TY - BOOK AU - Perreault,William D. AU - Cannon,Joseph P. AU - McCarthy,E.Jerome TI - Essentials of marketing: a marketing strategy planning approach SN - 9781266168468 AV - HF5415 .M378 2024 U1 - 658.8 23/eng/20220812 PY - 2024///] CY - New York, NY PB - McGraw Hill LLC KW - Marketing N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1: Marketing's Value to Consumers, Firms, and Society -- 2: Marketing Strategy Planning -- 3: Evaluating Opportunities in the Changing Market Environment -- 4: Focusing Marketing Strategy with Segmentation and Positioning -- 5: Final Consumers and Their Buying Behavior -- 6: Business and Organizational Customers and Their Buying Behavior -- 7: Improving Decisions with Marketing Information -- 8: Elements of Product Planning for Goods and Services -- 9: Product Management and New-Product Development -- 10: Place and Development of Channel Systems -- 11: Distribution Customer Service and Logistics -- 12: Retailers, Wholesalers, and Their Strategy Planning -- 13: Promotion—Introduction to Integrated Marketing Communications -- 14: Personal Selling and Customer Service -- 15: Advertising and Sales Promotion -- 16: Publicity: Promotion Using Earned Media, Owned Media, and Social Media -- 17: Pricing Objectives and Policies -- 18: Price Setting in the Business World -- 19: Appraisal, Review, and Reflection of Marketing in the 21st Century N2 - "This book is about marketing and marketing strategy planning. At its essence, marketing strategy planning is about figuring out how to do a superior job of satisfying customers"-- ER -