Marketing Planning for Services is the answer to the challenge of creating marketing plans that produce significantly improved bottom-line results. It is written in a pragmatic, action-orientated style and each chapter has examples of marketing planning in practice. The authors highlight key misunderstandings about marketing and the nature of services and relationship marketing.


The marketer is taken step-by-step through the key phases of the marketing planning process and alerted to the barriers that can prevent a service organisation being successful in introducing marketing planning. Practical frameworks and techniques are suggested for undertaking the marketing planning process and implementing the principles covered. The world renowned authors also tackle key organisational aspects relating to marketing planning which can have a profound impact on its ultimate effectiveness. These include: marketing intelligence systems; market research; organisation development stages; marketing orientation. Marketing Planning for Services is for marketers in the service sector and students of marketing.


How to Sell a Service

by Malcolm McDonald and John Leppard

Published 24 October 1988
An examination of the whole sales process which aims to help the reader understand it more fully. Accompanying exercises and case studies are designed to enable the reader to develop the skills necessary for successful selling. The work is directed at students of business management and marketing who are interested in organizations that market services rather than goods and practitioners in all service industries who are responsible for marketing. Malcolm McDonald is author of "Marketing Plans".