A discussion of marketing accountability: controlling marketing budgets and ensuring that marketing activity produces measurable effects. Unfortunately marketing activity is all too often a series of ill-defined, unstructured and unconnected activities that fail to produce any verifiable results. There should be little difference between marketing control and cash control. This volume demonstrates that producing measurable results from your marketing activity is about defining goals and measuring results and not about monetary strangulation. The author explores the following: marketing spending; the marketing process; non-promotional costs; promotional costs; creating a marketing budget; tail or trim the budget?; controlling and measuring the operation; watching your cash flow; pitfalls; scams; the key part marketing plays in start-ups; where not to skimp; performance evaluation; and performance assessment and bonuses.
- ISBN10 0749435534
- ISBN13 9780749435530
- Publish Date 1 August 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 February 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Kogan Page Ltd
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 288
- Language English