Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
For more than three decades, Philip Kotler has been the authority on marketing for business grad students around the world. (His seven textbooks on various aspects of the topic are available in 18 languages in 58 countries, for example, while his seminal Marketing Management is considered the most widely used volume among all MBAs.) Even with all these publications, and a consultation/seminar practice aligned with firms such as AT&T, IBM, Michelin, Shell, and Merck, Kotler never committed to paper his popular theories concerning the ways in which executives and their managers should approach their real-life marketing programs. Until, that is, Kotler on Marketing. Comprehensive yet clear, this new compendium finally synthesizes Kotler's vast experiences and proven ideas into a single accessible resource. Three meaty initial sections address a series of strategic, tactical, and administrative concerns, ranging from identifying opportunities and building brand equity to utilizing outside intelligence and evaluating performance. A brief fourth part titled "Transformational Marketing" offers Kotler's perspective on "the revolutionary impact on the marketplace and marketing practice of the new technologies ... and new media" including the Internet, fax machines, sales-automation software, cable TV, videoconferencing, and "personal newspapers." --Howard Rothman

From Publishers Weekly
If you want to learn marketing, you have to come to Kotler. He is both a pioneer of modern marketing and the leading popularizer of the field. His Principles of Marketing is ubiquitous in business schools throughout the world and he has two other textbooks for advanced classes. Now he gives readers a new way to tap his vast knowledge. The book covers the full range of marketing management and, of course, addresses Internet marketing. Readers won't find the mathematical depth or theoretical rigor that make Kotler's textbook an unpleasant surprise to students expecting an easy course. In fact, this book assumes readers will have a good deal of business experience. It's a terrific capsule of Kotler's marketing savvy. The most significant drawback is that Kotler shows only positive models of successful marketing. This is fine for illustrating general principles and techniques, but it doesn't teach the judgment required to tell good applications from foolish ones. The upshot is that uncritical readers may discover that a little learning is a dangerous thing. Despite these qualifications, this is a fine book on marketing for a general audience.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal
Kotler, the S.C. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Marketing at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at NorthwesternUniversity, has been writing tremendously popular marketing texts since 1969. Here he has synthesized the materials from his textbooks and marketing seminars to produce a compact and readable review of marketing theory and practice that will allow the reader a quick and thorough overview of the field. Kotler (The Marketing of Nations, LJ 8/96) also has a useful appendix on characteristics and strategies for marketing in various types of business. Notes listing references for further study are included, and a subject index is promised. The text is practical and thorough yet remarkably readable and digestible. As a result, this title belongs on the shelf of every business executive as well as entrepreneurs and small business people.ALittleton M. Maxwell, Business Information Ctr., Univ. of Richmond, VA
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review
David Aaker author of Building Strong Brands Provocative insights and thoughtful prescriptions that will guide executives who face the challenges of powerful customers, global forces, and new technologies.

Product Description
Philip Kotler's name is synonymous with marketing. His textbooks have sold more than 3 million copies in 20 languages and are read as the marketing gospel in 58 countries. Now Kotler on Marketing offers his long-awaited, essential guide to marketing for managers, freshly written based on his phenomenally successful worldwide lectures on marketing for the new millennium. Through Kotler's profound insights you will quickly update your skills and knowledge of the new challenges and opportunities posed by hypercompetition, globalization, and the Internet. Here you will discover the latest thinking, concisely captured in eminently readable prose, on such hot new fields as database marketing, relationship marketing, high-tech marketing, global marketing, and marketing on the Internet. Here, too, you will find Kotler's savvy advice, which has so well served such corporate clients as AT&T, General Electric, Ford, IBM, Michelin, Merck, DuPont, and Bank of America. Perhaps most important, Kotler on Marketing can be read as a penetrating book-length discourse on the 14 questions asked most frequently by managers during the 20-year history of Kotler's worldwide lectures. You will gain a new understanding of such age-old conundrums as how to select the right market segments or how to compete against lower-price competitors. You will find a wealth of cutting-edge strategies and tactics that can be applied immediately to such 21st-century challenges as reducing the enormous cost of customer acquisition and keeping current customers loyal. If your marketing strategy isn't working, Kotler's treasury of revelations offers hundreds of ideas for revitalizing it. Spend a few hours today with the world's bestknown marketer and improve your marketing performance tomorrow.

Book Info
Offers an essential guide to marketing for managers. Based on the author's successful lectures on marketing for the new millennium. DLC: Marketing--Management.

Card catalog description
Kotler on Marketing offers his essential guide to marketing for managers, freshly written based on his phenomenally successful worldwide lectures on marketing for the new millennium. Through Kotler's profound insights you will quickly update your skills and knowledge of the new challenges and opportunities posed by hypercompetition, globalization, and the Internet. Perhaps most important, Kotler on Marketing can be read as a penetrating book-length discourse on the 14 questions asked most frequently by managers during the 20-year history of Kotler's worldwide lectures. You will gain a new understanding of such age-old conundrums as how to select the right market segments or how to compete against lower-price competitors.

About the Author
Philip Kotler is the S.C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at NorthwesternUniversity. Professor Kotler is the author or coauthor of 15 books, including Marketing Management, Ninth Edition, named by the Financial Times as one of the 50 best business books ever written, and Social Marketing, Marketing Races, and The Marketing of Nations, all published by The Free Press. He was voted the first Leader in Marketing Thought by the members of the American Marketing Association and is the recipient of the Paul D. Converse Award, the Steuart Henderson Britt Award, the Distinguished Marketing Educator Award, the Prize for Marketing Excellence, the Charles Coolidge Parlin Marketing Award, and the Marketing Educator of the Year Award. He holds honorary doctoral degrees from the University of Stockholm, University of Zurich, Athens School of Economics, and the Cracow School of Economics.