A package of essential key account information and advice that provides pragmatic and practical solutions to account management and planning. It provides tools and processes for successful key account management. It is also a practical workbook for those who need to execute plans for key accounts.
Based on IBM's worldwide experience and the huge research reach of Cranfield, this guide is full of major international cases, guiding you to easy implementation. From strategy to metrics, it shows how the best companies blend and balance channels to maximum sales effect, and how you can apply this in your own organisation.
Who are the world's best retail brands? Is there a formula for success you can learn from? This title begins by encouraging you to become 'retail obsessed' and to think strategically, creatively and operationally in a retail context. It concludes with an operational methodology which can be applied to the various businesses.
Offers readers solutions to everyday challenges. This title includes handy tools, self-tests and real-life examples to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses and hone critical skills. It enables you to tackle the daily demands of your work with speed, savvy and effectiveness.
Offers guidance in managing the marketing function as a practical entity, allowing the new marketer to grasp how the theory can be applied to the job. This book gives the reader an overview of how the key areas of marketing knowledge can be made operationally effective as well as of how to make marketing practical and measurable.
Illustrates the pervasiveness of games in business marketing, and shows how to better use them to create an engaged and loyal customer base. This title explains the growing phenomenon of game-based marketing and shows how it works. It also shows the marketers how to develop games to incorporate into their marketing strategy.
Helps you eliminate cold calling forever. This book assists you get prospects returning your calls, form powerful referral alliances, and, create a flow of prospects referrals. It introduces a system of referral-based marketing which turns almost every business contact into a relationship - and every relationship into a sales success.
Understanding consumer trends means the difference between corporate success and failure, as trends affect every sector and every market. This title reveals how trends work, how to spot them, and then how to use that knowledge to gain financial and competitive advantage.
How do executives and managers set the right price? Underpinned by research and real-life anecdotes, this title addresses this question, offering guidelines any company - whether a multi-national conglomerate, a small business, or even a non-profit can follow to create a comprehensive pricing strategy for any product and service.
Presents an overview of the field of marketing. This book offers a collection compiled by an international advisory board of marketing academics with contributions from scholars in the field, each covering research issues in particular areas of expertise. It is intended for advanced undergraduates, graduate students and academics in marketing.
Offers students the ability to recognize how much marketing principles play a role in their day-to-day lives. This title enables students to experience marketing through billboards, television commercials, and in the cereal aisle at the grocery store.
Wake up, it's revolution time! Gone are the days when you could plan out your marketing and public relations programs well in advance and release them on your timetable. It's a real-time world now, and if you're not engaged, then you're on your way to marketplace irrelevance.
A Dictionary of Marketing is an accessible, practical, and internationally-focused A-Z guide to all areas of marketing. Covering traditional techniques and theories as well as the latest terms and concepts in e-marketing and search engine optimization, this is the ideal reference for students and practitioners of marketing.
Updated to reflect the hottest new trends, technologies, and strategies! Much has happened in e-mail marketing since the first edition of this book appeared in 2007. With the dramatic rise of social media and mobile devices, there are more ways than ever to target campaigns and maximize your e-mail marketing dollars.
Thirty million online UK customers are just a click away, and Digital Marketing For Dummies shows you how to reach them. The author team of internet and marketing experts introduce you to the latest high-impact tools and techniques so you can promote your business with creativity and innovation, and stand out from your competitors.
Presents the type of business that many aspire towards - a business able to align its internal functions (sales, marketing etc) in order to collaborate with its key customers in the creation of real and unique value for mutual benefit. This title shows you how to target your customers effectively.
Shows how to make mass customization and efficient and personal marketing work by putting companies and their consumers in a 'learning relationship'. This title explains how over time, this ongoing relationship allows your company to meet customer's changing needs, develop learning relationships with them and retain their business forever.
Direct mail is a proven and effective method of promotion for most types of organization, large or small. This book sets out, in a simple and graphic way, exactly how to initiate and run your own direct mail system. It also shows how to avoid the pitfalls and maximize effectiveness and efficiency.
Covers such topics as - Establishing a Web Presence; Search Engine Optimization; Web Analytics; E-Mail Marketing; Blogging and Podcasting; Social Media Marketing; Online Advertising and Pay-Per-Click; and, Mobile Web Marketing. This book shows you how to please both customers and search engines; track your performance; and, more.
Shows you how to use Microsoft Excel to predict trends and future sales based on something not quite so ethereal-numbers. This title helps to: select and use the right forecasting method for your business; choose and arrange data in lists, then manage that data with pivot tables; and, find relationships in your data.
Going beyond creating Web marketing plans, this essential guide fully explores different online content types, how to maximize each content type, how to incorporate traditional offline tactics to execute a successful Web marketing plan, and how to interpret and analyze results.
Offers practical guidance in how companies can use flash-based marketing techniques to maximise the impact of what they're selling. This book shows how to: construct a website that creates an immediate impact; create marketing that sparks memories and associations; and write e-mail messages that evoke flash reactions.
Delivers the best coverage of key marketing topics. This book focuses on examples and applications that ensure students not only understand marketing concepts, but also know how to effectively apply them to real-world practice. It illustrates key marketing concepts and showcases the customer experience.
Arms hardworking independent business owners with the tools for success. This series tackles an array of business topics using strategies developed by Sugars and the crack business coaches at Action International, a global network that helps business owners, realize their dreams of success.
Build an online presence for your business with web marketing Why buy several books on web marketing when you can buy just one? With this must-have resource, five marketing professionals team up to share their expertise in the field of web marketing so that you can benefit from their know-how.
Contact management software (CRM) like ACT! are extremely valuable tools that can save you time and money. ACT! is easy to set up and takes little time to create a database, however, it is also a little bit more complex to understand than ordinary software.
Making the sale is tough. That's why sales professionals and business owners who want to be the best need more than just smooth talk to make it in the sales business. This practical guide teaches you how to understand prospects, master the skills to draw in new customers, and discover the secret to closing deals.
Designed to provide an overview of the techniques, supporting theories, and strategic and tactical decision-making processes involved in marketing communications, this book presents the theories of marketing communications to consumer behaviour issues. Using case studies, it explains how marketing communications works in practice.
Marketing is a philosophy, an attitude, a perspective, and a management orientation that stresses customer satisfaction. This book introduces the fundamentals upon which effective marketing strategies are based. It contains a chapter on marketing planning, implantation and control. It is suitable for the marketing practitioners.
Advances theory and offers tools for measuring value dimensions and strength. This work focuses on advancing value theory, research and strategy in business-to-business contexts. It is suitable for improving thinking, decisions, and actions relating to the creation, marketing, and purchasing of superior value in products and services.
Database marketing is at the crossroads of technology, business strategy, and customer relationship management. The authors present a treatment of database marketing, integrating theory and practice. Presenting rigorous models, methodologies, and techniques, they cover the full spectrum of principles and topics related to database marketing.
Offers companions to the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) professional marketing qualifications. This title includes chapters that feature case studies, study tips and activities to test your learning and understanding. It offers online materials that support students and tutors at various stages.
Designed specifically with revision in mind, this title provides concise, yet fundamental information to assist students in passing the CIM exams. It uses features such as diagrams and bulleted lists throughout to ensure the key points are displayed clearly. Each section begins with a list of learning outcomes and ends with hints and tips.
Shows you how to differentiate your products, services, and business in order to dominate the competition. This title uses real-world examples and the author's own insight to show you how to bind customers to your products for long-term success and loyalty. It includes various case studies, research, and examples from around the world.
Offers readers proven methods for achieving phenomenal success with their online sales and marketing efforts. Featuring strategies for communicating and selling in the continually evolving landscape of Web 2.0, this title unlocks the secret to turning the online prospects into paying customers.
Empowers you to rethink, retool, and revitalize your marketing strategies to take full advantage of the opportunities created by the microcontent explosion. This title helps you create a strategy that emphasizes relationships over reach, interaction over interruption, and social networking over broadcast networks.
Turn website visitors into customers with Conversion Optimization. This book offers practical advice on how to give your visitors the material they need to make a quick buying decision -- without driving them away through navigation or information overload.
How do consumers make purchase decisions is a fascinating subject to be studied. Family, as a conglomerate of several individuals, influences the purchase of various products. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the purchase behaviour of Indian households in terms of a select category of consumer durables.
Helping you to cash in on the huge boom in reselling new and used products for big bucks, this book offers resources for connecting with the Web and e-commerce technology. It also includes discussion on targeting and reaching the right customer base, along with finding and obtaining the service support needed for getting started.
According to statistics, members of Generation Y shop 25 percent to 40 percent more than the average consumer. This book argues that these voracious and fearless consumers have revolutionized the way Americans shop by turning traditional sales and marketing strategies upside down.
Updated with 100 pages of new content, this edition is better than ever In the newest edition of his top-selling book, social media expert Dave Evans bypasses theory to provide you with practical, hands-on advice on developing, implementing, and measuring social media marketing campaigns.
How to implement winning social media programs in business to improve products, services, and profits A July 2009 Anderson Analytics study found 60 of the Internet population uses social networks and social media sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter.
Learn how easy it is for your market to get your message Nowadays, if you're not tweeting, Facebooking, or blogging, what are you doing? Everyone has a Twitter account, a Facebook page, or a blog-even celebrities! With the popularity of social networking comes the need to learn about social media marketing.
A compendium of instant seminars on the 15 crucial topics for your profession - no matter what area of sales you're in. Each seminar includes sample exercises you can use with your teams as you explore each topic, with advice from sales leaders. It contains lists of questions team members might ask, as well as the best answers to those questions.
Approaches the subject of brand management from a socio-cultural perspective, providing students with an understanding of the dynamics of the subject and enabling them to engage with the issues that lie within. This book also integrates more traditional notions of the brand in terms of equity and positioning within that framework.
A guide to communicate across various cultures with credibility in a global marketplace. It focuses on sales and marketing communications for high stakes sales. It shows you how to stand apart from your competition, communicate with great clarity, and position your solution as the most compelling choice for the long term.
Takes the various elements of customer centric marketing and brings them together using the research and case studies from various industries. This book discusses research and concepts to provide practitioners, educators, and students with an understanding of the range of issues relevant to customer centric marketing.
Susan Gunelius uncovers how a brand about sex survived and thrived despite attacks from every direction, in an increasingly competitive market and jaded consumers. It's the story of brand building, brand value, brand longevity and the ultimate brand champion.
This book, written by a senior marketer with over thirty years experience of using marketing techniques and concepts, sets out to describe, contextualize and rate them. Its prime emphasis is on understanding their status so that they can be used to direct the use of shareholder funds effectively.
As the market place changes under the impact of the rapid transformation of information and the Internet, marketing plans are more important than ever. This title explains how to integrate social media, contacts and membership, and other tools into a complete plan that strengthens your customer base without breaking your budget.
Provides inside information about the actual business of database marketing. This title covers all the bases for the typical business reader. It even includes a catalog of the 37 'Best Practices' and a roundup of some of the major 'Dos and Don'ts' in making business sense of the world of database marketing.
Shows you: how to bead the odds and be a success in bookshops; where to find much better targeted markets - including bulk sales; how to get national and local media attention; what easy and profitable online strategies cost little or nothing and create tremendous results; and where to locate partners who already reach your best markets.
Winning strategies to keep your existing customers coming back A business's current customer base needs to be considered among the company's most valuable assets. Discover the practical tools to preserve and grow this asset-and boost your business-by tapping into The Hidden Power of Your Customers.
A nonprofit's real-world survival guide and nitty-gritty how-to handbook This down-to-earth book shows how to hack through the bewildering jungle of marketing options and miles-long to-do lists to clear a marketing path that's right for your organization, no matter how understaffed or underfunded.
Addresses issues pertaining to measurement and research methodology in an international marketing context. This title also addresses a range of subjects including response-bias in cross-cultural research, problems with cultural distance measures, and construct specification. It focuses on the development and application of novel research methods.
Industries sometimes are dominated by one market leader for many years. These successful companies are called 'Summer Champions' by Carol Velthuis and to identify these she has analysed forty global industries and determined the growth rates and market shares of 500 companies over a period of six years.
Deals with the topic of relationship marketing in a sports context by discussing and reformulating the principles of relationship marketing and by demonstrating how relationship marketing can be successfully applied in practice within a sports context. This book includes case studies from around the world to provide a global approach.
Through a discussion and analysis of the literature and practices, this book aims to propose a marketing strategy framework grounded in sustainable principles that can be used to sustain and preserve the authenticity of cultural heritage for future generations, whilst appealing to the suppliers, the regulators, and the consumers.
Essentials of Global Marketing offers a concise and manageable approach to the subject. The accessible structure takes the reader through the entire international marketing planning process, and fundamental concepts are illuminated by examples from a wide range of companies, small and large, from around the world.
Based on Steve Martin's proven sales program, Heavy Hitter Selling shows readers how to improve their sales success using nothing more than their voices and their senses. The result of Martin's twenty-year career, including thousands of sales calls, this book presents practical solutions and proven tactics for better selling.
Offers comprehensive coverage of the essentials of marketing, rooting theory in real marketing practice. This book includes coverage of developments in marketing practice, such as experiential marketing, neuro marketing, multi-channel marketing and buzz marketing. It is suitable for students on introductory marketing courses.
Engaging with social media such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter is now a key part of global business communications. Blogs, microblogs, social networking and social news sites have become the new tools for effective marketing and sales. This book is an excellent resource for anyone planning a social media strategy or individual campaign.
Extends the analysis of the change in the marketing rationale from a crude concern for increased market share to a strategy aimed at creating long-term profitable relationships with targeted customers. This book provides advice on how to develop, integrate and implement the various strands of a successful relationship strategy.
Learn to create a two-way dialog with customers with location-based services and smartphones Location-based services (LBS) have started to gain popularity in the marketplace with more and more businesses starting to incorporate LBS into their marketing mix.
From the world-renowned trendspotting duo who has predicted everything from metrosexuality to the growth of global brands comes a new, surprising look at the future of everything from work and business to sex. This enlightening book is based on intensive research and interviews as well as the authors' real-world and global business experience.
Covers the major program features common to all Windows versions that an average businessperson needs in order to make great presentations and increase sales. This work integrates applications to sales and business situations with presentation and sales tips. It contains screen movies, practice files, and animations.
Building on the bestselling legacy of McGraw-Hill's Say it with Presentations by Gene Zelazny, Presentations that Sell reveals a simple yet effective method for creating and delivering sales presentations that focus on the end result: closing the deal.
This book examines how today's technologies allow companies to create dynamic dialogues with their customers through shared networks, virtual marketing techniques and blogs to develop deeper relationships that reinforce brand loyalty and drive growth.
The relationship between a market and a consumer is complex. This book explores the factors of relationship marketing. With a consumer in mind; from the experience of a football club supporter to the experiences of gap year travel, to text messaging behaviour, and to using the British Library, it focuses on the consumer perspective.
Rationalizes the management of luxury based on the original methods that were used to transform small family businesses such as Ferrari, Louis Vuitton, Cartier, Chanel, Bulgari, Gucci and Prada, into global brands. This title explains the difference between 'premium' and 'luxury', and sets out the rules to be applied to the luxury marketing mix.
Branding is a discipline that has emerged over the last century to become a ubiquitous force in marketing. This book introduces readers to the basic principles behind the creation and development of successful brands. It offers an overview of the foundations of building, developing and maintaining brands.
The salesperson's best tool for establishing credibility at the initial point of contact is the sales letter. This collection of tips and techniques helps readers in crafting letters, emails, and text messages that give them an advantage over the competition. It also helps readers learn how to keep their writing smart, professional, and engaging.
Includes: the thinking on key branding concepts; strategies for launching new brands, leveraging existing brands, and managing a brand portfolio; techniques for building a brand-centered organization; and, insights from senior managers who have fought branding battles and won.
All companies, large and small, know that reaching customers directly and influencing - and being influenced by - them is essential to success. With a look inside Google, Disney, Yahoo, IBM, and others, this book shows how your company can use blogs to raise its visibility and transform internal communications.
Provides an insight to the core concepts of Marketing Communications. This book sets out the essential themes, theories and topics which students encounter as they explore Marketing Communications. It is designed for students studying both shorter, introductory modules and professional level programmes.
Features over 100 videos and animations for the medical device and pharmaceutical sales representative on sales skills to use with doctors and hospitals while observing correct procedures and building trust. This title takes the attitude that consultative selling and considerate behaviour create the most productive client relationships.
A guide for the medical device and pharmaceutical sales representative on sales skills to use with doctors and hospitals while observing correct procedures and building trust. It covers the structure of a hospital, medical staff, the hospital pharmacy, hospital-based pharmacist, the nursing service, policies and procedures for hospital vendors.
Many small business owners are trapped by industry pricing and market misconceptions, when they could be compensated for the true value of the product or service being offered. This book shows businesspeople how to break out of the stranglehold of industry pricing and charge more for their wares without alienating their customers.
Drawing on case studies from companies such as Fiat, Amazon, Tesco and ING, this title shows how leading performers begin to recognize, identify and capitalize on many of the concepts of precision marketing to set themselves apart and reach a whole new level of growth.
Strategies for any company to transform its sales and marketing efforts in a way that truly accelerates revenue growth Revenue Disruption shows companies how to ignite an economic rebirth with a much broader business impact. Today's predominant sales and marketing model is at best obsolete and at worst totally disfunctional.
Provides a set of practical techniques which have been tried in many of today's leading companies with dramatic improvements to sales performance. This text makes the spin-selling method available in paperback and includes a new preface by the author.
Offers an introduction to the field of sports marketing and examines how marketers use sports as a platform for developing their strategies and tactics. This book provides coverage of the marketing of sports products, increasing media audiences and live attendance, the selling of sports-related products, and more.
In this Web 2.0 era, small business owners are at a severe disadvantage because they have minimal, if any, knowledge, about Internet marketing. This do-it-yourself book provides the know-how that's needed to win business in cyberspace while eliminating the need for a large marketing budget.
Helps to learn how to build a powerful brand that increases the sales and profits of any business, and launch your entrepreneurial brand. This title also helps to learn how to: manage the differences between service branding and product branding; develop a brand for your real estate investments; and, make your brand more than just a name or logo.
Meta-luxury sets out to define the ultimate meaning of true luxury, exploring it as both a culture and business model. Through the concept of Unique Achievement and the drivers of Craftsmanship, Focus, History and Rarity, the authors examine what is at the heart of true luxurythrougha unique series of conversations.
Do you want to increase your sales? Why not tap the fastest-growing consumer market in the country? According to the Selig Center for Economic Growth, the combined purchasing power of the multicultural market grew to over $2 trillion in 2007 - exceeding the annual GNP of all but the nine largest economies of the world.
Master every aspect of the powerful Google AdWords platform with this one-of-a-kind guide AdWords expert Brad Geddes, the first and only Advanced AdWords Seminar leader for Google, shares his detailed instruction and insights to get new users up and running quickly and teach AdWords pros some slick new tricks.
Analyses the changes in the retail industry and the strategic options open to companies. This book describes the key concepts of efficient consumer response (ecr) and provides several illustrative cases to demonstrate the results. It is suitable for both retail practitioners and students of retail and channel marketing.
Suitable for small retailers who are serious about growing their business, this title gives you all the tools, techniques and motivation you need to survive and thrive in a difficult market. It provides information you need to create a framework for success for your business, no matter what you sell.
Provides a concise and fundamental information to assist students in passing the CIM exams. Presented in a compact, spiral bound format, this work features diagrams and bulleted lists to ensure that the key points are displayed. It includes a list of learning outcomes, hints and tips which are presented in each section.
Geoff Burch has written an innovative book that will change almost everything anyone ever believed about business and selling. Resistance is Useless combines the quick wit of a standup comedian with the serious thoughtfulness of a psychoanalyst in order to explain the value and power of persuasion.
Offers techniques for reaching out to those most likely to make a purchase. This book shares what works and what doesn't for multiple online marketing strategies involving email, online searches, advertising, webinars, videos, and social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
To be a winner in sales, you must be able to close the deal - and close hard. It's that simple. You can look good, sound good, work well with people and know your product inside out, but if you can't secure the sale it's meaningless. This title offers anecdotes, instructions and illustrations, including phrasing and methodology for sales closing.
Introduces and examines the key issues, methods, models and debates that define the field of marketing. This book covers over 50 essential concepts, including the marketing mix, branding, consumerism, marketing communication and corporate image. It includes various entries that feature: useful definition box; and summary of the concept.
Suitable for those who need to know the skills of winning new customers but lacks the training - or the courage - to sell, this title shows you just what to do and how to do it. It covers topics including making a winning presentation; how to make an appointment; and, how to beat the competition and how to provide excellent customer care.
Tells readers how to win customers who no longer care where they buy. This book explains how to give customers what they want when it matters most to them - at their 4 Decisive Moments during the purchase progression: the Now-or-Never Moment, Make-or-Break Moment, Keep-or-Lose Moment, and the highly profitable Multiplier Moment.