Marketing Skills

Not just another 'introduction to marketing', Key Marketing Skills is a practical, actionable guide that demonstrates how to apply marketing strategies in a real-world context, from conducting a marketing audit and building your marketing strategy, to preparing a robust marketing plan and developing a unique value proposition. Taking you step by step through the entire marketing planning process, it will enable you to build alignment through the supply chain and successfully implement your plan through the marketing mix. Extensively revised and updated, this new edition has also been expanded to include a wealth of brand new international case studies and planning models. Together with sections on vital issues such as brand management, how to brief an agency and how to conduct a self-assessment health check of your current level of marketing excellence, Key Marketing Skills provides all the necessary tools and guidance to make marketing happen. Online resources include self-test questions, marketing planning template, performance map and a customer activity cycle table.

Based around research into marketing education and marketing practice, Marketing Skills in Practice: Developing a Successful Marketing Career helps students embarking on their career to develop their professional identity, as well as the key skills required by employers in the industry. Divided into four core sections, the book begins with an overview of the field of marketing. Section two shows students how to relate practice to their own transferable skills, while section three gives students the opportunity to consider how they lead, develop, and manage within marketing. Section four provides students with the opportunity to reflect on their own learning and identify what knowledge and skills they have enhanced for their future careers. Fundamentally, the book identifies the key skills required in the marketing industry whilst also addressing the challenge of developing a career in leading and managing in a marketing context. Theoretical aspects are applied through real-life cases, practical examples and a themed case study, coupled with tasks that allow students to test and apply their knowledge to a workplace scenario, all of which are adaptable for hybrid teaching methods. Unique in its focus on employability, this text is suitable for all marketing students embarking on a career in the field, and particularly as core reading for any modules based on Marketing in Practice and Professional Development. Online resources include PowerPoint slides for lecturers and an instructor’s manual, which includes lesson plans, tasks, suggested answers, and a test bank with answers.

Develop Your Marketing Skills is a user-friendly guide appropriate for business people for whom implementation is the key issue. It outlines the key concepts and principles which govern the subject of marketing, such as product management, market research, communications, market coverage, creating a marketing plan and pricing perspectives. It also gives key insights into how theories and tools work in actual business scenarios, shows you how to improve customer satisfaction and highlights contemporary issues, such as sustainability. There are also summary pages at the end of each chapter containing questions and suggested activities, helping you to revise the basics and increase your confidence. With many of the issues discussed being at the cutting edge of marketing research and practice, Develop Your Marketing Skills is a must for anybody wishing to enter the marketing profession, develop their current knowledge further or run their own business.

Professional Tele-Marketing Skills-The Master Guide to Selling on Phone has been uniquely designed, to help transform you into a Master Tele-Marketer by helping you discover the secrets that drive the world’s top tele-sales professionals. It will help you or your team create the habits and lasting changes by enabling you replace current unacceptable patterns that are costing your company sales with new ones, that will now help you achieve your sales goals faster and more consistently. Written at a time when the COVID pandemic has undoubtedly pushed organizations into rethinking ways and means to continue to operate their businesses especially with the restrictions on safe distancing. The world over is adjusting to COVID, with social distancing orders having compelled people to find alternatives to face-to-face meetings, by working from homes or remote locations. As a result, telemarketing solutions have never been more popular than this time, as in order to conduct business without disruption, professionals and businesses have now turned more than ever before to tele-calling to stay connected with their team members and customers. The entire book has been split into several step by step, easy and digestible modules, to help you take back and put to practice each step into a real life situation. That way these skills that you will learn will stay with you, enabling you to become more professional and successful in a sales role using the phone, that will help ‘win and keep customers for life’! You will be able to: · Derive the benefits from the effectiveness of consultative selling and how different it is from the traditional sales approach · Learn how to guide prospects through the buying process · Proven behaviors that make you stand out as a telesales professional · A thorough understanding of the attributes and activities of a professional telesales person · Effectively prepare for any telesales call · Make cold calls in a professional manner, right from handling gate-keepers and getting through to the right decision-makers · Be able to manage your data and lists much better · Build rapport and trust with a customer right during the approaching stage itself. · Effectively uncover a customer’s needs, problems and opportunities and be able to demonstrate how your product features can help a customer meet a need/solve a problem (proving value). · Overcome objections, cope with turn-downs, rejection or call reluctance · Be able to recommend an appropriate solution (recommending) and close business deals effectively after showing a customer how specific business objectives can be met and benefit by using your recommended product or service (closing) · Effectively and professionally sell to B2B/ Key Accounts using a structured approach · Implement the entire consultative selling process into your daily work · And…most importantly, in every chapter or topic that is covered, there are several exercises for you to work on and put the new skills to immediate use. With no gimmicks, no jargon, just emphasis on relationship building, I believe that this is a well structured course on 100% building value and long lasting partnerships with your customer!

The Routledge Companion to Strategic Marketing offers the latest insights into marketing strategy. Bodo Schlegelmilch and Russ Winer present 29 specially commissioned chapters, which include up-to-date thinking on a diverse range of marketing strategy topics. Readers benefit from the latest strategic insights of leading experts from universities around the world. Contributing authors are from, among others, the U.S. (Berkeley, Cornell, MIT, New York University, Texas A&M), Europe (the Hanken School of Economics, INSEAD, the University of Oxford, the University of Groningen, WU Vienna) and Asia (the Indian School of Business, Tongji University). The topics addressed include economic foundations of marketing strategy, competition in digital marketing strategy (e.g. mobile payment systems and social media strategy), marketing strategy, and corporate social responsibility, as well as perspectives on capturing the impact of marketing strategy. Collectively, this authoritative guide is an accessible tool for researchers, students, and practitioners.

Within a practical business context of the changing, competitive climate, this book details the implications for marketing strategy. New chapters cover topics such as credit cards and customer care, while several relevant case studies have also been added. Combining analysis of principles, concepts and techniques with sound practical advice, 'Marketing Financial Services' is ideal for students on degree and postgraduate courses, including Chartered Institute of Bankers. There is also a tutor resource pack to accompany the case studies in this textbook.

This is a trainer's manual designed to be used in conjunction with The Law Firm Associate's Guide to Personal Marketing and Selling Skills (sold separately). It will serve as a guide to the person who is charged with leading the training sessions and will explain how to best structure the sessions and use the book. Chapters will provide skill development outlines at each level for marketing and sales training; discussion guidelines for coaches working internally or externally with attorneys and teams; discussion guidelines for firm members working internally with individual attorneys; and discussion guidelines, checklists, and program ideas for the person responsible for professional development.

This manual offers information on particular marketing topics for professionals who are new to the marketing arena. The information is backed up with examples of good and bad marketing practice. There are numerous case studies in each chapter and the accompanying CD-ROM allows the reader to formulate an action plan for their own organization, and make use of questions and answers to facilitate learning.