"Whether you're looking to expand your business or you're about to start out, this straight-forward guide leads you step by step through every aspect of marketing. Packed with expert tips on identifying customers, using online resources, satisfying your customer's needs and boosting your sales, ""Marketing For Dummies"" will help you put together a winning marketing strategy and turn your plans in to profit. Discover how to: understand the basics of effective marketing; research customers, competitors and industry; create a compelling marketing strategy; increase consumer awareness; satisfy clients' needs; and, boost sales."
Craig Smith is the editor of Marketing, the UK's highest circulation weekly magazine, and PPA Weekly Business Magazine of the Year, serving the marketing and advertising industries. He has worked as a business journalist for 18 years and is a regular commentator on marketing issues to the national press and broadcast media. Craig works closely with industry trade bodies the Association of Publishing Agencies and Business in the Community to promote best practice in the areas of customer magazines and cause related marketing. Alex Hiam is a consultant, corporate trainer, and public speaker with 20 years of experience in marketing, sales, and corporate communications. He is the director of Insights, which includes a division called Insights for Marketing that offers a wide range of services for supporting and training in sales, customer service, planning, and management. His firm is also active in developing the next generation of leaders in the workplace through its Insights for Training & Development. Alex has an MBA in marketing and strategic planning from the Haas School at U.C. Berkeley and an undergraduate degree from Harvard. He has worked as marketing manager for both smaller high-tech firms and a Fortune 100 company, and did a stint as a professor of marketing at the business school at U. Mass. Amherst. Alex is the co-author of the best-seller, The Portable MBA in Marketing (Wiley) as well as The Vest-Pocket CEO and numerous other books and training programs. He has consulted to a wide range of companies and not-for-profit and government agencies, from General Motors and Volvo to HeathEast and the U.S. Army (a fuller list of clients is posted at www.insightsformarketing.com). Alex is also the author of a companion volume to this book, the Marketing Kit For Dummies (Wiley), which includes more detailed coverage of many of the hands-on topics involved in creating great advertising, direct mail letters, Web sites, publicity campaigns, and marketing plans. On the CD that comeswith the Marketing Kit For Dummies, you'll find forms, checklists, and templates that may be of use to you.
Title: Marketing for Dummies, UK edition
Author: Alexander Hiam,Craig Smith
ISBN: 9780764570568
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Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Publication Date: 2006-04-07
Number of Pages: 380
Weight: 0.7214 kg
""""""""""""...an invaluable, practical guide to marketing for those new to the subject..."""""""" (Marketer, September 2006) """"""""...useful, practical and, above all, reader-friendly...this book certainly takes me to a new level...I heartily recommend it"""""""". (Oldham Evening Chronicle, March 2007)""""
