Basic Marketing Research


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Why is BASIC MARKETING RESEARCH the best-selling marketing textbook? Because it's written to your perspective as a student. Authors Churchill and Brown know that for a marketing textbook to be effective, students have to be able to understand it. And they've achieved that time and again. This edition is packed with the features that made it a best-seller in the first place, from study tools to updated content to an easy-to-read writing style. Plus, in this volume you'll learn more about how experts gather data and how to use it yourself to turn greater profits.




Essentials of Marketing Research


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Essentials Of Marketing Research, 6E, provides a concise, yet complete guide to the design, execution, analysis, and reporting of marketing research to support smart business decisions. Covering essential principles and techniques in a streamlined, engaging way, the text equips readers with the core knowledge and skills needed to manage marketing research effectively. This proven text provides valuable business context while introducing both traditional research methods, such as designing questionnaires, and the latest technological advances, including current data collection devices, basic data analysis tools, practical approaches to data analytics, and the impact of social media and artifactual online data. Designed specifically for readers who prefer a concise introduction to marketing research topics, the Sixth Edition of this trusted text features updates based on recent trends and technology, including an increased emphasis on ethical and international issues, reflecting their growing importance in modern marketing research




The Evolution of Affordable Content Efforts in Higher Education


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The Evolution of Affordable Content Efforts in the Higher Education Environment: Programs, Case Studies, and Examples provides both inspiration and guidance for those beginning work on affordable content and evidence of the growth that has occurred in this arena over the last decade. While some institutions have been providing students affordable content options for over 100 years, many others have found the need to launch new programs in response to the escalating costs of higher education and the impact that has on student learning. This book provides examples from different types and sizes of institutions and includes voices from a wide range of contributors including faculty, instructional designers, academic technologists, librarians, bookstore staff, and more. The Evolution of Affordable Content demonstrates the range of affordable content options that are possible today-from openly licensed content to library licensed materials and all inclusive purchase models to institution-wide student textbook rental models.







Every Job is a Sales Job: How to Use the Art of Selling to Win at Work


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***#5 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER*** An essential roadmap to achieving professional and personal success—from the “First Lady of Sales” While you may not have “sales” in your title, that doesn’t mean you don’t have to sell. Renowned sales authority Dr. Cindy McGovern believes that everyone is a salesperson, regardless of his or her job description. When you ask for a referral, network to form a new connection, or interview for a job, you’re selling the other person on an ideal version of yourself. Every Job is a Sales Job will help you learn to identify “selling” opportunities that you may have overlooked. This indispensable roadmap will show you how to take control of your personal and professional success. McGovern shares her proven 5-step sales process to help you attract new business, retain existing customers, and spot opportunities to promote yourself and your ideas. You’ll learn how to: • Create a plan and set attainable goals • Identify subtle opportunities that could result in future success • Establish trust and listen for clues to understand what others need • Ask for what you want and move past the fear of rejection • Follow up on your ask, be grateful, and pay it forward • Muster up the courage to ask for referrals and references




Effective Marketing


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With consolidated coverage of the principles of marketing, Effective Marketing stands out for its ease of reading and useful presentation of the marketplace as a dynamic interplay of relationships. Mirroring the features of the comprehensive text, this edition appeals to instructors who seek a concise, strategic focus with integrated coverage of technology. Thorough treatment of e-commerce, emerging markets, new technologies, and hot marketing trends is provided. Concepts and topics are carefully discussed to helping readers adapt to and strategically plan for changes in the marketing environment.




Geeks Who Drink Presents: Duh!


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100 hilarious essays, based on blindingly obvious questions, from the creators of Geeks Who Drink—led by six-time Jeopardy! champion, Christopher D. Short. The best trivia questions are usually the ones that are right on the tip of your tongue—so obvious that you may not know the answer offhand, but you should. In Duh, America’s foremost masters of pub quiz, Geeks Who Drink, will take trivia lovers on a voyage through 100 of our face-palmiest questions. Along the way, we’ll explore the blind hills and corners that make random knowledge so much fun. In hilarious, informative, bite-size essays, we’ll explore such not-really-mysteries as: -How many stars are on the Texas state flag? -Odlaw is the nemesis of what kid book character? -What’s the last word in the King James Bible? Even if you already know the “what”—and you might not!—we’ll fill in the “why.” And the when, where, and how. By the end you may feel dumber, but you’ll be smarter. We almost guarantee it! By the way, that would be one (lone) star, Waldo, and “Amen.” Duh!




Advertising and Integrated Brand Promotion


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ADVERTISING AND INTEGRATED BRAND PROMOTION, 4th Edition is highly visual and provides an integrated learning experience for the student. The new edition continues the tradition of delivering a solid understanding of advertising strategy, through a clearly written text as well as through the most contemporary ads. The table of contents follows the same process as an advertising agency. Like other aspects of business, good advertising is the result of hard work and careful planning. The new edition of Advertising and Integrated Brand Promotion illustrates how to best accomplish this.




Social Media Marketing


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SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING: A STRATEGIC APPROACH, International Edition promises to be the seminal textbook in the field with its distinctive conceptual foundation and practical approach to developing successful social media marketing plans. A proven eight-step social media planning model provides students with a cumulative learning experience, showing them how to construct social media strategies that achieve desired marketing goals.




Consumer Behavior


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