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Marketing Management (12th Edition)

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I have used Marketing textbooks by Philip Kotler when doing my MBA in the 1980s when I was a novice in the field of marketing. It is gratifying to note that my favourite marketing reference book has been kept up to date. This book is really the top quality book that one would expert of Kotler and his colleague.

The 12th edition of "Marketing Management" is an excellent textbook on the current marketing trends. It is an enjoyable and useful book. After reading the book, one will really understand that marketing is all about understanding the customer needs and finding solutions that delight the customer. The reader will come to appreciate that marketing is a philosophy of doing business for those organisations that are going to thrive in the current highly competitive global markets.

This delightful book should be very useful for both newcomers to marketing and for those like me who studied marketing years ago and are at the risk of being left behind by the current marketing trends that exploit the vast opportunities presented by the internet. This is also a must have- book for those doing an MBA or other business studies at undergraduate level.

Although I can't compare the 12th edition to past versions of this text, I can say that the latest edition is heavy on theory with little quantitative data to back up its assertions. My MBA class's consensus was that the book's quality varied wildly from chapter-to-chapter, as if some of the chapters were written by one of the co-writers without any collaboration.

When I did my undergraduate studies in the 1980's I remember my professor explaining that Kotler had been, at that point, "the" marketing text book for 20 years. I'm not sure, but Kotler may have invented the word "marketing." Decades later it remains the definitive book on marketing studies.

This version of the book is comprehensive, densely written while still being easy to read, logically structured, up to date with regard to case studies and technology, etc. I highly recommend this book as a marketing text and have tried, unsuccessfully so far, to get a few of my marketing friends who have not had the pleasure of reading this book, to put it in their bathroom or something and read a section here and a section there.

I have two knocks against this book. First, I find it to be a little lacking on the ethics side. There are many valid marketing techniques described which can be used, but which can also be abused. While the book does not ignore ethics altogether, I would have been more comfortable if along the way it highlighted that some of the practices described are not only "good ways to increase profit margins" but "are morally bankrupt" as well.

The second knock is that the authors have seemingly gone crazy and included dozens upon dozens of cutesy words various academicians, desperate for a lasting claim to fame, have invented out of whole cloth to describe things that didn't really need their own unique words. Some of my favorites:

Insourcing
Reintermediation
Unfocus Groups
Glocalization
Co-optation

Neither of these complains should detract anyone from buying this book because it is, in the end, the great marketing text of our era.

This book is a great resource for High Tech Product Managers. From a Product Management perspective, this book covers Market Research, Competitive Analysis, Product Strategy, Brand Equity, Positioning and much more. Plenty of examples are given through out the book. All the examples may not be high-tech, however; they convey the concepts.

Kotler is a name worshipped by students of marketing the world over, and Marketing Management is the book through which most of these aspiring marketers first get exposed to concepts of marketing. For sheer scope and depth of knowledge, this book cannot be beat- I read it in Business School 13 years ago- and in all the years since then, haven't seen any book come close to Marketing Management in terms of sheer scope and depth of coverage of key marketing concepts.

Having said that, as with any tool, its as useful as you choose to make it. Marketing Management will NOT miraculously help you become a better marketer- and honestly, it will NOT help you tackle day to day issues you face on the job. It is a theoretical book- and the very best at that- so use it the way it is meant to be- use it to get a strong grounding in the basic theory of marketing better than you probably can from any other book.

- Mainak Dhar, author, Brand Management 101: 101 Lessons from Real-World Marketing

I was assigned this textbook for my MBA course in Marketing Management. Although the material is somewhat dry, tedious to read, and common sense, it does provide people with a good, broad overview of marketing principles. The text provides a lot of real-world examples with fairly recent events, companies, and applications of principles.

Like other works of Philip Kotler, this is a ground-breaking collection of information for marketers to generate ideas and to uncover opportunities. In this book, Philip Kotler and Kevin Keller pay great emphasis to customer relationship management, the Internet and information technology revolution, brand management and global marketing. It has more than 1,000 cases, which make it very practical for teachers, students and practicing managers [Nwankama W Nwankama].

While the book is a prety good book, I am appall by the exhorbitant amount of Dollars I had to pay for it when other classmate got the foreign version for lest than FORTY DOLLARS, and delivery within three days. This is not a review of the book this is shame on Amazon. I would like to return my copy and save almost one humdred dollars.

this book has been published and republished with the only chnages being the chapters reversed and new examples. the index in the back however has not been updated so it references incorrect pages. several acronyms used are not explained. terrible book.

This was my first shop at Amazon and was really great. I received the book in 8 or 10 days without priority mail and I from Puerto Rico. The product are in good conditions like they said, so I like and recommend Amazon.