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Essentials of Marketing
Essentials of Marketing

Essentials of Marketing, 17th Edition

ISBN10: 1260260372 | ISBN13: 9781260260373
By William Perreault, Joseph Cannon and E. Jerome McCarthy

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Perreault's Essentials of Marketing 17e looks at the best of marketing, where marketing practices meet target customer needs and make the world a better place. Dating back to Jerry McCarthy’s ground-breaking categorization of the 4Ps of Marketing, our practical, research-based product continues to emphasize marketing strategy planning. There are several big changes to this edition of Essentials of Marketing and hundreds of smaller ones. The many
dramatic changes in the market environment and marketing strategy are reflected throughout the print, digital and supplemental package.  Additionally, each revision of Essentials of Marketing has a few key themes that we incorporate based on the needs of the market and reviewer feedback. In 17e, we have incorporated (1) NEW marketing for a better world (#M4BW), (2) marketing analytics, (3) active learning, and (4) currency. The following page provides a brief
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Chapter One: Marketing’s Value to Consumers, Firms, and Society 
Chapter Two: Marketing Strategy Planning  
Chapter Three: Evaluating Opportunities in the Changing Market Environment   
Chapter Four: Focusing Marketing Strategy with Segmentation and Positioning   
Chapter Five: Final Consumers and Their Buying Behavior   
Chapter Six: Business and Organizational Customers and Their Buying Behavior   
Chapter Seven: Improving Decisions with Marketing Information   
Chapter Eight: Elements of Product Planning for Goods and Services  
Chapter Nine: Product Management and New-Product Development   
Chapter Ten: Place and Development of Channel Systems   
Chapter Eleven: Distribution Customer Service and Logistics   
Chapter Twelve: Retailers, Wholesalers, and Their Strategy Planning   
Chapter Thirteen: Promotion—Introduction to Integrated Marketing Communications   
Chapter Fourteen: Personal Selling and Customer Service   
Chapter Fifteen: Advertising and Sales Promotion   
Chapter Sixteen: Publicity: Promotion Using Earned Media, Owned Media, and Social Media   
Chapter Seventeen: Pricing Objectives and Policies  
Chapter Eighteen: Price Setting in the Business World 
Chapter Nineteen: Ethical Marketing in a Consumer-Oriented World: Appraisal and Challenges   
  
 
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About the Author

William Perreault

William D. Perreault Jr. is Kenan Professor of Business Emeritus at the University of North Carolina. Dr. Perreault is the recipient of the two most prestigious awards in his field: the American Marketing Association Distinguished Educator Award and the Academy of Marketing Science Outstanding Educator Award. He was also selected for the Churchill Award, which honors career impact on marketing research. He was editor of the Journal of Marketing Research and has been on the review board of the Journal of Marketing and other journals. 

The Decision Sciences Institute has recognized Dr. Perreault for innovations in marketing education, and at UNC he has received several awards for teaching excellence. He is also the author of Basic Marketing and The Marketing Game! 

Dr. Perreault is a past president of the American Marketing Association Academic Council, served as chair of an advisory committee to the U.S. Census Bureau, and served as a trustee of the Marketing Science Institute. He has also worked as a consultant to organizations that range from GE and IBM to the Federal Trade Commission.

Joseph Cannon

Joseph P. Cannon is Dean’s Distinguished Teaching Fellow and professor of marketing at Colorado State University. He has also taught at the University of North Carolina, Emory University, Instituto de Empresa (Madrid, Spain), INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France), Thammasat University (Bangkok, Thailand), and the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). He has received many teaching awards and the N. Preston Davis Award for Instructional Innovation. 

Dr. Cannon’s research has been published in the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, Antitrust Bulletin, and the Academy of Management Review, among others. He is a two-time recipient of the Louis W. and Rhona L. Stern Award for high-impact research on interorganizational topics. He has also written numerous teaching cases. Dr. Cannon serves (or served) on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, and Journal of Marketing Education. The Journal of Marketing has honored Dr. Cannon with several distinguished reviewer awards. He served as chair of the American Marketing Association’s Interorganizational Special Interest Group (IOSIG). Before entering academics, Dr. Cannon worked in sales and marketing for Eastman Kodak Company.

E. Jerome McCarthy

Marketing lost one of its pioneers when E. Jerome “Jerry” McCarthy passed away at his home in East Lansing, Michigan, in 2015. 

All marketing instructors owe Jerry McCarthy a great debt of gratitude. Jerry was a pioneer in marketing and wrote the predecessor to this title, Basic Marketing, and the first few editions of Essentials of Marketing. He popularized the 4 Ps approach to managerial marketing management. Because of the impact he had in marketing and this title specifically, we dedicate this 18th edition to him in honor of his memory. 

After earning a PhD at the University of Minnesota, Dr. McCarthy joined the faculty at Notre Dame and became a Fellow in the prestigious Ford Foundation Program at Harvard, an experience that focused on how to make marketing management practice more rigorous and shaped his thoughts on the needs of students and educators. Dr. McCarthy spent most of his career at Michigan State University, gaining a reputation for working with passion and purpose. He received the AMA’s Trailblazer Award in 1987 and was voted one of the “top five” leaders in marketing thought by marketing educators. 

Dr. McCarthy was well known for his innovative teaching materials and texts, including Basic Marketing and Essentials of Marketing. These books changed the way marketing was taught by taking a managerial point of view. He also introduced a marketing strategy planning framework, organizing marketing decisions around the Four Ps—Product, Place, Promotion and Price. As these approaches became the standard in other texts, Dr. McCarthy continued to innovate, including new materials in the digital realm. Today’s marketing instructors owe a great debt to this innovative pioneer.



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