SOSTAC ® Guide to your Perfect Digital Marketing Plan 2025
The AI Edition
Professionals love the simplicity of SOSTAC® Planning method. This short book helps you to write plans that:
1. Get Approved
2. Boost Results
3. Make Better Decisions
4. Build Strong Strategies (separate from tactics)
5. Deliver a Reassuring Sense of Order
SOSTAC® has changed the work lives of so many marketers and business owners over the years.
SOSTAC® Delivers Success
whether growing businesses, winning pitches, attracting investors or getting a new job, SOSTAC® planning skills delivers great plans. SOSTAC® was voted in the Top 3 Biz Models Worldwide by the Chartered Inst of Marketing.
The long-awaited update of the popular SOSTAC® Guide to your Perfect Plan 2025 (AI Ed.) is finally released.
What’s New in SOSTAC® Guide 2025 (AI edition)? + Why is SOSTAC® so popular? [see post]
The SOSTAC® Plan’s simple structure was voted in Top 3 marketing models worldwide. It can be learned in 3 minutes while the new guide can be skimmed in 30 minutes and digested in 3 hours.
What They Say about SOSTAC® Planning Methodology
‘saves time’
‘catapulted my career’
‘avoids costly omissions’
‘trebled our conversion rates’
‘creates impressive strategies’
‘a whole new world of logical thinking’
‘the clearest approach to strategic marketing planning’
So, What’s New in SOSTAC® Guide 2025 (AI Ed)?
In addition to showing you how to:
ask great questions,
make better decisions and
write the perfect plan,
this 10th edition, is very special.
This SOSTAC® 2025 AI Edition also includes:
- The Advantages and Disadvantages of AI (1st chapter)
- 3 AI Waves + 4 AI Limiting Factors (1st chapter)
- The Essence of Ethics being central in AI 1st chapter)
- How AI’s Virtuous Data Cycle is also key (1st chapter)
- Some AI tools, tips and warnings – sprinkled throughout the book
Become a SOSTAC(r) Certified Planner
SOSTAC® 2025 Guide helps you to write great plans and/or to prepare for the optional assessment to become a SOSTAC® Certified Planner. See below.
I’ve tried to make this edition particularly entertaining as well as educating i.e. an edutainment experience. If absorbed, this book will improve people’s work-lives, careers and organisations performances/results. I really do hope you enjoy this SOSTAC® Guide 2025 (AI ed.). I welcome any feedback.
Paul
PR Smith
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Or take the 1-hour SOSTAC® course in Udemy. 
Or take the full SOSTAC® Certified Planner (15-20 hour) online course and become a
Marketing Communications
– Integrating Online and Offline, Customer Engagement and Digital Technologies
The 8th ed
Described by the Chart Inst of Marketing as a ‘Marketing Major alongside Kotler and Peppers’, this is the comprehensive marketing communications tome which covers all aspects of communications tools in a lively and invigorating way. Includes SOSTAC® Planning applied to each of the ten tactical comms tools. This cutting-edge 8th ed also demonstrates how to integrate AI into marcomms. “It is very accessible, demystifying the relationship between tech, AI, analytics and creativity in marcomms.” Dr. Ray Sylvester, Kelly School of Business, Indiana University, USA. “Filled with examples to inspire you” Dr Dave Chaffey, Cofounder Smart Insights. “This is the single most comprehensive Marketing Communications text” Professor Merlin Stone, IBM Professor of Relationship Marketing, Bristol Business School, UWE.
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Digital Marketing eXcellence
– Planning, Optimizing and Integrating Online Marketing
The 6th Edition
Described simply as a ‘must-have for marketers’, this is the recommended text by the Chartered Institute of Marketing’s Professional Award in Digital Marketing. This is a comprehensive text that explores digital marketing and eCommerce in a practical and entertaining way. It breaks down the subject into “the type of granular level that should allow busy marketing managers to find exactly what they need in a few moments.” Danny Meadows-Klue, President, Interactive Advertising Bureau (Europe). It does what it says on the tin – planning and optimizing your digital marketing.
The SOSTAC® Guide To Writing The Perfect Marketing Plan
Learn how to write the perfect plan in 5 minutes. Then perfect it in a few hours. SOSTAC® is used across the world. Listed by the Chart Inst Marketing in the Top 3 Global Business Models over the last 100 years. The book links to PR Smith video interviews with world gurus from Harvard to Boston to McKinseys plus top marketing directors.
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Great Answers to Tough Marketing Questions
Refreshingly easy to read – intriguing and entertaining one page answers – everything you need to know about marketing. “Buy this book. You will be richly rewarded.” Warren Keegan, Professor of Marketing and International Business, Pace University, New York “A humorous, essential quick-reference guide to marketing” Peter Jones, Worldwide Training Manager, IBM Global Services. Although written in 1999 it is now something of a classic.
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Strategic Marketing Communications
Described as breaking new ground, this book fills the gap created by the weakest part of most marketing campaigns – the marketing communications strategy. Though it delivers more bangs for your buck, few organisations have crystal clear, razor sharp strategies. “There’s no point rowing harder if you’re rowing in the wrong direction.” Kenichi Ohmae (business guru). Although this revised edition was written way back in 1999, it still helps to explore a more strategic approach to marcomms.
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Great Moments of Sportsmanship and Extraordinary Sports People
An inspirational and unique collection of two minute stories which shows how the brotherhood of sport brings people together. This book and rich web site with videos and discussions captures these magical moments. There is also an educational workbook available. “This book should be the new bible.”, John Holmes BBC Radio Nottingham.
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