Outline of marketing

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to marketing:

Marketing – social and managerial processes by which products, services, and value are exchanged in order to fulfill individuals' or groups' needs and wants. These processes include, but are not limited to, advertising, promotion, distribution, and product management.

Core concepts in marketing
Marketers may sell goods or services directly to consumers, known as business to customer (B2C marketing); commercial organizations (known as business to business marketing or B2B), to government; to not-for-profit organizations (Not-for-profit organization (NFP)) or some combination of any of these.

Actors and relationships

 * At the center of the marketing framework is the consumer lies the relationship between the consumer and the organization with the implication that marketers must manage the way the organization presents its public face.


 * The consumer: Typically, the consumer refers to the end-user - but this may be an individual or group such as a household, family unit or organization. In addition, marketers may need to consider the roles of influencers such as Opinion leaders who increasingly use means such as social media to develop customer to customer networks of influence.


 * The organization: may be represented by many different actors including: various sales personnel: Agent; Broker; Sales representative; Merchant; Retailer; Street vendor or Vendor


 * Selling situations & relationships: Depending on the nature of the business operations, many different types of actors are involved in a variety of selling situations involving a variety of sales personnel, who perform varied sales roles. Sales activities involve many different types of customer relationships - from simple transactional exchange through to long-term, enduring customer relationships.

Needs, wants and demands
Marketers typically begin planning with a detailed understanding of customer needs and wants.
 * A need is something required for a healthy life (e.g. food, water, shelter, emotional bonding); A want is a desire, wish or aspiration; When needs or wants are backed by purchasing power, they have the potential to become demands.

Nature of exchange
Exchange, the act of giving or taking one thing of value in return for another is central to marketing activities. Not all exchange involves Financial transactions, but may also involve barter, contra dealing or other form of trade. The object of exchange can include: Goods; services or experiences; concepts or ideas; causes and may even involve celebrity marketing

Perceptions of value

 * Traditional thinking around the concept of value was that marketers created value through innovation, product design and manufacture and that Utility was embedded in products or services offered for sale. In this type of thinking, marketer's objective was to communicate a value proposition to potential buyers. However, recent thinking has changed the traditional perspective and now recognizes that consumers may participate in the co-creation of value in a variety of ways. Consumers may derive value through usage and experience, known as value-in-use or may be involved in product design, known as participatory design.

Foundation economic concepts
Given that marketing has its roots in economics, it shares many foundation concepts with that discipline. Most practicing marketers will have a working knowledge of basic economic concepts and theories.

Businesses seek to compete by achieving competitive advantages or comparative advantages. Competitive advantages often focus on reducing costs through achieving one or more of the following: Economies of scope; Economies of scale; Experience effects; First-mover advantages. Alternatively a business may seek to develop uniqueness through product differentiation or developing unique competencies such as market sensing, rapid market response or delivering superior customer value. superior value.
 * Competitive advantages & comparative advantages

Different types of competitive markets can be identified: Duopoly; Monopoly; Monopolistic competition; Imperfect competition; Oligopoly
 * Competition:types

Understanding demand and supply is essential for determining market size and market potential as well as in the price-setting function.
 * Demand


 * The basic mechanics of consumer demand include: Demand curve; Demand-led growth; Demand response; Law of demand; Law of supply; Transaction costs.
 * Different types of demand functions include: Derived demand; Inverse demand function.

In Western economies, the capitalist economy dominates. However, other types of economic systems such as barter economies and the Sharing economy can be identified.
 * Economic systems


 * Markets
 * Market
 * Monopsony
 * Oligopsony

Value-in-ownership Value-in-use
 * Value


 * Marketing ethics

Switching

 * Switching costs
 * Switching barriers

Planning levels
Marketing planning is just one facet of the overall company's planning. Marketing plans must therefore take their guidance from the overall strategic plan or business plan. Most companies produce both a strategic plan and a managerial plan (also known as an operational plan). The distinction between strategic planning and management planning is that they are two phases with different goals.


 * Strategic planning is fundamentally concerned with the policies that will improve the firm's competitive position. Strategic planning is sometimes called higher-order planning and is usually long-term planning (say 3–7 years) while management planning is short-term and may be carried out for a specific program (e.g. a sales or advertising campaign of a few weeks duration) or carried out annually. Strategic plans typically include a statement of the firm's vision and mission. The Marketing strategy is a plan that shows how the firm's marketing activities will help to achieve the overall strategic goals.


 * Marketing management is focused on developing the marketing program or Marketing mix (also known as the 4Ps) and is concerned with the implementation of specific action plans designed to achieve objective, measurable targets (SMART objectives). Marketing management plans are typically prepared on an annual planning cycle, but may be prepared for shorter periods for special events such as a product launch, a new logo, change to corporate livery or a repositioning campaign.

Strategic planning tools and techniques
Strategic planning requires sophisticated research and analysis to document the firm's current situation as well as to identify opportunities with the potential to be developed.

Strategic research methods
Strategic research is primarily concerned with the identification of new business opportunities and threats, which derive from the external operating environment. Accordingly, strategic analysts rely less on traditional market research methods. Instead, they use methods such as: Environmental scanning; Marketing intelligence (also known as competitive intelligence) and Futures research

Strategic analysis methods
Marketers draw on a very wide variety of techniques and tools when analyzing the market and the broader operating conditions. The technique selected depends on the nature of the situation or problem to be investigated and the analyst's skill and experience. Strategic analysts employ some 200 different quantitative and qualitative analytical techniques including:

Brand Development Index (BDI); Category development index (CDI); Brand/ Category penetration; Benchmarking; Blind spot analysis; Functional capability and resource analysis; Impact analysis; Counterfactual analysis; Demand analysis; Emerging Issues Analysis; Experience curve analysis; Gap analysis; impact analysis; se Analysis (also known as Porter's five forces analysis); Management profiling; Market segmentation analysis; Market share analysis; Market Segmentation analysis; Perceptual mapping; PEST analysis or its variants including PESTLE, STEEPLED and STEER; Portfolio analysis, such as BCG growth-share matrix or GE business screen matrix; Positioning analysis; Precursor Analysis or Evolutionary analysis; Product life cycle analysis and S-curve analysis (also known as technology life cycle or hype cycle analysis); Product evolutionary cycle analysis; Scenario analysis; Segment Share Analysis; Situation analysis; Strategic Group Analysis; SWOT analysis; Trend Analysis;  Value chain analysis

Marketing strategies

 * Barriers to entry
 * Barriers to exit
 * Market dominance strategies
 * Mass customization
 * Mission-driven marketing
 * Porter's generic strategies
 * Cost leadership
 * Differentiation

Growth strategies



 * Aggressiveness strategies
 * Ansoff Matrix (also known as the product/market growth matrix)
 * Market development
 * Market penetration
 * Product development
 * Diversification (marketing strategy)
 * Growth platforms
 * Growth planning
 * Horizontal integration
 * Innovation
 * Inorganic growth
 * Mergers and acquisitions
 * Organic growth
 * Profit impact on marketing strategy
 * Vertical integration

Marketing warfare strategies

 * Defensive strategy (marketing)
 * Guerrilla marketing warfare strategies
 * Guerrilla marketing (also known as Attack marketing)

Implementation and control
Implementations and control is an important feature of the planning process. From time to time, marketers will use appropriate measures of performance to gauge whether plans are achieving the desired results. If necessary, corrective action can be taken to get back on track.

Branches of Marketing
The book titled, The Marketing Book, 7th ed., Routledge, Oxon, UK, 2016 edited by Michael J. Baker and Susan Hart identifies the distinct branches of marketing practice as:


 * Business marketing; also known as Business-to-business marketing and Industrial marketing (which also includes Business-to-government marketing)
 * Consumer marketing (general Marketing)
 * Environmental marketing; also known as Green marketing )
 * International marketing; also known as Global marketing)
 * Relationship marketing
 * Retailing
 * Services marketing; which includes not-for-profit marketing and Destination marketing)
 * Social marketing (which includes Cause-related marketing)

For a more detailed breakdown of the relevant topics for each of these key branches of marketing, see Branches of Marketing: Detailed Topics on this page. For special applications of marketing including marketing of specific types of products (e.g. agricultural marketing, faith based marketing, pharmaceutical marketing, political marketing, sports marketing, etc.,) or marketing to specific target groups (e.g. marketing to children, marketing to older people, LBGT marketing) see: Special applications of marketing practice).

Marketing orientations
Marketing orientations are the philosophies or mindsets that guide and shape marketing planning and marketing practice. Some marketing historians believe that different philosophies have informed marketing practice at different times in marketing's history. Although there is no real agreement amongst scholars about the precise nature or number of distinct marketing orientations, the most commonly cited include:


 * Marketing orientation (See section: Marketing orientation)
 * Marketing concept
 * Production orientation (also see sections: Production orientation or Production orientation)
 * Market-orientated; also known as the Selling orientation (also see sections: Selling orientation or Sales orientation)
 * Societal marketing (also see section: Societal marketing)
 * Sustainable market orientation
 * Corporate social responsibility
 * Relationship orientation (also see Relationship orientation section)
 * Customer relationship management

The marketing management framework
Marketing planning or the process of developing a marketing program requires a detailed understanding of the marketing framework including Consumer behavior; Market segmentation and Marketing research. In the process of understanding the consumer market to be served, marketers may need to consider such issues as:

Consumer basics

 * Brand awareness
 * Consumer
 * Consumerism
 * Consumer socialization
 * Consumer switching
 * Customer engagement
 * Customer knowledge
 * Demographics
 * Demographic profile
 * Ethical consumerism
 * Lifestyle
 * Consumer purchase funnel

Consumer decision-making
The main steps in the consumer's purchase decision process are: Need or problem recognition → Information search → Evaluation of alternatives → Product/Brand Choice → Post purchase evaluation


 * AIDA (marketing)
 * Brand awareness
 * Choice Modelling
 * Consumer confusion
 * Decoy effect
 * Impulse purchases
 * Prospect theory
 * Window shopping

Influences on consumer decision-making
Consumers purchase decisions are influenced by a range of internal and external factors including:


 * Internal influences
 * Attitudes; Beliefs; Demographics; Aspirational age; Aspirational Brand; Culture; Learning; Motivation; Opinion leaders; Risk perception and Loss aversion; Needs; Social class; Values


 * External influences
 * Culture; Family; Reference groups; Subculture; Peer group; Pester power; Time

Market research and marketing research
Marketing research refers to research activities designed to understand the marketing environment, including competitors, the socio-cultural environment and the politico-legal operating environment. Market research specifically refers to research concerned with understanding the market, that is consumers and is designed to yield actionable customer insights.

Quantitative research methods
Quantitative methods may also be known as Scientific methods.


 * Experimental techniques
 * Exploratory research
 * Online panels
 * Questionnaire construction
 * Quantitative research
 * Statistical survey
 * Survey methodology

Qualitative research methods

 * Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software
 * Ethnographic research
 * Focus group
 * Neuromarketing
 * Observational techniques
 * Eye tracking
 * Electroencephalograph
 * Functional magnetic resonance imaging

Specific research tools and techniques

 * Advertising research
 * Ad tracking
 * Measuring advertising effectiveness
 * Concept testing
 * Awareness research
 * Behavioral economics
 * Competitive intelligence
 * Content analysis
 * Coolhunting
 * Conjoint analysis
 * Customer satisfaction research
 * Delphi technique
 * Forecasting
 * Predictive buying
 * Futures research
 * Marketing information systems
 * Marketing intelligence
 * Mixed method research
 * Motivational research - no current article, but opportunity for a new article?
 * Nominal group technique
 * Psychometrics
 * Innovation game
 * Service quality research

Scale/Questionnaire Design

 * Questionnaire construction
 * Scales
 * Likert scale
 * Semantic differential

Sampling

 * Cluster sampling
 * Multistage sampling
 * Nonprobability sampling
 * Simple random sampling
 * Statistical surveys
 * Stratified sampling
 * Systematic sampling

Market segmentation and targeting
List of abbreviations for market segments

Market segmentation

 * Market segment (article)
 * Segmenting and positioning (article)
 * Market segmentation (section) or Market segmentation or Market segmentation (section)
 * Mass customization
 * Mass marketing
 * Market segment
 * Microsegmention
 * Microsegment
 * Niche market
 * Hypersegmentation or one-to-one marketing
 * Precision marketing
 * Sub-niche market

Specific approaches to segmenting markets

 * (a) Segmenting consumer markets

The main bases for segmenting consumer markets include:


 * Demographics
 * Geodemographic segmentation (also known as Geo-targeting or Geodemography)
 * Intermarket segmentation (for segmenting international markets)
 * Psychographics (psychometric segmentation; lifestyle and values segmentation) (article) (also see: Psychographic segmentation -article)
 * Sagacity segmentation
 * List of abbreviations for frequently used consumer segments

The main bases for segmenting business or industrial markets include:
 * (b) Segmenting business or industrial markets


 * Industrial market segmentation
 * Firmographics
 * Industry classification

Measuring market segment size

 * Bass diffusion model
 * Serviceable available market
 * Total addressable market

Targeting

 * Targeting (section)
 * Attitudinal targeting
 * Behavioral targeting
 * Demographic profile
 * Demographic targeting
 * Geo-targeting
 * Niche market
 * Targeted advertising
 * Target audience
 * Persona (user experience)
 * Serviceable available market
 * Total addressable market

Proprietary segmentation databases and software
To support, market segmentation analysis marketers may require access to databases with large sample sizes. A number of commercial companies provide such data which typically includes proprietary software designed to interrogate the data and backed by algorithms that support different types of segmentation approaches. These commercial databases are often country or region specifically. Popular geo-demographic segmentation databases include:
 * Acorn (UK)
 * Claritas Prizm (US)
 * Experian (Europe, US)
 * Mosaic (Asia-Pacific)

Popular psychometric tools include:
 * Roy Morgan Research (Asia Pacific)
 * VALS (US)
 * Values Modes

Statistical techniques used in segmentation analysis

 * Neural Networks
 * CHAID (Chi-square Automatic Interaction Detector)
 * Canonical Analysis
 * Choice Modelling
 * Cluster analysis
 * Conjoint analysis
 * Cross tab
 * Discriminant analysis
 * Factor analysis
 * Intent scale translation
 * K-means
 * Latent Class Analysis
 * Logit analysis
 * Multi dimensional scaling
 * Preference-rank translation
 * Preference regression
 * Random Forests
 * Structural Equation Modeling

Marketing management: The marketing program (also known as the marketing mix or the 4 Ps)
The marketing program, also known as the marketing mix or the 4 ps consists of the product, price, place and promotion.

Product

 * Badge engineering
 * Cannibalization (marketing)
 * Euro Car Segment
 * Market cannibalism
 * Market segmentation index
 * Positioning (marketing)
 * Packaging and labeling
 * Food labelling regulations
 * Labelling
 * Country of origin
 * Reusable packaging
 * Seasonal packaging
 * Wine label
 * Premium product segment
 * Product lifecycle
 * Product life-cycle theory
 * Product lining
 * Product line extension
 * Product category volume
 * Product churning
 * Product differentiation
 * Product life cycle management (article)
 * Product life-cycle management (marketing) (article)
 * Technology lifecycle
 * Life cycle cost analysis
 * Planned obsolescence
 * Product line
 * Product proliferation
 * Whole product
 * Product portfolio
 * B.C.G. Analysis
 * G.E. Multi Factoral analysis
 * Contribution margin analysis
 * Product bundling
 * Utility

New product development (NPD)
Innovation and New product development are an important part of a firm's long term growth strategy.

The steps in a basic new production development process are:


 * Idea generation (or Ideation (creative process)) →Concept screening→ Concept testing → Business analysis → Product development → Market testing → Commercialization and may include a Soft launch

The NPD process can be applied to:


 * Products: New product development; Design
 * Services: Service innovation; Service design
 * Environmental goods or services: Eco-innovation; Ecodesign; Lean product development

A recent trend in NPD is the use of participatory design, also known as co-design or co-operative design, which involves stakeholders such as employees or consumers in the design process.

Sources of new product ideas include: Research and development; Consumers or Users; distributors, suppliers or crowdsourcing.

Types of innovation
 * Blue Ocean Strategy
 * Disruptive innovation

NPD represents a high risk activity. It requires substantial investment and a list of product failures suggests that the probability of failure is relatively high.

New product adoption and diffusion

In order to develop a superior understanding of how new products are adopted by the market place and the factors that influence adoption rates, marketers often turn to a number of models or theories of the adoption/diffusion process:


 * Bass diffusion model
 * Diffusion (article)
 * Diffusion of innovations (article)
 * Early adopter
 * Hype cycle
 * Technology acceptance model (article)
 * Technology adoption life cycle (article)
 * Technology life cycle
 * Quality function deployment
 * Crossing the Chasm (Book title)

Legal protection of new products and brands
New product development, including the design of product features, manufacturing processes, packaging design etc. involves creative work and therefore constitutes intellectual property. A number of different legal avenues are available to protect different types of intellectual property.


 * Certification mark
 * Copyright
 * List of copyright acts
 * Logo
 * Patent
 * Service mark
 * Service mark symbol
 * Trademark
 * Sound trademark
 * Trade secret

Brand management

 * Branding (Promotional)
 * Branding
 * Aspirational brand
 * Celebrity branding
 * Co-branding
 * Employer branding
 * Green brands
 * Internet branding
 * Ingredient branding
 * Lifestyle brand
 * Nation branding
 * Symbol-intensive brand
 * White-label product
 * Brand architecture
 * Brand asset management
 * Brand alliances
 * Brand ambassador
 * Brand aversion
 * Brand awareness
 * Brand community
 * Brand equity
 * Brand experience
 * Brand extension (also known as brand stretching)
 * Brand implementation
 * Brand language
 * Brand loyalty
 * Brand naming
 * Brand orientation
 * Brand preference
 * Brand relationship
 * Brand strength analysis
 * Brand tribalism
 * Challenger brand
 * Brand switching
 * Corporate identity
 * Corporate branding
 * Cult brand
 * Generic brand
 * Hallmarks
 * Silver hallmarks
 * List of fictional brands
 * List of renamed brands
 * Product proliferation
 * Marque
 * Rebranding
 * Self-brand
 * Visual brand language

Branding strategies

 * Private brand (also known as Private labels or Store brand
 * Private Label Strategy
 * Brand licensing
 * Corporate branding
 * Family branding
 * Fighter brand (also known as a fighting brand)
 * Individual branding
 * National brand
 * Umbrella brand

Brand protection

 * Copyright
 * Service mark
 * Trademark
 * Genericized trademark

Packaging and labelling

 * Mandatory labelling
 * Sustainable packaging

Price

 * Algorithmic pricing
 * Barter
 * Choice Modelling
 * Competitor indexing
 * Break even analysis
 * Markup
 * Loyalty card
 * Operating margin
 * Price elasticity of demand
 * Pricing objectives
 * Price points
 * Price ceiling
 * Price controls
 * Price fixing
 * Price fixing cases
 * Price floor
 * Price gouging
 * Price mechanism
 * Price signal
 * Price system
 * Price umbrella
 * Purchasing power
 * Real prices and ideal prices
 * Reservation price
 * Resale price maintenance
 * Shadow price
 * Switching costs
 * Target pricing
 * Transfer pricing
 * Pricing science
 * Price override
 * Unit price

Pricing strategies

 * Value-based pricing
 * Relationship-oriented pricing
 * Cost-plus pricing
 * Cost-plus pricing with elasticity considerations
 * Rate of return pricing
 * Pricing for profit maximization

Pricing tactics

 * Base point pricing
 * Cost the limit of price
 * Bait pricing
 * Break-even (economics)
 * Congestion pricing
 * Contingency pricing
 * Clearance sale
 * Discounts and allowances
 * Drip pricing
 * Dumping (pricing policy)
 * Everyday low price
 * Fire sale
 * Geographic pricing
 * High–low pricing
 * Loss leader
 * Parity pricing:
 * Export parity price
 * Import parity price
 * Penetration pricing
 * Premium pricing (also known as Price premium)
 * Price wars
 * Joint product pricing
 * Psychological pricing
 * Premium pricing
 * Price discrimination
 * Dynamic pricing
 * Time-based pricing
 * Geographical pricing and price zoning
 * Value pricing or Value-based purchasing
 * Price skimming
 * Odd price
 * Sliding scale fees
 * Two part tariff
 * Variable pricing and real-time pricing
 * Penetration pricing
 * Variable pricing
 * Willingness to pay
 * Yield management

Place (distribution)

 * Direct marketing
 * Database marketing
 * Direct Marketing Association
 * Drop shipping
 * Jobber (merchandising)
 * Fuel jobber
 * Rack Jobber
 * Jobbing house
 * Logistics
 * Green logistics
 * Logistic engineering
 * Reverse logistics
 * Marketing channel
 * Marketing channels
 * Sales (also known as Personal selling)
 * Sales management (also known as Sales force management)
 * Sales effectiveness
 * Sales force management system
 * Sales techniques
 * Negotiation
 * Shill
 * Large Group Awareness Training (LGAT)
 * Salesman
 * Supply chain
 * Supply chain management
 * Wholesale
 * Wholesaler
 * Value chain
 * Value migration

The following methods are prohibited in most nations:
 * Multi-level marketing
 * Pyramid scheme

Promotion (also known as marketing communications or integrated marketing communications (IMC))

 * Marketing communications (section)
 * Advertising agency or marketing communications agency
 * Cross-promotion
 * Communication planning
 * Co-promotion
 * Internal marketing
 * Influencer marketing
 * Positioning
 * Referral marketing
 * Street marketing
 * Street team
 * Unique selling proposition
 * Viral marketing
 * Word of mouth marketing

Advertising

 * Ad blocking
 * Advertising management
 * Advertising campaign
 * Account planning
 * Advertising media selection
 * Advertising slogan
 * Attention (advertising)
 * Augmented reality advertising
 * Commercial skipping
 * Consumer-generated advertising
 * Digital marketing
 * Frequency (marketing)
 * History of advertising
 * Immersive advertising
 * Infomercial
 * In-game advertising
 * Innovation
 * Interactive advertising
 * Native advertising
 * Perceptual blindness
 * Persona
 * Shock advertising
 * Storyboard
 * Targeted advertising
 * Target audience
 * Television commercial
 * Reach (advertising)
 * View-through rate

Advertising models: How does advertising work?

 * AIDA (marketing)
 * AISDALSLove
 * DAGMAR marketing
 * Elaboration likelihood model (article)
 * Elaboration likelihood model (section)

Advertising research

 * Advertising research (Article with a media focus)
 * Ad tracking
 * AttentionTracking
 * Copy testing
 * Eye tracking

Advertising Media

 * Audience measurement
 * Advertising board
 * Advertising postcard
 * Cinema
 * Display stand
 * Interactive media
 * Internet
 * Magazines
 * List of magazines by circulation
 * Mass media
 * Media planning
 * New media
 * Newspapers
 * Newspaper circulation
 * Lists of newspapers
 * Nielsen Media Research
 * Out-of-home advertising
 * Aerial advertising
 * Billboard (advertising)
 * Digital billboard
 * Human billboard
 * Mobile billboard
 * Neon message board
 * Sandwich board
 * Kiosk
 * Interactive kiosks
 * Transit media
 * Bus advertising
 * Driven media
 * Fleet media
 * Truckside advertisement
 * Wrap advertising
 * Signage
 * Electronic signage
 * Digital signage
 * Skywriting
 * Product placement
 * Radio
 * List of most-listened-to radio programs
 * Nielsen ratings
 * Nielsen Audio
 * Retail media
 * Social media marketing
 * Streaming media
 * Television
 * List of most watched television broadcasts
 * OzTAM
 * Q Score
 * Television ratings

Award-winning advertising campaigns

 * Share a Coke
 * Coca-Cola's Hillsong campaign
 * Slip-Slop-Slap (Anti-Cancer Institute of Australia) Winner of the International Sulzberger Award, 2010

Internet

 * Affiliate marketing
 * Banner blindness
 * Behavioral Targeting
 * Mobile advertising
 * Online advertising
 * Performance-based advertising
 * Search analytics
 * Search engine optimization
 * Social media marketing
 * Referral marketing
 * Revenue sharing
 * Web analytics


 * Main types of internet promotion: E-mail spam, e-mail marketing, post-click marketing, Website monetizing, Search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimization (SEO), Display advertising, * Contextual advertising
 * Internet advertising methods: Advertising methods: Ad filtering, ad serving, central ad server, pop-up ad, contextual advertising, web banner
 * Search engine marketing payment methods: pay per click, click fraud, paid inclusion
 * Internet metrics: Click through rate (CTR), cost per action (CPA), cost per click (CPC), cost per impression (CPI), cost per mille (CPM), effective cost per mille (eCPM)

Advertainment

 * Advergaming
 * Branded content (also known as Branded entertainment)
 * In-game advertising
 * Product placement

Direct and digital marketing

 * Direct response television
 * Direct response media
 * Digital marketing (also known as Digital promotion
 * E-commerce
 * Email production
 * Telemarketing
 * Specialty catalogs

Personal selling

 * AIDA (marketing)
 * DAGMAR marketing
 * Field marketing
 * Sales management
 * Sales effectiveness
 * Sales process
 * Smarketing
 * Lead generation
 * Presentation
 * Closing (sales)
 * Customer relationship management
 * Customer lifecycle management

Sales promotion

 * Gimmick
 * Merchandising
 * Branding (Promotional)
 * Promotional campaign
 * Point of sale
 * Point of sale display

Public relations

 * Buzz marketing
 * Buzz monitoring
 * Corporate image
 * Corporate communications
 * Cause marketing
 * Content marketing
 * Doing a Ratner
 * Event marketing
 * Exhibitions
 * Speechwriter
 * Trade fairs
 * Undercover marketing
 * Viral marketing
 * Word of mouth and buzz

Sponsorship

 * Ambush marketing
 * Community marketing

Communications planning

 * Kelman's source characteristics

Measuring communications effects

 * Audience response
 * Frequency (marketing)
 * Mind share
 * Reach (advertising)
 * Share of voice
 * Share of wallet

The extended marketing mix
The extended marketing mix is used in the marketing of services, ideas and customer experiences and typically refers to a model of 7 Ps and includes the original 4 Ps plus process, physical evidence and people. Some texts use a model of 8 Ps and include performance level (service quality) as an 8th P.

Process

 * Customer experience management
 * Service blueprint

Physical evidence

 * Virtual customer environment
 * Front of house
 * Front office
 * Service innovation
 * Service design
 * Servicescapes

People

 * Customer
 * Customer to customer
 * Dramaturgical perspective
 * Personnel
 * Pink-collar worker
 * Customer interface
 * CEM integration
 * CEM organization
 * Role theory
 * Scripts

Measuring marketing performance: Marketing metrics
Marketing activities are costly and represent an investment in a company or brand's long term future. With the increased emphasis on accountability, marketers must consider how they measure marketing's performance and communicate that to stakeholders. Various types of metrics that are in widespread use may be classified as:

Measures of market/ competitive performance
 * Market share
 * Market share analysis
 * Market value
 * Market power
 * Marketing Effectiveness
 * Return on marketing investment (ROMI)
 * Share of wallet

Measures of advertising and promotional effectiveness
 * Measuring advertising effectiveness
 * Share of voice

Measures of brand health
 * Brand equity
 * Brand valuation
 * Return on Marketing Investment (ROMI)

Customer-oriented measures
 * Customer satisfaction
 * Customer satisfaction research
 * Customer data management
 * Customer analytics

Special topics in marketing

 * Consumer Culture Theory (CCT)
 * Customer privacy
 * Consumer behavior and ideals of beauty
 * Diversity marketing
 * Remarketing with Iranian Style
 * Family in advertising
 * Effects of advertising on teen body image
 * Marketing paradigms
 * Marketing myopia
 * Network marketing
 * Postmodern marketing
 * Sex in advertising
 * Subliminal advertising
 * Subvertising

Business Marketing

 * Affiliate marketing
 * Affinity marketing
 * Co-marketing
 * Firmographics
 * Managed services
 * Outsourcing
 * Personal selling
 * Prospecting
 * Solution selling
 * Sales
 * Supply chain management
 * Vendor lock-in

Environmental marketing

 * Green marketing

International marketing

 * Intermarket segmentation
 * Global marketing
 * Market entry strategies
 * Product adaptation

Relationship marketing

 * Customer relationship management
 * ECRM - Electronic customer relationship management
 * Customer lifetime value
 * Customer lifetime valuation
 * Customer lifecycle management
 * Loyalty marketing
 * Customer loyalty programs
 * Incentive program
 * Loyalty program
 * Trust-based marketing

Services Marketing

 * Customer service
 * Customer Service System
 * Destination marketing
 * Self-service
 * Service quality
 * SERVQUAL
 * Customer satisfaction
 * Customer satisfaction research
 * Disconfirmed expectancy
 * Quality management
 * Servicescapes
 * Service
 * Service blueprint
 * Borderless Selling
 * Quality
 * Service quality (aka PZB model or gaps model)
 * Experience economy
 * Service design
 * Service-dominant logic
 * Service innovation
 * Service mark
 * Servicescapes
 * Service sector
 * Service recovery
 * Service system
 * Service recovery paradox
 * Sports marketing
 * Strategic service management

Social marketing

 * Corporate social responsibility
 * Cause-related marketing
 * Cause-related loyalty marketing
 * Cradle to grave sustainability practices
 * Green marketing
 * Green brands
 * Socially responsible marketing
 * Societal marketing
 * Sustainability marketing
 * Sustainability brand
 * Sustainable packaging
 * Sustainability metrics and indices

Retailing

 * E-tailing
 * Point of sales
 * Retail concentration
 * Retail design
 * Retail software
 * Retail media
 * Site selection
 * Shopper marketing
 * Store manager
 * Visual merchandising

Types of retailer

 * Arabber
 * Bazaari
 * Costermonger
 * Hawker (trade)
 * Huckster
 * Merchant
 * Peddler
 * Street vendor

Types of retail outlet and shopping precincts

 * Arcade
 * Automated retail
 * Bazaar
 * Bedesten
 * Haat bazaar
 * Meena Bazaar
 * Landa bazaar
 * Saddar Bazaar
 * Big-box store
 * Category killer
 * Chain store
 * Charity shop
 * Convenience store
 * Department store
 * List of department stores
 * Discount store
 * Dollar store
 * Hypermarket
 * Franchising
 * Market town
 * Market
 * Wet market
 * Pasar malam
 * Pasar pagi
 * Pawnbroker
 * Pop-up retail
 * Retailers' cooperative
 * Shopping mall
 * Shopping streets
 * Second-hand shop
 * Self-service
 * Supermarket
 * List of supermarkets
 * Strip mall
 * Souq (or souk is an Arabic term for bazaar or market)
 * Variety store
 * Vending machine
 * Warehouse club
 * Warehouse store

Special applications of marketing and promotion

 * Advertising and marketing to children
 * Adolescents and food marketing
 * Agricultural marketing
 * Agricultural value chain
 * Alcohol advertising
 * Business-to-government marketing
 * Cause marketing
 * City marketing
 * Cosmetics advertising
 * Community marketing
 * Destination marketing
 * Destination marketing organization
 * Evangelism marketing
 * Engagement marketing
 * Faith-based marketing
 * Fish marketing
 * Fast food advertising
 * Food marketing
 * Grey market
 * Health marketing
 * Local store or neighbourhood marketing
 * Megamarketing
 * Marketing of Halo 3
 * Movement marketing
 * Pharmaceutical marketing
 * Political advertising campaign
 * Shrimp marketing
 * Sports marketing
 * Tobacco advertising
 * Tourist attractions
 * Wholesale marketing of food

History

 * History of advertising (section)
 * History of advertising (main page)
 * History of advertising in Britain article
 * History of branding (section)
 * History of brand management (section)
 * History of marketing research (section)
 * History of market segmentation (section)
 * History of promotional merchandise (section)
 * History of retail (section)
 * History of merchants (section)
 * History of the market place (section)
 * Origins of the positioning concept (section)
 * Origins of consumer behaviour (section)

Influential marketing thinkers

 * Wroe Alderson (1898-1965) - proponent of marketing science; instrumental in developing the functional school of marketing and in the managerial approach to marketing
 * Igor Ansoff (1918-2002) - marketing/ management strategist; noted for the product/market growth matrix
 * David Aaker - highly awarded educator and author in the area of marketing and organisational theory
 * N.W. Ayer - probably the first advertiser to use mass media (i.e. telegraph) in a promotional campaign and early proponent of media scheduling
 * Leonard Berry (professor) (1942- ) - author and educator with strong interest in health marketing and relationship marketing
 * Neil H. Borden (1922-1962) - coined the term, 'marketing mix'; former President of the American Marketing Association
 * Clayton Christensen - educator, author and consultant, published in the areas of innovation and entrepreneurship
 * George S. Day - author and educator; has published in the area of strategic marketing
 * Ernest Dichter (1907-1991) - market researcher, consumer behaviourist, pioneer of motivational research methods
 * Andrew S. C. Ehrenberg (1926-2010) - made contributions to the methodology of data collection, analysis and presentation, and an understanding buyer behaviour and how advertising works
 * Edward Filene (1860-1937) - early pioneer of modern retailing methods
 * Seth Godin - popular author, entrepreneur, public speaker and marketer
 * Paul E. Green (1927-2012) - academic and author; the founder of conjoint analysis and popularised the use of multidimensional scaling, clustering, and analysis of qualitative data in marketing.
 * Shelby D. Hunt (1939- ) -former editor of the Journal of Marketing and organisational theorist noted for his contributions to RA theory
 * John E. Jeuck (1916-2009) - early marketing educator
 * Philip Kotler (1931-) - popularised the managerial approach to marketing; prolific author
 * E. St. Elmo Lewis (1872–1948) - developed the AIDA model used in sales and advertising
 * Christopher Lovelock (1940-2008) - author of many books and articles on services marketing
 * Theodore Levitt (1925-2006) - former editor of Harvard Business Review, prolific author of marketing articles and famed for his article, "Marketing Myopia"
 * E. Jerome McCarthy - popularised the managerial approach to marketing; developed the concept of the 4Ps (i.e. the 'marketing mix' or marketing program)
 * Arthur Nielsen (1897–1980) - early market researcher; pioneered methods for estimating radio and TV audiences and ratings
 * David Ogilvy (1911-1999)- advertising guru, early pioneer of the market positioning concept
 * Vance Packard - journalist and author, wrote The Hidden Persuaders (1957) which explored the use of motivational research in marketing practice
 * Charles Coolidge Parlin(1872-1942) - pioneer of market and advertising research methods
 * Rosser Reeves (1910-1984)- advertising guru; advocate of frequency in media schedules
 * Al Ries - advertising executive, author and credited with coining the term, 'positioning' in the late 1960s
 * Arch Wilkinson Shaw (1876-1962) - early management theorist, proponent of the scientific approach to marketing
 * Henry Charles Taylor (1873-1969) - the agricultural marketer
 * Richard S. Tedlow - author and educator; published in the area of marketing history
 * James Walter Thompson (1847-1928) - founded one of the earliest modern advertising agencies, J Walter Thompson; a very early proponent of using brand image in advertising
 * Jack Trout - together with Al Ries, popularised the positioning concept
 * Don E. Schultz - father of 'integrated marketing communications' (IMC)
 * Stephen Vargo- together with R.F. Lusch developed the Service-dominant logic approach to marketing
 * Henry Grady Weaver (1889-1949) - developed the survey questionnaire for use in market research
 * Jerry (Yoram) Wind - former editor of the Journal of Marketing, educator and marketer
 * Byron Sharp - N.Z. academic; one of the first to document buyer loyalty in empirical work
 * Daniel Starch (1883–1979) - psychologist and marketing researcher, developed the so-called Starch scores to measure impact of magazine advertising; Starch scores are still in use
 * Gerald Zaltman - developed the Metaphor Elicitation Technique (ZMET)
 * Valarie Zeithaml - together with A. Parasurman and L.L. Berry, developed the model of service quality and the SERVQUAL research instrument

Trade magazines and academic journals

 * Advertising Age
 * Adweek
 * Brandweek
 * International Journal of Bank Marketing
 * Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management
 * Inside Retailing (Australia)
 * International Journal of Research in Marketing
 * Journal of Creative Communications
 * Journal of Consumer Research
 * Journal of Marketing Research
 * Journal of Marketing
 * Journal of Marketing Education
 * Journal of Service Research
 * Journal of Vacation Marketing
 * Marketing (magazine)
 * Marketing (United Kingdom)
 * Marketing Science (journal)
 * Marketing Theory
 * Marketing Week
 * The Marketer U.K. (defunct)
 * MediaWeek
 * PRWeek United Kingdom
 * Sales Promotion (magazine)
 * Social Marketing Quarterly
 * Sponsor

Marketing & advertising associations, societies and peak industry associations

 * American Marketing Association
 * Arts Marketing Association
 * Association of National Advertisers
 * Australian Market and Social Research Society Limited
 * Canadian Marketing Association
 * Construction Marketing Association
 * Direct marketing association
 * Direct Marketing Association (UK)
 * Direct Marketing Association (USA)
 * Direct Marketing Association (South Africa)
 * Direct Selling Association
 * European Marketing Research Centre
 * Marketing Research Association
 * Market Research Society
 * Potato Marketing Corporation of Western Australia
 * Produce Marketing Association
 * Promotion Marketing Association

Archives, museums and galleries (dedicated to marketing and/or advertising)

 * American Advertising Museum
 * Museum of Brands, Packaging & Advertising, Notting Hill, London
 * Musée de la Publicité
 * The Advertising Archives
 * William F. Eisner Museum of Advertising & Design, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Lists and outlines
• Outline of business management

• Outline of economics

• Outline of commercial law

• Outline of production

• List of abbreviations for market segments

• List of department stores

• List of influential advertising theorists

• List of influential salesmen and sales theorists

• List of accounting topics

• List of international trade topics

• List of business law topics

• List of business theorists

• List of economists

• List of most-listened-to radio programs

• List of most watched television broadcasts

• List of magazines by circulation

• List of marketing and advertising authors

• Lists of newspapers

• List of product failures

• List of supermarkets

Marketing education

 * History of marketing thought and education
 * Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing, Brazil (School of Advertising & Marketing)
 * Master of Business Administration
 * Master of Marketing Research
 * Bachelor of Business
 * Bachelor of Business Administration
 * Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Marketing and Management Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science