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Preface x

About the author xii

Part 1 Marketing Strategy
1 Why is Marketing Management Important? 1

2 Customer Behavior 13

3 Segmentation 32

4 Targeting 51

5 Positioning 63

Part 2 Product Positioning
6 Products: Goods and Services 79

7 Brands 91

8 New Products and Innovation 109

Part 3 Positioning via Price, Place,
and Promotion
9 Pricing 131

10 Channels of Distribution 161

11 Advertising Messages and Marketing Communications 185

12 Integrated Marketing Communications and Media Choices 205

13 Social Media 224

Part 4 Positioning: Assessment Through
the Customer Lens
14 Customer Satisfaction and Customer Relationships 239

15 Marketing Research Tools 256

Part 5 Capstone
16 Marketing Strategy 275

17 Marketing Plans 293

Endnotes 312

Index 316

BRIEF CONTENTS

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CONTENTS

Preface x

About the author xii

Part 1 Marketing Strategy

1 Why Is Marketing Management
Important? 1
1-1 Defining Marketing 1
1-2 Marketing Is an Exchange Relationship 1

1-2a Marketing is Everywhere 2

1-3 Why Is Marketing Management Important? 2
1-3a Marketing and Customer Satisfaction is

Everyones Responsibility 4

1-4 The Marketing Framework: 5Cs,STP, and the 4Ps 5
1-4a Book Layout 7
1-4b Learning from the Marketing Framework 8
1-4c The Flow in Each Chapter: What? Why? How? 9

2 Customer Behavior 13
2-1 Three Phases of the Purchase Process 13
2-2 Different Kinds of Purchases 15
2-3 The Marketing Science of Customer Behavior 18

2-3a Sensation and Perception 18
2-3b Learning, Memory, and Emotions 20
2-3c Motivation 22
2-3d Attitudes and Decision Making 25
2-3e How Do Cultural Differences Affect

Consumers Behavior? 27

3 Segmentation 32
3-1 Why Segment? 32
3-2 What Are Market Segments? 33
3-3 What Information Serves as Bases for Segmentation? 35

3-3a Demographic 35
3-3b Geographic 36
3-3c Psychological 37
3-3d Behavioral 39
3-3e B2B 40
3-3f Concept in Action: Segmentation Variables 41

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3-4 How Do Marketers Segment
the Market? 42
3-4a How to Evaluate the

Segmentation Scheme 42

4 Targeting 51
4-1 What Is Targeting and Why

Do Marketers Do It? 51
4-2 How Do We Choose a Segment

to Target? 52
4-2a Profitability and Strategic Fit 52
4-2b Competitive Comparisons 54

4-3 Sizing Markets 56
4-3a Concept in Action: How Much of

My Consultative Advice Can I Sell? 58

5 Positioning 63
5-1 What Is Positioning and Why Is It Probably the Most Important

Aspect of Marketing? 63
5-1a Positioning via Perceptual Maps 64
5-1b The Positioning Matrix 66

5-2 Writing a Positioning Statement 74

Part 2 Product Positioning

6 Products: Goods and Services 79
6-1 What Do We mean by Product? 79

6-1a The Product in the Marketing Exchange 80

6-2 How Are Goods Different from Services? 81
6-2a Intangibility 81
6-2b Search, Experience, Credence 82
6-2c Perishability 83
6-2d Variability 83
6-2e To Infinity and Beyond Goods and Services 84

6-3 What Is the Firms Core Market Offering? 84
6-3a Dynamic Strategies 86
6-3b Product Lines: Breadth and Depth 87

7 Brands 91
7-1 What Is a Brand? 91

7-1a Brand Name 92
7-1b Logos and Color 92

7-2 Why Brand? 93
7-3 What Are Brand Associations? 95

7-3a Brand Personalities 97
7-3b Brand Communities 98

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7-4 What Are Branding Strategies? 98
7-4a Umbrella Brands vs. House of Brands 99
7-4b Brand-Extensions and Co-Branding 100
7-4c How are Brands Best Rolled Out Globally? 103
7-4d Store Brands 103

7-5 How Is Brand Equity Determined? 104

8 New Products and Innovation 109
8-1 Why Are New Products Important? 109
8-2 How Does Marketing Develop New Products for

Their Customers? 110
8-2a Philosophies of Product Development 110
8-2b Marketing 111
8-2c Idea Creation and Market Potential 112
8-2d Concept Testing and Design & Development 113
8-2e Beta-Testing 115
8-2f Launch 116

8-3 What Is the Product Life Cycle? 118
8-3a Diffusion of Innovation 120

8-4 How Do New Products and Brand Extensions Fit in
Marketing Strategy? 124
8-4a Strategic Thinking about Growth 125

8-5 What Trends Should I Watch? 126

Part 3 Positioning via Price, Place,
and Promotion

9 Pricing 131
9-1 Why Is Pricing so Important? 131
9-2 Background: Supply and Demand 131
9-3 Low Prices 136

9-3a Concept in Action: Break-Even for a Good 137
9-3b Concept in Action: Break-Even for a Service 139

9-4 High Prices 142
9-4a Using Scanner Data 142
9-4b Using Survey Data 144
9-4c Conjoint Analysis 144

9-5 Units or Revenue; Volume or Profits 145
9-6 Customers and the Psychology ofPricing 147

9-6a Price Discrimination, a.k.a. Segmentation Pricing 150
9-6b Quantity Discounts 151
9-6c Yield or Demand Management 152

9-7 Non-Linear Pricing 152
9-8 Changes in Cha-Ching 154

9-8a Pricing and the Product Life Cycle 154
9-8b Price Fluctuations 155
9-8c Coupons 155

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9-8d Competitive Strategy and Game Theory 155
9-8e Auctions 156

10 Channels of Distribution 161
10-1 What Are Distribution Channels, Supply Chain Logistics, and

Why Do We Use Them? 162
10-2 How to Design Smart Distribution Systems: Intensive or

Selective? 165
10-2a Push and Pull 167

10-3 Power and Conflict in Channel Relationships 168
10-3a Revenue Sharing 170
10-3b Integration 173
10-3c Retailing 175
10-3d Franchising 178
10-3e E-Commerce 179
10-3f Catalog Sales 180
10-3g Sales Force 181
10-3h Integrated Marketing Channels 182

11 Advertising Messages and Marketing
Communications 185
11-1 What Is Advertising? 187
11-2 Why Is Advertising Important? 187
11-3 What Marketing Goals Are sought from Advertising

Campaigns? 188
11-4 Designing Advertising Messages to Meet

Marketing andCorporate Goals 190
11-4a Cognitive Ads 191
11-4b Emotional Ads 193
11-4c Image Ads 195
11-4d Endorsements 196

11-5 How Is Advertising Evaluated? 198
11-5a A

ad
and A

brand
201

12 Integrated Marketing Communications
and Media Choices 205
12-1 What Media Decisions Are Made in Advertising Promotional

Campaigns? 205
12-1a Reach and Frequency and GRPs 207
12-1b Media Planning and Scheduling 209

12-2 Integrated Marketing Communications AcrossMedia 210
12-2a Media Comparisons 212
12-2b Beyond Advertising 214
12-2c Choice Between Advertising and a Sales Force 215
12-2d The IMC Choices Depend on

the Marketing Goals 218

12-3 How Is the Effectiveness ofAdvertising
MediaMeasured? 220

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13 Social Media 224
13-1 What Are Social Media? 224

13-1a Types of Social Media 225
13-1b Word-of-mouth 226

13-2 What Are Social Networks? 227
13-2a Identifying Influentials 227
13-2b Recommendation Systems 228
13-2c Social Media ROI, KPIs, and Web Analytics 230
13-2d Pre-purchase: Awareness 230
13-2e Pre-purchase: Brand Consideration 231
13-2f Purchase or Behavioral Engagement 232
13-2g Post-purchase 233
13-2h How to Proceed? 234

Part 4 Positioning: Assessment Through
the Customer Lens

14 Customer Satisfaction
and Customer Relationships 239
14-1 What Are Customer Evaluations, and Why Do We Care? 239
14-2 How Do Consumers Evaluate Products? 240

14-2a Sources of Expectations 241
14-2b Expectation and Experience 243

14-3 How Do Marketers Measure Quality and Customer
Satisfaction? 245

14-4 Loyalty and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) 248
14-4a Recency, Frequency, and

Monetary Value (RFM) 249
14-4b Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) 251

15 Marketing Research Tools 256
15-1 Why Is Marketing Research

so Important? 256
15-2 Cluster Analysis for Segmentation 258
15-3 Perceptual Mapping for Positioning 260

15-3a Attribute-Based 260

15-4 Focus Groups for Concept Testing 264
15-5 Conjoint for Testing Attributes 265
15-6 Scanner Data for Pricing and Coupon Experiments and Brand

Switching 268
15-7 Surveys for Assessing Customer Satisfaction 270

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Part 4 Capstone

16 MARKETING STRATEGY 275
16-1 Types of Business and Marketing Goals 275
16-2 Marketing Strategy 278

16-2a Ansoff s Product-Market Growth Matrix 278
16-2b The BCG Matrix 279
16-2c The General Electric Model 280
16-2d Porter and Strategies 281
16-2e Treacy and Wiersema Strategies 282

16-3 How to Do Strategy 283
16-3a SWOTs S&W 284
16-3b SWOTs O&T 285

16-4 Key Marketing Metrics to Facilitate Marketing Strategy 287

17 Marketing Plans 293
17-1 How Do We Put it All Together? 293
17-2 Situation Analysis: The 5Cs 294
17-3 STP 298
17-4 The 4Ps 300
17-5 Spending Time and Money 304

Endnotes 312

Index 316

There are several really good marketing management texts, yet this text was created because
the Cengage sales force recognized an opportunity. Existing texts present numerous lists of
factors to consider in a marketing decision but offer little guidance on how the factors, lists
and multiple decisions all fit together.

In this book, an overarching Marketing Framework, used in every chapter, shows how
all the pieces fit together. So, for example, when facing a decision about pricing, readers
must consider how pricing will impact a strategic element like positioning or a customer
reaction like loyalty and word of mouth. This book is practical, no-nonsense, and relatively
short, to further heighten its utility. Everyone is busy these days, so its refreshing when a
writer gets to the point. After this relatively quick read, MBAs and EMBAs should be able
to speak sensibly about marketing issues and contribute to their organizations.

Chapter Organization
The form of each chapter is very straightforward: The chapters concept is introduced by
describing what it is and why marketers do it, and the rest of the chapter shows how to do
it well. This what-why-and-how structure is intended to be extremely useful to MBA and
EMBA students, who will quickly understand the basic concepts, e.g., what is segmenta-
tion and why is it useful in marketing and business? The details are in the execution, so the
how is the focus of the body of the chapter.

Key Features
Each chapter opens with a managerial checklist of questions that MBA and EMBA stu-
dents will be able to answer after reading the chapter. Throughout each chapter, boxes
present brief illustrations of concepts in action in the real world or elaborations on concepts
raised in the text, also drawing examples from the real business world. Chapters close with
a Managerial Recap that highlights the main points of the chapter and reviews the opening
checklist of questions. Chapters are also summarized in outline form, including the key
terms introduced throughout the chapter. There are discussion questions to ponder, as well
as video resources to serve as points for still further discussion. Each chapter contains a
Mini-Case that succinctly illustrates key concepts.

MindTap
The 5th edition of Marketing Management offers two exciting alternative teaching for-
mats. Instructors can choose between either a hybrid print and digital offering or a version
that provides completely integrated online delivery through a platform called MindTap.
MindTap is a fully online, highly personalized learning experience built upon authoritative

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content. By combining readings, multimedia, activities, and assessments into a singular
Learning Path, MindTap guides students through their course with ease while promoting
engagement. Instructors personalize the Learning Path by customizing Cengage Learning
resources and adding their own content via apps that integrate into the MindTap frame-
work seamlessly. Instructors are also able to incorporate the online component of Consumer
Behavior into a traditional Learning Management System (e.g. Blackboard, Canvas, D2L,
etc.) providing a way to manage assignments, quizzes and tests throughout the semester

Instructor Resources
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marketing management. The Instructors Manual, Test Bank authored in Cognero, and
PowerPoint slides can be found there.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

DAWN IACOBUCCI is the Ingram Professor of Marketing at the Owen
Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University (since 2007). She has
been Senior Associate Dean at Vanderbilt (2008-2010), and a professor of marketing
at Kellogg (Northwestern University, 1987-2004), Arizona (2001-2002), and Wharton
(Pennsylvania, 2004 to 2007). She received her M.S. in Statistics, and M.A. and Ph.D.
in Quantitative Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her
research focuses on modeling social networks and geeky high-dimensional analyses. She
has published in Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Harvard Business
Review, Journal of Consumer Psychology, International Journal of Research in Marketing,
Marketing Science, Journal of Service Research, Psychometrika, Psychological Bulletin, and Social
Networks. Iacobucci teaches Marketing Management and Marketing Models to Executives,
MBA and undergraduate students and multivariate statistics and methodological topics to
Ph.D. students. She has been editor of both Journal of Consumer Research and Journal of
Consumer Psychology. She edited Kellogg on Marketing, she is author of Mediation Analysis,
and co-author on Gilbert Churchills leading text, Marketing Research.

5Cs STP 4Ps

Product

Price

Place

Promotion

Segmentation

Targeting

Positioning

What are the three phases of the buying process?
What kinds of purchases are there?
How do consumers make purchase decisionsand how can marketers use this information?

Customer

Company

Context

Collaborators

Competitors

Managerial Checklist

WHY IS MARKETING
MANAGEMENT IMPORTANT?

1-1 DEFINING MARKETING
Ask the average person, What is marketing? and they might say:

Marketing is sales and advertising.
Marketers make people buy stuff they dont need and cant afford.
Marketers are the people who call you while youre trying to eat dinner.

Unfortunately those comments are probably all deserved. The marketing profession, like
any other, has its issues. But in this book well take a more enlightened view.

This chapter begins with an overview of marketing concepts and terms. Well see the
importance of marketing in todays corporation. Well then present the Marketing Frame-
work that structures the book and gives you a systematic way to think about marketing, and
well define all the terms in the framework: 5Cs, STP, and 4Ps.

1-2 MARKETING IS AN EXCHANGE
RELATIONSHIP

Marketing is defined as an exchange between a firm and its customers.1 Figure 1.1 shows
the customer wants something from the firm, and the firm wants something from the
customer. Marketers try to figure out what customers want and how to provide it profitably.

2 Part 1 Marketing Strategy

Ideally, this can be a nice, symbiotic relationship. Customers dont mind paying for their
purchasesand sometimes they pay a lotif they really want what theyre about to buy.
Companies like taking in profits, of course, but great companies really do care about their
customers. If were lucky, the exchange depicted in Figure 1.1 is an ongoing exchange be-

tween the customer and the company, strengthening the tie
between them.

As a lifelong customer, you are already somewhat famil-
iar with marketing from the consumer side. But on the job,
youll need to understand marketing from the firms point
of view. Throughout this book, youll see both perspectives.
In particular, youll see all the issues that marketers deal
with as they try to deliver something of value to their cus-
tomers, while trying to derive value from them.

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1-2a Marketing is Everywhere
Figure 1.2 illustrates that you can market just about anything. Marketing managers sell
simple, tangible goods such as soap or shampoo, as well as high-end luxury goods such as
Chanel handbags. Other marketing managers work in services, such as haircuts, airlines,
hotels, or department stores. Marketers oversee experiences like theme parks or events like
theater and concerts. Marketers help entertainers, athletes, politicians, and other celebrities
with their images in their respective marketplaces (fans, agents, intelligentsia, opinion).
Tourist bureaus have marketers who advertise the selling points of their citys or countrys
unique features. Information providers use marketing because they want customers to think
theyre the best (and thereby maximize their ad revenue). Marketers at nonprofits and gov-
ernment agencies work on causes (e.g., encouraging organ donation or drinking respon-
sibly). Industries market themselves (think of the beef or milk ads). Naturally, companies
use marketing for their brands and themselves. And you can market yourself, e.g., to a job
interviewer or potential amour. These goals may look different, but marketing can be used
beneficially in all these situations.

1-3 WHY IS MARKETING MANAGEMENT
IMPORTANT?

Marketers have evolved beyond being merely product or production focused, where the
company mind-set is, Lets build a better mouse trap. We know that approach doesnt
work. Theres no point in just cranking out better gadgets unless the customers want them

3Chapter 1 Why is Marketing Management Important?

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because the gadgets wont sell. However, there are still pockets of marketing
navet in a number of industries. For example, some museums believe they
dont need marketing. They think people should appreciate their exhibits, and, if
they dont, its because the public is ignorant. Perhaps the general public is in-
deed relatively unsophisticated culturally, but marketing can be used to educate
the public.

Were also more advanced than the old sales-oriented days when the action
in the marketplace was, Lets make a deal. This mentality still exists in plac-
es like drug companies, which push their sales forces to impress physicians. But
usually sales dynamics occur where the product is perceived to be a commodity.
In contrast, marketers should be good at communicating product distinctions.
As much as direct-to-consumer pharma ads annoy physicians, they attest to the
power of marketing. The ads result in patients asking their doctors for particular
brand names.

These days we live in a truly customer-oriented and customer-empowered
marketing world. Marketing is even said to be evidence of evolved marketsthat
an industry or country has moved beyond production and sales and seeks true re-
lationships with its customers. Marketers seek to identify their customers needs

and wants, and they try to formulate attractive solutions. Marketing can make customers
happier, thereby making companies more profitable. Throughout the book, youll see how.

1-3a Marketing and Customer Satisfaction is
Everyones Responsibility

Many management gurus believe that marketing has succeeded so well that it isnt just a
function in an organization anymore. Marketing is more of a philosophya way to think
about business. The marketing orientation should permeate the organization.

Accounting and finance need to acknowledge the importance of marketing. Why?
Because their CEOs do. Thinking about customers is unimportant only if youre a
monopoly, and even then, you wont be one for long.

Salespeople understand marketing immediately. Theyre the front line, interfacing
with the customer. They want to push their firms stuff, but theyre thrilled when
their company actually makes stuff that customers want. Then their jobs are so
much easier.

R&D people tend to understand the marketing spirit, too. Theyre hired because
theyre technically sophisticated, but they get jazzed when their inventions become
popular. It doesnt take much marketing research to test concepts or prototypes and
to veer an R&D path one way or another.

One of the factors stressing marketers these days is the pressure to show results. Its fair
to hold any part of the corporation accountable, and results may be measured for a number
of marketing activities. The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) who wants to see that a recent
coupon promotion lifted sales can get reasonably good estimates from the Chief Marketing
Officer (CMO) about effectiveness, e.g., the percentage sales increase attributable to the
coupon introduction. The Chief Operating Officer (COO) can also get good estimates of
whether a recent direct mail campaign to target customers has been effective in encourag-
ing frequent buyers to go directly to the Web for purchasing.

However, its important not to go overboard in the effort to quantify. For example, how
does one assess the value of a good segmentation study? If segments are poorly defined, any

Marketing can seem intuitive
because were all consumers.
But were not always the target
customer for the brands were
building. As a Brand Manager or
CEO, dont forget to put yourself
in the shoes of your customers
every once in a while, to see
your brand from their
perspective. When you do, youll
understand their wants and
needs better. That alone will
give you an advantage over your
competitors!

CUSTOMERS
PERSPECTIVE

5Chapter 1 Why is Marketing Management Important?

subsequent marketing efforts would be completely off, so a good segmentation scheme is
invaluable. Advertising is also a little tricky. Non-marketers have the misconception that
advertising is supposed to bump up sales. It can, and that bump is easily measured. But
really great advertising isnt intended for a short-term effect on sales. Great advertising
is intended to enhance brand image, a goal that is relatively longer term and thus more
difficult to measure.

In addition to quantifying the effectiveness of marketing programs, marketers are
motivated to translate their efforts into dollars for another reason: to have a seat at the
table. Marketers want to make sure that the CMO carries as much weight in the firm
as the CEO or CFO or COO. They all speak finance, so the marketer is frequently mo-
tivated to translate progress into financial terms. Fortunately, technology and data are
increasingly enabling more opportunities for the marketer to make such assessments.
For example, a good customer relationship management (CRM) program allows mar-
keters to run a field study to assess the impact of a new promotion, and tracking Web
data allows marketers to determine the product combinations that are most attractive
to customers.

1-4 THE MARKETING FRAMEWORK:
5CS, STP, AND THE 4PS

Figure 1.3 provides the marketing management framework. Marketing is captured by
the 5Cs, STP, and the 4Ps. The 5Cs are customer, company, context, collaborators, and
competitors. The 5Cs force a businessperson to systematically frame the general analysis
of the entire business situation. Figure 1.1 shows that the customer and company are the
central players in the marketing exchange. The context includes the backdrop of macro-
environmental factors: How is our economy and that of our suppliers doing? What legal
constraints do we face, and are these changing? What cultural differences do our global
segments manifest? The collaborators and competitors are the companies and people we work
with vs. those we compete against (though drawing the line is sometimes difficult in to-
days interconnected world).

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STP stands for segmentation, targeting, and positioning. A company or a brand may
want to be all things to all people, but most are not. Its best to identify groups, or segments,
of customers who share similar needs and wants. Once we understand the different seg-
ments preferences, were in a position to identify the segment we should target with our
marketing efforts. We then begin to develop a relationship with that target segment by
positioning our product to them in the marketplace, via the 4Ps.

The 4Ps are product, price, promotion, and place. A marketer is responsible for creating
a product (goods or services) that customers need or want, for setting the appropriate price
for the product, for promoting the product via advertising and sales promotions to help
customers understand the products benefits and value, and finally for making the product
available for purchase in easily accessed places.2

Marketing management oversees the 5Cs, STP, and 4Ps with the goal of enhancing
the marketing excha

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