Effective Marketing

Expert advice for success in a small business. Learn from an expert, first-hand experience all you need to know to market your small business successfully. From carrying out essential market research to effectively pricing your product or service, Effective Marketing shows you all the best approaches to use. There is also detailed information on exploiting profitable distribution channels, projecting the right image, and using advertising to maximize your sales. Charts and diagrams, at-a-glance tip boxes, case studies, questionnaires, and checklists enable you to understand the many different aspects of successful marketing. In Planning Your Strategy, you'll learn about starting your market research, observing the competition, assessing your project, pricing, sorting out your distribution, planning your marketing, and projecting the right image. Then move on to Advertising, which covers advertising basics, producing effective advertisements, creating good leaflets and brochures, followed by Promotion and Sales, which covers working with the media, promoting sales, selling techniques. Finally, you'll benefit with Staying on Track, through analyzing your sales data, and dealing with changes and competition. Effective Marketing also provides Useful Information, from legal matters, and glossary, to useful contacts, and suggested reading. Effective Marketing is one of four new titles in an innovative series of practical guides, covering every aspect of business, for everyone starting their own small business.Hingston, Peter is the author of 'Effective Marketing', published 2001 under ISBN 9780789471970 and ISBN 0789471973.