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After the successful "Basic Marketing", McCarthy contributed to another academic book, Essentials of Marketing. To me, the best benefit from this book was understanding the concept of market segmentation and marketing orientation. In addition, this book provided a good definition for 4Ps theory (which is originally developed by McCarthy himself in his previous book: Basic Marketing.
Hated this book, I probably read it 7 full times this semester. Exams never matched what was in it and every sentence is something either super important or the dumbest most common-sense sentence to ever come out of a humans brain. Waited until I finished the class to review this so I didn’t jinx myself, and trust I came out with that A++++++
Though a great reference on marketing and this issue is of 2015, but it could have used further updated examples. And for being an international student copy, it was still more focused on US though.