Book Title: Principles of Marketing

Subtitle: Supplementary textbook for Business 108, Whatcom Community College

Authors: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing edition and 2015.

Book Description: An open textbook that teaches the experience and process of actually doing marketing - not just the vocabulary. It carries five dominant themes throughout in order to expose students to marketing in today's environment: Service dominant logic, sustainability, ethics and social responsibility, global coverage, and metrics.This is a Flatworld original, adapted by the University of Minnesota.

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Book Description

Principles of Marketing teaches the experience and process of actually doing marketing – not just the vocabulary. It carries five dominant themes throughout in order to expose students to marketing in today’s environment:

Service dominant logic — This textbook employs the term ”offering“ instead of the more traditional First “P” — product. That is because consumers don’t sacrifice value when alternating between a product and a service. They are evaluating the entire experience, whether they interact with a product, a service, or a combination. So the fundamental focus is providing value throughout the value chain, whether that value chain encompasses a product, service, or both.

Sustainability — Increasingly, companies are interested in the impact they are having on their local community as well as the overall environment. This is often referred to as the ”triple bottom line“ of financial, social, and environment performance.

Ethics and social responsibility — Following on the sustainability notion is the broader importance of ethics and social responsibility in creating successful organizations. The authors make consistent references to ethical situations throughout chapter coverage, and end of chapter material in most chapters will encompass ethical situations.

Global coverage — the authors deliberately entitled Chapter 1 ”What is Marketing?“ Whether it is today’s price of gasoline, the current U.S. presidential race, or Midwestern U.S. farming, almost every industry and company needs strong global awareness. And today’s marketing professionals must understand the world in which they and their companies operate.

Metrics — Firms today have the potential to gather more information than ever before about their current and potential customers. That information gathering can be costly, but it can also be very revealing. With the potential to capture so much more detail about micro transactions, firms should now be more able to answer ”well, what this marketing strategy really worth it?“ And ”what is the marketing ROI?“ And finally, ”what is this customer or set of customers worth to us over their lifetime?”

Edition Notes

Principles of Marketing is adapted from a work produced by a publisher who has requested that they and the original author not receive attribution.

This adapted edition is produced by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing through the eLearning Support Initiative.

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Sales and marketing

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Title
Principles of Marketing
Authors
University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing edition and 2015.
License

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Principles of Marketing by University of Minnesota Libraries is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

This edition of Principles of Marketing was produced by the University of Minnesota Libraries in 2015 and is licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (Attribution NonCommercial ShareaAlike). And further updates or modifications are not subject to copyright and may be reproduced freely.

Primary Subject
Sales and marketing
Additional Subject(s)
Sales and marketing
Publisher
University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
Publication Date
October 27, 2015
Ebook ISBN
978-1-946135-19-3