Business Marketing: Connecting Strategy, Relationships, and Learning (Int'l Ed) - Softcover

Tanner, John; Dwyer, F. Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071263438 ISBN 13: 9780071263436

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education / Asia, 2008

Synopsis

Business Marketing, 4e is targeted at the undergraduate Business Marketing course to students who want to succeed in business to business marketing. This edition combines a theory-driven yet hands-on approach to show students how to make profitable and quality business marketing decisions. This well known text introduces the concepts of marketing to businesses and stresses the importance of customer relationship and knowledge management.

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From the Publisher

Dwyer/Tanner include comprehensive coverage of how marketing fits in and contributes to every organization. This integrated coverage emphasizes to the student that marketing is part of everything the organization does. While the text is based in theory, it has practical applications and materials from all business disciplines integrated throughout so students can strengthen their abilities to practice business marketing and apply the learned theories to real-life situations.
Technology is emphasized throughout, via web sites for all chapter-opening profiles and Web exercises at the end of each chapter, showing the student how the web has become an important part of business marketing.
The text stresses an emphasis on growing business from current customers the only book that intentionally emphasizes current customers throughout the text but expecially in the Marketing Opportunities chapter and the Developing and Managing Products chapter, along with a Customer Retention center. Also included is the strongest Integrated Marketing Communications chapter available in any Business Marketing text. This IMC chapter helps the student to see how all parts of the firm come together to create and implement a successful marketing plan.
The best treatment of evaluating marketing performance. The book includes integration of ABC accounting as applied to marketing, the use of the balanced scorecard, and other state-of-the-art methods not found in any detail (if at all) in other books.
Unique chapters: Weaving Marketing into the Fabric of the Firm; Integrating Marketing Communications; The One to One Media; and Customer Retention and Maximization; One to One Marketing chapter discusses electronic marketing and other forms of direct communication.
Other pedagogical features include: Each chapter opens with a company or industry profile that is then used as a running example throughout the chapter to show the student how concepts learned apply to real-life situations; Business 2 Business feature - two per chapter- this feature encourages students to incorporate what they are learning to how it is applied in B2B situations; From the Field feature - two per chapter with one globally focused, provide real life examples of business marketing to show business marketing concepts in practice.
Updated Caselets and full-length cases - these support the theory-base with practical applications Eleven of these cases are unique to this text and 5 international cases are included.

About the Author

Dr. Tanner is dean, Strome College of Business, Old Dominion University. He earned his PhD from the University of Georgia. Prior to entering academia, Dr. Tanner spent eight years in industry with Rockwell International and Xerox Corporation as both salesperson and marketing manager.  Dr. Tanner has received several awards for teaching effectiveness and research, including the Distinguished Teacher award from the Society of Marketing Advances.  He has also been named Reviewer of the Year and coauthor of the Paper of the Year by the Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management. Dr. Tanner has authored or coauthored 15 books, and has published over 80 articles. He has received research grants from the Center for Exhibition Industry Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the University Research Council, the Walmart Foundation, and others.   He is currently the editor of Marketing Educators' Review and has served as special issue editor for the Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management. Dr. Tanner has been a featured presenter at executive workshops and conferences for organizations such as the Marketing Science Institute, National Retail Federation, Canadian Association of Exhibition Managers, and Oracle's OpenWorld.  His consulting clients include IBM, Cabela's, EMC, SAP, and others.  Jeff and his wife also breed and race thoroughbred horses. 

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education / Asia
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0071263438
• ISBN 13: 9780071263436
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 736