Marketing
Principles of Customer-Centric Business Management
Overview
Abstract
Marketing: Principles of Customer-Centric Business Management is a concise text for undergraduate introductory marketing courses. It gives insight into the most important areas of the discipline and brings together theory and practical perspectives.°°°°The contents:°°– Marketing as an applied science°°– Marketing planning°°– Objectives and strategies in marketing°°– Buyer behaviour°°– Market research°°– Brand, product, sales, pricing, sales promotions and market communications decisions°°– Marketing programme coordination°°°°This textbook is distinctive for several reasons: it builds on a comprehensive section on customer behaviour and takes up behavioural perspectives for an analysis of contemporary marketing, it emphasizes qualitative methods in all areas of market research, and it connects the chapters with a marketing plan activity that encourages students to progressively develop a marketing plan for a product of their own choosing.
Keywords
Brand | Advertising and promotions | Segmentation | Marketing planning | Marketing management | Pricing | Market research | Marketing plan | Market analysis | Digital Marketing | Product | Buying behaviour
Details
Marketing
Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag
296 Pages
ISBN 978-3-8305-5130-0 (Print)
ISBN 978-3-8305-4357-2 (eBook)
Copyright year: 2022
First published: 01.02.2022
Table of contents
Content (90 Chapter)
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Table of Contents
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A Adopting the marketing perspective
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1 Approaching marketing
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1.1 Ideas about marketing
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1.2 The relevant market
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1.3 Marketing as an applied science
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2 Marketing management
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B Understanding markets and customers
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3 The marketing environment
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4 Buyer behaviour and analysis
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4.1 Buyer behaviour
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4.2 General framework for the analysis and explanation ofindividual buying behaviour
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4.3 Factors influencing individual buying behaviour
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4.3.1 Person-related factors
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4.3.2 Psychological factors
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4.4 Types of individual purchasing decisions
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4.5 Organizational buying behaviour
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5 Market research
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5.1 Types and process of market research
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5.2 Data collection methods
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5.3 Sampling
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5.4 Special research designs: Experiments and panels
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5.5 Quality criteria for market research
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5.6 Data analysis
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C Setting the strategic frame
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6 Marketing objectives
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7 Strategic analysis
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8 Marketing strategies
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8.1 Competition-related strategies
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8.2 Customer-related strategies
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8.2.1. Area strategies
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8.2.2 Growth strategies
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8.2.3 Innovation strategies
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8.2.4 Segmentation strategies
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8.2.5 Value proposition strategies
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8.3 Time-related strategies
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8.4 Budgeting for marketing strategies
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D Designing and implementing marketing programmes
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9 Brand decisions
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9.1 Basics about the brand
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9.2 Brand policy decisions
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10 Product decisions
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10.1 Basics of products and services
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10.2 Product mix decisions
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10.3 Product innovation
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11 Sales and customer relationship management decisions
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11.1 Basics of sales management
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11.2 Distribution channel decisions
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11.3 Channel member decisions
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11.4 Vertical coordination of channels
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11.5 Personal selling
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11.6 Customer management and CRM
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11.7 Complaint management
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12 Marketing communications decisions
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12.1 Basics of marketing communications
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12.2 Above-the-line communications
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12.3 Below-the-line communications
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12.4 Media planning
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13 Sales promotions decisions
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14 Pricing decisions
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14.1 Basics of pricing
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14.2 Behavioural aspects of pricing policy
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14.3 Pricing methods
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14.5 Pricing decisions referring to periods of time
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15 Marketing programme coordination
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Appendix 1: Sample marketing plan structure
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Appendix 2: Notes on dealing with written examination questions
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Index
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