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Chairman of the marketing department at University of Texas at Arlington for 32 years. He has been an instructor for more than 40 years and is the recipient of several awards for outstanding teaching. McDaniel has also been a district sales manager for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company. Currently, he serves as a board member of the North Texas Higher Education Authority and is a member of the American Marketing Association, Academy of Marketing Science, Southern Marketing Association, Southwestern Marketing Association, and Western Marketing Association. In addition to Marketing, McDaniel has authored or co-authored over 50 textbooks, and his research has appeared in such publications as the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Business Research, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, and the California Management Review. McDaniel is co-owner of a marketing research firm and has been a consultant to the International Trade Centre. Joseph F. Hair Jr. previously held the Alvin C. Copeland Endowed Chair of Franchising and was Director, Entrepreneurship Institute, Louisiana State University. Hair also held the Phil B. Hardin Chair of Marketing at the University of Mississippi. He has taught graduate and undergraduate marketing and marketing research courses. A member of the American Marketing Association, Academy of Marketing Science, Southern Marketing Association, and Southwestern Marketing Association, Hair has authored 40 books, monographs, and cases and over 70 articles in scholarly journals. He serves on the editorial review boards of several journals and was the 2004 recipient of the Academy of Marketing Science Excellence in Teaching Award and the 2007 Innovative Marketer of the Year Award by the Marketing Management Association. Hair serves as a consultant to many businesses. Charles W. Lamb, Jr., served as chair of the department of marketing at the M. J. Neeley School of Business from 1982 to 1988 and again from 1997 to 2003. He is currently chair of the Department of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management and is a former president of the Academy of Marketing Science and the Southwestern Marketing Association. Lamb has authored or co-authored more than a dozen books and anthologies on marketing topics and over 150 articles that have appeared in academic journals and conference proceedings. In 1997, he was awarded the prestigious Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Research and Creative Activity at TCU. This is the highest honour that the university bestows on its faculty. Other key honours he has received include the M. J. Neeley School of Business Research Award, selection as a Distinguished Fellow of the Academy of Marketing Science, and a Fellow of the Southwestern Marketing Association.

PART I: THE WORLD OF MARKETING. 1. An Overview of Marketing. 2. Strategic Planning for Competitive Advantage. 3. Ethics and Social Responsibility. 4. The Marketing Environment. 5. Developing a Global Vision. PART II: ANALYZING MARKETING OPPORTUNITIES. 6. Consumer Decision Making. 7. Business Marketing. 8. Segmenting and Targeting Markets. 9. Decision Support Systems and Marketing Research. PART III: PRODUCT DECISIONS. 10. Product Concepts. 11. Developing and Managing Products. 12. Services and Nonprofit Organization Marketing. PART IV: DISTRIBUTION DECISIONS. 13. Marketing Channels. 14. Supply Chain Management. 15. Retailing. PART V: PROMOTION AND COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES. 16. Promotion Planning for Competitive Advantage. 17. Advertising and Public Relations. 18. Sales Promotion and Personal Selling. PART VI: PRICING DECISIONS. 19. Pricing Concepts. 20. Setting the Right Price. PART VII: TECHNOLOGY-DRIVEN MARKETING 21. Customer Relationship Management (CRM). 22. Social Media & Marketing. ENDNOTES. INDEX . TEAR-OUT CARDS.