RelioQuick Is Bringing Dr. Philip Kotler In India

Dr. Philip Kotler is a man honour. The father of modern marketing and a living legend, Dr. Kotler is known to have thorough knowledge of Marketing and guess what, he is coming to India for a Full day Certified Training programme on Eight Ways to Grow Your Market Share- Future of Marketing on March 14, 2013 at The Leela Kempinski, Gurgon.

The Future of Marketing will be influenced by an overall movement from purely data-driven to insight-driven marketing that can best be summarized as:

• Understanding buyers' behavior qualitatively versus only by analytics will take on a higher priority as companies seek better ways to connect with buyers and to separate themselves from competitors. The rise of the social buyer will continue to challenge many marketing organizations as they seek to adapt to more complex buyer ecosystems and buying processes.

• There will be a migration taking place from content creation to experience creation as companies seek to help buyers navigate information overload and to make better informed purchase decisions.

• Optimizing the buyers' experience seamlessly across all interaction points will become a priority for organizations as they find differentiating from competitors increasingly harder and more complex.

INTEGRATION: Integration of devices and touch points (integrating digital life with “real life”) will play a key role in companies that want to effectively reach their customers. Brands must be everywhere where their customers are on smartphones, tablets and social media. But it is not just about being everywhere – it is about solving real life problems in digital spaces, with integrated solutions.

RELEVANCE: Relevance will be king. Look at what Facebook is doing with the timeline and news feeds. To reach their consumers, brands must be relevant – sit at your customers' “tables”, listen to what they are talking about, gather all the information and link it to your products and services.

EVOLUTION: With evolution of digital commerce platforms, technology has given people the power to do everything from their phones and digital devices, and this trend is gaining momentum. People don't want to leave their couches - so retailers must find a way to go to their customers' couches.


The Programme would prove to be a wonderful opportunity for all the top corporate and marketing professionals in fine-tuning their skill-sets and credentials at a platform shared by only a select few. Each delegate would receive a certificate personally signed by Dr. Philip Kotler. The prestigious certificate will be a proof of learning the core marketing mantras from the world's #1 Marketing Guru.

"Marketing is a race without a finishing line"- Dr Philip Kotler

Marketing Personified

 Marketing and Dr. Philip Kotler’s name are inseparable. This is a big reason why one can hardly believe that he started his career as an economist. He took a stand to ask management to look at marketing with more serious approach. He believes that marketing is much more than just salesmanship. He finds it innovative and interesting and tries to find new ways to enhance it day after another.

The marketing legend, Dr. Philip Kotler, is known to be world’s #1 Marketing Guru. He has written the bible of marketing and is the inventor of 4 Ps and social marketing. At least two generations of marketers can claim to have learnt the basic principals of marketing from his writings. Presently, he is working as the SC Johnson & Son Distinguished Philip Kotler Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Because of his global reach and appeal, he is included in the Thinkers 50 list of the most important management thinkers alive in the world. 

"Kotler’s contribution to marketing and to management generally has been threefold. First, he has done more than any other writer or scholar to promote the importance of marketing, transforming it from a peripheral activity, to the more ‘important’ work of production. Second, he continued a trend started by Peter Drucker, shifting emphasis away from price and distribution to a greater focus on meeting customers’ needs and on the benefits received from a product or service. Third, he has broadened the concept of marketing from mere selling to a more general process of communication and exchange, and has shown how marketing can be extended and applied to charities, political parties and many other non-commercial situations,” Morgan Witzel, in one of his articles in the Financial Times. 

Kotler received his Master’s Degree in Economics from the University of Chicago and later a PhD, (also in Economics) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Kotler did his post-doctoral work in two disciplines: Mathematics from Harvard University, and Behavioral Science from University of Chicago. He has been presented with honorary doctoral degrees by several universities like Stockholm University, University of Zurich, Athens University of Economics and Business, DePaul University, the Cracow School of Business and Economics, Groupe H.E.C. in Paris, the University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna, Budapest University of Economic Science and Public Administration, and the Catholic University of Santo Domingo. The Management Center, Europe hails him as the“world’s foremost expert on strategic practice of marketing.” His book Marketing Management is considered as the most authoritative textbook on marketing. He has authored and co-authored a number of books on marketing, viz., Kotler on Marketing, Lateral Marketing, Strategic Marketing for Non-Profits, Marketing for Healthcare Organizations, Marketing Professional Services, Marketing from A to Z, The Deadly Marketing Sins, Marketing Moves, Marketing Places, Marketing of Nations, and Social Marketing.

It is only because of Dr. Kotler's efforts that marketing has reach to this level where it is today. He first understood customers and then asked companies to implement their strategies accordingly. His foresight helped many companies grow their business. Kotler believes that only that marketing job will give the utmost satisfaction which provides health and education to the underprivileged and makes a huge difference in the quality of their lives. 

We all know that change is the law of nature and same thin applies in case of marketing. Things change rapidly in marketing world and Dr. Philip Kotler loves change. Even at the age of 81, he looks for better ideas and innovative thinking. He believes that customer needs change  frequently so why not marketing strategies and planing. He thinks that experiments are necessary and a blend of experience help to make the experiments successful. However, he also considers that the fundamental rules of marketing can never change and all the current and upcoming formulas will be derived from those fundamental rules only. 

Kotler has served as professor and visiting professor in many of the world’s reputed universities and business schools. He is the Chairman of the College of Marketing at the Institute of Management Sciences and also Director of American Marketing Association (AMA), and Director of the MAC Group. He is also a member of the Copernicus Advisory Board. He has served as a Member of the Board of Governors of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and also as a Member of the Advisory Board of the Drucker Foundation. In addition to his contribution to academics, Kotler has been associated with many multinational companies. He has been a consultant for many US and foreign companies such as IBM, General Electric, Merck, Motorola, Michelin, AT&T, Honeywell, Bank of America to name a few in the areas of marketing organization, marketing strategy and planning, and international marketing. 

Dr. Philip Kotler's contribution to marketing is beyond any praise and words can't explain it. He is the father of modern marketing and truly a man of honor. The impact that Dr. Philip Kotler has on marketing will never loose its prominence. 

Why is he World's #1 Marketing Guru

Some Achievements of The Living Marketing Legend

• Dr. Kotler authored the most authoritative textbook on marketing: Marketing Management.

• The first recipient of the American Marketing Association's (AMA) "Distinguished Marketing Educator Award"

• The inventor of "4 Ps" of Marketing which now he has transformed to "7 Ps".

• The inventor of "Social Marketing"

• The only three-time winner of the coveted Alpha Kappa Psi award for the best annual article in the Journal of Marketing.

• Ranked amongst the top 10 Business Thinkers of the World.

The Inventor of 4 Ps

The Living Marketing Legend

Philip Kotler is the S.C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, USA.

Professor Kotler, who is the inventor of the "4 Ps" of Marketing (which he has now transformed to "7 Ps") as well as the inventor of "Social Marketing", has been involved in the research & development of marketing for the past 55 years. He is the author of Marketing Management (Prentice Hall), now in its 13th edition, and the most widely used marketing textbook in graduate schools of business around the globe, with more than 20 million copies sold to date. He has authored over 50 other successful books and he has published over 150 articles in leading journals.

He received his Master's degree at the University of Chicago and Ph.D. at M.I.T., both in Economics, and has also received 12 honorary PhDs.

He is the only three-time winner of the coveted Alpha Kappa Psi award for the best annual article in the Journal of Marketing. Professor Kotler has been named among the Top 50 business gurus since 1998. In 2008 & 2009 Professor Kotler was ranked amongst the top 10 Business Thinkers of the World by The Thinkers 50. See www.thinkers50.com.