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Breakthrough Marketing Plans shows how to create simpler and more powerful marketing plans in an age of increasing amounts of data, marketing tactics, and competititve pressure.

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9780230607569

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<p> Tim Calkins tells what really goes on, and what should go on to on to prepare a winning marketing plan. I highly recommend this book to marketing and brand managers to help them create really pointed and impactful marketing plans. -- Philip Kotler, S.C. Johnson & Son Professor of International Marketing, Kellogg School of Management<p> Tim Calkins provides the practical guidance that marketers are longing for. This book lays out a clear path to creating marketing plans that will get supported, and more importantly, drive results. --Ed Buckley, VP Marketing, UPS<p> For new marketers and experienced practitioners, Breakthrough Marketing Plans, provides a practical roadmap for developing effective marketing plans that actually serve as daily action guides rather than dusty shelf ornaments. -- M. Carl Johnson III, Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, Campbell Soup Company<p> Tim Calkins is an award-winning professor and marketer. He knows why most plans fails and what needs to be done to make them useful: set measurable goals, choose a strategy and support it, develop key tactics, and keep it short. Breakthrough Marketing Plans is a wonderfully useful book that will change the way marketers and marketing students operate. Read it: it will make you a better marketer! -- Pierre Chandon, Associate Professor of Marketing, INSEAD<p> A simple, powerful roadmap to creating a simple, powerful marketing plan. -- Professor John Quelch, Senior Associate Dean, Harvard Business School<p> Stunningly simple. A great guide for anyone who strives to have clarity and impact from their marketing strategies - from the CEO to an entry level marketer. Tim Calkins is an academic with a real world view. -- Randy Gier, Chief Consumer Officer, Dr Pepper Snapple Group<p> Tim demystifies and simplifies the critical exercise of driving out world class marketing strategies and executional plans...a must-read for any marketer needing help in articulating a strategy that is

Tim Calkins tells what really goes on, and what should go on to on to prepare a winning marketing plan. I highly recommend this book to marketing and brand managers to help them create really pointed and impactful marketing plans. -- Philip Kotler, S.C. Johnson & Son Professor of International Marketing, Kellogg School of Management<p> Tim Calkins provides the practical guidance that marketers are longing for. This book lays out a clear path to creating marketing plans that will get supported, and more importantly, drive results. --Ed Buckley, VP Marketing, UPS<p> For new marketers and experienced practitioners, Breakthrough Marketing Plans, provides a practical roadmap for developing effective marketing plans that actually serve as daily action guides rather than dusty shelf ornaments. -- M. Carl Johnson III, Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, Campbell Soup Company<p> Tim Calkins is an award-winning professor and marketer. He knows why most plans fails and what needs to be done to make them useful: set measurable goals, choose a strategy and support it, develop key tactics, and keep it short. Breakthrough Marketing Plans is a wonderfully useful book that will change the way marketers and marketing students operate. Read it: it will make you a better marketer! -- Pierre Chandon, Associate Professor of Marketing, INSEAD<p> A simple, powerful roadmap to creating a simple, powerful marketing plan. -- Professor John Quelch, Senior Associate Dean, Harvard Business School<p> Stunningly simple. A great guide for anyone who strives to have clarity and impact from their marketing strategies - from the CEO to an entry level marketer. Tim Calkins is an academic with areal world view. -- Randy Gier, Chief Consumer Officer, Dr Pepper Snapple Group<p> Tim demystifies and simplifies the critical exercise of driving out world class marketing strategies and executional plans...a must-read for any marketer needing help in articulating a strategy that is about both words and actions, and a must read for any CEO or CMO looking to establish a consistent marketing dialog throughout their organization. -- Scott M. Davis, Senior Partner, Prophet<p> Tim Calkins offers an invaluable resource in the time-starved lives of today's marketing professionals. -- Jeffrey Cohen, Global Vice President of Marketing, CIBA VISION<p> Tim Calkins has successfully distilled all the marketing theory behind powerful marketing plans into a very pragmatic approach that will not only help guide novice marketers but also will remind experienced marketing leaders of the core fundamentals to driving business growth. -- Paul Groundwater, Vice President, Global Brand Leader, Trane, Inc.<p> Practical, action-oriented, to the point. Breakthrough Marketing Plans is a valuable tool for marketing professionals and business leaders alike. -- Pete Georgiadis, President & CEO, Synetro Group <br>

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TIM CALKINS is clinical professor of marketing at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, USA.

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