Industrial Marketing Strategy (Roland Series on Marketing Management)

By Frederick E. Webster Jr. and Frederick E. Webster Jr

Book Overview

Develop customer-focused, market-driven strategies for today's competitive marketplace. . . Industrial Marketing Strategy Widely regarded as a classic text in the field, Industrial Marketing Strategy, Third Edition shows you, as a practicing manager, how to develop the marketing strategies your business needs to succeed in a rapidly evolving global marketplace. This important book covers: The basic concepts of customer analysis, buying behavior, buyer-seller relationships, market segmentation and targeting, and positioning Proven, concrete, strategic management techniques-rather than a rote enumeration of the functions and institutions of industrial marketing Guidelines for implementing the value proposition through distribution and marketing communications The role of marketing in the broader context of business and corporate-level strategic planning Special sections on product development, national account management, customer service, information technology, and price signaling

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471048798
• ISBN13: 9780471048794
• Release Date: March 1979
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Probably the standard work on industrial marketing today.

Frederick Webster's 3rd ed. of Industrial Marketing Strategy offers a comprehensive review of business-to-business marketing. This is an excellent overview for the business executive and the general marketing practitioner. The sections on buying behavior and buyer-seller relationships are a good review of those processes that influence customers to buy. The book is a rational academic review of the marketing process. Unfortunately, Webster, like most books on the subject, does not address the irrational aspects of the industrial customer's behavior. All-in-all this is still the most comprehensive single volume review of industrial marketing currently available. Warren D. Smith, CPC. Venture Marketing Inc. ventmktinc@aol.com