Marketing strategy for small- to medium-sized manufacturers : a practical guide for generating growth, profit, and sales / Charles E. France.

Small and medium manufacturers' attempts to grow their business often produce less-than-desired results due to self-inflicted obstacles and pitfalls that defeat their well-intended efforts. Many do not follow generally accepted basic business practices such as knowing product costs and margins,...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: France, Charles E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [New York, N.Y.] (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Business Expert Press, 2013.
Series:2013 digital library.
Marketing strategy collection.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword
  • 1. Necessary and sufficient conditions for increasing sales and profit
  • 2. Getting down to basics
  • 3. Customer analysis to improve the top and bottom
  • 4. Quotation analysis to improve competitiveness
  • 5. Using customer feedback to inform strategy
  • 6. Product analysis and product management
  • 7. New product development
  • 8. Marketing research and competitor information
  • 9. Crafting goals, objectives, and strategies from the bottom up
  • 10. Sales management
  • 11. Advertising and promotion
  • 12. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.