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October 2011 | 280 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

Social Marketing Casebook brings together a dedicated collection of social marketing case studies and vignettes from around the world for the first time.

Each case study is explored from the scoping and research stage to evaluation, providing the reader with a complete overview of the most important building blocks in social marketing and how these can be applied to the real world, including:

  • Insights from the key people involved in social marketing and the identification of the common themes associated with successful social marketing strategies.
  • An international range of cases from the health, environmental and civic sectors, from national and governmental programs to local, small-budget interventions;
  • Comprehensive coverage of the whole process, from strategy and implementation, to the challenges and lessons learned; and
  • Academic exercises, discussion questions and references to reinforce student learning.

This book demystifies social marketing for undergraduate and graduate marketing and health studies students, as well as practitioners in government, public institutions, NGOs and private organizations looking to develop more effective social change programs.

 
Introduction
 
Key Principles and Concepts of Social Marketing
 
Planning Social Marketing
 
Developing Culturally Sensitive Interventions
 
Community-Based Social Marketing
 
Segmenting Target Audiences
 
Using Theory to Develop Effective Interventions
 
Inroads into Africa: Enabling Local Services
 
Being Honest about Challenges
 
Reaching the 'Hard to Reach'
 
Using a Full Intervention Mix
 
Using Service 'Pull' to Complement Customer 'Push'
 
Working with Local Services
 
Building Strong Communications into the Marketing Mix
 
Using Enforcement in the Methods Mix
 
Creating Access to the Right Products
 
Co-Production with the Private Sector
 
'Franchising' Social Marketing
 
Changing Behaviour Holistically
 
The Importance of Evaluation
 
Overview and Top Tips

Supplements

This casebook is another first-rate addition to the growing armamentarium of seminal works in social marketing for both practitioners and students. It effectively combines theory and frameworks with detailed case studies that make concepts and tools much more than academic exercises
Alan R. Andreasen
Professor of Marketing, Georgetown University


Good marketing builds on what has been learned by others and this publication, with its case studies, offers a great way for social marketers to accelerate their learning by borrowing from the experiences of others
Iain Potter
CEO, The Health Sponsorship Council, New Zealand



An excellent useful book which provides detailed cases studies for students and practitioners.

Mr Michael Parsons
Faculty of Business and Society, University of South Wales
April 2, 2014

This is an ideal book for students to get a feel for the various social marketing projects that have already been implemented. My students have to do group project, creating a social marketing campaign for a social cause: this has been essential reading for them.

Mr Alan Shaw
Business, Sheffield Hallam University
January 19, 2014

Fantastic for providing supplemental resources to students!

Dr Yioula Melanthiou
Marketing Depart, University of Nicosia
November 7, 2012

Not enough in book to cover entire course. Will return if you desire.
PM

Dr Phylis Mansfield
School Of Business, Pennsylvania State Erie - Behrend College
November 4, 2012

I work a lot with healthcare managers and doctors who try to create awareness for treatments or how to prevent certain diseases. This book helps me a lot to give them a hands on approach to get their message across. The vignettes are also helpful in order to support my teaching.

Professor Barbara Stoettinger
International Marketing & Management, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
November 2, 2012

We will be adopting this book as an optional text book. The cases in this text are a great supplement to the material we present in our course and will give the students a way to explore topics more in depth.

Ms Lea Pounds
College of Public Health; Health Promotion, Social and Behavioral Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center
October 12, 2012

This book should be used together with other text books. The presented cases is very useful to test the student's idea about their social marketing skills. However, as the world changing, ou should adjust some information before distributing to students.

Dr Teerasak Jindabot
Business Administration , Prince of Songkla University
June 27, 2012

This text provides both a theoretical and a practical perspective on social marketing and the wider social issues. The short format and current case studies are an excellent tool for small group discussion and theory application. The structure of the text makes it an ideal staff and student text and facilitiates independent learning.

Mr Paul Matthews
Business Administration , University College Birmingham
January 12, 2012

The book is very well written and very easy to read.
It has many case studies presented in a plain way, but with a comprehensive wide scope.

Professor Armando Mendes
Mathematical , University of Acores
November 21, 2011

Sample Materials & Chapters

Chapter One


Jeff French

Jeff French is a global thought leader working in the fields of behavioural influence, Social Marketing, social communication and citizen focused programme planning and evaluation. Jeff has published over 100 academic papers and five books plus numerous guides and tool kits on these subjects. Jeff is a visiting Professor at Brighton University and a Fellow at Kings College London University and teaches at Southbank Cambridge university on a regular basis.   Previously Director of Policy and Communication at the UK Health Development Agency and a senior civil servant in the UK Department of Health. In 2004 Jeff headed the UK... More About Author

Rowena Merritt

Dr Rowena Merritt has more than 10 years’ experience working in the communication and marketing field in the private and public sectors. She currently works as the Research Manager at the National Social Marketing Centre and previously led on Local Practitioner Development where she set up the award –winning National Demonstration Site scheme, funded by the Department of Health. Rowena has published widely and regularly guest lectures at a number of universities in Britain, Hong Kong and the USA. More About Author

Lucy Reynolds

Dr Lucy Reynolds founded the National Social Marketing Centre’s widely acclaimed evidence resource, ShowCase, and is an expert in UK and international social marketing evidence. Lucy has published widely on social marketing theory and practice, in a academic, health and environment journals, as well as appearing on Radio 4. Lucy is a senior consultant at Finnamore, the UK’s largest independent health consultancy, where she specialises in health inequalities, performance transformation and assets management. More About Author

Also available as a South Asia Edition.

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