| Introduction | p. xi |
| Marketing Strategy: How It Fits with Business Strategy | p. 1 |
| What Is Strategy? | p. 2 |
| The Strategy Process | p. 4 |
| Where Marketing Fits In | p. 5 |
| Marketing Strategy and Product Life Cycles | p. 8 |
| Summing Up | p. 16 |
| Creating a Marketing Plan: An Overview | p. 19 |
| From Strategy to Plan | p. 20 |
| Implementing Your Plan via the Marketing Mix | p. 21 |
| Controlling Plan Implementation | p. 28 |
| Summing Up | p. 29 |
| Market Research: Listen and Learn | p. 31 |
| Formal Market Research | p. 33 |
| Two Formal Methods for Analyzing Buyer Preferences | p. 35 |
| Informal Research Methods: Close Customer Contact | p. 43 |
| Summing Up | p. 50 |
| Market Customization: Segmentation, Targeting, and Positioning | p. 51 |
| Segmentation | p. 54 |
| From Segmentation to Targeting | p. 58 |
| Positioning | p. 60 |
| Summing Up | p. 63 |
| Competitor Analysis: Understand Your Opponents | p. 65 |
| Who Are Your Competitors? | p. 67 |
| Characteristics for Analysis | p. 69 |
| Porter's Five Forces Framework | p. 73 |
| Summing Up | p. 75 |
| Branding: Differentiation That Customers Value | p. 77 |
| Differentiation of Commodity Products and Services | p. 79 |
| Approaches to Differentiation | p. 81 |
| Differentiation That Matters | p. 86 |
| Summing Up | p. 87 |
| The Right Customers: Acquisition, Retention, and Development | p. 89 |
| Customer Economics | p. 90 |
| Customer Retention | p. 96 |
| Customer Development | p. 99 |
| Summing Up | p. 102 |
| Developing New Products and Services: The Marketer's Role | p. 103 |
| The Two Types of New Products | p. 105 |
| Extending Product Lines into New Segments | p. 109 |
| The New-Product Process | p. 112 |
| The Marketer's Role | p. 117 |
| Your New-Product Strategy | p. 120 |
| Beyond New | p. 120 |
| Summing Up | p. 122 |
| Pricing It Right: Strategies, Applications, and Pitfalls | p. 125 |
| Cost-Plus Pricing | p. 127 |
| Price Skimming | p. 128 |
| Penetration Pricing | p. 130 |
| Exploiting the Experience Curve | p. 132 |
| Prestige Pricing | p. 133 |
| Bait and Hook Pricing | p. 134 |
| Price Promotions | p. 135 |
| Customer-Perceived Value: The Ultimate Arbiter of Price | p. 138 |
| Pricing and the Product Life Cycle | p. 139 |
| Summing Up | p. 142 |
| Integrated Marketing Communications: Creativity, Consistency, and Effective Resource Allocation | p. 145 |
| The Goal of Marketing Communications | p. 147 |
| Communication Vehicles | p. 148 |
| Putting It All Together | p. 152 |
| The Management Challenge | p. 153 |
| Summing Up | p. 154 |
| Interactive Marketing: New Channel, New Challenge | p. 157 |
| Growing Online Sales | p. 158 |
| E-mail Marketing | p. 162 |
| Web-Based Merchandising | p. 166 |
| Summing Up | p. 169 |
| Marketing Across Borders: It's a Big, Big World | p. 171 |
| Product Decisions | p. 173 |
| Promotion | p. 177 |
| Place (or Distribution) | p. 178 |
| Price | p. 179 |
| Controlling Global Marketing Decisions | p. 180 |
| Summing Up | p. 182 |
| The Future of Marketing: Tomorrow's Challenges | p. 185 |
| Today's Buyers Have More Information | p. 186 |
| Delivering on the Promise | p. 187 |
| Cutting Through the Clutter | p. 188 |
| Market Fragmentation | p. 190 |
| Measurement and Accountability | p. 191 |
| The Ethics of Marketing | p. 193 |
| Summing Up | p. 195 |
| Useful Implementation Tools | p. 197 |
| Notes | p. 203 |
| Glossary | p. 207 |
| For Further Reading | p. 215 |
| Index | p. 223 |
| About the Subject Adviser | p. 229 |
| About the Writer | p. 230 |
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