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,Table of Contents are given below
1 What Is Marketing?
2 Organizing and Planning for Marketing Strategy
3 The Marketing Environment
4 Customer Behaviour
5 The Role of Research in Marketing
6 Using Segmentation, Targeting, and Positioning to Distinguish a Brand Within
the Market
7 Applying the Marketing Mix
8 Delivering Products and Brands That Meet Customer Needs
9 Place Decisions and Customer Convenience
10 Managing Price and Customer Cost Perceptions
11 Using Group Promotion to Communicate with Customers
12 Using Personalized Promotion to Communicate with Customers
13 Encouraging Participation to Connect with Customers
14 Measuring Marketing Effectiveness Through Metrics
15 Finalizing a Marketing Plan
,Instructor’s Manual to accompany Grayson, Padgett, Loos, Applied Marketing, Second Canadian Edition
Chapter 1
What Is Marketing?
What Marketing Is Not
Misconception #1: Marketing Is Common Sense
Misconception #2: Marketing Is Equivalent to Sales or Advertising
Misconception #3: Marketing Makes People Buy Things They Don’t Need
Misconception: 4: Marketing Is an Art, and You Either Have the Gift of You
Don’t
Misconception #5: Marketing Does Not Involve Numbers
LO 1.1 Describe some common misconceptions about marketing.
Marketing Defined
Marketing Is Managing Exchanges with Customer
What Does Managing Exchanges with Customers Include?
LO 1.2 Provide an accurate definition of marketing.
Philosophy of Marketing
Perceived Value
The Role of Marketing Research
LO 1.3 Discuss, with examples, the philosophy of marketing.
How Marketing Has Changed over Time
LO 1.4 Outline the evolution of marketing thought and practice.
Chapter Introduction
This chapter introduces students to marketing. The chapter first examines some common
misconceptions about marketing in LO 1.1 and then presents a proper definition in LO
1.2. The philosophy and thinking that drives marketing and marketers is discussed in LO
1.3. Finally, an examination of the evolution of marketing thought and practice to the
present time closes the chapter and completes the preparation of students for further
detailed study of marketing topics.
Industry Expert Video Bill Imada, Chairman, IW Group
Please note: Video Questions do not appear in the ebook and are designed to give
instructors a few options for quick quizzing and starting points for discussing the videos
with their students. Correct answers to multiple choice questions are bolded.
Multiple-choice Questions
1. Bill Imada defines marketing as:
a. selling brands
b. people connecting with people, products, and services
c. understanding needs
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d. wanting to improve products and services
2. IW Groups is trying to:
a. make the connection between companies and their customers more
personal and emotional
b. create brand loyalty whenever possible
c. better understand people through focus groups and surveys
d. increase communications with potential customers.
3. Bill Imada advises marketing students to:
a. avoid internships
b. focus on getting the highest grades with or without an internship
c. exploit the internship environment to the hilt to avoid friendships with co-
workers at internship environments.
4. According to Bill Imada, IW Group:
a. does better when competitors are weak
b. only hires young people who don’t have preconceived ideas about marketing
solutions
c. is very secretive about how they do things.
d. should help everyone, even competitors.
Discussion Questions
1. How does Bill Imada describe marketing differently than the traditional textbook
models?
2. Do you think IW Group’s multicultural focus influences the way the firm approaches
strategic thinking and creative problem-solving?
3. What does Bill Imada mean when he says, “if someone can invent a better wheel, they
should.”
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