The BASIC marketing planning process: a practical framework for the smaller business

Notes that although in recent years much has been written about the critical, if not overwhelming contribution of effective marketing planning to the achievement of competitive success, most of the literature deals with the application of marketing planning as it relates to big business. By contrast, provides an understanding of how all the key principles can be applied in the smaller business, in the form of a practical step‐by‐step framework for plan development.