This unique book posits that by being socially responsible, marketing can achieve greater profits as well as a higher quality of life for the whole society. This mission can be accomplished by being proactive, consumer oriented and by considering consumers' well-being as the highest priority. Marketing must reach out and cater to those who are less than equal opportunity consumers. Marketing must also develop environment- and consumer-friendly products and services.
This book consists of 16 new discussions of topics that help map marketing as an exchange process. They help lay the foundation for the discipline from the perspective of this definition of marketing. The discussion includes examinations of what constitutes marketing: its legal, spatial, and temporal aspects; an examination of the associated externalities; and an extended examination of the media of exchange.
Gonzo Marketing is a knuckle-whitening ride to the place where social criticism, biting satire, and serious commerce meet -- and where the outdated ideals of mass marketing and broadcast media are being left in the dust. Invoking the spirit of gonzo journalism, Locke rails against business practices that treat customers like cattle, and urges marketers of all stripes to tap into Web-based communities, or "micromarkets, " based on candor, trust, passion, and a general disdain for anything that smacks of corporate smugness. Gonzo Marketing shows how companies that support and promote these communities can have everything they've always wanted: greater market share, customer loyalty, and brand equity. Laced with Locke's inimitable wit and penetrating point of view, Gonzo Marketing is the raucous wake-up call that no one in business -- from the trading-room floor to the boardroom -- can afford to ignore.
This book provides the first comprehensive examination of contraceptive social marketing. It includes a full description of the most important of these programs, documenting a form of international assistance that has attracted over $1 billion from governments and other donors. The book contains a wealth of previously unpublished material that illustrates this remarkable story. The author challenges the widespread belief that family planning can only be made available through medically-oriented programs and that foreign assistance must be catalytic rather than long-term.