Complete, concise, and easy to use, the all-new edition of this marketing best seller covers the ten key sales promotion techniques, explains how each one works, and shows how marketers can plan for and use them to boost sales: coupons, refunds and rebates, sampling, value packs, premium packs, mail-in premiums, continuity programs, contests and sweepstakes, special events, and trade incentives. Real-life examples illustrate the benefits and drawbacks of each technique, highlighting how it can be used alone or as part of a long-term sales promotion or marketing plan. Also new to this edition, an emphasis on tailoring sales promotions to the buying habits of distinct consumer groups ensures that all campaigns are customer oriented and results focused. Special chapters highlight the growth of sales promotion and its increasingly important role within an integrated marketing communications program. A comprehensive appendix of sales promotion organizations, major suppliers, and sources of further information makes this book an essential resource for anyone using sales promotion to meet marketing and sales goals.

This book spells out the tried and tested methods that companies use to stay ahead in the sales promotion race. It details the offers that win new customers and keep existing ones buying. This book amounts to a DIY sales promotion kit.

Marketing models is a core component of the marketing discipline. The recent developments in marketing models have been incredibly fast with information technology (e.g., the Internet), online marketing (e-commerce) and customer relationship management (CRM) creating radical changes in the way companies interact with their customers. This has created completely new breeds of marketing models, but major progress has also taken place in existing types of marketing models. Handbook of Marketing Decision Models presents the state of the art in marketing decision models. The book deals with new modeling areas, such as customer relationship management, customer value and online marketing, as well as recent developments in other advertising, sales promotions, sales management, and competition are dealt with. New developments are in consumer decision models, models for return on marketing, marketing management support systems, and in special techniques such as time series and neural nets.

Gerard Tellis clearly communicates all aspects of promotion using the most recent social sciences research findings, to enable prospective managers to design their own successful strategies.

If you are involved in field marketing, this is the book for you. Whether you are working within a company and seeking to employ a field marketing agency, or you work for such an agency and want to ensure best practice, The Handbook of Field Marketing is the essential handbook for success. Crammed with self study questions, case studies, and proven advice for success, this book offers a blueprint for best practice, enabling you to undertake robust, rigorous and meaningful brand research. The Handbook of Field Marketing reveals the best techniques to ensure profitable brand maximization for your company's products (or those of the client company), whether measured by brand visibility, product availability, positioning, performance against competitors or overall sales performance.

Handbook of the Economics of Marketing, Volume One: Marketing and Economics mixes empirical work in industrial organization with quantitative marketing tools, presenting tactics that help researchers tackle problems with a balance of intuition and skepticism. It offers critical perspectives on theoretical work within economics, delivering a comprehensive, critical, up-to-date, and accessible review of the field that has always been missing. This literature summary of research at the intersection of economics and marketing is written by, and for, economists, and the book's authors share a belief in analytical and integrated approaches to marketing, emphasizing data-driven, result-oriented, pragmatic strategies. - Helps academic and non-academic economists understand recent, rapid changes in the economics of marketing - Designed for economists already convinced of the benefits of applying economics tools to marketing - Written for those who wish to become quickly acquainted with the integration of marketing and economics

From the cold calling, to commissions and caffeine addiction, learn the real hard truth about life in the sales profession. Lying customers. Changing quotas. Soul-crushing management. PSSD-inducing pressure (Post Sales Stress Disorder). What’s not to love about the world of sales? Whether you’ve been in sales for a while, are new to the game, or just need a lift, The Sales Survival Handbook shows you how to: Overcome objections without tears (yours and theirs) Get out of a sales slump legally Cold call without needing sedatives Beg for referrals (yes, beg) Spot common types of customers, coworkers, and managers Maintain a social life (mission impossible?) Complete with quizzes, lists, real-world advice, and all the dos and don’ts that have popped up thus far in the sales world, The Sales Survival Handbook offers you everything you need to survive the agony and enjoy the ecstasy of your sales career.

The Oxford Handbook of Pricing Management is a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of pricing across industries, environments, and methodologies. The Handbook illustrates the wide variety of pricing approaches that are used in different industries. It also covers the diverse range of methodologies that are needed to support pricing decisions across these different industries. It includes more than 30 chapters written by pricing leaders from industry, consulting, and academia. It explains how pricing is actually performed in a range of industries, from airlines and internet advertising to electric power and health care. The volume covers the fundamental principles of pricing, such as price theory in economics, models of consumer demand, game theory, and behavioural issues in pricing, as well as specific pricing tactics such as customized pricing, nonlinear pricing, dynamic pricing, sales promotions, markdown management, revenue management, and auction pricing. In addition, there are articles on the key issues involved in structuring and managing a pricing organization, setting a global pricing strategy, and pricing in business-to-business settings.