1st Edition

Rural Marketing Growing the Non-urban Consumer

By Sanal Kumar Velayudhan Copyright 2024
252 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

252 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

252 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

Rural markets offer a sizable and resilient pool of consumers to organizations and marketers. This book offers a comprehensive understanding of the fundamentals of rural marketing that influence consumer behaviour within the framework of a rapidly changing economy. The book:  - includes in-depth discussions on critical issues in rural markets as well as case-studies that examine their... Read more

1 Rural Marketing: Opportunities and Challenges

2 Environment and Profile of the Rural Market

3 Rural Consumer

4 Researching Rural Markets

5 SAgA of Rural Market Segmentation: Segmentation, Aggregation, and Affordability

6 Positioning for Value

7 Value Creation through Innovation and Product Strategy

8 Service Creation and Delivery in Fragmented Rural Market: Role of People and Technology-Supported Process

9 Pricing for Value Creation

10 Communication Strategy for Rural Markets

11 Influences Shaping Communication Strategy

12 Operationalizing Communication Strategy

13 Managing Rural Channels

14 Traditional Rural Retail Institutions Beyond the Village Shop

15 Emerging Channels in Rural Market

16 Strategies for Rural Markets

17 Future of Rural Market in a Connected World

Biography

Sanal Kumar Velayudhan is a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad. He was Dean at IIM Kozhikode and is an Adjunct Faculty at IIM Nagpur. He has directed training programmes and handled consultancy assignments in the areas of product decisions, rural markets, and strategic marketing. His areas of research and publication are communication and diffusion, rural markets, small business marketing, and product and brand management.