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Marketing Management and Strategy: An African Casebook
by George TesarThis book gives readers an understanding of the factors that shape the marketing decisions of managers who operate in African economies. It brings together fifteen African cases written by scholars and executives with rich knowledge of business practices in Africa. By combining theoretical insights with practical information from the cases, the reader is introduced to issues relating to marketing strategy formulation, managerial actions in designing and implementing marketing decisions, as well as the operational contexts within which these actions are taken. The book is essential reading for both undergraduate and graduate students in marketing, international strategy and international business who require an understanding of African business.
Marketing Management in Africa
by George Tesar Steven W. Anderson Hassimi Traore Jens GraffThis book focuses on strategies for developing consumer markets in Africa using concepts and techniques from marketing, entrepreneurship, and project management. The authors argue that entrepreneurial activity in Africa is rapid, but limited, and requires a structured approach to drive success. Beginning with an introductory chapter that frames the socio-economic and technological developments in Africa, readers are introduced to the conceptual model that provides this structured approach in four logical parts: The creative stage Entrepreneurial and enterprise activities Understanding consumer behavior and market segments A project management-based framework. This multidisciplinary approach is supplemented with many examples and cases from a variety of sectors including health care, wind and solar power, and mobile technology. Through these, readers are able to understand how the model is implemented in reality to drive innovative economic and social development. Marketing Management in Africa will prove a valuable companion to any student of marketing or entrepreneurship with a particular interest in Africa.
Marketing Management in Asia. (Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy)
by Tim Andrews Stan Paliwoda Junsong ChenAsia is no longer simply the continent to which the world turns for outsourcing and off shoring of production, leaving retailing to Western countries. Asia now contains many of the world’s largest markets plus many emergent markets as well. North America is fast ceding ground to China as the world’s largest economic power. Europe has been able to make productivity gains from trade, fiscal and monetary harmonization to remain globally competitive while Africa, whose nations practice free trade, is largely ignored both in terms of forgiving debt and providing further credit. Each chapter of this volume details the characteristics of an individual market in Asia and demonstrates the challenges that marketers are likely to face in these environments. Covering not just production or consumption but trade as it is practiced now, this book outlines the new norms, conventions and service performance levels that these markets demand.
Marketing Management: A Cultural Perspective
by Lisa Peñaloza Nil Toulouse Luca M. ViscontiCulture pervades consumption and marketing activity in ways that potentially benefit marketing managers. This book provides a comprehensive account of cultural knowledge and skills useful in strategic marketing management. In making these cultural concepts and frameworks accessible and in discussing how to use them, this edited textbook goes beyond the identification of historical, socio-cultural and political factors and their effects on market outcomes. It builds understanding of the cultural symbols, world views, and practices at the heart of organizations and consumer collectives to better comprehend their relationships in markets. This book highlights the benefits that managers can reap from applying interpretive cultural approaches across the realm of strategic marketing activities including: market segmentation, product and brand positioning, market research, pricing, product development, advertising, and retail distribution, among others. With global contributions grounded in the authors’ primary research with companies such as General Motors, Camper, Prada, Mama Shelter, Kjaer Group, Hom, and the Twilight Community, this edited volume delivers a truly innovative marketing textbook. Marketing Management: A Cultural Perspective brings a timely and relevant learning resource to marketing students, lecturers, and managers across the world.
Marketing Management: A Cultural Perspective (Forschungs-/entwicklungs-/innovations-management Ser.)
by Visconti Luca M. Peñaloza Lisa Toulouse NilCulture pervades consumption and marketing activity in ways that potentially benefit marketing managers. This book provides a comprehensive account of cultural knowledge and skills useful in strategic marketing management. In making these cultural concepts and frameworks accessible and in discussing how to use them, this edited textbook goes beyond the identification of historical, sociocultural, and political factors impinging upon consumer cultures and their effects on market outcomes. This fully updated and restructured new edition provides two new introductory chapters on culture and marketing practice and improved pedagogy, to give a deeper understanding of how culture pervades consumption and marketing phenomena; the way market meanings are made, circulated, and negotiated; and the environmental, ethical, experiential, social, and symbolic implications of consumption and marketing. The authors highlight the benefits that managers can reap from applying interpretive cultural approaches across the realm of strategic marketing activities including: market segmentation, product and brand positioning, market research, pricing, product development, advertising, and retail distribution. Global contributions are grounded in the authors’ primary research with a range of companies including Cadbury’s Flake, Dior, Dove, General Motors, HOM, Hummer, Kjaer Group, Le Bon Coin, Mama Shelter, Mecca Cola, Prada, SignBank, and the Twilight community. This edited volume, which compiles the work of 58 scholars from 14 countries, delivers a truly innovative, multinationally focused marketing management textbook. Marketing Management: A Cultural Perspective is a timely and relevant learning resource for marketing students, lecturers, and managers across the world.
Marketing Management: A Customer-Centric Approach
by Fred Selnes Even Johan LansengThis textbook introduces students to the field of marketing management by emphasizing a customer-centric approach, which involves defining the purpose of marketing as the recruitment, defence, leverage, and development of customer/brand relationships. Because customers vary in their needs for products and services and their relationships with brands, you′ll discover how segmentation and differentiation play a crucial role in marketing management. After delving into market dynamics, customer behaviour, and market communications, you′ll explore the three main areas within marketing management: customer portfolio management, product portfolio management, and brand portfolio management. Finally, you′ll gain insights into developing marketing/business strategies and plans for success through comprehensive analysis, resource allocation, budgeting, and measuring key performance indicators. Features include case studies to bring theory to life, further reading suggestions to expand your understanding, and a marketing planning template to practice applying your knowledge to a real business scenario. Suitable for undergraduate/bachelor and postgraduate students studying Marketing Management and Strategic Marketing. Fred Selnes is a professor of marketing at BI, Norwegian Business School. Even Lanseng is an associate professor of marketing at BI, Norwegian Business School.
Marketing Management: A Customer-Centric Approach
by Fred Selnes Even Johan LansengThis textbook introduces students to the field of marketing management by emphasizing a customer-centric approach, which involves defining the purpose of marketing as the recruitment, defence, leverage, and development of customer/brand relationships. Because customers vary in their needs for products and services and their relationships with brands, you′ll discover how segmentation and differentiation play a crucial role in marketing management. After delving into market dynamics, customer behaviour, and market communications, you′ll explore the three main areas within marketing management: customer portfolio management, product portfolio management, and brand portfolio management. Finally, you′ll gain insights into developing marketing/business strategies and plans for success through comprehensive analysis, resource allocation, budgeting, and measuring key performance indicators. Features include case studies to bring theory to life, further reading suggestions to expand your understanding, and a marketing planning template to practice applying your knowledge to a real business scenario. Suitable for undergraduate/bachelor and postgraduate students studying Marketing Management and Strategic Marketing. Fred Selnes is a professor of marketing at BI, Norwegian Business School. Even Lanseng is an associate professor of marketing at BI, Norwegian Business School.
Marketing Management: Indian Context Global Perspective
by Ramaswamy NamakumariIsn't it time we addressed the elephant in the room? Are the existing texts on marketing management contextually sufficient for Indian students? Here is the pioneer. A book that is India-centric, comprehensive and apt for the times. Staying relevant to contemporary times, the sixth edition of the transformational text Marketing Management: Indian Context, Global Perspective comes with an even mightier foundation with its practical, research-based content. Why this particular text? Because it is not an 'adaptation of a foreign book' or one 'with few Indian examples'. It has remained, since its first edition, published 35 years ago, the unparalleled text presenting an India-centric approach to the discipline of marketing. The compelling logic for an Indian text Since marketing is an environment-driven subject, it requires an environment-specific treatment. This text meets this need and equips students to comprehend marketing in a manner relevant to the Indian setting. Tracks every transition and change Marketing is changing. India is changing. Technology, digitisation and overall disruption drive this change. This text captures this change and interprets its import. Comprehensive coverage, engaging presentation The text re-visits the basics and explores the contemporary concepts of marketing. It contains a fine blend of mini cases on experiences of companies, both Indian and global. It comes with a brand-new feature: Marketing Insight Exhibit; as many as 140 exhibits explain how high-performing Indian and global companies keep excelling. With this book, students will start loving the study of marketing User-friendliness, excellent readability, exciting presentation and innovative design are its hallmarks.
Marketing Management: Past, Present and Future (Springer Texts in Business and Economics)
by Michael R. Czinkota Masaaki Kotabe Demetris Vrontis S. M. ShamsThis textbook provides students with comprehensive insights on the classical and contemporary marketing theories and their practical implications. A fourth, revised edition of Marketing Management, the text features new classical and contemporary cases, new interdisciplinary and cross-functional implications of business management theories, contemporary marketing management principles and. futuristic application of marketing management theories and concepts. The core and complex issues are presented in a simplified manner providing students with a stimulating learning experience that enables critical thinking, understanding and future application. Each chapter features a chapter summary, key terms, review and discussion questions and a practice quiz. Throughout the text there are also specific teaching features to provide students and instructors with an enhanced pedagogical experience. These features include: The Manager’s Corner: These sections provide real-world examples that instructors may highlight to exemplify theory or as mini-cases for discussion. Marketing in Action: These sections ask students to apply concepts and theories to actual business situations. Web Exercises: These mini sections provide students with real world issues and suggest websites for more information. In addition, the authors provide ancillary lecture notes and Solution/Instructors manual online to aid instructors in their teaching activities.
Marketing Management: Text and Cases
by David L Loudon Robert E Stevens Bruce WrennStep-by-step guidelines for successful marketing management! Designed for college- and graduate-level marketing students, Marketing Management: Text and Cases is also a valuable resource for anyone trying to market a product or service. This volume integrates understandable marketing concepts and techniques with useful tables, graphs, and exhibits. Three leading experts in marketing management teach you how to market any business. Marketing Management: Text and Cases is divided into two sections to accommodate a wide variety of interests. The first section is an essential textbook that offers a complete overview of marketing management, and describes the steps necessary for successful company-to-customer interaction. Each chapter comes generously enhanced with tables and charts to clearly demonstrate the marketing process from concept to implementation. Marketing Management: Text and Cases also contains fifteen new case studies to challenge the more experienced marketing student as well as introduce the beginner to situations where the marketing process can be demonstrated. These cases provide a wide variety of managerial situations for small, medium, and large companies as well as entrepreneurial cases to expose readers to the types of analyses needed for those examples. From the creation of a new waterpark to marketing algae products, these case studies provide backgrounds, histories, trend analyses, and data to reveal the companies&’ situations and possible solutions. This book is useful for training courses and valuable to university faculty and students as well as business managers, CEOs, and entrepreneurs. Marketing Management: Text and Cases covers essential managerial elements of marketing, including: an overview of marketing in the new millennium, including basic definitions, global marketing, and electronic marketing customer analysis-segmentation, market grids, and market estimations competitive analysis-types of competition, gathering intelligence, and marketing audits financial analysis-assessing revenue, cost, profitability, and risk for marketing decisions marketing planning-both strategic planning and operational perspectives evaluation and control of marketing activities including sales, cost, and profit
Marketing Marijuana in Colorado
by David Lane John A. QuelchColorado's 2014 legalization of marijuana for adult recreational (not just medical) use created a new market that entrepreneurs rushed to enter, channeled by regulations that aimed to minimize marijuana's access to minors while not stifling the emergent new industry. The case describes Colorado's initial experience with marijuana legalization and asks students to assess the resulting business opportunities, regulatory efficacy, and public health implications.
Marketing Masters: Ready, Set, Grow Your Market
by Connie PheiffDrawing from real examples of companies who are practicing creative marketing as well as her experience working with small and enterprise level businesses and nonprofit organizations improve their marketing strategy. Connie provides a revolutionary system for serving, not sales to transform the relationship between companies and customers. When looking to convert consumers in today’s tough business environment Connie’s system can help you immediately implement your creative marketing system by using the tools provided in this book. Today’s marketplace continues to be ravaged by changes---to convert relationships to partnerships, consumers to customers, and ideas into realities you need to think differently. No matter what business you are in, the information in this book will help experts creatively engage and unlock hidden opportunities.
Marketing Mess to Brand Success: 30 Challenges to Transform Your Organization's Brand (and Your Own) (Mess to Success)
by Scott Jeffrey MillerFrom the Wall Street Journal–bestselling author, &“the perfect roadmap for anyone looking to build their brand&” (Marie Forleo, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Everything Is Figureoutable). In Scott Miller&’s newest Mess to Success guide, the FranklinCovey senior advisor reveals thirty career obstacles that you may encounter in your brand marketing, and how to transform them into company wide gains. In thirty chapters, Marketing Mess to Brand Success shares a career&’s worth of valuable lessons learned, such as &“A Name is Not a Lead&” and &“Hire People Smarter Than You.&” Fast-track your career and success with the mentality of bruising hard, but healing fast. Whether you&’re an entrepreneur starting a new company; a brand manager figuring out the best direct marketing strategy or brand positioning for a niche market; or an aspiring marketing manager, this book is designed to prepare you for many of the inevitable challenges you will encounter. Learn to: · Navigate a nebulous digital marketing environment · Maximize time and investments with sales marketing strategies · Build and model consistent brand standards · Become an expert in brand marketing and take your company to the next level &“Don&’t worry about making marketing mistakes―worry about not learning from them, advises Miller, chief marketing officer at the management services company FranklinCovey, in this energetic guide.&” —Publishers Weekly &“Scott Miller offers tangible insights and practical steps to make sure your product finds the right customer.&” —Donald Miller, author of Building a StoryBrand
Marketing Metaphoria
by Lindsay H. Zaltman Gerald ZaltmanWhy do advertising campaigns and new products often fail? Why do consumers feel that companies don't understand their needs? Because marketers themselves don't think deeply about consumers' innermost thoughts and feelings. Marketing Metaphoria is a groundbreaking book that reveals how to overcome this "depth deficit" and find the universal drivers of human behavior so vital to a firm's success.Marketing Metaphoria reveals the powerful unconscious viewing lenses--called "deep metaphors"-- that shape what people think, hear, say, and do.Drawing on thousands of one-on-one interviews in more than thirty countries, Gerald Zaltman and Lindsay Zaltman describe how some of the world's most successful companies as well as small firms, not-for-profits, and social enterprises have successfully leveraged deep metaphors to solve a wide variety of marketing problems. Marketing Metaphoria should convince you that everything consumers think and do is influenced at unconscious levels--and it will give you access to those deeper levels of thinking.
Marketing Methods to Improve Company Strategy: Applied Tools and Frameworks to Improve a Company’s Competitiveness Using a Network Approach
by Marcos Fava Neves Luciano Thome e Castro Matheus Alberto ConsoliThe authors of this book present several central business methods throughout all chapters. Every method introduced in Marketing Methods to Improve Company Strategy has a strong market driven philosophy. These methods are intended to adjust the firm to consumer needs, considering the presence of competitors in their marketplace. In addition, the book wants to show how it may be used when working with marketing and sales management. Another important theme of this book is the idea that a firm is seen as a network. This network philosophy is an important theme throughout the book, and should open managers’ eyes to potential joint marketing activities, as well as joint ventures, other types of contracts and partnerships in a world of firms’ fuzzy boundaries.
Marketing Metrics: Beyond Clickbaits
by Anurag Dugar Mani ShreshthaWe are in the sales and marketing profession, and we hate number crunching. But we also realize its significance to succeed in this profession. So, we set out to write this book with the aim of making number crunching interesting and simple for sellers and marketers. If you are a marketing student, professor, freshly minted marketing or sales professional, or a startup founder, and you loathe numbers, this book is meant for you. It will equip you with a set of marketing metrics that you need to know to make important decisions and crack interviews. You will find only crisp and actionable knowledge in this book and no unnecessary jargons or theories—because just like you we don’t like it either!
Marketing Metrics: Leverage Analytics and Data to Optimize Marketing Strategies
by Christina IngeStop feeling overwhelmed by data and start using it to its full potential, to create an agile and forward-looking strategy that enables customer-centric marketing, builds your brand and develops product strategies.Many brands talk about creating a marketing strategy powered by data, analytics and metrics. Yet too often they're still overwhelmed by data, or unsure of how to use it to create a flexible and future-focused strategy that doesn't just validate what's happened in the past. Marketing Metrics takes readers through all the stages of implementing a data-first strategy, from early-stage adoption to more advanced customization. Featuring examples from a range of organizations including Coca-Cola and Mercedes-Benz, it shows how to create a strategy which leverages consumer data for customer-centric marketing, establishes the ROI of channels and campaigns, strengthens brands and creates data-driven product strategies.Covering the range of new global laws that impact consumer privacy and data collection and usage, Marketing Metrics shows how to use data in a non-invasive, secure and ethical way. Also showing how to communicate critical data to the right stakeholders and the skills of the data-savvy marketer, this is a clear and jargon-free guide to creating a future-focused and data-powered marketing strategy.
Marketing Mix
by Benson P. ShapiroReviews important concepts related to the marketing mix, and summarizes key relationships within the mix and between the mix and other parts of the company's marketing approach.
Marketing Mix
by Robert C. Blattberg Gary Getz Jacquelyn S. ThomasIn contrast to the traditional marketing paradigm of segmentation, targeting, and positioning, this chapter proposes a new tactic by which the equity of the customer is determined by an ARA approach--acquisition, retention, and add-on selling--focusing on retaining a company's customer base rather than devoting resources to target new market segments. This marketing mix acquires and retains customer loyalty, leading to more sustainable customer equity.
Marketing Myopia
by Elizabeth Mamali Monique DiderichTheodore Levitt’s 1960 article “Marketing Myopia” is a business classic that earned its author the nickname “the father of modern marketing”. It is also a beautiful demonstration of the problem solving skills that are crucial in so many areas of life – in business and beyond. The problem facing Levitt was the same problem that has confronted business after business for hundreds of years: how best to deal with slowing growth and eventual decline. Levitt studied many business empires – the railroads, for instance – that at a certain point simply shrivelled up and shrank to almost nothing. How, he asked, could businesses avoid such failures? His approach and his solution comprise a concise demonstration of high-level problem solving at its best. Good problem solvers first identify what the problem is, then isolate the best methodology for solving it. And, as Levitt showed, a dose of creative thinking also helps. Levitt’s insight was that falling sales are all about marketing, and marketing is about knowing your real business. The railroads misunderstood their real market: they weren’t selling rail, they were selling transport. If they had understood that, they could have successfully taken advantage of new growth areas – truck haulage, for instance – rather than futilely scrabbling to sell rail to a saturated market.
Marketing Myopia
by Theodore LevittAt some point in its development, every industry can be considered a growth industry, based on the apparent superiority of its product. But in case after case, industries have fallen under the shadow of mismanagement. What usually gets emphasized is selling, not marketing. This is a mistake, because selling focuses on the needs of the seller, whereas marketing concentrates on the needs of the buyer. In this widely quoted and anthologized article, first published in 1960, Theodore Levitt argues that "the history of every dead and dying 'growth' industry shows a self-deceiving cycle of bountiful expansion and undetected decay. " But, as he illustrates, memories are short. The railroads serve as an example of an industry whose failure to grow is due to a limited market view. Those behind the railroads are in trouble not because the need for passenger transportation has declined or even because cars, airplanes, and other modes of transport have filled that need. Rather, the industry is failing because those behind it assumed they were in the railroad business rather than the transportation business. They were railroad oriented instead of transportation oriented, product oriented instead of customer oriented. For companies to ensure continued evolution, they must define their industries broadly to take advantage of growth opportunities. They must ascertain and act on their customers' needs and desires, not bank on the presumed longevity of their products. In short, the best way for a firm to be lucky is to make its own luck. An organization must learn to think of itself not as producing goods or services but as doing the things that will make people want to do business with it. And in every case, the chief executive is responsible for creating an environment that reflects this mission.
Marketing National Parks for Sustainable Tourism
by Stephen L. Wearing Stephen SchweinsbergThis book offers a comprehensive overview of the key principles and challenges involved in tourism marketing in a national park context. It provides a framework to apply marketing principles to inform practices and guide the sustainable management of national parks and protected areas. The main themes address the foundation principles of marketing and contextualise these principles around a series of key insights and challenges related to the delivery of sustainable tourism services in national parks. The book centres on the issues faced by park managers as they address the need to manage national parks sustainably for future generations. It will be of interest to natural resource and tourism students, tourism scholars and natural resource managers as well as researchers in the areas of geography and forestry.
Marketing New York City
by V. Kasturi Rangan Anita ElberseNew York City is a pioneer in the emerging field of municipal marketing. The city's first chief marketing officer must develop a marketing organization with a self-funded business model that creates value for the city by leveraging the city's assets, including physical property and media opportunities. Although an independent corporation, the marketing organization must work with city government agencies to create value. Traces the appointment of the chief marketing officer and the objectives of marketing New York City. Summarizes the city's corporate partnerships (with Snapple and The History Channel, among others), media, and licensing activities to date. Challenges students to evaluate the marketing model and recommend strategies going forward, defining what activities create the most value for the city. Additionally, exposes students to the challenges of an entrepreneurial organization operating within the confines of a government structure.
Marketing Nutrition: Soy, Functional Foods, Biotechnology, and Obesity
by Brian WansinkAlthough encouraging people to eat more nutritiously can promote better health, most efforts by companies, health professionals, and even parents are disappointingly ineffective. Brian Wansink's Marketing Nutrition focuses on why people eat the foods they do, and what can be done to improve their nutrition. Wansink argues that the true challenge in marketing nutrition lies in leveraging new tools of consumer psychology (which he specifically demonstrates) and by applying lessons from other products' failures and successes. The key problem with marketing nutrition remains, after all, marketing.