Product Description

CONTEMPORARY MARKETING by Boone and Kurtz has proven to be the premier principles of marketing text and package since the first edition. With each edition, this best selling author team builds and improves upon past innovations, creating the most technologically advanced, student friendly, instructor supported text available. The twelfth edition continues to provide the most current and up-to-date content by including the most current coverage of topics such as one-to-one marketing, strategic planning, guerilla marketing, customer relationship management, and much more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #247114 in Books
• Published on: 2005-01-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 784 pages

About the Author
For the past 35 years, Louis E. Boone and David L. Kurtz have pursued distinguished academic careers. Each has taught at a number of major U.S. and foreign universities, and the two have collaborated on writing best-selling books. Their publications have been translated into Chinese, French, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish. They have lectured extensively throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Kurtz and his wife live in Rogers, Arkansas, where he holds a university professorship at the University of Arkansas in nearby Fayetteville.

During Dave Kurtz's high school days, no one in Salisbury, Maryland, would have mistaken him for a scholar. In fact, he was a mediocre student, so bad that his father steered him toward higher education by finding him a succession of backbreaking summer jobs. Thankfully, most of them have been erased from his memory, but a few linger, including picking peaches, loading watermelons on trucks headed for market, and working as a pipefitter's helper. Unfortunately, these jobs had zero impact on his academic standing. Worse yet for Dave's ego, he was no better than average as a high school athlete in football and track. Fortunately, four years at Davis & Elkins College in Elkins, West Virginia, turned him around. Excellent instructors helped get Dave on a sound academic footing. His grade point average soared--enough to get him accepted by the graduate business school at the University of Arkansas, where he met Gene Boone. Gene and Dave became longtime co-authors; together they have produced more than 50 books. In addition to writing, Dave and Gene have been partners in several entrepreneurial ventures. Today, Dave is back teaching at the University of Arkansas after tours of duty in Ypsilanti, Michigan; Seattle, Washington; and Melbourne, Australia. He is the proud grandfather of five "perfect" kids and a sportsman with a golf handicap too high to mention. Dave, his wife, Diane, and four demanding canine companions (Daisy, Lucy, Molly, and Sally) live in Rogers, Arkansas. Dave also holds a distinguished professorship at the Sam M. Walton College of Business in nearby Fayetteville, home of the Arkansas Razorbacks.

Customer Reviews

It's a decent textbook.
A decent college level required textbook that is worth keeping. I'll not try to resell.

MARKETING AND JANUS
THIS BOOK IS WITHOUT DOUBT THE BEST ONE CAN POSSIBLY LOOK AT IN TERMS OF IN DEPTH MARKETING ACUMEN. I HAVE HAD THE BOOK FOR 2 YEARS AND IT HAS PROVIDED ME WITH TACTICS AND STRATEGIC INSIGHTS I NEVER WOULD OF THOUGHT OF. I GUARANTEE YOU WOULD LOVE IT.

Marketing
This book was as good as the class I took. Take it how you want it, if you like marketing your prob going to like this book.