Having achieved production quality, aggressive foreign firms are
cleverly shifting emphasis to total quality marketing, which is a
dynamic market-driven concept that goes beyond the currently
popular total quality management approach. It centers on customer
satisfaction as a way to achieve solutions to business problems. It
is a market-driven idea that stresses customer satisfaction as
crucial to the success of a business in a highly competitive modern
business world. The concept is an enhanced version of the marketing
mix--the familiar 4-P paradigm in marketing. Thus, by incorporating
quality into their product, price, promotion, and distribution
strategy, firms can regain market shares; and can prevent further
erosion of market shares to aggressive foreign competitors from
Japan, Germany, and the Newly Industrialized Countries (NICs). By
not focusing on markets, firms risk losing their businesses to
aggressive foreign firms.
The book is targeted to business executives, scholars,
researchers, policy makers of business and government, foreign
firms, and the general public. The book has eight chapters. The
first chapter presents the problem of loss of market shares.
Chapter two evaluates imports to identify major competitors and
what they export to U.S. Chapter three focuses on the SWOT
Analysis, which evaluates the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities,
and threats of U.S. vs. foreign firms. Chapter four unravels the
market share mystique. The following chapters introduce Total
Quality Marketing, explain how Total Quality Marketing is currently
carried out in some firms and show the integration of quality into
marketing through company examples. The last chapter provides a
concluding commentary by looking into the future.
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