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The
American Marketing Association suggests that Marketing is "the
process of planning and executing the pricing, promotion, and
distribution of goods, ideas, and services to create exchanges
that satisfy individual and organizational goals." Another
definition, perhaps simpler and more universal, is the process
of moving people closer to making a decision to purchase, use,
follow, refer, upload, download, obey, reject, conform, become
complacent to another person's, society's or organization's
value. Simply, if it doesn't facilitate a "sale" then it's
not marketing. [1]Perhaps
the simplest Western definition of all was that summarized
by Philip Kotler in his earlier books as: "Marketing is human
activity directed at satisfying needs and wants through exchange
processes." On the other hand, Christian Grönroos, in
the context of a move to relationship marketing, summarized
a rather different European view in his definition: "Marketing
is to establish, maintain and enhance long-term customer relationships
at a profit, so that the objectives of the parties involved
are met. This is done by mutual exchange and fulfilment of
promises." [[2]]
However, the most widely accepted definition of marketing
on a global scale comes from the Chartered Institute of Marketing
(CIM) [3] in
the UK, which is the largest marketing body in the world in
terms of membership. The definition claims marketing to be
the "management process of anticipating, identifying and satisfying
customer requirements profitably". Thus, operative marketing
involves the processes of market
research, product
development, product
life cycle management, pricing,
channel management as well as promotion.
However, marketing is more of a process-oriented cross function,
not a direct decision maker in these processes. It is one of
the company's management tools to ensure that products and
services are developed according to market requirements, and
that they are profitable.
Jane Summers — University of Southern Queensland
Michael Gardiner — University of Southern Queensland
Charles Lamb — Texas Christian University
Joseph Hair — Louisiana State University
Carl McDaniel — University of Texas
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It
offers important new thinking and expanded coverage
on:
Connecting
with customers: connecting more selectively,
more directly, and for life.
Relationship
marketing - finding, keeping, and growing profitable
customers and capturing customer lifetime value
by building value-laden customer relationships.
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Norm
Althouse, University of Calgary
Shirley Rose, Mount Royal College
Laura Allan, Wilfred Laurier University
Lawrence J. Gitman, San Diego State University
Carl McDaniel, University of Texas
Basic Marketing is the market
leading principles text domestically. Basic Marketing
offers a very thorough integration of the latest marketing
themes, topics, and examples woven throughout the body
of the text. This integration of themes, topics, and
examples is carefully blended with the text's traditional
strengths of clear, accessible communication, a focus
on management decision-making in marketing, and completely
integrated coverage of special topics such as technology,
ethics, international perspectives, relationship marketing,
and services. This is the first book to develop and
present the 4 P's framework when describing the components
of the marketing mix (Product, Price, Place, Promotion).
Where most principles of marketing texts have separate
supplement authors, Bill Perreault is the creator of
every item in the package. This unique involvement
ensures quality, accuracy, and reliability.
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Resources
The American Marketing Association is a professional association for marketers. It has approximately 38,000 members.
The AMA was formed in 1937 from the merger of two predecessor organizations, the National Association of Marketing Teachers and the American Marketing Society.
AMA is one of the largest professional associations for marketers, over six decades, the AMA has been leading source for information, knowledge sharing, and development in the marketing profession.
The Chartered Institute of Public Relations is the professional body for PR practitioners in the UK. With over 8,000 members, involved in all aspects of the public relations industry, it is the largest body of its type in Europe. The CIPR advances the PR industry in the UK by making its members accountable through a code of conduct, developing policies for the PR industry, representing its members, and raising standards through education and training. For further information, visit http://www.cipr.co.uk
The organisation operates a number of membership grades:
The Chartered Institute of Marketing is a world-wide membership-based organisation for professional marketers. It is headquartered in Berkshire, England, and offers well-recognised marketing qualifications, membership and training.
The concept of Putting the Customer First was originally initiated in Yorkshire and the Humber, UK in 1999 - through the Business of Competitiveness Group. The Group were driven to increase the quality of publicly funded business support - so undertook some research and development work to look at what the issues were in the county and what could be done to tackle them.
The Framework
The Putting the Customer First Framework focuses on the customer and their experience of the business support organisation and the services they deliver. To find out more about the Framework and the Assessment Process click on the following:
Those interested in marketing on the Internet will find a lot of good information here. Crain Communications offers current articles, useful tips, a guide to web site pricing, and a terrific dictionary of Internet terms.
This online publication offers articles regarding the Internet as well as digital technology. The authors have also compiled some useful information resources and offer downloads from the Department of Commerce.
Adweek Online's goal is to "provide comprehensive information to advertising, marketing and media professionals." With a pro magazine look and lots of content online this site is worth the click. Also offered are access to other information sources and a membership option which provides additional services.
Larry Chase, "a veteran of the information superhighway," was formerly in print advertising and is now a web marketing consultant and self-described "web junkie." There's fascinating reading here from his articles and press quotes, and you can sign up for a free subscription to Web Digest for Marketers.
This excellent collection of "all the key resources you’ll need to develop, write, edit, publish, market, and promote your Web site" offers Web publishing, marketing, and promotion resources, a marketing information page, and an outline of a proposed Internet marketing textbook.
Copyright is an area of law struggling to keep up with the explosion of online technology. Check out the status of various cases, opinions, and more on this valuable resource.
The well-known business magazine online, plus past issues, additional articles, and access to Forbes ASAP and Forbes FYI (where you'll find "A Parent's Guide to Body Piercing--the hole story" and more!).
Articles from this print journal, focusing on financial services marketing issues, are available online. Access to full articles is limited to subscribers, but they do offer a free 30 day trial subscription.
You can find abstracts from this quarterly print journal online dating back to spring of 1996. The journal focuses on publishing information which contributes to the "development of advertising theory and its relationship to advertising practices and processes."
The Journal of Consumer & Market Research publishes "high quality theoretical and applied research in the areas of consumer behavior and marketing. " Full text versions of all articles are available. If you become a subscriber you receive the value added service of electronically delivered notifications of new articles and executive summaries.
The table of contents and abstracts for this quarterly print journal are here dating back to 1995, complete with a search feature and subscription information.
This journal proclaims itself the first online journal for marketing, consumer behavior, and strategy research. Articles are produced to be read in Adobe Acrobat.
The Journal of Global Marketing offers a table of contents and abstracts from the print Journal. Interesting articles on worldwide marketing are offered from issues dating back to 1994, with a search tool.
If you're interested in market research, this is the place to be. This site includes a huge variety of information on many market research topics. A great source for business professionals and marketing students alike.
Direct marketers and advertisers in all types of media, take note. This site has done a great job of cataloguing the resources that might be of use to you. You'll find everything from links to commentary to approaches and discussion lists...not to mention links to the top Web sites in these categories.
This site includes Media Logic's Business Cycle Indicators (access to 16 categories of 256 data series that make up the Business Cycle Indicators published by the US Bureau of Economic Analysis).
Before you start laughing at the irony of this concept, take a look. While e-mail is a valuable marketing tool of the future, snail mail isn't going away. It remains a valuable part of the marketing tool portfolio, and this site offers a lot of great information. Don't miss it!
An online consultant uses this site as his home base, and he offers his regular columns on a number of issues relating to publishing and news services, and how the Internet impacts them and provides them with new opportunities...and challenges. There are a lot of links to examples of online newspapers and magazines as well as some discussion lists. Very informative site for those in the news and publishing businesses.
Great information on how to get publicity, along with case studies/success stories, and tips, news, and more. Also a good section on how to handle public relations nightmares. Great service, and very useful.
A detailed look at the genesis and development of some great marketing ideas, covered in enough detail to get your brain going as well. Very cool, and a very useful tool for marketing students and professional marketers. Don't miss it!!!
Several Griffith University school of marketing publications online make this a great resource: The Cyber-Journal of Sport Marketing, The Cyber-Journal of Interactive Marketing, and The Marketing Cyber-Bulletin.
Encouraging companies to use the Internet as "a powerful tool for delivering their product information to buyers," Trade Easy is an international effort to match buyers and sellers, currently offering 30,000 companies in 40 countries, free.
The largest U.S. and international corporations on the Web are indexed here. Articles about online marketing and advertising make this a great resource for netrepreneurs.
This weekly online magazine focuses on business on the Web: who's making money, or trying to, and how. You'll also find articles on advertising, the effectiveness of ad banners, and more. The section that critiques sites from four different user standpoints is also very helpful in designing and laying out a Web site.
