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Focusing on the planning and execution of Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC), this book emphasizes a structured approach to developing effective strategies. It balances theoretical concepts with practical applications, guiding readers on how to implement these theories for successful communication. The systematic methodology presented aims to enhance the reader's understanding of IMC, making it a valuable resource for both students and professionals in the field.

The authors deal with advertising from a strategic perspective. They begin with a broad look at what advertising is meant to do and then provide the reader with the keys to developing effective advertising and promotion campaigns.

Strategic Brand Management approaches the subject of brand management from a unique socio-cultural perspective, providing students with an understanding of the dynamics of the subject and enabling them to engage with the issues that lie within. While adopting this innovative framework, thebook also integrates more traditional notions of the brand in terms of equity and positioning within that framework.

Here is a book that supplies students with all of the theoretical and practical direction they need to execute effective advertising and promotional campaigns. The book offers many new insights into advertising and eliminates many of the myths about how advertising works. Reviewers have praised the book as being "light-years ahead of the competition. " One look at the table of contents reveals its in-depth coverage of crucial areas that other books neglect. A clear specification of marketing objectives,target audience action objectives,and communication objectives allows students to easily identify appropriate goals for any advertising or promotional campaign. The book features a systematic six-step approach to the subject,with a corresponding checklist plan at the back of the book that makes projects and cases easy to organize based on the book's content. Discussion of alternative communication objectives demonstrates how advertising works in different situations and when to use and when to avoid various tactics. Fully integrated coverage of sales promotion includes an evaluation of best techniques for various promotion situations,illustrating how and when each are applied.

Strategic Brand Management, Second Edition, adopts an innovative socio-cultural perspective that provides students with an understanding of the dynamics of the field and enables them to engage with the issues that lie within. At the same time, the text also integrates more traditional notionsof the brand in terms of equity and positioning. The wide experience of the author team--from consulting with industry leaders to teaching demanding MBA and executive development courses--has resulted in a text full of exciting ideas that are firmly grounded in managerial implications andapplications.Building on a solid theoretical foundation, the authors also apply theory to examples throughout, helping students to understand the practical applications of brand management. By using a wealth of new and up-to-date illustrative examples and case material--including coverage of high-techinnovation--they have created a text that is both cutting-edge in terms of theory and also accessible to students.