Everyone knows the importance of good marketing, but few companies consistently create successful campaigns. Spending marketing dollars wisely, especially now when the economy is in a downturn, is more important than ever. Based on over forty years of combined marketing experience, consultants Sally Beamer and Gerardo Tabio will teach you a solid marketing strategy to develop innovative ideas targeted to the interests and wants of your customers. Using a methodology that they have honed with both large corporations--like Coca Cola, Volkswagen, and Wendy's--and small, locally owned businesses, such as car dealerships, jewelry stores, and radio stations, the authors guide you step by step to create a marketing plan that will produce positive, measurable results. From their wealth of experience, Beamer and Tabio use many entertaining and enlightening anecdotes so that you can immediately understand and implement their advice. Their simple formula allows you to quickly generate a lengthy list of diverse, novel, and relevant ideas, while holding to a high standard. Then you will learn how to troubleshoot and refine this list to find the best ideas to reach your target customers and add to the bottom line. Using the ingenious approach taught in this book, companies both large and small will be able to develop customized, novel ideas that meet specific marketing objectives and vastly improve the likelihood of a campaign's success.