Developing Successful Marketing Strategies - Paperback

by Gary W. Randazzo (Author)

What's your organization's marketing strategy? Does your company meet real life marketing challenges head on and with success? This book provides a unique approach by using your organization's mission and vision statements to guide the development of marketing goals, strategies, and tactics. It uses real market examples to demonstrate the development of effective marketing strategies. Central to the development of marketing strategy is the use of the marketing mix of price, place, product, and promotion. This book neatly weaves the process of developing such a marketing strategy with examples given to clarify the theories and guide the reader through the strategic marketing planning process. If you are a manager, business student, or an executive, this book will help you grow an established business or start a new one with smart management techniques and processes that are critical to executing successful marketing strategies. The examples used are from large and small organizations in which the author was personally involved.

Author Biography

Gary W. Randazzo, MBA, is senior professor of practice at the University of Houston C.T. Bauer College of Business and teaches a business consulting lab for MBA students. Students in this class work with real companies and address current challenges facing those clients. Projects range from marketing strategies for multinational banks to operational systems design for resource allocation by a major airport system to location strategies for small service businesses. Mr. Randazzo is also president of GWR Research, a management and marketing consulting firm, has served as CEO, CFO, and CIO of large and small companies, and has been a partner and founder of several start-ups. While most firms are domestic, Mr. Randazzo served as chairman of an international LED sign company.