KnowThis: Marketing Basics 2nd edition offers detailed coverage of essential marketing concepts. This very affordable book is written by a marketing professor and covers the same ground as much more expensive books while offering its own unique insights. The book takes a highly applied approach including offering over 150 real-world examples. The new edition includes enhanced coverage of numerous new developments and how these affect marketing including social networks, mobile device applications ("apps"), neuro-research, group couponing, smartphone payments, quick response codes, to name a few. The new edition also features expanded coverage of globalization, Internet and mobile networks, consumer purchase behavior and much more. The book is ideal for marketing professionals, students, educators, and anyone else who needs to know about marketing. Supported by KnowThis.com, a leading marketing resource. Contents: 1: What is Marketing? 2: Marketing Research 3: Managing Customers 4: Understanding Customers 5: Targeting Markets 6: Product Decisions 7: Managing Products 8: Distribution Decisions 9: Retailing 10: Wholesaling & Product Movement 11: Promotion Decisions 12: Advertising 13: Managing the Advertising Campaign 14: Sales Promotion 15: Public Relations 16: Personal Selling 17: Pricing Decisions 18: Setting Price 19: Managing External Forces 20: Marketing Planning & Strategy Appendix: Marketing to the Connected Customer

‘...a punchy, stripped-down version of what marketing is all about.’ – The Times Higher Education Supplement If you have a product you’re looking to market, or you’re seeking to learn more about the potential of online marketing, Marketing: The Basics tells you everything you need to know about the techniques marketers use to push their product to the ‘tipping point’. The essentials of e-commerce are explored and explained, along side more traditional marketing approaches in this revised and updated new edition. This book: Explains the fundamentals of marketing and useful concepts such as the Long Tail Includes an international range of topical case studies, such as Obama’s presidential campaign, Facebook, and Google Also includes a glossary of terms, guides to further reading and critical questions to assist further thinking and study This lively and user-friendly introduction is perfect for professionals seeking to learn more about subject, and recommended for sixth-form, first-year undergraduate and MBA students.

Based on the bestselling Marketing by Baines, Fill, Rosengren, and Antonetti, Fundamentals of Marketing is the most relevant, concise guide to marketing, combining the most essential theories with a global range of practitioner insights.

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As much as we don't want to hear it, book marketing is a huge part of becoming a successful author. Yet many authors don't know how to go about it or even where to start. I don't know where you are in your publishing journey, you might have been published for years but have always struggled with the marketing side of things or you could still be working on your first book and wanting to get a head start on promoting it, either way this book is bound to have something in it that will help you out. Giving a detailed overview of book marketing from beginning to end, this book is designed to give authors the information they need to attack marketing head on and start successfully selling their books.

Having your own business isn’t the same as having customers, and one is useless without the other. Whether your business is a resale store or a high-tech consulting firm, a law office or a home cleaning service, in today’s competitive environment, strategic marketing is essential. Small Business Marketing For Dummies, Second Edition is updated from the original version that won rave reviews and inspired thousands of small businesses on their way to becoming big businesses. Updates include more information on online marketing, a whole new section on getting and keeping customers, new cost-effective, fast-acting ideas for instant impact, and more. The book covers: Marketing basics that prepare you to rev up your business and jumpstart your marketing program Information to help you define your business position and brand Advice on bringing in professionals A quick-reference guide to mass media and a glossary of advertising jargon How-tos for creating print and broadcast ads that work Ideas for getting the word out without advertising, including information on direct mail, brochures, publicity, promotions, and more Ten steps to follow to build your own easy-to-assemble marketing plan With pages of ideas for low-cost, high-impact marketing from author Barbara Findlay Schenck, a marketing consultant with more than 20 years experience with clients ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies, Small Business Marketing For Dummies, Second Edition helps you reach and keep new customers. Whether you’re running a home office, a small firm, a family business, a nonprofit organization, or a retail operation, you’ll discover how to: Custom design your own marketing program Create effective marketing messages Produce marketing communications that work No matter what field you’re in, Small Business Marketing For Dummies, 2nd Edition will help you make your dreams come true. If you buy it, read it, and implement some of the marketing strategies discussed, customers will come.

The progression of the Internet hasn’t slowed down one bit; in fact, it’s only just begun. And with capabilities like visitor tracking, geo-targeting and personalized marketing, the business competition on the digital playing field has become more aggressive than ever. The advancements are rapid; adaptation is vital. And yet, business owners are either too tentative to dive in or want to get started but just don’t know where to begin. In the 2nd edition of WSI’s Digital Minds, we provide a map (literally!) that’s designed to help professionals navigate through the complexities of the digital marketing realm. Fourteen of WSI’s thought-leaders explore how online strategies like web design, marketing automation, eCommerce, SEO, reputation management, email marketing and more have been shaped by online consumers and their mobile device du jour! By evolving alongside the growing trends, your brand will be equipped to leave the competition far behind.