestyle Market Segmentation (Quorum Books, 1991).

Edward M. Mazze is Dean of the College of Business Administration and holder of the Alfred J. Verrecchia-Hasbro Inc. Leadership Chair in Business at the University of Rhode Island. He is co-author with Ronald D. Michman of Specialty Retailers and The Food Industry Wars.

Alan J. Greco was formerly Associate Professor of Marketing at the School of Business and Economics at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro. He is the co-author with Ronald D. Michman of Retailing Triumphs and Blunders: Victims of Competition in the New Age of Marketing Management (Quorum Books, 1995).
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