This text aims to answer the challenge of creating marketing plans that produce significantly improved bottom-line results. The authors highlight key misunderstandings about marketing and the nature of service and relationship marketing. The marketer is taken step-by-step through the key phases of the marketing planning process and alerted to the barriers that can prevent a service organization being successful in introducing marketing planning. Practical frameworks and techniques are suggested for undertaking the marketing planning process and implementing the principles covered. Key...
This text aims to answer the challenge of creating marketing plans that produce significantly improved bottom-line results. The authors highlight key ...
* McDonald and Dunbar are the leading author team in this area * Segmentation and marketing mapping are core areas of the marketing syllabus, and there is much that is new as a result of the new segmentation possibilities from e-marketing and e-business * The book has a textbook feel, which highlights the diagrams and market maps (key elements of the book) This is a key book, in a vital area. The Butterworth-Heinemann edition of what was previously published by MacMillian, is a thoroughly revised and updated version. * Highly developed and well illustrated treatment of a key...
* McDonald and Dunbar are the leading author team in this area * Segmentation and marketing mapping are core areas of the marketing syllabus, and t...
Marketing Plans for Service Businesses is based on the successful Marketing Planning for Services, which has been completely overhauled, updated and revised to give a new and authoritative guide to the challenge of creating marketing plans that produce significantly improved bottom-line results. It is written in a pragmatic, action-orientated style and each chapter has examples of marketing planning in practice. The authors highlight key misunderstandings about marketing and the nature of services and relationship marketing. The marketer is taken step-by-step through the key...
Marketing Plans for Service Businesses is based on the successful Marketing Planning for Services, which has been completely overhauled,...
The ultimate test of marketing investment, and indeed any investment, is whether it creates value for shareholders. But few marketing investments are evaluated from this perspective. Increasingly, boards of directors and city analysts the world over are dissatisfied with this lack of accountability. Cranfield School of Management has been addressing this problem by working with a range of blue-chip companies. They have created a new framework which shows how marketing systematically contributes to shareholder value based on three key questions- -Does the promised market...
The ultimate test of marketing investment, and indeed any investment, is whether it creates value for shareholders. But few marketing investments are ...
"This book is crammed with distilled, practical wisdom for key account managers and their directors. Organizations claiming to practise key account management should equip everyone involved with a copy, so they really understand what they are supposed to be doing. Anything less is just old-fashioned selling."
Developing successful business-to-business relationships with more customers in highly competitive markets requires processes and skills that go beyond traditional selling activity. The very best state-of-the-art strategies are set out clearly in this book by intentionally known...
"This book is crammed with distilled, practical wisdom for key account managers and their directors. Organizations claiming to practise key account ma...
Market Segmentation: How to do it and how to profit from it, revised and updated 4th Edition is the only book that spells out a totally dispassionate, systematic process for arriving at genuine, needs-based segments that can enable organizations to escape from the dreay, miserable, downward pricing spiral which results from getting market segmentation wrong.
Nothing in business works unless markets are correctly defined, mapped, quantified and segmented. Why else have hundreds of billions of dollars been wasted on excellent initiatives such as TQM, BPR, Balanced Scorecards,...
Market Segmentation: How to do it and how to profit from it, revised and updated 4th Edition is the only book that spells out a totally disp...
A primer for marketing professionals and students, the second edition of Malcolm McDonald on Marketing Planning provides a clear guide to marketing planning. Focussing on the practical application of marketing planning this book will guide readers through the production of a marketing plan that has real world application. Key content includes defining markets and segments, setting marketing objectives and strategies, advertising and sales promotion strategies, and price and sales strategies.
With an emphasis on practicality this fully revised second edition has been...
A primer for marketing professionals and students, the second edition of Malcolm McDonald on Marketing Planning provides a clear guid...
