Marketing Plans That Work

Marketing Plans That Work, Second Edition, is a practical and insightful step-by-step guide to successfully preparing and executing a marketing plan.

The book combines the very best of current practice with necessary theoretical and technical background. This new edition builds on the first edition's success by including new examples, the latest techniques, and new chapters on marketing strategy and e-commerce. It also adds technology to its focus in response to today's need to enhance sustainable competitive advantage.

Marketing managers and business executives developing marketing and e-business strategies, especially those integrating new marketing technologies, will profit tremendously from this book.

"Addressing the practices of marketing with clarity and insight, this book is one of the best on the topic to come along for some time. The authors provide the novice with a clear overview of what marketing is all about and how vital marketing is to a company's welfare. While the book briefly covers the basics of marketing (e.g., marketing concept and marketing mix, it also deals with more advanced considerations that challenge businesses daily. As the title suggests, this volume takes the reader through the process of market planning. Each of the 14 chapters concentrates on the steps for developing a comprehensive marketing plan, beginning with a careful explanation of how the marketing process impacts business and proceeding to implementation of the plan itself. ...Recommended for lower-division undergraduate through practitioner collections."—Choice

Review of the first edition:
"Finally, a book devoted to assisting managers to understand and develop first rate marketing plans."—Philip Kotler, Distinguished Professor of International Marketing, J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management