The Low-Income Consumer: Adjusting the Balance of Exchange

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"Linda F. Alwitt and Thomas Donley's excellent new book reinvigorates the discussion of the major issues in this critical domain and provides creative and novel insights for their resolution. Through careful and imaginative analysis of secondary data, the authors challenge many stereotypes of the poor and provide a solid basis for fresh thinking about how to rebalance the inequities they face in their marketplace encounters. Their solutions draw imaginatively on experiences throughout the developing and developed worlds. This is a book that should be read by all concerned with the marketplace and its effects on its most vulnerable participants." --Alan R. Andreasen, Professor of Marketing & Associate Dean, Georgetown University Product, price, promotion, and place: These are the four areas in which marketing influences consumers. The Low-Income Consumer points out that poor consumers are at a distinct disadvantage in each of these areas. This innovative new book documents the imbalance of the exchange process by describing the business practice of those who market to poor consumers. Issues related to basic necessities--food, housing, and transportation are addressed--as well as the consumption of "sin" products by poor consumers. The problems faced by marketers who target low-income people, including the conflict between sound marketing practices, and marginally ethical or unethical applications of those practices are also examined. Individual chapters are devoted to how the poor manage their finances, how they learn about products from marketers, and how price discrimination and limited accessibility of goods and services affect poor consumers. The final section of the book presents a revised model of marketing exchange with poor consumers, and offers specific directions for a way in which the balance of exchange between marketers and low-income consumers can be adjusted. The Low-Income Consumer is a helpful resource for scholars and researchers in marketing, economics, social work, public policy, consumer policy, and consumer psychology. The book is also appropriate for students in marketing management, business ethics, sociology of the poor, economics of poverty, and public policy.

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limited consumers face the powerful market.......2003-08-08

This book tries to answer the question, "How can advertisers most effectively market to low-income consumers?" At first, it seems exploitative that someone would even ask that of such an oppressed group. However, the researchers are sensitive to the poor and make their study make sense, even in a politically correct manner. This was an anti-classist text. It was a wonderful mix of sociology and business research.

The researchers ask, "Who are the poor?" "How do they spend differently than the middle-class?" They undress myths that the poor spend foolishly or spend more on "sin" products. The book only asks at the end how advertisers may best reach them.

The book isn't perfect. It tries to put a human face on various phenomena with these cheesy real-person quotes. It fudges the question of whether the poor tend to live in urban or rural areas. It discusses many studies that the researchers themselves conducted, often in a haphazard manner. Still, I enjoyed this book. Those who love capitalism but hate poverty in the US will also get much out of it.

The Art of Spelling: The Madness and the Method
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The book I was going to write - or something like it

Facile

The ART of SPELLING is spellbinding!

The madness and the method

WHAT A REVELATION!

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The national bestseller from Parade's "Ask Marilyn" columnist—the definitive book for anyone who cares about spelling. Like The Elements of Style and On Writing Well, The Art of Spelling has emerged as a writing manual for the ages, the backlist volume that will tell us everything we will ever want to know about spelling. Begun as a spelling survey in the "Ask Marilyn" column of Parade magazine, The Art of Spelling dispels the myth that good spelling is simply a measure of intelligence or education. With her trademark no-nonsense wit, vos Savant shows where good (and bad) spelling originates, provides personality portraits of all kinds of spellers, and offers the most effective methods of spelling improvement known. Also included are lively chapters on the turbulent history of English spelling and the pitfalls of computer spell-checkers and other writing tools. The Art of Spelling will appeal to scholars, students, and language lovers of all ages.

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The book I was going to write - or something like it.......2006-09-15

I believe our culture lacks an appreciation of the goofiness of our spelling system, its history, and its value. This book does a fairly good job of providing a humorous, insightful, and helpful look at English spelling, without taking either a superior or a belittling attitude. Down-to-earth, a fun read, and maybe helpful for people who really want to improve. A little bit less history than I would have included, but probably just as much as most people want to hear. For geeks like me, there's always the Oxford English Dictionary.

Facile.......2001-03-23

Here is an author who is said to have the highest IQ ever recorded. Why, then, did she waste her time writing this book? This book is also a waste of time for the reader. If you're a good speller, it has nothing to teach you. If you're a bad speller, it won't help you any more than all the rules you were taught in school but never learned. If you want to spell correctly, consult a dictionary or a good speller.

The ART of SPELLING is spellbinding!.......2001-01-14

With Joan Reilly's illustration this lively, comprehensive & useful guide for spellers of all abilities takes a look at what our spelling reveals about our intelligence & personalities.

Marilyn vos Savant reconstitutes our turbulent history in spelling this language we call English, offering us insights about the use & misuse of spell-checkers - remember, computers won't know the difference between wave & waive or their & they're & she sketches some surprising portraits of all kinds of us spellers.

If spelling interests you in the least little bit, do give this book a go - you may very well find it a delight, I did! Do visit my site for my full review & editorials on the love of reading & writing!

The madness and the method.......2001-01-06

The Art of Spelling by Marilyn Vos Savant is a book to be read not an exercise manual. It summarizes much of the advice found in other books on spelling improvement and includes such things as a list of the most frequently misspelled words but contains no drills. As close as one gets to the usual content of a self help book on spelling is a personality questionnaire.

Nearly half of the book is devoted to the psychology of good and bad spellers so it makes sense to determine if the reader has the characteristics of either of these groups.

Unlike many books on this topic, the author has not only read the best books on the topic but has interviewed the authors.

It certainly makes sense to interview the experts but I have rarely seen this strategy used as effectively as it is in this book.

Although she interviews the Anglo-Saxon scholar who the president of the Simplified Spelling Society, she misses the opportunity to address any of the real solutions to the spelling problem.

She does identify the problem as "phonetic irregularity" -- many words are not spelled the way they are pronounced.

She follows up this insight with a misleading quote from author Edna Furness (p.119) "Research in linguistics has shown that the English language is more phonetic than we realize (approximately 85%)."

All languages are 100% phonetic. It is the writing systems that try to record meaningful sounds that go astray.

There is some statistical regularity in English spelling. Four spelling patterns for the 12 elementary vowels will account for 75% of the vowel spellings in the dictionary. [See www.unifon.org/uu-18ways.html].

Most writing systems achieve a spelling predictability rating of over 85% but not the traditional one used to transcribe English. In English, knowing how to pronounce a word will enable someone to come up with not one but a half dozen orthographically correct spellings. Since each sound in English is spelled 14 different ways, narrowing the spelling of a particular pronunciation down to 6 alternatives is an accomplishment.

There may be an 85% chance that one of these six allowable spellings is correct -- i.e., matches the dictionary.

Knowing the basic code does help narrow the field and Vos Savant lists up to five of the most common spellings for 39 of the 40 or so sounds in English speech. She also provides some useful mnemonic devices for selecting the best alternative in the group.

Other practical advice includes how to use a spelling checker without being overly dependent on it.

This is a book that anyone with an interest in spelling will enjoy reading. Marilyn Vos Savant is a seasoned writer and it shows.

WHAT A REVELATION!.......2000-10-09

All my life, that's 68 years, I've been a horrible speller. Even though I am a member of Mensa, as is Marilyn Vos Savant, I can not spell well. Even though I have an earned Ph.D. from Texas A&M University I can not spell. This lack of spelling ability has caused me many episodes of embarrassment and concern. I have a dictionary at hand when ever I write. I seldom send anything out without having it read by an editor, my wife, Nell.

Given the above, I wrote Marilyn Vos Savant and asked her this question. "Do you believe that the ability to spell is a measure of intelligence, education or desire?"

Ms.Savant's printed my question in Parade Magazine. She got 42,000 answers from readers. She then used her 200+ IQ and did a very comprehensive job of researching what others had said and written. After she examined the 42,000 answers and the results of her research she wrote one of the most informative books I could imagine. Her analysis and very readable writing style is a testament to her great mind.

I recommend this book to ALL teachers and others who are interested in spelling problems. It is worth much more than the few dollars Amazon is charging.

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In 1998, Parade's "Ask Marilyn" columnist Vos Savant did a reader survey about spelling and received more than 43,000 responses. The result of the survey is this book. Vos Savant offers some suggestions for spelling improvement, supplying common roots like anim-, arch-, and spec- and a list of 500 commonly misspelled words. She also includes a few quizzes, with answers in the back of the book. This is not a how-to book,however, for more than half of it examines what spelling ability tells us about intelligence and personality. Vos Savant points out that while it is true that spelling errors reveal a lot about the writer, spelling and intelligence do not necessarily go hand in hand: some highly educated people spell poorly, while some uneducated people spell surprisingly well. Fortunately, everyone can learn to spell better, This well-written book is fun to read and gives hope to the spelling impaired.The bibliography and web site list are nice additions as well. Recommended for all libraries.(Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.)

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This book is way to outdated to be of any help!.......2005-10-20

This book is copyrighted in 2000. In five years the internet has changed so much that this book is of little use. Many of the URLs listed in the book are outdated (the sites are no longer there!). Google is now the number one search engine, and what little information the book has on it is outdated. For example, keywords and titles have NO effect on your Google rating. This book should either be updated or discontinued so that buyers don't waste their money!

Recipe to be spammer and unethical SE optimizer.......2005-01-30

The whole SEO strategy the authors teach is based on doorway pages and hidden links, which are considered UNETHICAL and SPAM by SEO community and Search Engines. Never ever do what they say. Otherwise you will damage your reputition and business.

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