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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Stephen King; Judie Lannon; Merry Baskin |
| OCLC Number: | 503115702 |
| Notes: | A selection of King's papers published during the past 30 years, with commentaries by current marketing practitioners. "Reprinted with corrections April 2008"--T.p. verso. |
| Description: | xliii, 351 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Contents: | Part I. Planning: Role and structure -- Who do you think you are? -- How brands and the skills of branding have flowered -- The price of freedom is eternal vigilance -- The market's evolved, why hasn't the planning? -- Learning and improvement, not proof and magic solutions -- The media planner's revenge -- Part II. Planning: Craft skills -- A revolutionary challenge to conventional wisdom -- Four of the wisest principles you will ever read -- JWT's debt to Stephen King -- Short-term effects may be easier to measure but long-term effects are more important -- Part III. Market research -- A theory that built a company -- The great bridge builder: Searching for order out of chaos -- You can't make sense of facts until you've had an idea -- Measuring public opinion in an individualistic world -- The perfect role model for researchers today -- Part IV. Marketing[:]General -- Old brands never die. They just get sold for a huge profit -- The retail revolution gets underway -- A robust defence of what brand advertising is for -- The train to Strawberry Hill (1744) -- A challenge to change behaviour. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Judie Lannon, Merry Baskin. |
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"Every planner needs this book - and the brave ones will give it to their clients, too." (Admap, November 2007) "A valuable reference book for today's practitioners, as well as a unique source of sophisticated, contemporary thinking." (Retail & Leisure International, December 2007) "...a good book to keep beside your desk...it will help to clear the mind as an ongoing mental workout." (Market Leader, Winter 2007) "Reading the book is terribly easy as well as informative. Stephen King was a model of brevity and clarity..." (Mike Imms, 29th January 2008) Read more...
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