Simplified Guide To Marketing
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This marketing book is a simplified text based on numerous courses the author has conducted for business people, sales and marketing executives, and marketing students. The book covers important aspects of business and marketing such as how to carry out a break-even analysis, how to export and expand the business, how to carry out marketing research, how to prepare a marketing plan, pricing strategies, marketing communication, and even how to be an effective sales person. Several marketing case studies are included to challenge the reader in strategic thinking. The book also acts as a revision guide for those preparing for the various professional marketing exams, e.g., the Chartered Institute of Marketing and the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry marketing exams.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The author has been a marketer and salesman for many years. He has taught marketing to sales personnel, business people and students for many years, as well as many other professional and management subjects for years. He has published about 20 books, two of which (on marketing and public relations respectively) have been adopted as reference texts and commended by professional bodies, and has been the editor of one book. He has also published a number of important papers in international research journals and has served on the faculty of an American research university as a professor. He has received publicity from the press for some intellectual achievement.
Kerwin Mathew
Kerwin Mathew has published about 20 books, two of which have been adopted as reference texts and commended by professional bodies. He was also the editor of a book of essays. He has taught many professional and management subjects for years. He has published a number of important papers, including several papers on the solutions to some famous, unsolved problems, in research journals and has served on the faculty of an American research university as a professor. He has received publicity from the press for some intellectual achievement.
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Simplified Guide To Marketing - Kerwin Mathew
SIMPLIFIED GUIDE TO MARKETING
PREFACE
This simplified marketing book has been prepared for the busy executive involved in marketing and student preparing to sit marketing exams. The material in the book has been utilized by the author to train business and sales personnel in marketing techniques and students preparing for the various marketing exams such as those conducted by the Chartered Institute of Marketing and the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Several case studies are included to challenge the reader in the application of strategic marketing techniques.
Kerwin Mathew, Ph.D., CPM
CONTENTS
1. Introduction To Marketing
2. Functions Of A Marketing Executive
3. Marketing Research
4. Product Policy
5. Marketing Communication
6. Sales Management
7. Marketing Plan
8. Tips On Salesmanship
9. Channels Of Distribution
10. Marketing Of Industrial Goods & Services
11. Pricing And Demand
12. International Marketing
13. Consumer Behavior
14. Case Study
1 INTRODUCTION TO MARKETING
Definitions of Marketing
(1) The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous. The aim is to know and understand
the customer so well that the product or service fits him and sells itself.
(2) Marketing is a human activity directed at satisfying needs and wants through exchange
processes.
Marketing involves appealing to & satisfying the following needs:-
Self-Actualization Needs
Esteem Needs
Safety/Security Needs
Physiological Needs
Abraham H. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
How? Through advertising, sales brochures, selling, etc., by creating:-
(1) Attention
(2) Interest
(3) Desire
(4) Action
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Marketing demands the acceptance of consumer orientation by the boards of directors, chief executive, management & employees in every activity.
The marketing philosophy then becomes the major driving and coordinating force of the whole enterprise.
(The CUSTOMER is KING).
The three fundamentals of the marketing function as a whole must be:-
(1) the recognition & anticipation of demand,
(2) the stimulation of demand, and
(3) the satisfaction of demand.
2 FUNCTIONS OF A MARKETING EXECUTIVE
(1) Directly controls marketing research.
(2) Directly controls advertising & sales promotion.
(3) Directly controls sales & distribution.
(4) Directly controls after-sales service.
(5) Closely involved in product planning.
(6) Closely involved in product development.
(7) Closely involved in public relations & company image.
Qualities needed in a Marketing Executive
(1) Good conceptual ability (foresight & analytical mind).
(2) Good at planning.
(3) Good at implementing (executing & evaluating plans).
(4) Have good understanding of economics, behavioral sciences, finance, statistics,
mathematics & operational research.
Marketing basically involves the following (mix):-
(1) Product (planning).
(2) Pricing.
(3) Place (of