Reframe the marketplace

the long version

"Reframe identifies the Total Market, a group of emerging consumers who have been ignored in marketing and advertising for the last 50 years. They are the individuals who have been part of the contemporary and cultural transformation of the world's population. That group includes underserved communities, women, the LGBT community, and the followers of non-Christian religions, among others. As an aggregate of overlooked and underserved market segments, the Total Market now constitutes more than half of the country's population. That's when the minority becomes the majority. Still, brands, businesses, advertisers and marketers have for the most part turned a blind eye to this particular quake, now worth more than $300 billion globally. How this failure to recognize and reach the most important new consumer marketplace in history happened-and how to fix it-is the entire focus and purpose of the book"--