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Chapter 1: What is Marketing?
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1.1 Defining Marketing
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1.2 Who Does Marketing?
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1.3 Why Study Marketing?
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1.4 Themes and Organization of This Book
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1.5 Discussion Questions and Activities
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Chapter 2: Strategic Planning
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2.1 The Value Proposition
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2.2 Components of the Strategic Planning Process
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2.3 Developing Organizational Objectives and Formulating Strategies
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2.4 Where Strategic Planning Occurs within Firms
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2.5 Strategic Portfolio Planning Approaches
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2.6 Discussion Questions and Activities
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Chapter 3: Consumer Behavior: How People Make Buying Decisions
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3.1 Factors That Influence Consumers’ Buying Behavior
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3.2 Low-Involvement Versus High-Involvement Buying Decisions and the Consumer’s Decision-Making Process
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3.3 Discussion Questions and Activities
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Chapter 4: Business Buying Behavior
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4.1 The Characteristics of Business-to-Business (B2B) Markets
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4.2 Types of B2B Buyers
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4.3 Buying Centers
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4.4 Stages in the B2B Buying Process and B2B Buying Situations
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4.5 International B2B Markets and E-commerce
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4.6 Ethics in B2B Markets
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4.7 Discussion Questions and Activities
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Chapter 5: Market Segmenting, Targeting, and Positioning
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5.1 Targeted Marketing versus Mass Marketing
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5.2 How Markets Are Segmented
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5.3 Selecting Target Markets and Target-Market Strategies
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5.4 Positioning and Repositioning Offerings
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5.5 Discussion Questions and Activities
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Chapter 6: Creating Offerings
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6.1 What Composes an Offering?
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6.2 Types of Consumer Offerings
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6.3 Types of Business-to-Business (B2B) Offerings
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6.4 Branding, Labeling, and Packaging
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6.5 Managing the Offering
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6.6 Discussion Questions and Activities
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Chapter 7: Developing and Managing Offerings
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7.1 The New Offering Development Process
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7.2 Managing New Products: The Product Life Cycle
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7.3 Discussion Questions and Activities
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Chapter 8: Using Marketing Channels to Create Value for Customers
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8.1 Marketing Channels and Channel Partners
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8.2 Typical Marketing Channels
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8.3 Functions Performed by Channel Partners
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8.4 Marketing Channel Strategies
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8.5 Channel Dynamics
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8.6 Discussion Questions and Activities
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Chapter 9: Using Supply Chains to Create Value for Customers
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9.1 Sourcing and Procurement
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9.2 Demand Planning and Inventory Control
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9.3 Warehousing and Transportation
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9.4 Track and Trace Systems and Reverse Logistics
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9.5 Discussion Questions and Activities
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Chapter 10: Gathering and Using Information: Marketing Research and Market Intelligence
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10.1 Marketing Information Systems
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10.2 Steps in the Marketing Research Process
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10.3 Discussion Questions and Activities
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Chapter 11: Integrated Marketing Communications and the Changing Media Landscape
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11.1 Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC)
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11.2 The Promotion (Communication) Mix
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11.3 Factors Influencing the Promotion Mix, Communication Process, and Message Problems
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11.4 Advertising and Direct Marketing
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11.5 Message Strategies
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11.6 The Promotion Budget
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11.7 Sales Promotions
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11.8 Discussion Questions and Activities
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Chapter 12: Public Relations, Social Media, and Sponsorships
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12.1 Public Relations Activities and Tools
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12.2 Social Media
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12.3 Discussion Questions and Activities
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Chapter 13: Professional Selling
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13.1 The Role Professional Salespeople Play
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13.2 Customer Relationships and Selling Strategies
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13.3 Sales Metrics (Measures)
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13.4 Ethics in Sales and Sales Management
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13.5 Integrating Sales and Marketing
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13.6 Outsourcing the Sales Function
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13.7 Discussion Questions and Activities
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Chapter 14: Customer Satisfaction, Loyalty, and Empowerment
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14.1 Customer Communities
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14.2 Loyalty Management
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14.3 Customer Satisfaction
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14.4 Ethics, Laws, and Customer Empowerment
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14.5 Discussion Questions and Activities
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Chapter 15: Price, the Only Revenue Generator
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15.1 The Pricing Framework and a Firm’s Pricing Objectives
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15.2 Factors That Affect Pricing Decisions
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15.3 Pricing Strategies
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15.4 Discussion Questions and Activities
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Chapter 16: The Marketing Plan
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16. The Marketing Plan
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16.1 Marketing Planning Roles
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16.2 Functions of the Marketing Plan
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16.3 Forecasting
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16.4 Ongoing Marketing Planning and Evaluation
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16.5 Discussion Questions and Activities