The Successful Marketing Plan

This new edition of The Successful Marketing Plan details an easy-to-follow and completely updated methodology for creating a results-focused, customer-driven marketing plan. Internet marketing issues and challenges receive much greater attention, including an entirely new chapter as well as seamless integration throughout the text.

Here is everything you need to know for a disciplined, comprehensive 'real world' marketing plan to help your company thrive and grow. New chapters on locking target market and marketing objectives to sales, setting communication goals, executing the plan, and market research and testing add even more valuable and detailed insight into the planning process.

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The planning guide marketers have relied on for two decades—updated and expanded For more than 20 years, The Successful Marketing Plan has been the marketing professionals’ go-to guide for creating plans that define and fulfill the needs of their target markets. In this substantially revised and expanded fourth edition, Roman Hiebing, Jr., Scott Cooper, and Steve Wehrenberg outline how to develop proven objectives, strategies, and tactics that deliver the bottom line. Separating the plan into 10 market-proven, manageable components, The Successful Marketing Plan explains how to: Find the data you need to develop your plan Identify growth target markets Set realistic sales objectives Position your products through a strong branding program Condense your plan into a workable calendar of activities Arrive at a realistic budget and payback schedule Evaluate and test the plan’s effectiveness The authors of The Successful Marketing Plan have made extensive revisions to more than 50 percent of the book’s content—from a new planning model to a more user-friendly business review section to a complete revision of the strategy chapters including a new message strategy chapter. Plus, the book contains completely updated chapters on advertising, media content, and interactive communications, in addition to updates in information sources, planning charts, and the Idea Starters appendix, which has more than 1,000 tactical ideas tied to specific objectives. Great marketing begins with a great marketing plan. Use The Successful Marketing Plan to build a focused “real-world” marketing plan that will enable your company to thrive and grow in today’s cost-conscious, winner-take-all competitive arena.

The One-Day Marketing Plan shows entrepreneurs and business owners how to quickly design a marketing plan for any business. Hiebing and Cooper's streamlined, 10-step process guides readers through the development and execution of effective marketing plans, and provides the tools to accurately evaluate bottom-line results. Packed with helpful checklists and templates, this practical, comprehensive third edition includes up-to-the-minute information on brand positioning and Internet marketing tactics.

What’s your organization’s marketing strategy? Does your company meet real life marketing challenges head on and with success? This book provides a unique approach by using your organization’s mission and vision statements to guide the development of marketing goals, strategies, and tactics. It uses real market examples to demonstrate the development of effective marketing strategies. Central to the development of marketing strategy is the use of the marketing mix of price, place, product, and promotion. This book neatly weaves the process of developing such a marketing strategy with examples given to clarify the theories and guide the reader through the strategic marketing planning process. If you are a manager, business student, or an executive, this book will help you grow an established business or start a new one with smart management techniques and processes that are critical to executing successful marketing strategies. The examples used are from large and small organizations in which the author was personally involved.