Includes index

Contents: Modern marketing -- Field of marketing -- The Dynamic marketing environment -- Strategic marketing planning -- Marketing research and information -- Target market -- Consumer markets and buying behavior -- Business markets and buying behavior -- Market segmentation and target-market strategies -- Product -- Product planning and development -- Product-mix strategies -- Brands, packaging, and other product features -- Price -- Price determination -- Marketing math -- Pricing strategies -- Distribution -- Channels of distribution -- Retailing -- Wholesaling and physical distribution -- Promotion -- The Promotional program -- Personal selling and sales management -- Advertising, sales promotion, and public relations -- Marketing in special fields -- Services marketing by for-profit and non-profit organizations -- International marketing -- Managing the marketing effort -- Marketing implementation and evaluation -- Marketing: appraisal and prospects -- Careers in marketing.