ABSTRACT

Examine essential marketing disciplines and weapons!This essential book will show you how to design a strategic marketing plan for any brand, product, service, or business! It explains all of the major marketing disciplines and familiarizes you with the marketing “weapons arsenal.” It also teaches you to conduct a marketing audit, provides helpful sample worksheets and forms and includes case examples, a glossary of marketing terms, and appendixes discussing sources of “marketing intelligence” and professional marketing associations.This single volume provides a step-by-step process (with short, clear examples) of how to develop a custom plan to fit any business. In addition, it defines all of the business terms you’ll find inside and lists additional resources to draw upon. With Marketing Your Business: A Guide to Developing a Strategic Marketing Plan, you will explore:

  • the process of selecting the right strategy by defining your business strategy, assessing the most relevant focal points, and choosing the marketing strategy that will work best for you
  • the arsenal of current marketing weaponry--advertising, budgeting, promotions, pricing, sales, database marketing, public relations, packaging, legal issues, and more!
  • the nature of strategic marketing plans-competitive and environmental assessments, mission statements, slogans, budgeting, goals and objectives, etc.
  • key checklists and 13 sample work forms that will help you formulate your plan
  • and much more!
Ideal for use by educators and students as well as businesspeople, Marketing Your Business brings together everything you need to know to develop an effective strategic marketing plan and put it into action!

part A|45 pages

The Strategy Selection Process

chapter 1|5 pages

Defining Your Business Strategy

chapter 2|20 pages

Assessing Focal Points

chapter 3|17 pages

Selecting Strategies

part B|169 pages

Selecting Weaponry

chapter 4|25 pages

Advertising

chapter 5|15 pages

Public Relations

chapter 6|11 pages

Promotions

chapter 7|10 pages

Merchandising

chapter 8|10 pages

Database Marketing

chapter 9|6 pages

Electronic Marketing

chapter 10|5 pages

Packaging

chapter 11|11 pages

Branding

chapter 12|9 pages

Pricing

chapter 13|21 pages

Sales

chapter 14|19 pages

Customer Service

chapter 15|7 pages

Crisis Management

chapter 16|4 pages

Marketing and the Law

chapter 17|5 pages

Marketing Budget

part C|27 pages

The Marketing Plan and the Marketing Audit

chapter 18|17 pages

The Strategic Marketing Plan

chapter 19|7 pages

The Complete Marketing Audit