ABSTRACT

Strategic marketing is a complex topic, and this short-form textbook illuminates its fundamental elements to provide a bird’s-eye view of the field for students of marketing strategy.

Focused on the marketing of goods and services, the book highlights how incremental changes in the market environment drive changes to marketing strategies. The author, an experienced marketing expert, uses the concept of ‘strategic windows’ to facilitate student understanding, looking at how firms can best anticipate and react to opportunities and threats.

Enhanced by text features such as essential summaries, focused references and additional online supplements, this very short introduction enables the reader to zero in on the core priorities for strategic marketers. The result is a volume that is valuable reading for marketing students around the world.

chapter |2 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|8 pages

Marketing strategy

chapter 3|10 pages

Industry and competition

chapter 4|9 pages

The marketing environment

chapter 5|11 pages

Customer and market analysis

chapter 6|9 pages

Sustainable competitive advantage

chapter 7|11 pages

Growth strategies

chapter 8|9 pages

Segmentation, targeting and positioning

chapter 9|11 pages

Marketing mix strategy

chapter 10|9 pages

International marketing