The Marketing Century – a compilation of expert insight
You can now get your hands on The Marketing Century – out this week – a compilation of expert insight across a wide gamut of marketing and PR related topics to celebrate the centenary of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM). The chapter outline here is based on the book’s introduction. I’m delighted to have authored the chapter on digital marketing, and I’m more than happy to answer any questions you may have on reading it. Buy at Amazon / CIM / The Book Depository / Blackwell’s / Waterstone’s . And more info at Google Books . 1. Strategic Marketing (Martha Rogers and Don Peppers , Peppers & Rogers Group) The Marketing Century opens with a clear statement from Don Peppers and Martha Rogers: it is vital that organisations put customers at the heart of what they do, both in the long-term and the short-term. To create value, firms must lift their sights from the typical focus on current profits and instead start seeing customers as the company’s long-term resource – looking at each customer in terms of the long-term return they generate. A long-term strategy for marketing – one that focuses on customer equity and not solely on current profits – can provide marketing with the context and objectives needed to maximise the overall value created by each customer. ...