Long description
Improve Your Marketing to Grow Your Business provides the tools and techniques to harness the power of the Internet and innovative technologies to succeed in doing the most important job to increase top-line growth--building brand equity. This book will explain how achieving top-line revenue growth and sustaining profits will depend upon the corporate embrace of the re-engineering of marketing through new processes to unleash the power technology affords. The book begins by presenting the shift in thinking that must take place to tap into this new marketing capability, including focusing on becoming customer-centric, re-engineering the marketing function, re-thinking the marketing organization, and redesigning the technology systems. In addition, it provides a new way to think about building a customer-centric process and the metrics to measure effectiveness. The book then goes on to provide intimate insider interviews with leading marketers of major brands in major industries and companies to illustrate application and practice.The interviews and perspectives of leading executives will provide real world examples and stories of what went right and wrong in the transition to a new way to put marketing to work. In the final section, the book presents the secrets for how to get it done: Managing information, creating a culture of accountability, creating communities of practice, and empowering change agents at every level of the organization.