Part 1 Defining Marketing and the 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 Consumer Markets and Buyer Behavior
6 Business Markets and Business Buyer Behavior
Part 3 Designing a Customer Value-Driven Strategy and Mix
7 Customer Value-Driven Marketing Strategy: Creating Value for Target Customers
8 Products, Services, and Brands: Building Customer Value
9 Developing New Products and Managing the Product Life Cycle
10 Pricing: Understanding and Capturing Customer Value
11 Pricing Strategies: Additional Considerations
12 Marketing Channels: Delivering Customer Value
13 Retailing and Wholesaling
14 Engaging Consumers and Communicating Customer Value: Integrated Marketing Communication Strategy
15 Advertising and Public Relations
16 Personal Selling and Sales Promotion
17 Direct, Online, Social Media, and Mobile Marketing
Part 4 Extending Marketing
18 Creating Competitive Advantage
19 The Global Marketplace
20 Sustainable Marketing: Social Responsibility and Ethics
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1. The seventeenth edition adds fresh coverage in both traditional marketing areas and on fast-changing and trending topics such as customer engagement marketing, mobile and social media, IoT, Big data etc.
2. This new edition continues to build on its customer engagement framework—creating direct and continuous customer involvement in shaping brands, brand conversations, brand experiences, and brand community.
3. New coverage and fresh examples throughout the text address the latest customer engagement tools, practices, and developments.
4. New Marketing and the Economy features at the end of each chapter provide contemporary examples for discussion and learning.
5. The seventeenth edition continues to track fast-changing developments in marketing communications and the creation of marketing content and also provides new discussions and examples of the growth in global marketing.
6. This new edition provides 18 new end-of-chapter company cases by which students can apply what they learn to actual company situations.
7. New and updated real-world marketing examples show concepts in action, and bring key course concepts to life.