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Product Description: In Gimme!, advertising research expert John Hallward shows you how the most effective advertising campaigns tap into our most basic, primal emotions to convince consumers to buy. For marketers and advertisers, this book looks at the human nature of consumers and presents the proven tactics, techniques, and arguments that best motivate the human animal to buy...read more

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Product Description: sA hands-on guidebook from Accenture for building a globally responsive, customer-driven enterprise As the dust settles from the most recent round of CRM projects, companies are increasingly finding that their efforts havenot delivered anticipated benefits...read more

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