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Foundations of Marketing by
Popular with readers from all backgrounds and interest levels, FOUNDATIONS OF MARKETING, 5th Edition introduces you to the essentials and latest trends in marketing with strong visuals and stimulating, timely discussions. Meaningful coverage of current marketing strategies and concepts includes social media, entrepreneurship, sustainability, globalization, customer relationship management, supply chain management, and e-commerce models. Emerging topics, such as social and environmental responsibility, entrepreneurship, and marketing during transitional times depict the changing nature of business, keeping you in touch with and prepared for a competitive world. Illustrating the issues with captivating photos, screenshots, advertisements, and examples from real life, FOUNDATIONS OF MARKETING, 5th Edition also offers a variety of modern learning supplements, such as podcasts, videos, and an interactive marketing plan, to help you develop the practical decision-making skills you need for professional success.
ISBN: 9781111580162Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Can't Buy Me Like by
Today's brands face an apparent choice between two evils: continue betting on their increasingly ineffective advertising or put blind faith in the supposedly mystical power of social media, where "likes" stand in for transactions and a mass audience is maddeningly elusive. There has to be a better way . . . As Lennon and McCartney wrote a half century ago, money can't buy you love. But in today's world, where people have become desensitized-even disillusioned-by ad campaigns and marketing slogans, that maxim needs an update: Money can't even buy you like."
ISBN: 9781591845775Publication Date: 2013-03-07
Customer-Oriented Marketing Strategy by
This book is about customer orientation as a marketing strategy. It covers the vast literature on the subject and tries to combine the major studies in this specific field of marketing and strategy to offer a comprehensive strategic tool for decision makers in organizations. The book starts with the classic marketing concept and then reviews important developments and research of the latest findings both from the theoretical and applied points of view. Examples, methodologies, policy measures and strategies to be implemented in order to drive customer satisfaction are the backbone of this book. Both manufacturing and service businesses are addressed. This book also covers the relationships, applications and the steps to be taken to drive continuous relationships with customers to aid in the process of defining and implementing niche strategies, international marketing efforts, and electronic commerce. This book is aimed at researchers, graduate students, marketing practitioners both in manufacturing and service, chief executive officers of companies as well as those responsible for marketing strategy.
ISBN: 9781606495209Publication Date: 2012-12-31
Drucker on Marketing by
THE ESSENTIAL MARKETING WISDOM OF PETER DRUCKER "Bill Cohen has done us a wonderful service by faithfully combing through Peter Drucker's vast writings and weaving together Peter's thoughts on marketing. This has never been done before." -- Philip Kotler, from the Foreword Considered the single most important thought leader in the world of management, Peter Drucker had an equally significant influence on the discipline of marketing. Although he didn't approach marketing with the same systematic rigor he reserved for management, Druckeraddressed the topic in detail in his wellknown treatises on the roles of profitability and leadership, the importance of innovation, and the need to seize new opportunities. Drucker on Marketing is the first comprehensivelook at the marketing wisdom of one of modern history's most influential business thinkers. A former student of Peter Drucker, William Cohen has sifted through Drucker's huge body of work, singled out hismost salient ideas on marketing, and constructedthem into a framework that not only outlines Drucker's marketing philosophy but provides practical advice onhow to achieve marketing goals in today's business setting. The book is organized into five thematic sections: The Ascendancy of Marketing Innovation and Entrepreneurship Drucker's Marketing Strategy New Product and Service Introduction Drucker's Unique Marketing Insights For Drucker, profitability should not be the main focus of a business. The customer should be; the market should be. He didn't consider marketing as one of many tools to generate profits. Rather, he viewed marketing as the driving force of business, a philosophy for defining andcapturing the most enriching customer opportunities. Providing unique insight into the mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers, Drucker on Marketing is an essential read for both marketing professionals and fans of Peter Drucker. Praise for Drucker on Marketing "Bill Cohen's interpretation of Drucker's work has never been needed more than today, when marketing spells the difference between success and failure." -- Frances Hesselbein, President and CEO, The Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute "It is my desire that those in positions of influence, especially executives, professors, and students, take Cohen's advice in this book to heart and help their organizations to help us all." -- Joseph A. Maciariello, Horton Professor of Management, The Drucker School of Management, and coauthor of The Drucker Difference "Drucker on Marketing reflects Bill Cohen's unique ability to understand and communicate Peter Drucker's thoughts and ideas about [marketing] with the added touch of how to implement them in a dynamic and changing world." -- C. William Pollard, Chairman Emeritus, The ServiceMaster Company "Drucker said it best when he said that marketing and innovation are the most important business functions because they generate new customers. So, believe me, anything he said about marketing is worth reading. There's no better thinker." -- Jack Trout, global marketing expert, President, Trout & Partners Ltd., and bestselling coauthor of Positioning "Bill Cohen has synthesized and analyzed and brought to life the single subject that, in many respects, lies at the heart of all of Drucker's writing: how to create acustomer. This is a major contribution." -- Rick Wartzman, Executive Director, The Drucker Institute, and columnist for Forbes.com
ISBN: 9780071778626Publication Date: 2012-10-17Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck? by Made for dipping into again and again, Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck? brings together the very best of Seth Godin's acclaimed blog and is a classic for fans both old and new. 'Getting your ducks in a row is a fine thing to do. But deciding what you are going to do with that duck is a far more important issue' Seth Godin is famous for bestselling books such as Purple Cow and cool entrepreneurial ventures such as Squidoo and the Domino Project. But to millions of loyal readers, he's best known for the daily burst of insight he provides every morning, rain or shine, via Seth's Blog. Since he started blogging in the early 1990s, he has written more than two million words and shaped the way we think about marketing, leadership, careers, innovation, creativity, and more. Much of his writing is inspirational and some is incendiary. Collected here are six years of his best, most entertaining, and most poignant blog posts, plus a few bonus ebooks. From thoughts on how to treat your customers to telling stories and spreading ideas, Godin pushes us to think smarter, dream bigger, write better, and speak more honestly. Highlights include: -A marketing lesson from the Apocalypse -No, everything is not going to be okay -Organized bravery -Choose your customers, choose your future -Paying attention to the attention economy -Bandits and philanthropists Godin writes to get under our skin. He wants us to stand up and do something remarkable, outside the standards of the industrial system that raised us. Seth Godin is the author of thirteen international bestsellers that have changed the way people think about marketing, the ways ideas spread, leadership and change including Permission Marketing, Purple Cow, All Marketers are Liars, The Dip and Tribes. He is the CEO of Squidoo.com and a very popular lecturer. His blog, www.sethgodin.typepad.com, is the most influential business blog in the world, and consistently one of the 100 most popular blogs on any subject.
ISBN: 9781591846093Publication Date: 2012-12-27
Market Research Methods in the Sports Industry by
Whetherprofessional or amateur, sports businesses must develop their brand and imageto meet the expectations of a diverse environment, consisting of fans,sponsors, and other stakeholders. The value and instruments of market researchcan provide the required resources for sports businesses to realize theirplans. In Market Research in the Sports Industry,Jasenko Ljubica and Neven Seric provide a comprehensive elaboration of marketresearch methods to be used by sports businesses. The book identifies andexplains the most effective uses of market research, drawing upon real-lifecase studies. The application of the methodspresented in this book, ranging from the simplest - monitoring the environment- to the most complex sampling methods, can significantly contribute to thedevelopment of sports businesses by increasing the number of members, sponsors,followers and fans. The book will beinvaluable for researchers, educators and students of Sports Management andMarketing, and it will also prove useful to sporting professionals seeking togain a competitive edge in the market.
ISBN: 9781787541917Publication Date: 2018-05-29
