This comprehensive book is a core text that covers all areas of marketing. It is written in a straightforward style, and is intended for diploma and degree level students who are studying the subject for the first time. It gives guidance on how to study for exam success and extend knowledge by setting personal objectives and collecting information to revise effectively. Advice on how to pass marketing examinations is given through typical questions, suggested solutions and comments from marketing examiners. The book discusses consumer and organizational buyer behaviour; segmentation; targeting; product and service positioning; pricing; channels of distribution; logistics; advertising; sales promotion; public relations; product issues; e-marketing; sales forecasting; and marketing research and information systems. Strategic issues like portfolio analysis, reverse marketing, and stages of the marketing planning process and its place in the corporate plan are explained. Furthermore, key definitions, marketing theories with author references, explanatory figures, diagrams and examples of marketing practice are also provided.

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Complementing Dibb and Simkin's established reputation in their field, this text presents a punchy overview of the leading 50 themes of marketing, each concisely summarized for revision purposes or quick-learning. While appealing primarily to students undertaking marketing exams, many practitioners will also find this 'glossary of current marketing' hard to resist. The title builds on the earlier works of Dibb and Simkin, whose Houghton Mifflin text, 'Marketing: Concepts and Strategies', is the current business school market leading text in the United Kingdom, while their Thomson Learning text, 'The Marketing Casebook: Cases and Concepts', has just been revised and is the most widely used marketing casebook. From understanding customers, branding and positioning, relationship marketing, social responsibility through to value-based marketing and one-to-one marketing, this book covers all the issues the modern marketer must address. The text itself is organized into short structured chapters, the Briefs, each including: * Core definitions * A bulleted key point overview * Thorough yet concise explanation of the concept and primary issues * Illustrative examples * A selection of examination style case, essay and applied questions * Recommended further reading and sources. Together these offer a rounded, concise and topical appreciation of each theme within a clear and accessible framework designed to aid revision. Also included are revision tips and 'golden rules' for tackling examinations, specimen examination papers with answer schemes, and a full glossary of key marketing terms.

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