Now in its 5th edition
Marketing Plans is a highly renowned international bestseller. The book has been
thoroughly revised throughout, and every chapter has been carefully updated with special
attention paid to the latest developments in e-marketing, CRM and new planning practices.
Marketing Plans is designed as a total, user friendly learning resource. Careful use of
layout and colour ensures the text has maximum clarity, and the list of learning features
includes: * Key Concepts * Crucial Terms * Examples * Headlines * Marketing Insights *
Case Studies * Exercises The book is established as essential reading for all serious
professional marketers and students of marketing, both undergraduates and those on
professional courses for CIM and CAM. Above all it provides a practical, hands-on approach
for implementing every single concept included in the text.
Table of Contents
Understanding the marketing process;
The marketing planning
process: the main steps;
The marketing planning
process: removing the myths;
Completing the marketing
audit: the customer and market audit;
Completing the marketing
audit: the product audit;
Setting marketing objectives
and strategies;
The communication plan: the
advertising and sales promotion plans;
The communication plan: the
sales plan;
The pricing plan; Marketing
information, forecasting and organizing for marketing planning;
Implementation issues in
marketing planning;
A step-by-step marketing
planning system.
629 pages