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Marketing Management is the leading marketing text because its content and organization consistently reflect changes in marketing theory and practice. Four key dimensions of holistic marketing are: 1. Internal marketing—ensuring everyone in the organization embraces appropriate marketing principles, especially senior management. 2. Integrated marketing—ensuring that multiple means of creating, delivering, and communicating value are employed and combined in the best way. 3. Relationship marketing—having rich,multifaceted relationships with customers, channel members, and other marketing partners. 4. Performance marketing—understanding returns to the business from marketing activities and programs, as well as addressing broader concerns and their legal, ethical, social, and environmental effects. These four dimensions are woven throughout the book and at times spelled out explicitly. The text specifically addresses the following tasks that constitute modern marketing management in the 21st century: 1. Developing marketing strategies and plans 2. Capturing marketing insights and performance 3. Connecting with customers 4. Building strong brands 5. Shaping the market offerings 6. Delivering and communicating value 7. Creating successful long-term growth

What Is Marketed? Marketers market 10 main types of entities: goods, services, events, experiences, persons, places, properties, organizations, information, and ideas. Let’s take a quick look at these categories. GOODS Physical goods constitute the bulk of most countries’ production and marketing efforts. Each year, U.S. companies market billions of fresh, canned, bagged, and frozen food products and millions of cars, refrigerators, televisions, machines, and other mainstays of a modern economy. SERVICES As economies advance, a growing proportion of their activities focuses on the production of services. The U.S. economy today produces a 70–30 services-to-goods mix. Services include the work of airlines, hotels, car rental firms, barbers and beauticians, maintenance and repair people, and accountants, bankers, lawyers, engineers, doctors, software programmers, and management consultants. Many market offerings mix goods and services, such as a fast-food meal. EVENTS Marketers promote time-based events, such as major trade shows, artistic performances, and company anniversaries. Global sporting events such as the Olympics and the World Cup are promoted aggressively to both companies and fans.