The Ten-Day Mba
A Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering the Sk
Chapter OneMarketing
Marketing Topics:
The 7 Steps of Marketing Strategy Development
The Buying Process
Segmentation
Product Life Cycle
Perceptual Mapping
Margins
The Marketing Mix and the 4 P's
Positioning
Distribution Channels
Advertising
Promotions
Pricing
Marketing Economics
A scene from the boardroom of Acme Corporation:
Director: Every time we do our annual review of our execu-tives' salaries, I cringe when I think that we are paying more to Jim Mooney, our vice-president of marketing fromOhio State, than to our company's president, Hank Bufford from Harvard. I just don't understand it.
Chairman of the board: What don't you understand? With-out Jim's sales we wouldn't need a president-or anyone else for that matter!
Marketers see the world like the chairman of Acme. As renowned Professor Philip Kotler of the Kellogg School at Northwestern teaches, marketing comes first. Marketin ... read full excerpt from: The Ten-Day MBA ebook