For undergraduate principles of marketing courses.
Marketing: An Introduction shows students how customer value -- creating it and capturing it -- drives effective marketing strategies. The 14th Edition reflects the major trends and shifting forces that impact marketing in this digital age of customer value, engagement, and relationships, leaving students with a richer understanding of basic marketing concepts, strategies, and practices. Through updated company cases, Marketing at Work highlights, and revised end-of-chapter exercises, students are able to apply marketing concepts to real-world company scenarios.
Marketing: An Introduction, Global Edition
Description
Table of Contents
PART 1: DEFINING MARKETING AND MARKETING PROCESS
1. Marketing: Creating Customer Value and Engagement
2. Company and Marketing Strategy: Partnering to Build Customer Engagement, Value, and Relationships
PART 2: UNDERSTANDING THE MARKETPLACE AND CONSUMER VALUE
3. Analyzing the Marketing Environment
4. Managing Marketing Information to Gain Customer Insights
5. Understanding Consumer and Business Buyer Behavior
PART 3: DESIGNING A CUSTOMER-VALUE DRIVEN STRATEGY AND MIX
6. Customer Value-Driven Marketing Strategy: Creating Value for Target Customers
7. Products, Services, and Brands: Building Customer Value
8. Developing New Products and Managing the Product Life Cycle
9. Pricing: Understanding and Capturing Customer Value
10. Marketing Channels: Delivering Customer Value
11. Retailing and Wholesaling
12. Engaging Consumers and Communicating Customer Value: Advertising and Public Relations
13. Personal Selling and Sales Promotion
14. Direct, Online, Social Media, and Mobile Marketing
PART 4: EXTENDING MARKETING
15. The Global Marketplace
16. Sustainable Marketing: Social Responsibility and Ethics
Appendix 1: Company Cases
Appendix 2: Marketing Plan
Appendix 3: Marketing by the Numbers
Appendix 4: Careers in Marketing