Now in its 7 th edition, Marketing Plans is a highly renowned international bestseller. The book has been thoroughly revised, and every chapter has been carefully updated with special attention to the latest developments in marketing. To accomplish this, Professor Malcolm McDonald has been joined in this edition by Professor Hugh Wilson, a leading expert on CRM and multichannel strategy as well as marketing planning. Major changes to this edition include new chapters based on the very latest research on: * Planning for integrated marketing communications and digital marketing * Developing multichannel strategy * Developing the CRM plan * Marketing effectiveness and accountability Marketing Plans is designed as a tool and a user-friendly learning, resource. Every point illustrated by powerful practical examples and made actionable through simple, step-by-step templates and exercises. The book is established as essential reading for all serious professional marketers and students of marketing, from undergraduate and postgraduate to professional courses for bodies such as CIM. Above all it provides a practical, hands-on guide to implementing every single concept included in the text.
"It is clearly and powerfully written and is probably the best book on the theory and practice of marketing planning ever written. It is a best-seller in Europe and I strongly recommend the book to anyone with an interest in marketing planning." -Warren J. Keegan, Professor of International Business and Marketing Director, Institute for Global Business Strategy, Pace University, New York "I am extremely impressed by the step lucidity of what is presented." -Dr D. H. Eaton, North Carolina University "A book reaching the quantities sold of Marketing Plans must be a book that is really used. It is not difficult to see why. Malcolm McDonald writes about what to do in marketing and how to do it. Unlike many academic marketing writers, he will never let you forget that marketing ends with -ing." -Kenneth Simmonds, Professor of Marketing and International Business, London Business School "Malcolm McDonald is clearly one of the most respected Professors of Marketing in Europe and the author of a number of outstanding books. The fact that Marketing Plans has been such a massive seller offers testimony of this.
McDonald writes with clarity and insight that is becoming increasingly rare today. It is powerful, up to date and has proved that it works. I recommend it to you!" -John D. Ryans, Jr, Bridgestone Professor of International and Professor of International Marketing, Kent State University, Ohio

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Marketing Plans, Seventh Edition presents a practical, no-nonsense style and approach that helps and 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, and how to put the plan in action. The new edition has been thoroughly updated with contemporary thinking and includes new information on multi-channel integration and other new electronic routes to market. All case material and examples have also been revised."-- Provided by publisher.

"This book is THE market leader on the topic. Now heading into its 7e its popularity speaks for itself - USP: The book is a rigorous step-by-step guide on how to do marketing planning. The step-by-step approach is taken within each chapter, and from chapter to chapter. - The book includes application questions, exercises at the end of every chapter, and mini-case studies. - An online student resource is available as an accompaniment to the book. - Detailed guidelines on how to implement all the concepts and methodologies outlined in the book to literally handhold the reader throughout the process"-- Provided by publisher.