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Market Segmentation: How to do it and how to profit from it, revised and updated 4th Edition is the only book that spells out a totally dispassionate, systematic process for arriving at genuine, needs-based segments that can enable organizations to escape from the dreary, miserable, downward pricing spiral which results from getting market segmentation wrong. Nothing in business works unless markets are correctly defined, mapped, quantified and segmented. Why else have hundreds of billions of dollars been wasted on excellent initiatives such as TQM, BPR, Balanced Scorecards, Six.

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Preface and acknowledgements -- How to use this book to achieve the best results -- Learning features -- Tutor's guide -- An important note to the reader from the authors -- The marketing planning process and the output -- Understanding the marketing process -- The marketing planning process : the main steps -- The customer and market audit part 1: Understanding markets and market segmentation -- The customer and market audit part 2 : Understanding customer needs and developing value propositions -- The customer and market audit part 3: The product audit -- Setting marketing objectives and strategies -- The major elements of marketing -- The integrated marketing communications plan -- The sales and key account plan -- The multichannel plan : the route to market -- The customer relationship management plan -- The pricing plan -- Marketing plans measurement and implementation -- Implementation issues in marketing planning -- Measuring the effectiveness of marketing planning -- A step-by-step marketing planning system -- Conclusion: guidelines from the authors on world class marketing -- Index

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART ONE: HOW TO THINK ABOUT IT -- Chapter 1: The Business Mind-Set -- Chapter 2: Setting Goals Before Prices -- Chapter 3: Setting Your Prices -- Chapter 4: Pricing Strategies -- Chapter 5: Positioning Your Price -- PART TWO: HOW TO TALK ABOUT IT -- Chapter 6: Finding and Qualifying Your Prospects -- Chapter 7: Broaching the Topic of Money -- Chapter 8: Talking Price and Negotiating -- Chapter 9: Confidently Closing the Sale -- Chapter 10: Getting Paid -- PART THREE: HOW TO MANAGE IT -- Chapter 11: Money Basics -- Chapter 12: Profitability and Metrics -- Chapter 13: Requests for Proposals -- Chapter 14: Negotiating the Contract -- Resources -- Glossary -- Permissions.

The Onion's Baratunde Thurston shares his 30-plus years of expertise in being black, with helpful essays like "How to Be the Black Friend," "How to Speak for All Black People," "How To Celebrate Black History Month," and more, in this satirical guide to race issues-written for black people and those who love them. Audacious, cunning, and razor-sharp, How to Be Black exposes the mass-media's insidiously racist, monochromatic portrayal of black culture's richness and variety. Fans of Stuff White People Like, This Week in Blackness, and Ending Racism in About an Hour will be captivated, uplifted, incensed, and inspired by this hilarious and powerful attack on America's blacklisting of black culture: Baratunde Thurston's How to Be Black.

Cover -- Half Title -- Other Titles Series -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Chaper 1: Friendship -- Importance of Friendships -- Quiz: How Well Do You Know Your Friends? -- The Great Things About Friends -- Lots of Variety -- Just for Fun -- What Is a Good Friend? -- Best Friends -- Teen Troubles -- Friends Help Friends -- Arguments -- Five Ways to Be a Great Friend -- Dealing With Disappointments -- Wrong Crowd? -- What Makes You Happy? -- Chaper 2: Popularity -- What Makes a Person Popular? -- Looking good -- Getting along -- Good relationships with parents -- Part of a crowd -- Deserving popularity -- Not so deserving -- What Teens Say About Popular Teens -- What Teens Say Makes Someone Popular -- One Teen's Story -- Rejection Hurts -- Social Pressure -- Insecurities -- The Truth About Popularity and Appearance -- Accept Yourself -- Chaper 3: Cliques -- Female Cliques -- Geeks/Nerds -- Downsides of Cliques -- Why Join a Clique? -- Lonely Teens -- Bullies -- Leaving a Clique -- Cliques and Stereotypes -- Outgrowing Cliques -- Making Good Choices -- Chaper 4: Online Friendships and Communication -- Online Friends -- Common Online Abbreviations -- Online Personalities -- Internet Addiction -- Teen Experiences -- Instant messaging -- Blogging -- Message boards -- Online Social Networking Sites -- MySpace versus Facebook -- Twitter -- Online Games -- Speedy Service -- Networking Numbers -- Chaper 5: Making Friends -- Easy or Hard? -- Your Secret "Weapon" -- Look Around -- Communication Skills -- Quiz: Making Friends 101 -- Make a Move -- Ways to Find Friends -- New Students -- New Friends/Old Friends -- Friendship Rules -- Finding Your Own Way -- Shyness -- Party Fears -- Friends Can Change Your Life -- Chapter 6: Teen Guys and Girls -- What Girls Do for Fun -- Girls Can Be Serious -- Guys React Differently -- Why They Are Different

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