Develop customer-focused, market-driven strategies for today's competitive marketplace...Industrial Marketing Strategy Widely regarded as a classic text in the field, Industrial Marketing Strategy, Third Edition shows you, as a practicing manager, how to develop the marketing strategies your business needs to succeed in a rapidly evolving global marketplace. This important book covers: * The basic concepts of customer analysis, buying behavior, buyer-seller relationships, market segmentation and targeting, and positioning * Proven, concrete, strategic management techniques-rather than a rote enumeration of the functions and institutions of industrial marketing * Guidelines for implementing the value proposition through distribution and marketing communications * The role of marketing in the broader context of business and corporate-level strategic planning * Special sections on product development, national account management, customer service, information technology, and price signaling