Women Boomers

The B-I-G Opportunity:

Women & BoomersTom Peters/02.11.2004

I. NEW MARKETS.

“Baby-boomer Women: The

Sweetest of Sweet Spots for

Marketers” —David Wolfe and Robert

Snyder, Ageless Marketing

1. Trends Worth Trillion$$$ I:

Women Roar.

?????????

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

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

Consumer Electronics … 51% Cars … 68% (90%)

All consumer purchases … 83% Bank Account … 89%

Household investment decisions … 67%Small business loans … 70%

Health Care … 80%

????

80%

Riding Lawnmowers

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

80% checks61% bills

53% stock (mutual fund boom)

43% > $500K95% financial decisions/

29% single handed

1970-1998

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

Source: Martha Barletta, Marketing to Women

$5+T > Japan

10M/28M/$3.6T > Germany

Business Purchasing Power

Purchasing mgrs. & agents: 51%HR: >>50%

Admin officers: >50%


Women-owned Bus.

U.S. employees > F500 employees worldwide


New golfers … 37%Basketball … 13.5M

1 in 27 (’70) … 1 in 3 (’96)

1874?

1874 … Jock Strap1977 … Jogbra

1977 ... 25K

1996 … 42M

Yeow!

1970 … 1%

2002 … 50%

91% women: ADVERTISERS DON’T

UNDERSTAND US. (58% “ANNOYED.”)

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

Carol Gilligan/ In a Different Voice

Men: Get away from authority, familyWomen: Connect

Men: Self-orientedWomen: Other-oriented

Men: RightsWomen: Responsibilities

Men: Individual perspective. “Core unit is ‘me.’ ”

Pride in self-reliance.

Women: Group perspective. “Core unit is ‘we.’ ” Pride in team

accomplishment.


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.”

“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!)

“Shopping: A Guy’s Nightmare or a Girl’s Dream Come True?”

“Buy it and be gone”vs.

“Hang out and enjoy the experience”

Source: The Charleston [WV] Gazette/06.22.2002

How Many Gigs You Got, Man?

“Hard to believe … Different criteria”

“Every research study we’ve done indicates that women really care about the relationship with their

vendor.”

Robin Sternbergh/ IBM

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)

Women as Healthcare Decision Makers

— read vociferously— want choices

— value convenience— look for small signs of

sensitivity (gowns that close)

Source: Cheryl Stone, Rynne Marketing Group

Women and Healthcare

— Women are more dissatisfied— Women are frustrated by the way they

are treated and spoken to by physicians

— Women seek more information— Women are more pressed for time

— Women make most healthcare decisions and purchases

Source: Patricia Braus, Marketing Health Care to Women

Women and Financial Advisors

Women want ...— a plan

— to be listened to— to read about it and think about it

Women do not want ...— a high-pressure sales pitch

Source: Kathleen Boyd, SVP, Wheat First Butcher Singer

(now part of Wachovia Securities)

Read This: Barbara & Allan Pease’s

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

“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

“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

“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.”


“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.”


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.


Sensitivity to differences: Twice as many card stacks.

More “contextual,” “holistic.”

“People powered”: Age 3 days, baby girls 2X eye contact.


“When a woman is upset, she talks emotionally to her friends; but an upset man rebuilds a motor or

fixes a leaking tap.”Barbara & Allan Pease, Why Men Don’t Listen &

Women Can’t Read Maps

Stress* ** Men: Fight or flee

Women: Seek the company of friends

*Source: UCLA, “Female Response to Stress: Tend and Befriend, Not Fight or Flight”/Psychological Review**90% of stress research: men

“Women speak and hear a language of connection and intimacy, and men

speak and hear a language of status and independence. Men communicate to obtain information, establish their

status, and show independence. Women communicate to create

relationships, encourage interaction, and exchange feelings.”

Judy Rosener, America’s Competitive Secret

“The Hollywood scripts that men write tend to be direct and

linear, while women’s compositions have many

conflicts, many climaxes, and many endings.”

Helen Fisher, The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and How They Are

Changing the World

“I only really understand myself, what I’m really thinking and

feeling, when I’ve talked it over with my circle of female friends. When days go by without that connection, I feel like a radio playing in an empty room.”

Anna Quindlen

“Women are more comfortable talking or

thinking about people and relationships, while men

prefer to contemplate things.” —research reported in the New York

Times (08.10.2003)

Editorial/Men: Tables, rankings.*

Editorial/Women: Narratives that cohere.*

*Redwood (UK)

“Where the Girls Are: They’re Online, Solving Puzzles and Making Up Characters in Narrative-

driven Games” —Headline/WSJ/10.28

Initiate Purchase

Men: Study “facts & features.”

Women: Ask lots of people for input.


Read This Book …

EVEolution: The Eight Truths of Marketing to Women

Faith Popcorn & Lys Marigold

EVEolution: Truth No. 1

Connecting Your Female Consumers to Each

Other Connects Them to Your Brand

“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

What If …

“What if ExxonMobil or Shell dipped into their credit card database to help commuting women

interview and make a choice of car pool partners?”

“What if American Express made a concerted effort to connect up female empty-nesters

through on-line and off-line programs, geared to help women re-enter the workforce with today’s

skills?”

EVEolution

The New New Jiffy Lube

“In the male mold, Jiffy Lube was going all out to deliver quick, efficient service. But, in the

female mold, women were being turned off by the ‘let’s get it fixed fast, no conversation

required’ experience.”

New JL: “Control over her environment. Comfort in the service setting. Trust that her car

is being serviced properly. Respect for her intelligence and ability.”

EVEolution

“Women don’t buy

brands. They join them.”

EVEolution

Purchasing Patterns

Women: Harder to convince; more loyal once convinced.

Men: Snap decision; fickle.


2.6 vs. 21

Cents & Sensibility

“Our advisory sessions [with women] changed from a purely

analytical, male approach to something that starts with the heart

and ends with the figures.”

Lowe’s …

Gets it. 1989:

13%/“lumber shop” … 2002: >50%

“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

“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

“Women’s Work: Do-it-yourself has become do-it-herself, and toolmakers are taking notice” —Headline/San Francisco

Chronicle/08.03

Tomboy Tools. E.g.:

smaller, lighter in weight. Tupperware “party” model.

“Darcy Winslow is a leading figure in Nike Goddess, a

companywide grassroots team whose goal is a once-and-for-all shift in how a high-testosterone outfit sells to, designs for, and

communicates with women.” —Fast

Company/08.2002

“Women weren’t comfortable in our stores. So I figured out where they would be comfortable—most likely their own homes. The [first

Nike Goddess] store has more of a residential feel. I wanted it to have furniture, not fixtures. Above all, I

didn’t want it to be girlie.” —John Hoke, designer, Nike

Yes!: “Crest Spinoff Targets Women”—cover story,

Ad Age/06.03.02

Crest Rejuvenating Effects. “Chicks in charge” team. $50M launch. Packaging.

Taste. Features.

“Mattel Sees Untapped Market for Blocks: Little Girls”—Headline,

WSJ/04.06.02

“Last year more than 90% of Lego sets purchased were for boys. Mattel says Ello

—with interconnecting plastic squares, balls, triangles, squiggles,

flowers and sticks, in pastel colors and with rounded corners—will go beyond

Lego’s linear play patterns.”

“Volvo Teams Up to Build What Women Want:

Concept Car Goes for Great Storage, Easy

Maintenance” —headline/USA Today/12.16.2003/140-person team;80%

women

Not!“Year of the

Woman”

Enterprise Reinvention!

RecruitingHiring/Rewarding/Promoting

Structure Processes

MeasurementStrategyCulture Vision

Leadership

THE BRAND ITSELF!

“Honey, are you sure you have

the kind of money it takes to

be looking at a car like this?”

STATEMENT OF PHILOSOPHY: I am a businessperson. An analyst. A pragmatist. The enormous social good of increased women’s

power is clear to me; but it is not my bailiwick. My “game” is haranguing business leaders

about my fact-based conviction that women’s increasing power – leadership skills

and purchasing power – is the strongest and most dynamic force at work in the American

economy today. Dare I say it as a long-time Palo Alto resident … THIS IS EVEN BIGGER THAN

THE INTERNET!

Tom Peters

Not a Morality Play

“It is critical that we all understand that IBM is not marketing to

women entrepreneurs because it is the thing to do, or even the right thing to do. We’re marketing to

women entrepreneurs because it is a huge opportunity.” — Cherie Piebes

27 March 2000: email to TP from Shelley Rae Norbeck

“I make 1/3rd more money than my husband does. I have as much financial

‘pull’ in the relationship as he does. I’d say this is also true of most of my women

friends. Someone should wake up, smell the coffee and kiss our asses long enough

to sell us something! We have money to

spend and nobody wants it!”

“If we are single, they say we couldn’t catch a man. If we are

married, they say we are neglecting him. If we are divorced,

they say we couldn’t keep him. If we are widowed, they say we

killed him.”Kathleen Brown, on the joys of female political candidacy

Psssst! Wanna see my “porn” collection?

Norwegian Law: Boards must have

at least 40%

women.

Ass Of The Year2002: Maurice Greenberg, A.I.G., on the Company’s New (All Male) Leadership Team

“In a lot of countries of the world, it would be very difficult for a woman to

be a good CEO. … I have a responsibility to do the best we can for

shareholders.” * **

*Source: New York Times/05.05.02**Wouldn’t you love to watch him tell that … face-to-face

… to Margaret Thatcher or Carly Fiorina? (I would.)

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)

0

Stupid: “Amazing, now that I think about it. A bunch of

guys --developers, architects, contractors,

engineers, bankers--sitting around designing shopping centers. And the ‘end users’

will be overwhelmingly women!”

“Customer is King”: 4,440

“Customer is Queen”: 29

Source: Steve Farber/Google search/04.2002

F.Y.I.

“Women Beat Men at Art of Investing”

Source: Miami Herald, reporting on a study by Profs. Terrance Odean and Brad Barber, UC Davis (Cause: Guys are “in and out” of

stocks more often; women choose carefully and hold on for the long term)

Investment Club Returns

Women-only clubs 1997 … 17.9%Mixed … 17.3%

Men-only … 15.6%

Source: National Assoc. Investors

Value Line: Top State* Investment Clubs 2000

8 … All male19 … Coed

22 … All FEMALE

* VT & Maine not included; D.C. included

JBQ: Stop Treating Women Investors Like Idiots!

“Why all this focus on women and our lack of investment guts? A far greater problem, it seems to

me, is trigger-happy speculation, mostly by men. The kind of guys whose family savings went south

with the dot-coms. Imagine a list of their money mistakes: Shoot from the hip. Overtrade their

accounts. Believe they’re smarter than the market. Think with their mouse rather than their brain.

Praise their own genius when stocks go up. Hide their mistakes from their wives.”

Source: Newsweek 01.08.01

Notes to the CEO

--Women are not a “niche”; so get this out of the “Specialty Markets” group.--The competition is starting to catch on. (E.g.: Nike, Nokia, Wachovia, Ford, Harley-Davidson, Jiffy Lube, Charles Schwab, Citigroup, Aetna.)

--If you “dip your toes in the water,” what makes you think you’ll get splashy results?--Bust through the walls of the corporate silos.--Once you get her, don’t let her slip away.--Women ARE the long run!


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.

2. Trends Worth Trillion$$$ II: Boomer

Bonanza/ Godzilla Geezer.

Subject: Marketers & Stupidity

“It’s 18-44, stupid!”

Subject: Marketers & Stupidity

Or is it: “18-44 is stupid,

stupid!”

2000-2010 Stats

18-44: -1%

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

44-65: “New Consumer Majority” *

*45% larger than 18-43; 60% larger by 2010Source: Ageless Marketing, David Wolfe & Robert Snyder

“The New Consumer Majority is the only adult

market with realistic prospects for significant

sales growth in dozens of product lines for thousands of companies.” —David Wolfe & Robert


“Baby-boomer Women: The Sweetest

of Sweet Spots for Marketers” —David Wolfe and Robert


Aging/“Elderly”

$$$$$$$$$$$$“I’m in charge!”

“NOT ACTING THEIR AGE: As Baby Boomers

Zoom into Retirement, Will America Ever Be the

Same?”USN&WR Cover/06.01

“Sixty Is the New Thirty”

—Cover/AARP/11.03

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

“Advertisers pay more to reach the kid because they think that once someone hits

middle age he’s too set in his ways to be

susceptible to advertising. … In fact, this notion of impressionable kids

and hidebound geezers is little more than a fairy tale, a Madison

Avenue gloss on Hollywood’s cult of youth.”—James Surowiecki (The New

Yorker/04.01.2002)

Read This!

Carol Morgan & Doran Levy,

Marketing to the Mindset of Boomers

and Their Elders

“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

“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

“The mature market cannot be dismissed as entrenched in its

brand loyalties.” —Carol Morgan &

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

“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

“While the average American age 12 or older watched at least five

movies per year in a theater, those 40 and older were the most

frequent moviegoers, viewing 12 or more a year.”—Carol Morgan & Doran Levy, Marketing to the Mindset of Boomers and Their Elders

“Women 65 and older spent $14.7 billion on apparel in 1999, almost as much as that spent by 25- to 34-year-

olds. While spending by the older women increased by 12% from the previous year, that of the younger group increased by only 0.1%. But

who in the fashion industry is currently pursuing this market?” —Carol

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

“Elderly”

— Purchase “experiences” more than just “things”

— Convenience / Comfort / Access / Need to be

appreciated = Top Priorities

Source: Ken Dychtwald, Age Wave

Possession Experiences /“Desires for things”/Young adulthood/to 38

Catered Experiences/ “Desires to be served by others”/Middle adulthood

Being Experiences/“Desires for trancendany experiences”/Late

adulthood

Source: David Wolfe and Robert Snyder/Ageless Marketing

POSSESSION EXPERIENCE: New car, home entertainment system, new boat, first home …

CATERED EXPERIENCE: Thrilling theater performance, experience of playing on an exclusive golf course, throwing a highly

successful catered party …

BEING EXPERIENCE: Heading up a charity ball, helping a young person master a problem,

learning an exciting new thing …

Source: David Wolfe and Robert Snyder, Ageless Marketing

“Catered experiences more likely say ‘We have arrived!’ They mark the first stage of

being someone versus becoming someone.”

Source: David Wolfe and Robert Snyder, Ageless Marketing

“ ‘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

No: “Target Marketing”

Yes: “Target

Innovation” & “Target Delivery Systems”

“The baby-boom generation is the

first wellness generation.” —Paul Zane Pilzer/

The Wellness Revolution: The Next Trillion Dollar Industry

Wellness = $$$$$$$$

Currently $200B, $1T by 2013 (Source: Paul Zane

Pilzer, The Wellness Revolution: The Next Trillion Dollar Industry)

And ….

Hispanics: 38.5%

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

*Source: Communispace/2003

“Relative to the demand, the success

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

Research & Advisory Group; on marketing effectively to Hispanics

“BofA Is Betting Its Future on the Hispanic Market” *

“We expect to get no less than

80 % of our future growth in

retail banking from the Hispanic market.” —Ken Lewis, CEO, BofA

*Fortune/04.2003

Duh!“We want our associate population to mirror our

customer population at every level, from the executive suite all the way to the retail floor. In the marketplace, basically what I want to do is draw a concentric circle around every one of our 2,300 stores, and I want the assortment in that store to match the ethnicity of the

neighborhood it’s in. Some neighborhoods are all Hispanic, so we can put in a full Hispanic format. That’s

what Super Saver is. All the signage is in both languages. There’s a 100 percent Spanish-speaking

staff in the store.”—Larry Johnston, CEO, Albertsons

II. TAKING ADVANTAGE.

3. Produce Scintillating

“Experiences.”

“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

“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

“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

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

WHAT CAN BROWN DO FOR YOU?

The “Experience Ladder”

Experiences Services

Goods Raw Materials

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

Message:

“Experience” is the

“Last 80%”

P.S.: “Experience” applies to all work!

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): $10.001990: Party @ Chuck E. Cheese

(experience economy) $100.00

Bob Lutz: “I see us as being in the art business. Art,

entertainment and mobile sculpture, which,

coincidentally, also happens to provide transportation.”

Source: NYT 10.19.01

“Lexus sells its cars as containers for our

sound systems. It’s marvelous.”—Sidney Harman/

Harman International

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

Moving Companies

WSJ/08.2003: “In Texas, They’ll fill your empty fridge with brie and

wine. An outfit in New York promises quick high-speed Internet

hookup. And when Allied Van Lines finishes unloading your couch, they’ll have a feng shui

expert figure out the right spot. …”

Duet … Whirlpool … “washing machine” to “fabric care system” … white goods: “a sea of

undifferentiated boxes” … $400 to $1,300 … “the Ferrari of washing machines” …

consumer: “They are our little mechanical buddies. They have personality. When they are

running efficiently, our lives are running efficiently. They are part of my family.” …

“machine as aesthetic showpiece” … “laundry room” to “family studio” / “designer laundry

room” (complements Sub-Zero refrigerator and home-theater center)

Source: New York Times Magazine/01.11.2004

LAN Installation Co.

to

Geek Squad (2% to 30%/Minn.)

“Car designers need to create a story. Every car provides an

opportunity to create an adventure. …“The Prowler makes you smile. Why? Because it’s focused. It has a plot, a

reason for being, a passion.”

Freeman Thomas, co-designer VW Beetle; designer Audi TT

Hmmmm(?): “Only” Words …

StoryAdventure

Smile Focus

PlotPassion

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

a consultant or FTE!

Experience …

Cirque du Soleil

DO YOU MEASURE UP?*

*If not, why not?

“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, Unique Now ... or Never [on the excellence of Nokia, Nike, Lego, Virgin et al.]

Extraction & Goods: Male dominance

Services & Experiences: Female

dominance

“Women don’t buy

brands. They join them.”

EVEolution

4. Experiences+: Embrace the

“Dream Business.”

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

Common Products “Dream” Products

Maxwell House StarbucksBVD Victoria’s SecretPayless FerragamoHyundai FerrariSuzuki Harley-DavidsonAtlantic City AcapulcoNew Jersey CaliforniaCarter KennedyConners PeleCNN Millionaire

Source: Gian Luigi Longinotti-Buitoni

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.”


Building the Creative Organization

Choose a creator: The cultural leader who gives the company an aesthetic point of view.Hire eclectically: Hire collaborators with different cultures and past histories in order to balance rigor with emotion.Prepare vertically: Develop a rigorous understanding of the product and the client.Develop horizontally: Promote curiosity in unrelated disciplines.Lead emotionally: Engender passionate dedication through vision and freedom.Build for the long haul: Creativity requires a lifetime commitment.


Constantly Magnify Perceived Value

Maximize your value-added by fulfilling the dreams of your clients.

Only invest in what is valuable for your client.Don’t let the short-term results weaken the

long-term value of your brand.Balance rigorous control of the financial endeavor

with the emotional management of your brand.Build a financial structure that allows risk-taking:

NO RISKS—NO DREAMS.Establish long-term “price power” in order to avoid

the trap of the commodity product.


(Revised) Experience Ladder

Dreams Come True Awesome Experiences

SolutionsServicesGoods

Raw Materials

Safe, On-time and ...

“We defined personality as a market niche. We seek to

amaze, surprise, entertain.”— Herb Kelleher, SWA / LUV

Furniture vs. Dreams

“We do not sell ‘furniture’ at Domain. We sell dreams. This is accomplished by

addressing the half-formed needs in our customers’ heads. By uncovering these

needs, we, in essence, fill in the blanks. We convert ‘needs’ into ‘dreams.’ Sales are the

inevitable result.”

— Judy George, Domain Home Fashions

HORCHOW.COMFurniture. Accessories. Dreams.

“The Ritz-Carlton experience enlivens the

senses, instills well-being, and fulfills even

the unexpressed wishes and needs of our guests.”

— from the Ritz-Carlton Credo

“The sun is setting on the Information Society—even before we have fully adjusted to its demands as individuals and as

companies. We have lived as hunters and as farmers, we have worked in factories and now we live in an information-based society whose icon is the computer. We stand facing the fifth kind of society: the Dream Society. … The Dream Society is emerging this very instant—the shape of the future is visible today. Right now is the time for decisions—before the major

portion of consumer purchases are made for emotional, nonmaterialistic reasons. Future products will have to appeal to our hearts, not to our heads. Now is the time to add emotional

value to products and services.” —Rolf Jensen/The Dream Society:How the Coming Shift from Information to Imagination Will Transform Your Business

“In Denmark, eggs from free-range hens have conquered over 50 percent of the market. Consumers do not want hens to live their lives in small, confining cages. They are willing to pay 15 percent to 20 percent more for the story about animal ethics. This is classic Dream Society logic. Both kind of eggs are similar in

quality, but consumers prefer eggs with the better story. After we debated the issue and stockpiled 50

other examples, the conclusion became evident: Stories and tales speak directly to the heart rather than the brain. After a century where society was marked by

science and rationalism, the stories and values are returning to the scene.” —Rolf Jensen/The Dream Society: How the Coming Shift from Information to Imagination Will Transform Your Business

“Person 1 is the rational, planning being, and Person 2 is the emotional and story-buying

entity. The last century disowned and repressed Person 2—a rejection that is not surprising in a technological era. Now Person 2 is back in town—in the shops, on the Internet, in the companies,

in politics, in economics, even science.” —Rolf Jensen/The Dream Society: How the Coming Shift from Information to

Imagination Will Transform Your Business

Six Market Profiles

1. Adventures for Sale2. The Market for Togetherness, Friendship and Love3. The Market for Care4. The Who-Am-I Market5. The Market for Peace of Mind6. The Market for Cnvictions

Rolf Jensen/The Dream Society: How the Coming Shift from Information to Imagination Will Transform Your Business

5. Seek the [Mostly Ignored] “Soul” of

“Experiences”:

Design Rules!

Design Myths.

Unconventional [Design] Messages

Not about ... “Lumpy Objects”!

Not about ... $79,000 objects

The I.D. [International Design] Forty*

Airstream … Alfred A. Knopf … Apple Computer … Amazon.com …

Bloomberg … Caterpillar … CNN … Disney … FedEx … Gillette … IBM … Martha Stewart … New Balance …

Nickelodeon … Patagonia … The New York Yankees … 3M … Etc.

* List No. 1, 1999

Unconventional [Design] Messages

Not about ... “Lumpy Objects”!

Not about ... $79,000 objects

Design Transforms even the [Biggest] Corporations!

TARGET … “the champion of America’s new design democracy” (Time) “Marketer of the Year 2000”

(Advertising Age)

Lady Sensor, Mach3, and …

$70M on developing the OralB CrossAction toothbrush

23 patents, including 6 for the packaging

Source: www.ecompany.com [06.00]

Design2002

LISTERINE’s …

PocketPaks

Westin’s …

Heavenly Bed

Design’s place in the universe.

And Tomorrow …

“Fifteen years ago companies competed on price. Now it’s

quality. Tomorrow it’s design.”

Robert Hayes

All Equal Except …

“At Sony we assume that all products of our competitors have basically the same

technology, price, performance and

features. Design is the only thing that differentiates one product from another in the

marketplace.”Norio Ohga

“Design is treated like a religion at

BMW.”Fortune

“The new Beetle fails at most categories. The only

thing it doesn’t fail in is

drop-dead charm.”Jerry Hirshberg, Nissan Design International

Object of Desire!

“Every now and then, a design comes along that radically changes the way we think about a particular object. Case in

point: the iMac. Suddenly, a computer

is no longer an anonymous box. It is a sculpture, an object of desire, something that you look at.”

Katherine McCoy & Michael McCoy, Illinois Institute of Technology

“The good 10 percent of American product design comes

out of big-idea companies that don’t believe in talking to the

customer. They're run by passionate maniacs who make everybody’s life miserable until

they get what they want.”

Bran Ferren, Applied Minds/Wired 1-2001

“We don’t have a good language to talk about this kind of thing. In most people’s

vocabularies, design means veneer. … But to me, nothing could be further from the

meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul

of a man-made creation.”

Steve Jobs

Check Out the Language:

“Tomorrow it’s design …”“Design is the only thing …”

“Design is … religion ...”“Drop-dead charm …”“Object of desire …”

“Passionate maniacs …” “Fundamental soul …”

Bottom Line.

Design “is” … WHAT & WHY I LOVE.

LOVE.

I LOVE my ZYLISS Garlic Peeler!

All Time No.1 (TP)

Ziplocs

Design “is” … WHY I

GET MAD. MAD.

Wanted: THE DESIGNER OF MY

RADIO SHACK PHONE. Major

Reward!

Design is never neutral.

Hypothesis: DESIGN is the principal difference between love and

hate!

THE BASE CASE: I am a design fanatic. Though not “artistic,” I love “cool stuff.” But it goes [much]

further, far beyond the personal. Design has become a professional obsession. I SIMPLY BELIEVE THAT DESIGN PER SE IS THE PRINCIPAL

REASON FOR EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT [or detachment] RELATIVE TO A PRODUCT OR

SERVICE OR EXPERIENCE. Design, as I see it, is

arguably the #1 DETERMINANT of whether a product-service-experience stands out … or doesn’t.

Furthermore, it’s another “one of those things” that damn few companies put – consistently – on the

front burner.

Message (?????): Men cannot design for women’s

needs.

“Perhaps the macho look can be interesting … if you

want to fight dinosaurs. But now to survive you need intelligence,

not power and aggression. Modern intelligence means

intuition—it’s female.”

Source: Philippe Starck, Harvard Design Magazine (Summer 1998)

6. Brand it!

“WHO ARE WE?”

“WHAT’S OUR

STORY?”

“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

“Apple opposes, IBM solves, Nike exhorts, Virgin enlightens,

Sony dreams, Benetton

protests. … Brands are not nouns but verbs.”

Source: Jean-Marie Dru, Disruption

“EXACTLY HOW ARE WE

DRAMATICALLY DIFFERENT?”

“You do not merely want to be the best of the best. You

want to be considered the only ones who do

what you do.”

Jerry Garcia

Brand = You Must Care!

“Success means never letting the competition

define you. Instead you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply

about.” Tom Chappell, Tom’s of Maine

“WHY DOES IT MATTER TO

THE CLIENT?”

“EXACTLY HOW DO I PASSIONATELY CONVEY THAT

DRAMATIC DIFFERENCE TO THE

CLIENT ?”

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)

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

Message …

Is Not >> Is

III. SUMMARY.

7. Summary: O-P-P-O-R-T-U-N-I-T-Y.

?????????

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

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

Consumer Electronics … 51% Cars … 68% (90%)

All consumer purchases … 83% Bank Account … 89%

Household investment decisions … 67%Small business loans … 70%

Health Care … 80%

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

“Baby-boomer Women: The

Sweetest of Sweet Spots for

Marketers” —David Wolfe and Robert


“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

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

“We don’t have a good language to talk about this kind of thing. In most people’s

vocabularies, design means veneer. … But to me, nothing could be further from the

meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul

of a man-made creation.”

Steve Jobs

Read these books!*

*Damn it.

Marketing to Women, Martha Barletta

EVEolution: The Eight Truths of Marketing to Women, Faith Popcorn & Lys Marigold

Ageless Marketing, David Wolfe & Robert Snyder

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

Selling Dreams: How to Make Any Product Irresistible, Gian Luigi Longinotti-Buitoni

The Dream Society: How the Coming Shift from Information to Imagination Will Transform Your Business, Rolf Jensen

Trading Up: The New American Luxury, Michael Silverstein & Neil Fiske