Next generation wireless is not about technology, it is all about marketing.... What is the service offering rather than the features of the latest handset? Who are the customers and which are the most profitable? How do you identify and market to communities? How do you tariff for profit? If you need to know the answers and more, you really need to read this book. In the 1990s mobile operators underutilized marketing and only focused on rapid expansion of capacity and connecting new subscribers. Today, with the mobile services industry more mature and competitive, the authors unveil how more modern marketing is needed for success both in market share and profitability. 3G Marketing explains the role of early adopters, communities, reachability, brands, portals, and handsets to 3G success. It shows how success in 3G is dependent on successfully building strategic partnerships by covering issues from market intelligence to sales channel support. Aimed at the non-technical person, this authoritative resource gives clear and practical advice on how to use modern marketing methods to promote and sell mobile services. It provides a perfect and invaluable introduction for anybody entering mobile telecoms or companies faced with the need to partner with operators as crucially, it explains how services and applications can be brought to the market in the fiercely competitive 3G marketplace.

Asia is no longer simply the continent to which the world turns for outsourcing and off shoring of production, leaving retailing to Western countries. Asia now contains many of the world’s largest markets plus many emergent markets as well. North America is fast ceding ground to China as the world’s largest economic power. Europe has been able to make productivity gains from trade, fiscal and monetary harmonization to remain globally competitive while Africa, whose nations practice free trade, is largely ignored both in terms of forgiving debt and providing further credit. Each chapter of this volume details the characteristics of an individual market in Asia and demonstrates the challenges that marketers are likely to face in these environments. Covering not just production or consumption but trade as it is practiced now, this book outlines the new norms, conventions and service performance levels that these markets demand.

Annotation E-marketing is intrinsically interdisciplinary with academic researchers in many fields conducting research in the area. This book brings the work being conducted in many disciplines to one outlet, encouraging cross-fertilisation of ideas and greater dissemination of key research concepts.

"Why hasn't all that data delivered a whopping competitive advantage? Because you've barely begun to use it, that's why! Good news: neither have your competitors. It's hard! But digital marketing analytics is 100% doable, it offers colossal opportunities, and all of the data is accessible to you. Chuck Hemann and Ken Burbary will help you chop the problem down to size, solve every piece of the puzzle, and integrate a virtually frictionless system for moving from data to decision, action to results! Scope it out, pick your tools, learn to listen, get the metrics right, and then distill your digital data for maximum value for everything from R & D to CRM to social media marketing! Prioritize--because you can't measure, listen to, and analyze everything; use analysis to craft experiences that profoundly reflect each customer's needs, expectations, and behaviors; measure real social media ROI: sales, leads, and customer satisfaction; track the performance of all paid, earned, and owned social media channels; leverage "listening data" way beyond PR and marketing: for strategic planning, product development, and HR; start optimizing web and social content in real time; implement advanced tools, processes, and algorithms for accurately measuring influence; integrate paid and social data to drive more value from both; make the most of surveys, focus groups, and offline research synergies; and focus new marketing and social media investments where they'll deliver the most value."--Publisher's description.

Worldwide Casebook in Marketing Management comprises a large collection of case studies in marketing and business management. It covers a huge array of decision-making areas and many different industries ranging from computers, petrol retailing and electronic gaming to drinks, fashion, airlines and mobile communication. The worldwide cases are all related to many well-known brands and corporations like British Airways, Red Bull, Nintendo, Google, Microsoft, Cacharel, etc.

Marketing is all about ideas. And Marketing Excellence is about good ideas made great. The companies it features have been selected because they are winners – both literally and commercially. Literally in that they have received Marketing Society Awards for their work in Britain; commercially in that these efforts have resulted in measurable market success. They come from a diverse range of markets; it’s likely that some operate in yours. Written by two marketing thought leaders and featuring insights from a host of industry experts who have judged the Awards in recent years, here is a collection of brands and companies that are doing things right. From ketchup to cosmetics, it offers today’s most revealing, readable and above all relevant lessons in Marketing Excellence.

Fragmented markets, hyper-competition and over-supply means companies must add customer value. Using social networks as a key marketing tool can lead to improved customer satisfaction, better professional relationships and increased effectiveness. A Quick Start Guide to Social Media Marketing applies relevant marketing theory to the fast changing world of social networking. Written by experienced professionals, it covers all aspects of social media marketing, including the benefits of social media marketing, how to apply advertising, PR and sales promotion, ethical behaviour, how to add value for customers, how to use social networking sites to acquire, retain and satisfy customers and crucially, the future of social media marketing. For anybody who wants to learn about high-impact, low-cost social network marketing that works, this Quick Start Guide provides an understanding of the key concepts and principles as well as insights into how theories and tools work in actual business scenarios.