Help students learn how to create customer value and engagement.
In a fast-changing, increasingly digital and social marketplace, it’s more vital than ever for marketers to develop meaningful connections with their customers. Principles of Marketing helps students master today’s key marketing challenge: to create vibrant, interactive communities of consumers who make products and brands an integral part of their daily lives. To help students understand how to create value and build customer relationships, Kotler and Armstrong present fundamental marketing information within an innovative customer-value framework.
Thoroughly revised to reflect the major trends impacting contemporary marketing, this edition is packed with stories illustrating how companies use new digital technologies to maximize customer engagement and shape brand conversations, experiences, and communities.
Author(s): Philip Kotler, Gary Armstrong
Edition: 16th
Publisher: Pearson
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 734
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 Customer 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 Marketing Strategy and Mix
7. Customer-Driven Marketing Strategy: Creating Value for Target Customers
8. Product, 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. Communicating Customer Value: Integrated Marketing Communications
15. Advertising and Public Relations
16. Personal Selling and Sales Promotion
17. Direct, Digital, Mobile, and Social Media Marketing
Part 4. Extending Marketing
18. Creating Competitive Advantage
19. The Global Marketplace
20. Sustainable Marketing: Social Responsibility and Ethics
APPENDIXES
1. Marketing Plan
2. Marketing by the Numbers
3. Marketing Careers
References
Glossary
Index
