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Customer-Centric Marketing: Supporting Sustainability in the Digital Age [Pehme köide]

  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 256 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 230x155x15 mm, kaal: 400 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 03-Feb-2015
  • Kirjastus: Kogan Page Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 074947209X
  • ISBN-13: 9780749472092
Teised raamatud teemal:
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 256 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 230x155x15 mm, kaal: 400 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 03-Feb-2015
  • Kirjastus: Kogan Page Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 074947209X
  • ISBN-13: 9780749472092
Teised raamatud teemal:
"Consumers are increasingly gravitating toward companies like TOMS and Whole Foods -- sustainable, authentic, and green businesses that have a positive social impact and make their values clear to their customers. As more businesses follow suit and update to more sustainable operations, marketing professionals need to learn to communicate the company's values and practices to get consumers engaged in the company's message.Customer-Centric Marketing looks at how to become a socially responsible company whose customers want to advocate for them. Since customers are more technically-savvy than ever before, this book focuses on creating and implementing a purpose-driven digital marketing plan that sets out: what a company's values and goals are; what a company is good at; what the customers want; how communications can be used to improve internal and external relationships; what role digital communications will play.Offering an actionable plan for adopting sustainable marketing, this book explains how to meet customer expectations, improve an organization's competitive advantage, and grow a business using sustainable and responsible practices"--

"Two of the major parallel challenges facing businesses today are how to adapt to the changes of fast-paced, fragmenting markets and how to grow a business whilst engaging in recognisably sustainable practices. It is not enough to just be sustainable, itis about communicating it and getting the customer involved in the message. Customer-Centric Marketing shows readers how sustainable development practices and digital marketing techniques work naturally together to add value, leading to improved customersatisfaction, better professional relationships and increased effectiveness. Ideal for senior marketing professionals and students on digital marketing or marketing strategy modules who wish to utilise the benefits of sustainable development and forms ofdigital marketing, this accessible and straight to-the-point book uses case studies to show how the marketing theories and tools work in actual business scenarios. Customer-Centric Marketing covers contemporary issues such as the increasing use of mobile, QR codes and social network sites for consumers interested in ethical, environmental and sustainable marketing"--

Consumers are increasingly gravitating toward companies like TOMS and Whole Foods -- sustainable, authentic, and green businesses that have a positive social impact and make their values clear to their customers. As more businesses follow suit and update to more sustainable operations, marketing professionals need to learn to communicate the company's values and practices to get consumers engaged in the company's message.

Customer-Centric Marketing looks at how to become a socially responsible company whose customers want to advocate for them. Since customers are more technically-savvy than ever before, this book focuses on creating and implementing a purpose-driven digital marketing plan that sets out: what a company's values and goals are; what a company is good at; what the customers want; how communications can be used to improve internal and external relationships; what role digital communications will play.

Offering an actionable plan for adopting sustainable marketing, this book explains how to meet customer expectations, improve an organization's competitive advantage, and grow a business using sustainable and responsible practices.

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Aids decision making and implementation in the digital marketing and sustainable development arenas Helps marketers attract and retain customers by illustrating how new technologies can be harnessed to promote growth and customer satisfaction Strengthens the competitive advantage of organizations by suggesting solutions to problems facing practitioners
Preface ix
Part One Changing landscapes 1(36)
1 Developments in society
3(13)
The rise of conflicting stakeholder interests
7(1)
Corporate social responsibility
8(2)
The business of business is business...?
10(1)
The sustainability continuum
11(2)
Sustainable marketing
13(2)
Summary and activities
15(1)
2 Why do companies fail?
16(9)
Corporate governance
16(2)
Changing environments
18(2)
Size and complexity
20(1)
Which way are you looking and are you listening?
20(1)
What are you saying and is it worth hearing?
21(1)
Co-creation of value
22(1)
Summary and activities
23(2)
3 Orientations
25(6)
The role of markets
28(1)
Summary and activities
29(2)
4 Marketing and sustainability: Separating facts from fiction
31(6)
What is marketing to you?
31(5)
Summary and activities
36(1)
Part Two Knowing your own company 37(20)
5 Digital marketing and research
39(13)
The research process
39(5)
Digital marketing research
44(1)
Big data
45(1)
Little treasures
46(1)
Search, site and social
46(1)
Listening...
47(2)
Research on the go
49(1)
Summary and activities
50(2)
6 Systems and customer-centricity
52(5)
Systems
52(2)
CRM
54(1)
What is marketing's role in supporting the market orientation of the organization?
55(1)
Summary and activity
56(1)
Part Three Building relationships 57(44)
7 How stakeholders make buying decisions
59(15)
The consumer market (B2C)
59(4)
Social factors: culture, reference groups, social class
63(4)
Organizational buying behaviour: the business-to-business (B2B) market
67(3)
The decision-making unit
70(2)
Summary and activities
72(2)
8 Users and/or customers?
74(5)
An identity crisis?
74(1)
Identity: lies, damn lies and Facebook
74(1)
The dark(er) side of social networks
75(1)
Multi-tasking and dual-screening
76(1)
How to respond
77(1)
Summary and activity
78(1)
9 The sustainable customer
79(5)
A historical perspective
79(1)
The Five Planets Theory
80(1)
Value, values and meaning
81(1)
Heuristics
82(1)
So, what is a sustainable consumer?
83(1)
1 Acquiring, retaining and satisfying customers
84(8)
Relationship marketing
84(2)
(Customer) loyalty
86(3)
Trust
89(1)
Measuring and monitoring
90(1)
Online loyalty
90(1)
Summary
91(1)
11 Communities and networks
92(9)
Online communities
92(1)
Tribes
93(1)
The power of the online community
93(2)
Building online relationships
95(1)
Create your own
96(1)
Internal communities and networks
97(1)
Trust within networks
98(1)
Summary and activities
98(3)
Part Four Marketing planning 101(64)
12 Goal setting: Mission (or vision) statement, corporate objectives and gap analysis
109(6)
Influences on mission statements
110(1)
Corporate objectives
110(2)
Internal marketing
112(1)
Summary and activities
113(2)
13 Situation review: The internal (micro) and external (macro) environments
115(18)
Marketing audits
117(1)
The macro environment
118(8)
Issues relating to monitoring the macro environment
126(1)
Micro environment
127(4)
Summary and activities
131(2)
14 Marketing objectives, strategy formulation and tactical implementation
133(12)
Creating a plan
133(1)
TOWS analysis
134(9)
Summary and activities
143(2)
15 Resource allocation: Monitoring, evaluation and control
145(10)
Budget
148(1)
Using benchmarking to measure change
149(3)
Practical steps towards sustainable marketing
152(1)
Summary and activities
153(2)
16 Barriers to adopting sustainable marketing planning: And how to overcome them
155(10)
Barriers
155(1)
Focus
156(4)
Planning in a crisis
160(1)
Using digital marketing to overcome barriers to adopting sustainability
161(1)
Codes of conduct
162(1)
Standards and guides
162(1)
And finally...
163(1)
Summary and activities
164(1)
Part Five The marketing mix 165(58)
17 Communications
167(10)
Theories of communication
168(2)
Digital campaigns
170(2)
Digital platforms
172(1)
Digital media
173(1)
Advertising
173(1)
PR
174(1)
Summary and activities
175(2)
18 Convenience for customers
177(8)
Marketing channels
178(1)
Direct distribution
178(1)
Multi-level channels
179(1)
Intermediaries as partners
180(1)
Market coverage
180(1)
Distribution logistics
181(3)
Summary
184(1)
19 Customer benefits
185(21)
Anatomy of a product
186(1)
Classification of products
187(2)
The product life cycle (PLC)
189(2)
Extending the life of the product
191(4)
The product adoption process
195(3)
Developing new products - why? How?
198(1)
Different types of new products
198(2)
The new product development process
200(3)
The risks involved in NPD
203(1)
Summary and activities
204(2)
20 Cost or sacrifice
206(8)
Perspectives
206(4)
Different pricing techniques
210(3)
Summary and activities
213(1)
21 Services and sustainability
214(9)
Characteristics of services
215(1)
The extended marketing mix for services
216(2)
Process
218(2)
Challenges facing service providers
220(1)
Summary and activities
221(2)
Part Six What does the future hold? 223(10)
22 What does the future hold?
225(8)
Predicting the future
225(1)
Digital storytelling: content and journalism
226(1)
Mobile and wearable
226(1)
Digital Out of Home
227(1)
Social commerce
228(1)
Internet of things
228(1)
3D printing
229(1)
Virtual reality
229(1)
Generation Z
230(1)
Integration
231(1)
Summary and activities
231(2)
References and further reading 233(7)
Index 240
Neil Richardson is a Senior Marketing Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University and a Chartered Institute of Marketing Course Leader. He has over 20 years of experience in sales management, marketing and customer service in the B2B sector.

Neil Kelley is a Senior Examiner for the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CAM Marketing and Consumer Behaviour) and Senior Lecturer for Marketing at Leeds Beckett University. He was previously Senior Territory Manager for Electronic Arts, contributing to the marketing and promotion of products such as The Sims and a variety of EA Sports titles.

Jon James is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at Leeds Beckett (formerly Leeds Metropolitan) University. Jon has provided strategic business & marketing consultancy to organisations in both the public and private sectors. His research interests include global & international marketing, marketing management and SME development.