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Why businesses ought to never underestimate the power of place.

Today's business leaders are so obsessed with all things global and virtual that they risk neglecting the critical affect of physical place. It's a paradox of the Internet age: now that it's possible for businesses to be everyplace at once, they need to focus on what it means to be one specific place at a time.

The best international brands, from IBM to McDonald's, are by design likewise the leading local brands. For instance, your decision to patronize Starbucks will depend on whether it's the best local coffee shop in your neighborhood, not on how galore thousands of international emplacements it has.


Marketing experts John Quelch and Katherine Jocz offer a new way to think when it comes to place in each strategic decision-from how to leverage buyer associations with locatings to where to position merchandise on the shelf. They explore case studies such as Nike and The Apple , which use place in originative ways.

Drawing on a blend of hard info and engaging anecdotes, this book will help any business-from international mega-brands to boutique, little town stores- influence clients more effectively.

ReviewThis book is a timely reminder that not all markets are global and even those that are have local foundations. Consumers trust huge brands but they also trust local relationships based in their community. Well worth the read Sir Terry Leahy, former CEO, Tesco This is not a back-to-basics book: it takes the debate a great step forward. All Business Is Local identifies and endorses the most primary distinct features of international market-ing - then convincingly demonstrates not just the need for local sensitivity but likewise the huge competitory value that an evocative sense of place may confer on ambitious brands Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO WPP Technology has rendered distance irrelevant, but that does not mean we must for-get the importance of location. Quelch and Jocz remind us that, while we may all be international citizens, we are deeply influenced by our connections to place. All Business Is Local is a thoughtful and counterintuitive book Don Tapscott, bestselling co-author of Wikinomics

About the Author

John Quelch is Dean of CEIBS, the highestranked business school in China. He's likewise a former Dean of the London Business School and a former professor at Harvard Business School.
Katherine E. Jocz is a exploration associate at Harvard Business School and a former conductor at Marketspace. Their work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review amid other publications.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
star40 tpng swiss tourism indiaThe more things change, the more they stay the same
By N. Noor
The writers do a outstanding occupation of making the case for localization and importance of geography when it comes to branding, and in ordinary marketing. There are a good deal of interesting anecdotes (e.g., how Malaysia attracted investment from multinational corporations) which make for an agreeably diverting read. Also peppered all around are high level frameworks that others have employed to strike a remainder around globalization and localization of respective product attributes. These may aid readers to consider new dimensions as they explore the conceptions on their own.
Having said that, towards the end of the book, the proof to support the thesis around why emplacement is ever so essential gets a bit tiring, with the last chapter rehashing numerous of the conceptions introduced earlier in the book.

1 of 1 persons found the following review helpful.
star50 tpng swiss tourism indiaAn perceptive book, stating the unstated!
By Seng W. Loke
The book has provided me new perceptivities into the importance of emplacement and place in business. I am a Computer Scientist, and have published work on place-based computing (including how to make places legible), but I find the ideas on place in this book from the business perspective useful. The book discusses the need to take into account how people think in regards to places (such as the value of associating productions with places that influences the sensing of products, e.g., German car, etc), how people interact with the physical place, the role of virtual place (the Internet and how it may supplement physical place), how geographic place must be approached, and when it comes to local and global markets (e.g., contextualization, etc). Several interesting observations are noted, e.g., that with Facebook, some friends of persons have a geographical bias - there tend to be more friends who are geographically closer to the person, even though Facebook is on the Internet, transcending geographical barriers. The book is a utile read even for Computer Scientists or anybody mesmerized in understanding an aspect of how the works.

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