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Superconsumers: A Simple, Speedy, and Sustainable Path to Superior Growth Hardcover – December 20, 2016
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Not your average consumer.
Pork dorks. Craftsters. American Girl fans. Despite their different tastes, these eclectic diehards have a lot in common: they’re obsessed about a specific brand, product, or category. They pursue their passions with fervor, and they’re extremely knowledgeable about the things they love. They aren’t average consumersthey’re superconsumers.Although small in number, superconsumers can have an outsized impact on a company’s bottom line. Representing 10% of total consumers, they can drive between 30% to 70% of sales, and they’re usually willing to spend considerably more than the average consumer. And because they’re so engaged and passionate, they can offer invaluable advice to managers looking to improve their products, change their business models, energize their cultures, and attract new customers.
In Superconsumers, growth strategy expert Eddie Yoon lays out a simple but extremely effective framework that has helped companies of all types and sizes achieve more sustainable growth: he’ll show you how to find, listen to, and engage with your most passionate and profitable consumers, and then tailor your decisions to meet their wants and needs. Along the way, he’ll let you into the minds and homes of superconsumers of all kinds, revealing what makes them tick and why they’re willing to spend so much more than other consumers.
Rich with data and case studies of companies that have implemented superconsumer strategies with great success, Superconsumers is a fun, practical, and inspiring guide for anyone interested in making their best customers even better.
- Print length240 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarvard Business Review Press
- Publication dateDecember 20, 2016
- Dimensions5.5 x 1.1 x 8.4 inches
- ISBN-101633692078
- ISBN-13978-1633692077
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"Superconsumers continued to stay with me for its brevity, its anthropological approach, and its power. It was also hands down the most enjoyable read." -- strategy+business magazine
ADVANCE PRAISE for Superconsumers:Keith Levy, President, Royal Canin USA, a division of Mars, Inc.
Every company says they put their customers first. But their actions don’t always reflect their words. It isn’t for lack of effort, though. The truth is, it feels like we face only either/or’ choices between our businesses and our customers. Eddie Yoon has helped company after company break free from this compromise and reach its full potential. Superconsumers shows you how to do it and how to accelerate your growth.”
Man Jit Singh, President, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Superconsumers have helped me throughout my careerfrom selling instant noodles in India to marketing movies in Hollywood. You can ask anyone who works for Sony Home Entertainment Pictures about superconsumers. No matter how junior they are or what role they have, they will know exactly what you’re talking about. We have embedded superconsumers deeply into our culture.”
Steve Hughes, cofounder and CEO, Sunrise Strategic Partners
I’ve had the good fortune of building megabrands with the largest, most respected companies and helping up-and-coming entrepreneurs. In each situation, superconsumers were the secret sauce’ for success. In my experiences as a marketer, a CEO, and now as a private equity investor, superconsumers have always been a proven part of my playbook.”
Mukul Deoras, CMO, Colgate-Palmolive
When I met Eddie a few years ago, I was intrigued by the idea of superconsumers but wondered if it was truly a global phenomenon. However, we discovered during our work with superconsumers from Mexico City, Manila, and Milan how powerful and surprisingly similar their insights were. Working with superconsumers makes growing a global brand much easier, more efficient, and more effective.”
Dwight Brown, Senior Vice President, Marketing, iRobot
Each time I spoke with Eddie, he would share these fun and insightful tidbits about consumers. They were all surprisingand surgical in their precision and power. Later, I realized his wisdom came from superconsumers. This book is not only chock full of epiphanies; it is also a guide that will help you discover your own superconsumers and benefit from them as I have.”
Michelle Stacy, former President, Keurig Inc.
Eddie Yoon taps into a major secret in brand building: every powerful brand derives its strength from an even deeper and more powerful forcethe emotion and energy of superconsumers. These tremendously insightful and influential consumers will pay more, explore more, and advocate more. This book helps you understand how to identify them, completely change the way you think about your business, and maximize your growth.”
About the Author
Eddie Yoon is the founder of EddieWouldGrow, LLC a think tank and advisory firm on growth strategy. Prior to this he was a partner at The Cambridge Group, a strategy consulting firm that helps Fortune 500 CEOs drive growth by unlocking consumer demand. His work over the past two decades has driven over $5 billion dollars of annual profitable growth in consumer packaged goods, durables, robotics and energy. Eddie is one of the world's leading experts on finding and monetizing superconsumers to grow and create new categories. He is the author of Superconsumers, published by Harvard Business School Press, which was recently named one of the Top Business Books of 2017 by Strategy + Business. He contributes regularly on consumers, future demand and growth strategy to the Harvard Business Review and on startups with Inc.com and has been a key note speaker at conferences in Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas.
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- Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press (December 20, 2016)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 240 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1633692078
- ISBN-13 : 978-1633692077
- Item Weight : 12.5 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 1.1 x 8.4 inches
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Eddie is the founder of EddieWouldGrow, LLC, a think tank on growth strategy, superconsumers and category creation, serving high growth, Category Queens backed by VC and PE looking to sell, go public or maximize their valuations. He is also the co-founder of Category Pirates, a top 10 newsletter on Substack. Eddie is the author of Superconsumers, published by the Harvard Business Press, which was named one of the top 7 business book in 2017 by Strategy + Business. Over his career, he has authored 100+ articles on HBR, appeared on CNBC and MSNBC, been quoted in the WSJ, NY Times, The Economist and has helped companies grow >$8B in incremental revenues and tens of billions in market capitalization.
https://categorypirates.substack.com
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There is much applicable information as well for the individual, even a mom like me whose "workforce" is my own children at home. This line stood out from the book, for my own personal application: "To effectively reenergize their workforces, organizations need to shift their emphasis from getting more out of people to investing more in them, so they are motivated - and able - to bring more of themselves to work every day." I can do this at home with my children, not to simply require effort from them, but to invest in them and serve them in a way that energizes, nurtures, and empowers them to live into the whole person we want them to become. It is effort that won't be wasted. And your time reading Eddie's book won't be wasted either.
We are all Superconsumers of something. In my family's case, many things: music & movies, baby wipes (four kids), parmesan cheese (amazon can attest to this - we buy parmesan in bulk because we use it in so many ways!)... the list goes on. This book made me think a lot more about what drives us to behave this way. Well worth a read for anyone looking to jump start their growth strategy.
Now I wonder “What am I a Super Consumer of?” For me it’s probably ‘loyalty points’: lots of biz travel for me + credit cards with loyalty point bonuses. Rationally, points save me cash on travel/flights, and emotionally they let me to do nice things for family/friends but without imposing e.g. get my parents a plane ticket to come visit without actually ‘buying it'.
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