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Hunt Marketing emphasizes the universal importance of marketing, in business, but also in the lives of students, despite their major! The product, the 1st new Principles of Marketing product to be introduced in the past 10 years, was designed with an emphasis on student engagement and relevance, a focus embodied in these four key benefits: • A career focus, to help students understand how marketing will support whatever career path they choose and how to develop their own personal brand. Features like Career Tips,Executive Perspectives and Today’s Professional Interviews make marketing relevant and engaging for the student and can found in every chapter. • Integration of key topics that are part of the daily fabric of marketing— globalization, social media, ethics, and marketing analytics. These are covered THROUGHOUT the product and not in a single chapter. • Seamlessly integrated results-driven technology. Shane Hunt writes all of the Connect application exercises and teaches using Connect every year! The narrative and Connect content were developed side-by-side, allowing for seamless integration and continuity of coverage. • The right content for a semester-long course. Chapters are direct, concise,and approachable in length and written in an upbeat tone. In this newest edition, we have moved Personal Selling and Branding to earlier in the narrative.

It is clear that marketing has changed significantly in the past few decades. So much so, that in 2004 and again in 2007, the American Marketing Association redefined the word “marketing” itself. Grewal/Levy is the first Principles of Marketing text to be written from the ground up using the new definition and its value focus. In keeping with the value theme of the text, the authors met face to face with more than 150 instructors and walked through each chapter of the text and each supplement of the package in order to provide the most current, useful text and package on the market. Other themes that permeate throughout the text are: services, ethics, global marketing and the power of the internet. Because services marketing and ethics in marketing play such vital roles in marketing practice today, the authors have dedicated an entire chapter to each of these concepts. The authors provide adding value, superior service, ethical and societal dilemmas and the power of the internet examples throughout, and everywhere these themes fit. The authors have also been careful to integrate the 4Ps of marketing with the overriding value theme.

Annotation Experience marketing is the method behind some of the best inventions and most innovative ideas in business today, effectively observing the way real people act in real situations. It has produced the Walkman, the iPod, drive-through check-ins, low-cost flights, and even the way NASA teaches safety to astronauts. Traditional market research relies on the use of interviews and focus groups, however, watching customers in shops, at hotels, and on the streets is a faster and more direct way to analyze consumer behavior, as demonstrated in both anecdotal stories and actual case studies. Experience marketing is also the common sense formula by which small business owners and corporation executives alike need only see their customers in action, imagine how they feel, think of better ways to serve them, and act upon them.