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Products often begin their lives as something extraordinary and as they grow they continue to evolve. The most successful products in the marketplace are those that know their strengths and have branded and marketed those strengths to form a passionate emotional connection with loyal users and relationships with new users every step of the way. In CONTEMPORARY MARKETING, 13e, students will find a text that includes everything they need to know in order to begin a marketing career, as well as things that will help them understand how to look at their own studies and their own careers as a marketing adventure. All the components of the marketing mix are included along with a lot of other compelling and thought-provoking ideas and concepts. Since its first edition, CONTEMPORARY MARKETING continues to showcase the foundations of marketing principles while featuring the newest trends and research in the discipline.
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Over the years, Boone and Kurtz's CONTEMPORARY MARKETING has proven to be the premier teaching and learning solution for principles of marketing courses. With each groundbreaking new edition, this bestseller only grows stronger, building on past milestones with exciting new innovations. The all-new Fourteenth Edition continues the Boone and Kurtz tradition of delivering the most technologically advanced, student-friendly, instructor-supported text available. Current, relevant, and cutting-edge, CONTEMPORARY MARKETING remains in a class by itself.
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CONTEMPORARY MARKETING by Boone and Kurtz has proven to be the premier principles of marketing text and package since the first edition. With each edition, this best selling author team builds and improves upon past innovations, creating the most technologically advanced, student friendly, instructor supported text available. The twelfth edition continues to provide the most current and up-to-date content by including the most current coverage of topics such as one-to-one marketing, strategic planning, guerilla marketing, customer relationship management, and much more.
About the Author
For the past 35 years, Louis E. Boone and David L. Kurtz have pursued distinguished academic careers. Each has taught at a number of major U.S. and foreign universities, and the two have collaborated on writing best-selling books. Their publications have been translated into Chinese, French, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish. They have lectured extensively throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Kurtz and his wife live in Rogers, Arkansas, where he holds a university professorship at the University of Arkansas in nearby Fayetteville. David L. Kurtz has taught at a number of major U.S. and foreign universities, and collaborated on writing best-selling books with Louis E. Boone. Their publications have been translated into Chinese, French, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish. Kurtz has lectured extensively throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. He and his wife live in Rogers, Arkansas, where he holds a university professorship at the University of Arkansas in nearby Fayetteville. Fortunately, four years at Davis & Elkins College in Elkins, West Virginia, turned him around. Excellent instructors helped get Dave on a sound academic footing. His grade point average soared--enough to get him accepted by the graduate business school at the University of Arkansas, where he met Gene Boone. Gene and Dave became longtime co-authors; together they have produced more than 50 books. In addition to writing, Dave and Gene have been partners in several entrepreneurial ventures. Today, Dave is back teaching at the University of Arkansas after tours of duty in Ypsilanti, Michigan; Seattle, Washington; and Melbourne, Australia. He is the proud grandfather of five "perfect" kids and a sportsman with a golf handicap too high to mention. Dave, his wife, Diane, and four demanding canine companions (Daisy, Lucy, Molly, and Sally) live in Rogers, Arkansas. Dave also holds a distinguished professorship at the Sam M. Walton College of Business in nearby Fayetteville, home of the Arkansas Razorbacks.
Table of Contents
Part One: DESIGNING CUSTOMER-ORIENTED MARKETING STRATEGIES. 1. Marketing: The Art and Science of Satisfying Customers. 2. Strategic Planning and the Marketing Process. Appendix: Creating an Effective Marketing Plan. 3. The Marketing Environment, Ethics, and Social Responsibility. 4. E-Business in Contemporary Marketing. Part Two: UNDERSTANDING BUYERS AND MARKETS. 5. Consumer Behavior. 6. Business-to-Business (B2B) Marketing. 7. Global Marketing. Part Three: TARGET MARKET SELECTION. 8. Marketing Research and Sales Forecasting. 9. Market Segmentation, Targeting, and Positioning. 10. Relationship Marketing and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Part Four: PRODUCT DECISIONS. 11. Product and Service Strategies. 12. Developing and Managing Brand and Product Categories. Part Five: DISTRIBUTION DECISIONS. 13. Marketing Channels and Supply Chain Management. 14. Retailers, Wholesalers, and Direct Marketers. Part Six: PROMOTIONAL DECISIONS. 15. Integrated Marketing Communications. 16. Advertising and Public Relations. 17. Personal Selling and Sales Promotion. Part Seven: PRICING DECISIONS. 18. Pricing Concepts. 19. Pricing Strategies.