Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Marketing - General

Thoroughly updated, this much anticipated new edition provides students with a comprehensive, state-of-the-art view of business to business marketing. With a focus on strategic thinking and acting, the authors examine the distinct challenges of the business-to-business marketplace. These include: faster product and service development; shortened product life cycles; new processes for selling, distribution, and customer service; an increase in entrepreneurial firms; and the need to create and sustain long-term customer relationships.

If you sell any kind of service, whether professional, personal, or technical, this book will give you the information you need to bring in large numbers of sales at the fees you want.

As those involved in commerce are aware, preventing competitors and others from imitating successful brands is a difficult and costly task.

This book serves to inform the reader concerning complexities of the issues of brand imitation, integrating the disciplines of psychology, business, and law to the area of trademark infringement and counterfeiting. Principles and theories from psychology and how they are relevant to consumers' perceptions in the marketplace are used to explain why competitors steal the intellectual property of another company or entity.

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As those involved in commerce are aware, preventing competitors and others from imitating successful brands is a difficult and costly task.

This book serves to inform the reader concerning complexities of the issues of brand imitation, integrating the disciplines of psychology, business, and law to the area of trademark infringement and counterfeiting. Principles and theories from psychology and how they are relevant to consumers' perceptions in the marketplace are used to explain why competitors steal the intellectual property of another company or entity.

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-If you had the opportunity to ask one of the world's preeminent authorities on marketing one question, what would you ask?

Now you don't have to decide.

According to Kotler distills the essence of marketing guru Philip Kotler's wisdom and years of experience into an immensely readable question and answer format. Based on the thousands of questions Kotler has been asked over the years by clients, students, business audiences, and journalists, the book reveals the revolutionary theories of one of the profession's most revered experts, with Kotler...

"Many executives and managers want to create and then dominate new markets. The rewards include unmatched brand awareness, the luxurious financial position of having no competition, and the exhilaration of building something completely new.

"Creating and Dominating New Markets" shows managers, executives, and business owners how to emulate the remarkable success of savvy market creators such as Microsoft, FedEx, and AOL. The book delivers specific success strategies on how to:

* Identify the right market to create

* Use common denominators for success

* Avoid common and...

Every day each of us experiences the marketing power and influence of a widely recognized brand name. When we use Coke as a synonym for cola products, or Kleenex to mean tissue, we reinforce the power of these brands. It is no surprise, then, that companies with established brand names protect and nurture them, and that companies without brand names continuously strive to build them. Many have theorized about the most effective way to establish a popular brand. Seldom, however, have the owners of the world's leading brands given their views on the subject. In this volume, successful brand...

While sales negotiation is traditionally considered a formal process conducted by teams of buyers and sellers, this handy reference recognizes that negotiating strategies and techniques are actually required in many instances in day-to-day selling activities as well, and provides advice geared to the salesperson's specific daily needs. The chapters present material in a factual, step-by-step manner so it is easy to assimilate. The work commences with an overview of the role and importance of skillful negotiation strategy in sales, provides insight into the buyer's perspective, and treats...

Written especially for current and aspiring marketing managers and executives, this book discusses the avoidable marketing failure. Hendon argues that many so-called product failures could have been avoided and that certain error patterns continually recur in many marketing situations. He exposes these patterns through the use of numerous case study examples so that the reader can learn from the mistakes of others rather than from personal experience with an avoidable product failure. Hendon shares a wealth of information from his experiences as a teacher and consultant in this very...