Summary: What Were They Thinking?: Review and Analysis of McMath and Forbes' Book
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This complete summary of the ideas from Robert McMath and Thom Forbes' book "What Were They Thinking?" shows that companies throw away millions of dollars unnecessarily by repeating their marketing mistakes of the past over and over. In their book, the authors state that by studying what has and has not worked in the past, marketers can significantly improve their chances of success. If a marketer tries to emulate the success of previously successful products, there is indeed a lot of money to be made. This summary provides an informative guide for markets, entrepreneurs and advertisers.
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What Were They Thinking? by Robert McMath and Thom Forbes
Book Abstract
Important Note About This Ebook
Summary of What Were They Thinking? (Robert McMath and Thom Forbes)
1. Marketing Hot Buttons for Success in the Millennium
2. Me-Too Marketing and Product Line Extensions
3. Avoiding Corporate Alzheimer’s Disease
4. New Product Innovation
5. Communicating and Concentrating
6. Fooling With Your Cash Cow
7. Image – Even if it’s Anti-image – Is Everything
8. Trend or Fad?
9. The Proof of the Pudding is in the Eating
10. Question: Who are Our Target Customers?
11. Significant Points of Difference
12. You Shalt Not Deceive
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What Were They Thinking? by Robert McMath and Thom Forbes
Book Abstract
MAIN IDEA
Companies throw away millions of dollars unnecessarily by repeating their marketing mistakes of the past over and over.
By studying what has and has not worked in the past, marketers can significantly improve their chances of success. This common sense approach to marketing suggests that if a marketer is ignorant of the mistakes of the past, he is likely to repeat them again, losing a lot of money in the process. By contrast, if a marketer tries to emulate the success of previously successful products, there is a lot of money to be made.
New products only succeed when everything that has to go right does actually go right. That is a trough assignment in the real world, but marketers can increase their chances for success by being realistic, by examining product concepts rigorously right at their inception, by questioning their assumptions as they develop them and by remaining flexible enough to make