Marketing in the Soul Age: Building Lifestyle Worlds

By Harvey Hartman and The Hartman Group, Inc. 

Marketing in the Soul Age: Building Lifestyle Worlds continues The Hartman Group’s leading-edge thinking by outlining a new approach to understanding and engaging with a dynamic and evolving consumer. The Hartman Model, which we describe here, not only enables us to better understand this new consumer but, even more importantly, gives us a tool that we can use effectively in understanding, communicating, and building a loyal customer.

Harvey Hartman and The Hartman Group has always paid close attention to the marketplace, particularly those consumers who are the driving force of constant change. One of the key insights derived from The Hartman Group’s constant and consistent attempt to see and understand the American consumer more clearly is that the consumer is not primarily driven by rational economic motives. As this is what had led everyone at The Hartman Group to a tremendous appreciation of and fascination with the logic of the irrational forces driving the lifestyle marketplace. This book is our attempt to alert others to what we have learned and to describe some practical applications that can be adapted by almost any business.

Contents

Preface

In Gratitude

Introduction: Seeing the Future; Seeing What’s There

Part One: Developing a New Model

1. Rethinking the Mass Marketplace

2. Mapping the New Lifestyle Marketplace

Part Two: The Soul of Experience

3. Are You Experienced?

4. Dimensions of Experience

5. The Organic Mystique

6. What Is a Cultural Shift, Anyway?

7. Wellness by Design

Part Three: Implications for Branding and Retailing

8. Managing the Wellness Category

9. Branding the Future

10. Selling to the Core at the Periphery

11. At Home in the Grocery Store?

Part Four: Lifestyle Studies

12. Exploring America’s Changing Lifestyle

13. Shopping with Maggie

14. A Day in the Life of the New Wellness Consumer

15. The Wellness Consumer Meets the Computer