TY - BOOK AU - Perreault,William D. AU - Cannon,Joseph P. AU - McCarthy,E.Jerome TI - Essentials of marketing: a marketing strategy planning approach SN - 0077861043 AV - HF5415 .P4357 2015 U1 - 658.8 23 PY - 2015///] CY - New York PB - McGraw-Hill Education KW - Marketing N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 645-685) and indexes; Marketing's Value to Consumers, Firms, and Society -- Marketing Strategy Planning -- Evaluating Opportunities in the Changing Marketing Environment -- Focusing Marketing Strategy with Segmentation and Positioning -- Final Consumers and Their Buying Behavior -- Business and Organizational Customers and Their Buying Behavior -- Improving Decisions with Marketing Information -- Elements of Product Planning for Goods and Services -- Product Management and New-Product Development -- Place and Development of Channel Systems -- Distribution Customer Service and Logistics -- Retailers, Wholesalers, and Their Strategy Planning -- Promotion - Introduction to Integrated Marketing Communications -- Personal Selling and Customer Service -- Advertising, Publicity, and Sales Promotion -- Pricing Objectives and Policies -- Price Setting in the Business World -- Ethical Marketing in a Consumer-Oriented World: Appraisal and Challenges -- Appendix A: Economics Fundamentals -- Appendix B: Marketing Arithmetic -- Appendix C: Career Planning in Marketing ER -