This edition of The Marketing Director's Handbook combines volume 1 (hardback) and new volume 2 (paperback). Both works fit together like jigsaw pieces, and together they are the only practical guide to managing a marketing function. They contain practical advice and strategies to enhance the profitable growth and value of businesses. It is designed for business owners, directors and both aspiring and practicing marketers to help them undertake key marketing activities, and attract and retain customers. It is concise, easy-to-read, and easy to refer to time and time again. The new digital volume brings readers bang up-to-date on the digital age and is invaluable to help businesses survive through, and thrive beyond the C-19 lock-down.

The Marketing Director's Handbook Volume 2 complements the original practical guide. It brings you up-to-date on the digital age and uniquely sets out how to manage specific digital marketing marketing activities and the marketing function. Most see digital marketing activity as separate to marketing. It is not. By understanding digital as part of the whole you will be more effective. The book is packed with practical insights to optimise search, advertising and social media performance. It fits like a jigsaw piece with the original practical guide to help you address all key marketing challenges. In addition, it helps you understand the 'big picture', and work with colleagues to lead and maximise the benefits to your organisation.

"The Marketing Director's Handbook" is the definitive practical guide for anyone managing or aspiring to manage a marketing function at board level. In a single reference source it contains practical advice, ideas, arguments, tools and strategies to enhance the profitable growth and value of your organisation. The book is structured to help the reader lead a marketing department, undertake key marketing activities and solve marketing problems. It contains a comprehensive range of simple tools and models reflecting best market-place practices to help structure and enhance your thinking. It is concise, jargon free and easy-to-read, use and digest. Anecdotes and visuals breathe life into learning points. Chapters are usefully labeled by the type of activity they'll help readers to undertake. It is jam-packed with best practice insights and ideas. Unconventionally, it focuses on practical learning points and not a compendium of case studies.