Social Marketing: Changing Public Behaviour by Persuasion - Hardcover

Kotler, Philip; Roberto, Eduardo L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0029184614 ISBN 13: 9780029184615

Publisher: The Free Press, 1989

Synopsis

From the "pro" movements such as literary campaigns and voter registration drives to the "anti" programs to combat teenage pregnancy and AIDS, thousands of social agencies around the world promote causes. These sponsors find that to attain their goals, they need to exert a series of efforts to influence, change or control their target beneficiaries. This work sets out to provide a systematic marketing framework for understanding social campaigning, targeting "consumer" groups and applying the broad tools of the marketing mix. The authors attempt to show how organizations devoted to social change can effectively use their resources.

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Review

"This is perhaps the most comprehensive and well thought out compilation of information for social marketing I've seen. A great blue-print for developing, implementing, and evaluating social marketing programs." 

(Scott Downing)

"At long last there is a book addressing the challenges faced by social marketers in the 21st century. Managers in a host of non-profit organizations and government agencies will surely welcome Social Marketing, a book that lays out the issues in plain language, provides example after example of successful social marketing strategies and campaigns, and, most important, provides a comprehensive, no-nonsense framework that can be successfully applied within in any organization. Social Marketing goes far to illustrate that marketing is not just for products like shampoo, dog food and breakfast cereal anymore; increasingly, managers are faced with the challenge of marketing issues and behaviors like eating healthy foods, family planning, and buckling up. The first step a manager should take before embarking on any social marketing campaign is to read this book."

(E. Marla Felcher, Ph.D.)

Social Marketing: Improving the Quality of  Life, is the indispensable companion for leaders in all three sectors who recognize that social marketing is a leadership imperative. Philip Kotler’s great new book moves us to a higher level of understanding and performance. It is superb.

(Francis Hesselbein)

About the Author

Philip Kotler is the S. C. Johnson and Son Distinguished Professor International Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.  His most recent book, Confronting Capitalism: Real Solutions for a Troubled Economic System (2015) calls for both strong economic growth and a better sharing of the gains of economic growth. Professor Kotler is the author of over 50 books on markets and marketing.

Trained as an economist at the University of Chicago (under Nobel Laureate, Milton Friedman) and at M.I.T. (under Nobel Laureates, Paul Samuelson and Robert Solow), he has applied his economic knowledge to how markets and marketing works was an early developer of modern marketing and the emerging field of behavioural economics. As an expert on how buyers make their buying decisions, he broadened marketing to explain how buyers make their voting decisions on all kinds of issues.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Free Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0029184614
• ISBN 13: 9780029184615
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 382