Marketing starts with understanding consumer needs and wants, deciding which target markets the organization can serve best, and developing a compelling value proposition by which the organization can attract, keep, and grow targeted consumers. Then, more than just making a sale, todays marketers want to engage customers and build deep customer relationships that make their brands a meaningful part of consumers conversations and lives. In this digital age, to go along with their tried-and-true traditional marketing methods, marketers have access to a dazzling set of new customer relationshipbuilding toolsfrom the Internet, smartphones, and tablets to online, mobile, and social mediafor engaging customers anytime, anyplace to shape brand conversations, experiences, and community. If marketers do these things well, they will reap the rewards in terms of market share, profits, and customer equity. In the 12th edition of Marketing: An Introduction, youll learn how customer value and customer engagement drive every good marketing strategy.
Marketing: An Introduction makes the road to learning and teaching marketing more productive and enjoyable than ever. The 12th editions streamlined approach strikes an effective balance between depth of coverage and ease of learning. Unlike more abbreviated texts, it provides complete and timely coverage of all the latest marketing thinking and practice. Unlike longer, more complex texts, its moderate length makes it easy to digest in a given semester or quarter.