Written by a marketing professor from Northwestern University's acclaimed Kellogg School of Management, The Marketing Plan Handbook outlines a comprehensive, step-by-step approach to crafting succinct, logical, and effective marketing plans that produce results. This book can benefit managers in all types of companies. For startups and companies bringing new products to the market, it outlines a process for developing a winning marketing plan to launch a new offering. For established companies with existing product portfolios this book presents a structured approach for developing an action plan to manage offerings and product lines. Whether you manage a small business seeking to formalize the planning process, a startup seeking venture capital financing, a fast-growth company considering an IPO, or a large multinational corporation, you can gain competitive advantage by translating the marketing planning process outlined in this book into a streamlined strategic document that informs your decisions and helps avoid costly missteps.

The Marketing Plan Handbook presents a streamlined approach to writing succinct and logical marketing plans. While offering a comprehensive, step-by-step approach to crafting effective marketing plans, this book provides the relevant information in a concise and straight-to-the-point manner. It outlines the basic principles of writing a marketing plan and presents an overarching framework encompassing the plan's essential components.

The Marketing Plan Handbook presents a streamlined approach to writing succinct and meaningful marketing plans. By offering a comprehensive, step-by-step method for crafting a strategically viable marketing plan, this book provides the relevant information in a concise and straight-to-the-point manner. It outlines the basic principles of writing a marketing plan and presents an overarching framework that encompasses the plan’s essential components. A distinct characteristic of this book is its emphasis on marketing as a value-creation process. Because it incorporates the three aspects of value management—managing customer value, managing collaborator value, and managing company value—the marketing plan outlined in this book is relevant not only for business-to-consumer scenarios but for business-to-business scenarios as well. This integration of business-to-consumer and business-to-business planning into a single framework is essential for ensuring success in today’s networked marketplace. The marketing plan outlined in this book builds on the view of marketing as a central business discipline that defines the key aspects of a company’s business model. This view of marketing is reflected in the book’s cross-functional approach to strategic business planning. The Marketing Plan Handbook offers an integrative approach to writing a marketing plan that incorporates the relevant technological, financial, organizational, and operational aspects of the business. This approach leads to a marketing plan that is pertinent not only for marketers but for the entire organization. The Marketing Plan Handbook can benefit managers in all types of organizations. For startups and companies considering bringing new products to the market, this book outlines a process for developing a marketing plan to launch a new offering. For established companies with existing portfolios of products, this book presents a structured approach to developing an action plan to manage their offerings and product lines. Whether it is applied to a small business seeking to formalize the planning process, a startup seeking venture-capital financing, a fast-growth company considering an initial public offering, or a large multinational corporation, the framework outlined in this book can help streamline the marketing planning process and translate it into an actionable strategic document that informs business decisions and helps avoid costly missteps.

The Marketing Plan Handbook can benefit managers in all types of organizations. For startups and companies considering bringing new products to the market, this book outlines a process for developing a marketing plan to launch a new offering. For established companies with existing portfolios of products, this book presents a structured approach to developing an action plan to manage their offerings and product lines. Whether you manage a small business seeking to formalize the planning process, a startup seeking venture-capital financing, a fast-growth company considering an initial public offering, or a large multinational corporation, you can gain competitive advantage by translating the marketing planning process outlined in this book into a streamlined strategic document that informs your actions and helps avoid costly missteps.

The Marketing Plan Handbook presents a streamlined approach to writing succinct and meaningful marketing plans. By offering a comprehensive, step-by-step method for crafting a strategically viable marketing plan, this book provides the relevant information in a concise and straight-to-the-point manner. It outlines the basic principles of writing a marketing plan and presents an overarching framework that encompasses the plan’s essential components. A distinct characteristic of this book is its emphasis on marketing as a value-creation process. Because it incorporates the three aspects of value management—managing customer value, managing collaborator value, and managing company value—the marketing plan outlined in this book is relevant not only for business-to-consumer scenarios but for business-to-business scenarios as well. This integration of business-to-consumer and business-to-business planning into a single framework is essential for ensuring success in today’s networked marketplace. The marketing plan outlined in this book builds on the view of marketing as a central business discipline that defines the key aspects of a company’s business model. This view of marketing is reflected in the book’s cross-functional approach to strategic business planning. The Marketing Plan Handbook offers an integrative approach to writing a marketing plan that incorporates the relevant technological, financial, organizational, and operational aspects of the business. This approach leads to a marketing plan that is pertinent not only for marketers but for the entire organization. The Marketing Plan Handbook can benefit managers in all types of organizations. For startups and companies considering bringing new products to the market, this book outlines a process for developing a marketing plan to launch a new offering. For established companies with existing portfolios of products, this book presents a structured approach to developing an action plan to manage their offerings and product lines. Whether it is applied to a small business seeking to formalize the planning process, a startup seeking venture-capital financing, a fast-growth company considering an initial public offering, or a large multinational corporation, the framework outlined in this book can help streamline the marketing planning process and translate it into an actionable strategic document that informs business decisions and helps avoid costly missteps.

The Marketing Plan, 5th Edition gives students the knowledge, tools, and techniques they need to develop marketing plans like the pros. Throughout the text, step-by-step procedures guide students through each phase in creating marketing plans??from scanning the environment and establishing goals and objectives, to developing marketing strategies and tactics, to presenting and implementing the plan, and everything in between. This text is not just a how-to book; it also explains the importance of a well-formulated marketing plan and encourages student participation through activities. Moreover, it contains seven actual student marketing plans which can be used as models. This text can be used as a supplement to another text, or as a stand-alone in a Principles of Marketing, Marketing Management, Strategic Marketing, Entrepreneurship, or Internet Marketing course.

Strategic Marketing: planning and control covers contemporary issues by exploring current developments in marketing theory and practice including the concept of a market-led orientation and a resource/asset-based approach to internal analysis and planning. The text provides a synthesis of key strategic marketing concepts in a concise and comprehensive way, and is tightly written to accommodate the reading time pressures on students. The material is highly exam focused and has been class tested and refined. Completely revised and updated, the second edition of Strategic Marketing: planning and control includes chapters on 'competitive intelligence', 'strategy formulation' and 'strategic implementation'. The final chapter, featuring mini case studies, has been thoroughly revised with new and up to date case material.

Marketing Plans for Services, Third Edition is written in a pragmatic, action-orientated style and each chapter has examples of marketing planning in practice. The authors highlight key misunderstandings about marketing and the nature of services and relationship marketing. The marketer is taken step-by-step through the key phases of the marketing planning process and alerted to the barriers that can prevent a service organization being successful in introducing marketing planning. Practical frameworks and techniques are suggested for undertaking the marketing planning process and implementing the principles covered. The world renowned authors also tackle key organizational aspects relating to marketing planning which can have a profound impact on its ultimate effectiveness. These include: marketing intelligence systems; market research; organization development stages; marketing orientation. Marketing Plans for Services is for marketers in the service sector and students of marketing. “Marketing Plans for Services is clearly the premier text in the field. From an explanation of ‘why’ services are driving all marketing activities to ‘measuring the results’, and all things in between, this new and updated text explains why and how ‘services’ are the key elements for most all 21st century organizations. Follow the masters of service marketing to marketplace success.” Professor Don Schultz, Northwestern University “McDonald, Frow and Payne have worked extensively with a wide range of service businesses across the globe in successfully realising their growth opportunities. This experience shows in this practical text which contains all one needs to know in developing and implementing successful marketing plans for service organizations. This book represents a tested roadmap for planning services marketing success and combines an excellent balance of key concepts, frameworks and tools with practical advice. Their proven step-by-step marketing planning system for services and the examples of marketing plans make this a ‘must have’ book that should be on the desk of any forward-thinking services marketer.” Mark Veyret, Global Business Development Leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers “Marketing planning is crucial today where increased competition, complexity and the internet forces you to redefine your marketing strategy and focus more clearly on what is required to achieve improved results. If not, you will not succeed in meeting these challenges. McDonald, Frow and Payne are internationally recognized authorities in marketing planning and services marketing. Based on their extensive experience across in helping organizations from a wide range of service sectors, this book gives you the practical ‘how to’ skills to successfully implement strategic marketing plans.” Bob Barker, Vice President of Corporate Marketing and Digital Engagement, Alterian

This is a practical how-to guide to what marketers need to know about defining, segmenting and targeting business markets: assessing customer needs; gauging the competition; designing winning strategies; and maximising corporate resources.

An imaginative, witty, original but deadly serious introduction to all the concepts you need in marketing today. Successful executives know that marketing as a process and an orientation is a necessity for understanding where a company needs to go and how to get there. It's not difficult to spot those organizations that have failed to adopt a marketing approach! In order for managers and students to quickly grasp the key principles, one of the world's leading marketing educators, Malcolm McDonald, has teamed up with expert cartoonist and educational designer, Peter Morris, to create this short, unique and powerful guide. Using black and white cartoons and graphics packed with ideas and examples, Marketing Plans: A Complete Guide in Pictures is a highly accessible primer that is both a rigorous and serious introduction to the subject for those discovering marketing for the first time, and a versatile companion for more experienced professionals. This book is based on the international bestseller Marketing Plans: How to Prepare Them, How to Use Them by Malcolm McDonald and Hugh Wilson (Wiley).