Concurrent Marketing: Integrating Product, Sales, and Service

by Harvard Business Publishing, Frank V. Cespedes

Concurrent Marketing examines certain "key interfaces" that exist between sales, marketing, and customer service. Shows how the field sales force serves as a crucial link in organizing and implementing marketing efforts, examines issues that can impede effective integration of the three groups, and provides specific examples of how different companies address these issues as they move toward interdependence.

336 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) is a publisher founded in 1994 as a not-for-profit, independent corporation and an affiliate of Harvard Business School (distinct from Harvard University Press), with a focus on improving business management practices. The company offers articles, books, case studies, simulations, videos, learning programs, and digital tools to organizations and subscribers.
HBP consists of three market units: Education, Corporate Learning, and Harvard Business Review Group. Their offering consists of print and digital media (Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Review Press books, Harvard Business School cases), events, digital learning (Harvard ManageMentor, HMM Spark), blended learning, and campus experiences.

Reviews

[Lori Grant · Rating 4 out of 5]

A should-read book on marketing strategy for the knowledge worker, manager, executive, or entrepreneur.