CITATION

McMurtry, Jeanette Maw. Big Business Marketing For Small Business Budgets. McGraw-Hill, 2003.

Big Business Marketing For Small Business Budgets

Published:  March 2003

eISBN: 9780071425568 007142556X | ISBN: 9780071405973

Book description:

Big Business Marketing for Small Business Budgets is based on research the author did while working for American Express, where she developed a program that measures the direct correlation between marketing and consumer purchasing.

This toolkit provides small businesses and entrepreneurs the tools to truly understand their customers and develop a marketing plan to effectively and continually appeal to their emotional and physical needs, keeping them for life.

Techniques smaller businesses can use to stretch their marketing dollars--and keep customers loyal for a lifetime

Traditionally, the competitive ace -in -the hole for smaller businesses has been their ability to provide more personalized service than their larger, arm's-length competitors. However, CRM initiatives and Web-based technologies now allow global businesses to appear and behave much "smaller" than in the past, leaving local businesses scrambling to uncover new areas of differentiation and competitive advantage.

Big Business Marketing for Small Business Budgets shows small business owners how to make the most of their limited marketing dollars by capturing the lifetime loyalty of their most valuable customers. This hands-on, how-to-do-it book features tricks and techniques of global marketers from Amazon.com to American Express that operations of all sizes can use to quickly and inexpensively:

  • Develop precise, personalized marketing programs

  • Incorporate the Internet with existing marketing activities

  • Collect and utilize valuable customer preference data for marketing "individually" to customers

In today's price-driven, "What's in it for me?" marketplace, developing and sustaining long-term customer relationships has become increasingly difficult for smaller businesses--but not impossible. Let Big Business Marketing for Small Business Budgets show you how to compete with your largest competitors--and adopt and adapt their well-researched tips and techniques to gain lifetime customers.

Jeannette Maw McMurtry, MBA, is the principal of The McMurtry Group, which provides strategic and tactical marketing and public relations support to large and small businesses. McMurtry has been nationally recognized for innovative and results-generating campaigns that have helped businesses market for a lifetime by building brand equity and customer loyalty. Her work spans winning strategies and programs for organizations from sole proprietorships to Fortune 100 companies.