Complete, concise, and easy to use, the all-new edition of this marketing best seller covers the ten key sales promotion techniques, explains how each one works, and shows how marketers can plan for and use them to boost sales: coupons, refunds and rebates, sampling, value packs, premium packs, mail-in premiums, continuity programs, contests and sweepstakes, special events, and trade incentives. Real-life examples illustrate the benefits and drawbacks of each technique, highlighting how it can be used alone or as part of a long-term sales promotion or marketing plan. Also new to this edition, an emphasis on tailoring sales promotions to the buying habits of distinct consumer groups ensures that all campaigns are customer oriented and results focused. Special chapters highlight the growth of sales promotion and its increasingly important role within an integrated marketing communications program. A comprehensive appendix of sales promotion organizations, major suppliers, and sources of further information makes this book an essential resource for anyone using sales promotion to meet marketing and sales goals.

Gerard Tellis clearly communicates all aspects of promotion using the most recent social sciences research findings, to enable prospective managers to design their own successful strategies.

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

Informative, persuasive, and a rich source of ideas and practical help, this new edition of Green Marketing gives marketers and businesses the guidance to innovate and benefit from this essential part of marketing.

Essentials of Health Care Marketing, Fourth Edition will provide your students with a foundational knowledge of the principles of marketing and their particular application in health care. Moreover, the text offers a perspective on how these principles must shift in response to the changing environmental forces that are unique to this market.

With crisp and insightful contributions from 47 of the world’s leading experts in various facets of retailing, Retailing in the 21st Century offers in one book a compendium of state-of-the-art, cutting-edge knowledge to guide successful retailing in the new millennium. In our competitive world, retailing is an exciting, complex and critical sector of business in most developed as well as emerging economies. Today, the retailing industry is being buffeted by a number of forces simultaneously, for example the growth of online retailing and the advent of ‘radio frequency identification’ (RFID) technology. Making sense of it all is not easy but of vital importance to retailing practitioners, analysts and policymakers.