Basic Marketing: A Marketing Strategy Planning Approach

by Perreault Jr, William D; Cannon, Joseph P; McCarthy, E Jerome

• ISBN13: 9780073381053
• ISBN10: 0073381055
• Edition: 17th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-10-16
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin

Summary

Basic Marketing 17e builds on the foundation pillars of previous editions the four Ps framework, managerial orientation, and strategy planning focus. The Perreault franchise was the pioneer of the "four Ps" in the introductory marketing course. The unifying focus of Basic Marketing has always been on how to make the marketing decisions that a manager must make in deciding what customers to focus on and how best to meet their needs. Over many editions there has been constant change in marketing management and the marketing environment. Some of the changes have been dramatic, and others have been subtle. As a result, the authors have made ongoing changes to the text to reflect marketing's best practices and ideas. Throughout all of these changes, Basic Marketing and the supporting materials that accompany it have been more widely used than any other teaching materials for introductory marketing. Consistent with our belief in continuous quality improvement, this edition has been critically revised, updated, and rewritten to reflect new concepts, new examples, and recent "best practices." This edition extends the strategy planning approach, integrating concepts tightly with the marketing strategy planning model.

Table of Contents

MarketingG++s Value to Consumers, Firms and Society

Marketing Strategy Planning

Focusing Marketing Strategy with Segmentation and Positioning

Evaluating Opportunities in the Changing Marketing Environment

Demographic Dimensions of Global Consumer Markets

Final Consumers and Their Buying Behavior

Business and Organizational Customer and Their Buying Behavior

Improving Decisions with Marketing Information

Elements of Product Planning for Goods and Services

Product Management and New- Product Development

Place and development of Channel Systems

Distribution Customer Service and Logistics

Retailers, Wholesalers, and Their Strategy Planning

Promotion- Introduction to Integrated Marketing Communications

Personal Selling and Customer Service

Advertising and Sales Promotion

Pricing Objectives and Policies

Price Setting in the Business World

Implementing and Controlling Marketing Plans: Evolution and Revolution

Managing MarketingG++s Link with Other Functional Areas

Developing Innovative Marketing Plans

Ethical Marketing in Consumer-Oriented Societies: Appraisal and Challenges

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