ValueSpace: Winning the Battle for Market Leadership
ValueSpace: Winning the Battle for Market Leadership

Author: Banwari Mittal

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2001-05-11

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 0071382690

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In the tradition of the bestselling The Discipline of Market Leaders, business professors and consultants Banwari Mittal and Jagdish N. Sheth describe a dynamic new value-based approach to achieving market dominance they call ValueSpace—the space that great companies create to deliver their customers the greatest value. Based on the findings of an in-depth study for the prestigious Marketing Science Institute of the top 10 companies on Fortune’s Most Admired Companies list, Mittal and Sheth show that value is the “missing link” in achieving enduring customer loyalty, and that the three main components of customer value are performance, price, and service. With the help of fascinating case studies from UPS, 3M, Caterpillar, Xerox, Fossil, and other “most admireds,” Value Space explains why and how companies in all business sectors that excel at delivering customer value are invariably the market leaders. It outlines a complete program for achieving long-term success by more effectively managing the 9 organizational processes that drive performance, price, and service.

The 4 A's of Marketing
The 4 A's of Marketing

Author: Jagdish Sheth

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-04-23

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1136624902

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The authors present a powerful and tested approach that helps managers see a business’s every action through the eyes of its customers. This approach is organized around the values that matter most to customers: Acceptability, Affordability, Accessibility and Awareness. Taken together, these attributes are called the "4A’s." The 4A framework derives from a customer-value perspective based on the four distinct roles that customers play in the market: seekers, selectors, payers and users. For a marketing campaign to succeed, it must achieve high marks on all four A’s, using a blend of marketing and non-marketing resources. The 4A framework helps companies create value for customers by identifying exactly what they want and need, as well as by uncovering new wants and needs. (For example, none of us knew we "needed" an iPad until Apple created it.) That means not only ensuring that customers are aware of the product, but also ensuring that the product is affordable, accessible and acceptable to them. Throughout this book, the authors demonstrate how looking at the world through the 4A lens helps companies avoid marketing myopia (an excessive focus on the product) as well as managerial myopia (an excessive focus on process). In fact, it is a powerful way to operationalize the marketing concept; it enables managers to look at the world through the customer’s eyes. This ability has become an absolute necessity for success in today’s hyper-competitive marketplace.

Selling Value
Selling Value

Author: Don Hutson

Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group

Published: 2015-03-03

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0692401121

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SELLING VALUE is 305 pages of solid content to help you out perform your competition while keeping your customers happy. It is presented in four parts: Mastering the Head Game; Your Blueprint for Sales Success; Understanding Your Customer; and Securing and Growing the Business; The fifteen chapters outline the most critical content for exceptional sales results in a competitive environment. One premise set forth is that the most important definition of value is your prospect’s definition! If properly queried, ten prospects might well give you ten different answers and to what they value most. With exceptional skills of differentiating and adapting the value elements of your deliverables, you can hit the mark for all ten of them! From the important basics in Part I to the advanced selling skills in Part IV, you will gain many ideas from this content-rich work on the skill of SELLING VALUE for greater successds!

Sales Management
Sales Management

Author: Bill Donaldson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-09-16

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1137355123

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This is a core textbook that provides a practical and comprehensive introduction to selling and sales management. Packed full of insightful real-world case studies, the fourth edition of this highly successful text has been fully updated and revised throughout to provide a truly contemporary overview of the discipline. This textbook offers a unique blend of academic rigour and practical focus based on the authors' invaluable combination of industry experience, expertise in sales consultancy and years of teaching and research in sales. Accessibly divided into three parts-'Strategy', 'Process' and 'Practice'-it presents a wide range of topics such as ethical issues in sales, key account management, international sales, recruitment, and compensation and rewards. Sales Management is the definitive text for undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA students of selling and sales management. New to this Edition: - New chapters on Defining and Implementing Sales Strategies and Key Account Management - New case studies, vignettes, questions for reflection and statistics added throughout the text - An increased emphasis on the practical approaches to professional selling - Insightful interviews with sales professionals sharing their experience and insights at the end of some chapters

The Profit Impact of Marketing Strategy Project
The Profit Impact of Marketing Strategy Project

Author: Paul W. Farris

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-11-04

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1139456407

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This book was first published in 2004. Developments in strategic thinking and econometric methods, alongside fundamental changes in technology and in the nature of competition, argue the need for an in-depth but accessible assessment of the Profit Impact of Marketing Strategy's project. Here, Paul Farris and Michael Moore gather together contributions from experts across the US and Europe to offer a retrospective analysis alongside innovative perspectives on future marketing strategy and performance assessment methods. Appealing to scholars and reflective practitioners interested in fostering practical knowledge about business innovation and changes, this book not only explores ways of thinking about and working with PIMS but also explores the unresolved issues arising from the original data. As the business community renews its attempts to recreate the kind of inter-firm cooperation that produced the PIMS project, sharing many of the ideals, this volume will broadly appeal.

Review of Marketing Research
Review of Marketing Research

Author: Naresh Malhotra - USE 0493

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2011-07-21

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 0857248987

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This special issue of Review of Marketing Research is unique in that it contains chapters by marketing legends in their own words. Bagozzi, Hunt, Kotler, Kumar, Malhotra, Monroe, Sheth, Wind and Zaltman summarize not only their research but also the salient aspects of their academic life journeys.

Handbook on Research in Relationship Marketing
Handbook on Research in Relationship Marketing

Author: Robert M. Morgan

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2015-01-30

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1783478632

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The Handbook on Research in Relationship Marketing includes contributions from relationship marketing experts in business-to-business, business-to-consumer, global services, technology and a variety of other contexts of practice. Academics, students, a

Marketing Theory
Marketing Theory

Author: Jagdish N. Sheth

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2024-11-13

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1394310544

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Presents a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the evolution and underlying rationale of marketing theories Marketing is a dynamic discipline, subject to evolutionary changes over time. Over the years, many schools of marketing thought have enriched the discipline. Today, some of the schools are only found in history books, while others have transformed into new, modern schools of thought shaped by changing marketing contexts and the emergence of digital technology. Marketing Theory examines 16 schools of marketing thought that emerged, evolved, and dominated the marketing discipline over the course of a century. Written by a team of noted experts, this acclaimed book provides in-depth evaluations of each school—utilizing a rigorous metatheoretical framework based on scientific criteria such as syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. In this new global expanded edition, Marketing Theory identifies four new schools of marketing thought that have emerged in the past 30 years, each with separate chapters devoted to their assessment. It remains a must-read book for doctoral students in marketing, as well as young scholars and practitioners who want to understand the rationale and theoretical tenets of the various schools and contextualize their role in developing contemporary marketing theory. New to this Edition: New chapters on four new schools of marketing thought New content on contenders for a general theory of marketing: Market Orientation, Service-Dominant Logic, Rule of Three Theory, and Resource Advantage (R-A) Theory of Competition New and expanded coverage of Relationship Marketing, with greater emphasis on R-A Theory Now includes insightful questions for analysis and advanced-level discussions for every chapter Wiley Advantage: Covers the main concepts and principles underlying marketing theory and practice Provides a comprehensive typology for the 16 major schools of marketing thought Describes concepts and axioms useful in generating a practical theory of marketing. Offers a practical approach to marketing theory that generates a more realistic view of marketing issues Illustrates how marketing problems have been solved in the real world of business by connecting theory to practice Includes extensive references throughout, including many pioneering yet lesser-known works