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An Essential Marketing Primer for Public Agencies from a Most Reliable Authority

By Ed Uyeshima - November 27, 2006

For dyed-in-the-wool marketers like myself, Philip Kotler, international marketing professor at Northwestern's Kellogg School, has been a distinguished guru for nearly four decades, and his textbook of fundamentals, "Marketing Management", was required reading for me in graduate school. Now teamed with consultant Nancy Lee, a long-time specialist in social marketing, he has finally translated his tried-and-true marketing principles into the public sector, a challenging application given how results from such efforts can be extremely long-term and far less tangible than what can be more easily measured in the private sector. What's more, going head-to-head with private enterprises, public agencies have been at a great disadvantage because they have not proactively sought this discipline in targeting citizen needs. Previously unused initiatives like customer-driven strategies, outsourcing and performance metrics are now bought to life in a new milieu.

Kotler and Lee do a fine... read more

A focused, well-written and interesting book to help public sector folks meet their mission more effectively through marketing

By Craig Matteson - September 13, 2006

One of the biggest misconceptions people have about marketing is that it is synonymous with advertising or selling. That is like saying cooking is synonymous with plating your dish. Yes, it is a part of the subject, an important part, but it is only a small portion of the entire matter of the subject. Marketing, as all business students soon learn, is the whole of deciding what products to make (taking into consideration all factors related to the marketplace success of those products), how to position them, how to sell them, their "life", brand, communications, programs, and so much more. It is a big and complex subject than many happily devote a life to practicing and others a lifetime to researching.

Philip Kotler is himself a brand name in the book publishing world on this subject. A quick search of Amazon finds more books than you can easily count. They are usually done with co-authors, as is this one (Nancy Lee), and I am sure having his name on your book... read more

Well-Intentioned Public Sector Advice

By Craig L. Howe "The Pointed Pundit" - January 10, 2007

This book leaves me conflicted.

Part of me wonders why it is necessary for two distinguished marketing specialists to team up to write a book like this.

The other part, a consumer of government services, understands the need, Philip Kotler, a Northwestern University marketing professor and Nancy Lee, an adjunct faculty member in Washington state and president of a social marketing agency, performed in this their third book.

Using real-life examples to showcase tried-and-true marketing principles effectively deployed in the public sector the heart of this book, eight chapters, tackles an accepted private marketing tenet and applies it to an agency marketing effort. Using a toolbox, the authors show illustrate how; establishing incentives and motivating prices; optimizing distribution channels; creating a brand identity; communicating effectively; improving service and satisfaction; influencing positive public behaviors through social marketing; and... read more

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