Marketing

Gain an understanding of today's marketing principles with Pride/Ferrell's engaging MARKETING. Develop the knowledge and decision-making skills to succeed as in-depth coverage highlights fundamental marketing concepts and strategies. Practical applications and examples emphasize the latest social networking, digital marketing, social and environmental responsibility, globalization, entrepreneurship and marketing during transition. This edition also expands coverage of business markets and buying behavior, marketing channels and supply-chain management, retailing, personal selling and marketing analytics. An eBook lets you highlight terms and includes embedded Concept Check quizzes to assess understanding of key concepts. You have convenient mobile access to assignments, digital flashcards, company videos, an interactive marketing plan, practice exams and activities as a marketer.

Table of Contents:
Part I: MARKETING STRATEGY AND CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPS. 1. An Overview of Strategic Marketing. 2. Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Marketing Strategies. Part II: ENVIRONMENTAL FORCES AND SOCIAL AND ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES. 3. The Marketing Environment. 4. Social Responsibility and Ethics in Marketing. Part III: MARKETING RESEARCH AND TARGET MARKET ANALYSIS. 5. Marketing Research and Information Systems. 6. Target Markets Segmentation and Evaluation. Part IV: BUYING BEHAVIOR, GLOBAL MARKETING, AND DIGITAL MARKETING. 7. Consumer Buying Behavior. 8. Business Markets and Buying Behavior. 9. Reaching Global Markets. 10. Digital Marketing and Social Networking. Part V: PRODUCT DECISIONS. 11. Product Concepts, Branding and Packaging. 12. Developing and Managing Products. 13. Services Marketing. Part VI: DISTRIBUTION DECISIONS. 14. Marketing Channels and Supply-Chain Management. 15. Retailing, Direct Marketing and Wholesaling. Part VII: PROMOTION DECISIONS. 16. Integrated Marketing Communications. 17. Advertising and Public Relations. 18. Personal Selling and Sales Promotion. Part VIII: PRICING DECISIONS. 19. Pricing Concepts. 20. Setting Prices. AVAILABLE ONLY ONLINE: Appendix A: Financial Analysis in Marketing Appendix B: Sample Marketing Plan Appendix C: Careers in Marketing

About the Author :
William M. Pride is Professor of Marketing at Mays Business School, Texas A&M University. He received his PhD from Louisiana State University. In addition to this text, he is the co-author of CENGAGE LEARNING'S BUSINESS, a market-leader. Dr. Pride teaches principles of marketing at both undergraduate and graduate levels and constantly solicits student feedback that is important to revising a PRINCIPLES OF MARKETING text. Dr. Pride’s research interests are in advertising, promotion and distribution channels. His research articles have appeared in major journals in the fields of marketing such as the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science and the Journal of Advertising. Dr. Pride is a member of the American Marketing Association, Academy of Marketing Science, Society for Marketing Advances and the Marketing Management Association. He has received the Marketing Fellow Award from the Society for Marketing Advances and the Marketing Innovation Award from the Marketing Management Association. Both of these are lifetime achievement awards. O.C. Ferrell is The James T. Pursell Sr. Eminent Scholar in Ethics and Director of the Center for Ethical Organizational Cultures, Auburn University. He served as the Distinguished Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Belmont University and University Distinguished Professor of Marketing at the Anderson School of Management at University of New Mexico. He has also been on the faculties of the University of Wyoming, Colorado State University, University of Memphis, Texas A&M University, Illinois State University and Southern Illinois University. He received his PhD in marketing from Louisiana State University. He is past president of the Academic Council of the American Marketing Association, and he chaired the American Marketing Association Ethics Committee. Under his leadership, the committee developed the AMA Code of Ethics and the AMA Code of Ethics for Marketing on the Internet. In addition, he is a former member of the Academy of Marketing Science Board of Governors and is a Society of Marketing Advances and Southwestern Marketing Association Fellow and an Academy of Marketing Science Distinguished Fellow. He was the vice president of publications and is president of the Academy of Marketing Science. He was the first recipient of the Marketing Education Innovation Award from the Marketing Management Association. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Macromarketing Society and a special award for service to doctoral students from the Southeast Doctoral Consortium. He received the Harold Berkman Lifetime Service Award from the Academy of Marketing Science and, more recently, the Cutco/Vector Distinguished Marketing Educator Award. Dr. Ferrell is the co-author of 20 books and more than 100 published articles and papers. His articles have been published in the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Business Ethics and the Journal of Business Research as well as other journals.