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- Title: Crossing the Chasm
- Author: Geoffrey A. Moore
- Publisher: Harper Business
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- Description:
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- "If you find yourself wondering why it is that the majority of potential
- buyers for your newest breakthrougth technology are not as enthusiastic
- as your early adopters, read this book or risk joining the others at the
- bottom of the high-technology abyss."
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- -JIM KOUZES, co-author of The Leadership Challenge,
- President of TPG/Learning Systems,
- a Tom Peters Croup Company
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- The old method of marketing technology products - which achieved some
- successes but far more casualties - makes way for a much smarter game
- plan. Every year companies gamble away millions of dollars and
- countless hours of technical talent on doomed efforts to market
- technology products. The new item - whether a kind of personal
- computer, VCR, microwave, CD player, cellular phone, answering machine,
- or any one of a number of high-tech appliances - is greeted rapturously
- by a few adventurous consumers, only to fizzle out in the wider
- marketplace. The tremendous success of a handful of high-tech products
- doesn't even begin to balance out the failure of most others. Now that
- more and more products fit the high-tech category, it's essential for
- marketing professionals to understand how to present these products to
- the public - and to discover exactly why the current model for high-tech
- marketing just isn't making the grade.
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- Geoffrey Moore, a principal at Regis McKenna Inc., the world's leading
- high-tech marketing and communications company, throws outmoded
- marketing ideas out the window to clear space for the special realities
- of the high-tech market. Moore helps readers fully understand the risks
- of each transition point in the Technology Adoption Life Cycle and plan
- for them accordingly. He shows how to adjust market development and
- marketing communications strategies with the approach of each new
- segment to ensure that products are positioned to break into the larger
- market. Based on a revolutionary new model and filled with practical
- insights, Crossing the Chasm is a landmark book. Everyone with a stake
- in the success of a technology product will profit from it.
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- Praise for Crossing the Chasm
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- "I only hope every company I have to deal with in the future reads,
- understands. and puts into practice what Geoff suggests in this book.
- We'd have a lot more successful high-tech companies and I'd have a far
- easier job."
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- --BRUCE FREDERICKSON, Vice-President of Marketing, Ingram/Micro
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- "Geoff Moore's book is full of good medicine for bad marketing, which
- kills more high-technology companies these days than bad technology.
- It's packed with clear, specific examples that can help companies
- distinguish themselves at a time when technology products are becoming
- more and more alike."
-
- --DICK SHAFFER, Editor and Publisher, ComputerLetter
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- "While other business books speak only with 20/20 hindsight, Crossing
- the Chasm actually applies its techniques to solve the marketing
- problems facing industry today. Fascinating stuff."
-
- --SCOTT D. COOK, President, Intuit
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- "Moore doesn't just offer a few useful tips he raises fundamental
- questions about the underlying dynamics of high-tech markets. This
- book should be read by anyone who makes marketing strategy decisions.
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- --Jeff Tarter, Editor, Softletter