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Marketing: The Core

2024 Release

by Roger A. Kerin, Steven W. Hartley

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education

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Book Details

Print ISBN9781266786631
eText ISBN9781264209323
PublisherMcGraw-Hill Higher Education
Publishing Year2022
LanguageEnglish

Marketing: The Core: 2024 Release is an 18-chapter textbook that provides a concise alternative to Kerin and Hartley's Marketing. The text explores how organizations create customer value, formulate organizational strategies, and navigate dynamic market environments while upholding ethical standards and social responsibility.

Subject coverage addresses buyer behavior across individual consumers, organizational clients, and international markets. Core topics include gathering customer insights through marketing research, segmenting target audiences, developing products and brands, determining pricing structures, and managing distribution channels.

Written in a conversational style, the textbook integrates active learning techniques to support practical, data-driven decision-making across traditional and contemporary marketing concepts.

Table of Contents

  1. PART 1: INITIATING THE MARKETING PROCESS

  2. Chapter 1: Creating Customer Relationships and Value through Marketing

  3. Chapter 2: Developing Successful Organizational and Marketing StrategiesAppendix A: Building an Effective Marketing Plan

  4. Chapter 3: Understanding the Marketing Environment, Ethical Behavior, and Social Responsibility

  5. PART 2: UNDERSTANDING BUYERS AND MARKETS

  6. Chapter 4: Understanding Consumer Behavior

  7. Chapter 5: Understanding Organizations as Customers

  8. Chapter 6: Understanding and Reaching Global Consumers and Markets

  9. PART 3: TARGETING MARKETING OPPORTUNITIES

  10. Chapter 7: Marketing Research From Customer Insights to Actions

  11. Chapter 8: Market Segmentation, Targeting, and Positioning

  12. PART 4: SATISFYING MARKETING OPPORTUNITIES

  13. Chapter 9: Developing New Products and Services

  14. Chapter 10: Managing Successful Products, Services, and Brands

  15. Chapter 11: Pricing Products and Services

  16. Chapter 12: Managing Marketing Channels and Supply Chains

  17. Chapter 13: Retailing and Wholesaling

  18. Chapter 14: Implementing Interactive and Multichannel Marketing

  19. Chapter 15: Integrated Marketing Communications and Direct Marketing

  20. Chapter 16: Advertising, Sales Promotion, and Public Relations

  21. Chapter 17: Using Social Media and Mobile Marketing to Engage Consumers

  22. Chapter 18: Personal Selling and Sales Management

  23. Chapter Appendix: B: Planning a Career in Marketing

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