Marketing Planning & Strategy

Marketing Planning & Strategy
Author: John Dawes
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2021-08-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1529766273

This new book guides you concisely through the marketing planning process from start to finish, drawing on examples from large brands like Ikea and Krispy Kreme to digital start-ups like Starling Bank.

Marketing Planning Guide

Marketing Planning Guide
Author: Robert E. Stevens
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780789023384

THE CLASSIC guide to develop a marketing plancompletely updated! The newly revised Marketing Planning Guide, Third Edition is the step-by-step guide that gives you the tools to prepare an effective marketing plan for a company, product, or service. With over 50 pages of updated material, this classic textbook has the solid foundation of knowledge and philosophy of the previous editions while adding essential new information on Internet marketing, business ethics, and an illustrative sample business plan. Worksheets at the end of each chapter guide you in creating your own planonce all the worksheets are completed you will have roughed out your own complete marketing plan. The accompanying instructor's package includes a helpful manual, a detailed sample course syllabus, and a test bank featuring a multiple-choice and true-false questions for each chapter with answers. This edition of the Marketing Planning Guide contains clear tables and diagrams, is fully referenced, and has updated examples for easy understanding of concepts. It shows how to: analyze the market, consumers, the competition, and opportunities develop strategy and marketing objectives make product, place, promotional, and price decisions realize the financial impact of marketing strategies implement, audit, and control your marketing plan And now the Marketing Planning Guide, Third Edition is updated to include: extensive information on Internet marketing new examples illustrating the process a complete sample marketing plan end of chapter worksheets providing step-by-step instructions Internet data sources This is the definitive book for marketing professionals who want to use a hands on approach for learning the planning process. It will guide anyone through the steps of preparing an effective marketing plan.

Building a Marketing Plan

Building a Marketing Plan
Author: Ho Yin Wong
Publisher: Business Expert Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2011-07-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1606491601

The book aims to provide a comprehensive, holistic and practical framework for readers who are interested or involved in developing a marketing plan so that they can appreciate various marketing concepts and put them together in an easy to read guide. Demanding and savvy customers along with a turbulent marketing environment, require marketers to be highly sensitive to the environmental monitoring systems capable of identifying the latest marketing trends and opportunities and threats at an early stage. In response to these issues, the proposed manuscript covers the themes of planning, implementing and controlling marketing activities, which will provide guidance to marketers and non-marketer alike, in undertaking a marketing plan. The latest research findings in the marketing area are included. This book is written for marketing students and it is the intention of the authors to make this manuscript as basic, straightforward and to the point as possible. Business practitioners will also find this book useful.

Marketing Plans

Marketing Plans
Author: Malcolm McDonald
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 712
Release: 2011-03-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0470670126

Now in its 7th edition, Marketing Plans is a highly renowned international bestseller. The book has been thoroughly revised, and every chapter has been carefully updated with special attention to the latest developments in marketing. To accomplish this, Professor Malcolm McDonald has been joined in this edition by Professor Hugh Wilson, a leading expert on CRM and multichannel strategy as well as marketing planning. Major changes to this edition include new chapters based on the very latest research on: Planning for integrated marketing communications and digital marketing Developing multichannel strategy Developing the CRM plan Marketing effectiveness and accountability Marketing Plans is designed as a tool and a user-friendly learning, resource. Every point illustrated by powerful practical examples and made actionable through simple, step-by-step templates and exercises. The book is established as essential reading for all serious professional marketers and students of marketing, from undergraduate and postgraduate to professional courses for bodies such as CIM. Above all it provides a practical, hands-on guide to implementing every single concept included in the text. "It is clearly and powerfully written and is probably the best book on the theory and practice of marketing planning ever written. It is a best-seller in Europe and I strongly recommend the book to anyone with an interest in marketing planning." —Warren J. Keegan, Professor of International Business and Marketing Director, Institute for Global Business Strategy, Pace University, New York "I am extremely impressed by the step lucidity of what is presented." —Dr D. H. Eaton, North Carolina University "A book reaching the quantities sold of Marketing Plans must be a book that is really used. It is not difficult to see why. Malcolm McDonald writes about what to do in marketing and how to do it. Unlike many academic marketing writers, he will never let you forget that marketing ends with –ing." —Kenneth Simmonds, Professor of Marketing and International Business, London Business School "Malcolm McDonald is clearly one of the most respected Professors of Marketing in Europe and the author of a number of outstanding books. The fact that Marketing Plans has been such a massive seller offers testimony of this. McDonald writes with clarity and insight that is becoming increasingly rare today. It is powerful, up to date and has proved that it works. I recommend it to you!" —John D. Ryans, Jr, Bridgestone Professor of International and Professor of International Marketing, Kent State University, Ohio

Marketing Planning by Design

Marketing Planning by Design
Author: Ralf Strauss
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2010-04-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0470745614

Marketing is under immense pressure to perform: required to submit reports to management, judged by the sales department based on whether it helps sales, scrutinized by financial controlling regarding how efficiently it uses budgets, and last but not least, under constant review by customers, markets and the public. Marketing faces more dilemmas and conflicts of interest than any other part of a company. The reason for this lies in the lack of a plan for marketing planning. This book not only identifies numerous examples of this problem as experienced by businesses, it also offers ways of solving the problem. Ralf Strauss highlights a 7 phase process for marketing planning, where the potential marketing can reach is demonstrated. Useful check lists included in this book allow the readers to readily create their own ‘plans for a marketing planning’. With insights drawn from more than 150 case studies included in the book, Marketing Planning by Design covers areas such as: How to overcome existing hurdles of marketing planning and marketing strategy. How to set up a project for managing the marketing planning cycle. How to develop a really target group and content driven marketing planning, which is stepwise cascaded from a program, campaign down to a tactical level. How to make marketing accountable in terms of performance measurement. How to implement an enhanced marketing planning in the organisation. How to systematically integrate Web 2.0 into marketing planning, or how to link marketing with modern IT. This highly practical book is destined to be a must-have reference work on any marketer’s desk.

Strategic Marketing Planning

Strategic Marketing Planning
Author: Richard M.S. Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2010-05-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136435247

Strategic Marketing Planning concentrates on the critical planning aspects that are of vital importance to practitioners and students alike. It has a clear structure that offers a digest of the five principal dimensions of the strategic marketing planning process. Leading authors in this sector, Gilligan and Wilson offer current thinking in marketing and consider the changes it has undergone over the past few years. Updated information in this new edition includes: * Changing corporate perspectives on the role of strategic marketing activity * Changing social structures and the rise of social tribes * The significance of the new consumer and how the new consumer needs to be managed * New thinking on market segmentation * Changing routes to market * Developments in e-marketing * Changing environmental structures and pressures

Marketing Planning Guide, Second Edition

Marketing Planning Guide, Second Edition
Author: Robert E. Stevens
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2021-11-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1000525082

This newly revised book presents systematic approaches to developing marketing plans for products, services, and other situations. Philosophically sound and practically oriented, Marketing Planning Guide, Second Edition examines principles and their applications to provide a complete understanding of the marketing planning process. All aspects of marketing planning, including situation analysis, objectives, strategy, control, and implementation are thoroughly treated. Worksheets at the end of each chapter guide you in creating your own plan--once all the worksheets are completed you will have roughed out a complete marketing plan. Marketing Planning Guide, Second Edition is a valuable resource for the practitioner of marketing who is involved in the planning process and the student who is interested in learning more about what the marketing plan should contain and how to prepare it. This book shows you how to: analyze the market, consumers, the competition, and opportunities develop strategy and marketing objectives make product, place, promotional, and price decisions realize the financial impact of marketing strategies implement, audit, and control your marketing plan Changes for this second edition include more tables, more (and newer) references, and updated case studies to open each chapter. The final chapter, “Marketing Plan Implementation,” is also all-new. The material in this book has been classroom-tested for both readability and comprehension, as well as usefulness in preparing a marketing plan as part of a course assignment. The accompanying instructor’s package to Marketing Planning Guide includes a helpful150-page instructor’s manual and over 175 slide transparencies. The manual provides a detailed sample course syllabus along with a test bank featuring a muliple-choice or true-false test for each chapter, along with an answer key. The transparencies are prepared to reinforce the key points of each chapter and includes many charts, figures, and lists. This helpful instructor’s pack will save you time and will help make your course effective and thorough.

Marketing Planning

Marketing Planning
Author: Jim Blythe
Publisher: Financial Times/Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780273724711

Jim Blythe and Phil Megicks Marketing Planning Strategy, Environment and Context For marketers, planning revolves around what we think our consumers want us to do: we then need to work out how we can profit from meeting their needs. This book is intended to guide the reader through the maze of factors that affect marketing planning, and provides some tools and techniques for implementing marketing planning in practice. Blythe and Megicks provide an overview of the essential elements of marketing planning with a particular emphasis on the components of the marketing planning process, whilst highlighting the three core themes of strategy, environment and context. The book features an innovative running case study which follows a company through the entire process of marketing planning, stage by stage and chapter by chapter, finishing with a completed marketing plan. Key features Case studies of internationally-recognised companies including JJB Sports, Toyota, Thomson Holidays, BMI, Bulmer's Cider and Honda show how knowledge of marketing planning can lead to more effective marketing and organisational success across a range of different contexts, sectors and industries. Examples in each chapter cover key overarching themes such as innovation, ethics and globalisation to highlight topical issues in marketing today. ‘Talking Point’ boxes are thought-provoking and controversial in order to stimulate discussion and critical thinking. A sample marketing plan provided in the appendix gives students the opportunity to compare their results. - Online resources available atwww.pearsoned.co.uk/blythe include an Instructor’s Manual and PowerPoint slides for instructors, along with sample exam questions and weblinks for students. The book is written for the syllabus for the Chartered Institute of Marketing unit on the Marketing Planning Process, and covers everything you will need to study for a marketing planning course at both undergraduate and MBA level. About the authors Jim Blythe is Visiting Reader at Plymouth Business School. An experienced textbook author, he is Senior Examiner for the Marketing Essentials unit run by the CIM. Phil Megicks is Professor of Marketing and Strategy and Head of the School of Business and Management at the University of Plymouth. He is Senior Examiner with the CIM and designed the Level 6 'Marketing Planning Process' unit launched in 2009.

Marketing Plans for Services

Marketing Plans for Services
Author: Malcolm McDonald
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2011-09-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0470979097

"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. The authors highlight key misunderstandings about marketing and the nature of services and relationship marketing. "--Publisher.