This book provides a comprehensive overview of the current marketing environment in India. It examines the changing dynamics of marketing management against the backdrop of globalization and liberalization, analysing how both marketers and consumers are adapting to radical changes. Insightful perspectives on key issues including market segmentation, brand strategy, product planning, advertising, pricing and distribution strategies as well as challenges of rural marketing are given. This Fourth Edition boasts of incisive coverage of all contemporary concepts and formats of marketing, including retailing, Internet marketing and telemarketing. It is further enriched by varied case studies that are drawn from the Indian experience and will go a long way to inculcate skills of analysis, logical thinking and decision making in students. Valuable not only to students and teachers of marketing management, the book is a must-have for practising managers who want to stay abreast with the latest developments in their field.

The book is a collection of short cases which address specific issues on digital marketing like social media marketing, email marketing, campaign management and analysis, digital marketing strategies, blogs and others. We have tried to present real digital marketing challenges faced by organizations, and how they manage their marketing issues. Each case was developed by considered effort of the authors and editors so that a right blend of theory and practice can be presented in front of the readers. We are hopeful that this book will prove to be useful to both students and teachers working in the area of digital marketing. This book can be used as a supplement to any Digital Marketing text of a professor's choice for both classroom teaching for management programs, and teaching at executive training and regular courses. We hope to bring out new editions of the book with additional/new cases every year or two and keep it contemporary.

India is one of the emerging markets that pose a unique set of challenges to marketers. The importance of the context and the usefulness of concepts in the Indian context is the core proposition of the book. The diversity of a mix of factors such as cultural aspects, lifestyles, demographics and unbranded offerings make consumer behaviour a fascinating study. This book focuses on the behavioural principles of marketing and its application to branding in the Indian context. * Consumer behaviour concepts associated with branding * A combination of recent and traditional examples reflecting the application of behavioural concepts * Touch of reality boxes to indicate context-based examples * Caselets and cases drawn from real-life situations * Research findings associated with the Indian context * Topical issues in consumer behaviour like cultural aspects, digital marketing and experiential branding

Understanding and appreciating the ethical dilemmas associated with business is an important dimension of marketing strategy. Increasingly, matters of corporate social responsibility are part of marketing's domain. Ethics in Marketing contains 20 cases that deal with a variety of ethical issues such as questionable selling practices, exploitative advertising, counterfeiting, product safety, apparent bribery and channel conflict that companies face across the world. A hallmark of this book is its international dimension along with high-profile case studies that represent situations in European, North American, Chinese, Indian and South American companies. Well known multinationals like Coca Cola, Facebook, VISA and Zara are featured. This second edition of Ethics in Marketing has been thoroughly updated and includes new international cases from globally recognized organizations on gift giving, sustainability, retail practices, multiculturalism, sweat shop labor and sports sponsorship. This unique case-book provides students with a global perspective on ethics in marketing and can be used in a free standing course on marketing ethics or marketing and society or it can be used as a supplement for other marketing classes.

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With the enormous growth of the internet and social media sites, digital marketing is now worth more per annum than TV advertising in the UK. Social network advertising spending is expected to increase to a staggering $4.3 billion in 2011 in a bid to attract today's media-savvy consumer. The Best Digital Marketing Campaigns in the World brings together an international collection of the most successful digital marketing campaigns of our time, assessing what they achieved and the business lessons learnt. This practical and insightful book explores how businesses large and small have harnessed social media, blogs, forums, online video and email to boost their brand and attract customers. Damian Ryan and Calvin Jones present a selection of hand-picked case studies, sharing the knowledge and skill of the world's top creative minds. Covering everything from household names such as Pizza Hut and Pepsi to Obama's 2008 presidential election campaign, this book is the must-read guide for all marketers looking to embrace the new digital landscape.