Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes

Unabridged
Author: Mark J. Penn
Narrator: Brett Barry
Genres: Business
Publisher: Twelve
Date: September 2007
Length: 9 hours
Ratings:
Formats:
  • CD

Overview

Mark Penn argues that the biggest trends in America are the Microtrends, the smaller trends that go unnoticed or ignored. One million people can create new market for a business, spark a social movement, or effect political change. In 1996, a microtrend identified by Penn ("soccer moms") was crucial in re-electing President Clinton. With years of experience as one of world's most highly regarded pollsters, Penn identifies the new microtrends sweeping the world:
SINGLE WOMEN BY CHOICE: Women aren't waiting for Mr. Right. They are raising children by themselves and buying their own homes.
SPLITTERS: A growing number of middle-class residents are shuttling between two homes, creating new communities and dynamics in the real estate market.
SUN HATERS: Environmentalists, skin cancer survivors, and parents concerned about the sun's impact on our health.
PHILO-SEMITES: A growing number of people want to date Jewish men and women.
CLASSICAL MUSIC DADS: Older men who are fathers in their 40's and 50's and taking on a larger role in the nurturing of their children and becoming an important factor in consumer culture for kids.
MICROTRENDS highlights everything from religion to politics, from leisure pursuits to relationships and will take the listener into the worlds of polling, targeting, and psychographic analysis, reaching tantalizing conclusions through engaging analysis.

Reviews (2)

Disappointing

Written by Anonymous on October 14th, 2008

  • Book Rating: 3/5

It could have been more objective and more fact based. It trys to make some conclusion that that the facts stated didn't support. You can really tell the auther has ties to the Clintons.

micro trends

Written by hidavehi from Keller, TX on June 28th, 2008

  • Book Rating: 4/5

Great book, reader and topic. Along lines of freakanomics but has a future bend to it with the history to take us there. Only reason marked down half a star is that some of the predictions are a bit drawn out. Highly recommend