All Business is Local
Why Place Matters More than Ever in a Global, Virtual World
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- £9.99
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- £9.99
Publisher Description
What's the most important factor in business today? Global competition? Digital development? Or is the age-old concept of 'place' actually the key to success even in todays advanced economy?
Marketing experts John Quelch and Katherine Jocz believe that huge opportunities are on offer to marketers and business leaders if they stay focussed on the power of locality. In All Business Is Local, they propose a radically different way of looking at marketing. As society becomes increasingly globalized and obsessed with the virtual world, businesses can easily forget that 'place' is more relevant than ever, and that it remains a major factor in the way we organize our lives.
Radically redefining 'place' as a business imperative in the global economy, Quelch and Jocz explore five categories (psychological, physical, virtual, geographical and global) and teach us that just as customers' relationships to places profoundly affect their relationships to businesses, today's companies - large and small - have to be local as well as global in order to succeed.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this timely new book, Quelch, dean of the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), and Jocz, a research associate at Harvard Business School, examine the importance of place to the practice of marketing, particularly at the local level. According to the authors, when marketers try to expand brands to achieve a leading global share, they run the risk of being upstaged by local competitors and upstart entrepreneurs. The solution, they suggest, is to strategically use the concept of place, which determines how consumers interact with a product and influences their choice of brands. They examine the primary types of place from the psychological and physical to the virtual and global, showing how place is critical to nearly every marketing planning decision and why it must never be an afterthought. Using examples from Real Madrid to L'eggs, they advocate putting forth a new focus on local that treats market areas as places defined by social interrelationships and sets of common tastes and values. Full of wise counsel on how to approach brand extension from the perspective of place, the advice will be invaluable for marketers devising future strategies.