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Includes:: new coverage of social media discussion of current industry trends & hands-on application assignments.

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Marketing Plans Seventh Edition presents a practical no-nonsense style & approach that helps & encourages practicing managers with the difficult task of marketing planning. This helpful text illustrates the process of preparing a marketing plan how to manage that process & how to put the plan in action. The new edition has been thoroughly updated with contemporary thinking &

Includes:: new information on multi-channel integration & other new electronic routes to market. All case material & examples have also been revised.

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Suitable for undergraduate students studying Marketing Research. Marketing Research provides a step-by-step treatment of the major choices facing Marketing researchers when using SPSS. Although they may have an understanding of how SPSS works they may not understand the statistics behind the method. This book bridges the gap. A top author team offer a concise approach to analysing quantitative marketing research data in pracice. ...

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Everyday consumers buy into the concept of brands & their associated meanings
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