TY - BOOK AU - Perreault,William D. AU - McCarthy,E.Jerome TI - Essentials of marketing: a global-managerial approach U1 - 658.8 22 CY - Islamabad PB - NBF KW - Marketing N1 - Marketing's value to consumers, firms, and society -- Marketing strategy planning -- Focusing marketing strategy with segmentation and positioning -- Evaluating opportunities in the changing marketing environment -- Final consumers and their buying behavior -- Business and organizational customers and their buying behavior -- Improving decisions with marketing information -- Elements of product planning for goods and services -- Product management and new-product development -- Place and development of channel systems -- Distribution customer service and logistics -- Retailers, wholesalers, and their strategy planning -- Promotion, introduction to integrated marketing communications -- Personal selling -- Advertising and sales promotion -- Pricing objectives and policies -- Price setting in the business world -- Developing innovative marketing plans, appraisal and challenges -- Appendixes: Economics fundamentals; Marketing arithmetic; Career planning in marketing -- Glossary ER -