Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers - Softcover

Moore, Geoffrey A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0066620023 ISBN 13: 9780066620022

Publisher: Harperbusiness, 1999

Synopsis

Here is the bestselling guide that created a new game plan for marketing in high-tech industries. Crossing the Chasm has become the bible for brining cutting-edge products to progressively larger markets. This revised and updated edition provides new insights into the realities of high-tech marketing, with special emphasis on the Internet. It's essential reading for anyone with a stake in the world's most exciting marketplace.

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Review:

Author Geoffrey Moore makes the case that high-tech products require marketing strategies that differ from those in other industries. His chasm theory describes how high-tech products initially sell well, mainly to a technically literate customer base, but then hit a lull as marketing professionals try to cross the chasm to mainstream buyers. This pattern, says Moore, is unique to the high-tech industry.

Moore suggests remedies that can help businesses overcome these problems and meet their long-term goals. He coaches marketing professionals on how to move slowly through the gulf, teaching them to create profiles and target specific segments of the population rather than trying to plough right into the mainstream. He cites examples of successful chasm crossings by such companies as Apple, Tandem, Oracle and Sun, showing what they all had in common and exposing the different weaknesses in their strategies. Moore also assigns responsibility for success to programmers and developers by suggesting they design a "whole product model". Here, because integration tasks are daunting to the mainstream market, all the components of a technological product must be in one package. Moore also describes strategies for competing with rival companies and assessing the best distribution channels for penetrating the target market.

Written not just for marketing specialists but for all employees whose futures ride on the success of a technical product, Crossing the Chasm delivers crucial information in an engaging, readable manner.

From the Back Cover:

"Read this book or risk joining the others at the bottom of the high-technology abyss." Jim Kouzes, Co-author of The Leadership Challenge

"Crossing the Chasm should be the Bible for high-tech companies looking for direction with marketing and distribution challenges." Robert K. Weller, Senior Vice President, North American Business Group

"Geoff Moore's book is full of good medicine for bad marketing." ComputerLetter

"Crossing the Chasm... will change the way you think." Regis McKenna

About this edition

• Publisher: Harperbusiness
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0066620023
• ISBN 13: 9780066620022
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 227