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| Introduction to Integrated Marketing Communications | p. 2 |
| An Introduction to Integrated Marketing Communications | p. 2 |
| The Growth of Advertising and Promotion | p. 6 |
| What Is Marketing? | p. 8 |
| Marketing Focuses on Relationships and Value | p. 8 |
| The Marketing Mix | p. 10 |
| Integrated Marketing Communications | p. 10 |
| The Evolution of IMC | p. 10 |
| A Cont... MORE | p. 12 |
| Reasons for the Growing Importance of IMC | p. 12 |
| The Role of IMC in Branding | p. 16 |
| The Promotional Mix: The Tools for IMC | p. 18 |
| Advertising | p. 18 |
| Direct Marketing | p. 20 |
| Interactive/Internet Marketing | p. 22 |
| Sales Promotion | p. 23 |
| Publicity/Public Relations | p. 24 |
| Personal Selling | p. 25 |
| IMC Involves Audience Contacts | p. 26 |
| The IMC Planning Process | p. 26 |
| Review of the Marketing Plan | p. 28 |
| Promotional Program Situation Analysis | p. 29 |
| Analysis of the Communications Process | p. 33 |
| Budget Determination | p. 33 |
| Developing the Integrated Marketing Communications Program | p. 34 |
| Monitoring, Evaluation, and Control | p. 34 |
| Perspective and Organization of This Text | p. 35 |
| The Role of IMC in the Marketing Process | p. 38 |
| Marketing Strategy and Analysis | p. 42 |
| Opportunity Analysis | p. 42 |
| Competitive Analysis | p. 43 |
| Target Market Selection | p. 45 |
| The Target Marketing Process | p. 46 |
| Identifying Marketings | p. 46 |
| Market Segmentation | p. 47 |
| Selecting a Target Market | p. 55 |
| Market Positioning | p. 56 |
| Developing the Marketing Planning Program | p. 61 |
| Product Decisions | p. 61 |
| Price Decisions | p. 64 |
| Distribution Channel Decisions | p. 65 |
| Developing Promotional Strategies: Push or Pull? | p. 66 |
| The Role of Advertising and Promotion | p. 67 |
| Integrated Marketing Program Situation Analysis | p. 70 |
| Organizing for Advertising and Promotion: The Role of Ad Agencies and Other Marketing Communication Organizations | p. 70 |
| Participants in the Integrated Marketing Communications Process: An Overview | p. 73 |
| Organizing for Advertising and Promotion in the Firm: The Client's Role | p. 74 |
| The Centralized System | p. 75 |
| The Decentralized System | p. 76 |
| In-House Agencies | p. 79 |
| Advertising Agencies | p. 81 |
| The Ad Agency's Role | p. 83 |
| Types of Ad Agencies | p. 84 |
| Other Types of Agencies and Services | p. 89 |
| Agency Compensation | p. 91 |
| Commissions from Media | p. 91 |
| Fee, Cost, and Incentive-Based Systems | p. 92 |
| Percentage Charges | p. 93 |
| The Future of Agency Compensation | p. 93 |
| Evaluating Agencies | p. 94 |
| Gaining and Losing Clients | p. 94 |
| Specialized Services | p. 101 |
| Direct-Marketing Agencies | p. 101 |
| Sales Promotion Agencies | p. 102 |
| Public Relations Firms | p. 102 |
| Interactive Agencies | p. 103 |
| Collateral Services | p. 104 |
| Marketing Research Companies | p. 104 |
| Integrated Marketing Communications Services | p. 104 |
| Pros and Cons of Integrated Services | p. 104 |
| Responsibility for IMC: Agency versus Client | p. 105 |
| Perspectives on Consumer Behavior | p. 108 |
| An Overview of Consumer Behavior | p. 111 |
| The Consumer Decision-Making Process | p. 113 |
| Problem Recognition | p. 113 |
| Examining Consumer Motivations | p. 115 |
| Information Search | p. 118 |
| Perception | p. 119 |
| Alternative Evaluation | p. 122 |
| Attitudes | p. 125 |
| Integration Processes and Decision Rules | p. 126 |
| Purchase Decision | p. 127 |
| Postpurchase Evaluation | p. 127 |
| Variations in Consumer Decision Making | p. 129 |
| The Consumer Learning Process | p. 130 |
| Behavioral Learning Theory | p. 130 |
| Cognitive Learning Theory | p. 133 |
| Environmental Influences on Consumer Behavior | p. 134 |
| Culture | p. 134 |
| Subcultures | p. 134 |
| Reference Groups | p. 135 |
| Situational Determinants | p. 137 |
| Alternative Approaches to Consumer Behavior | p. 137 |
| New Methodologies | p. 137 |
| New Insights | p. 139 |
| Analyzing the Communication Process | p. 142 |
| The Communication Process | p. 142 |
| The Nature of Communication | p. 145 |
| A Basic Model of Communication | p. 146 |
| Source Encoding | p. 146 |
| Message | p. 148 |
| Channel | p. 149 |
| Receiver/Decoding | p. 152 |
| Noise | p. 152 |
| Response/Feedback | p. 154 |
| Analyzing the Receiver | p. 154 |
| Identifying the Target Audience | p. 154 |
| The Response Process | p. 156 |
| Traditional Response Hierarchy Models | p. 156 |
| Alternative Response Hierarchies | p. 159 |
| Implications of the Alternative Response Models | p. 163 |
| The FCB Planning Model | p. 164 |
| Cognitive Processing of Communications | p. 165 |
| The Cognitive Response Approach | p. 165 |
| The Elaboration Likelihood Model | p. 167 |
| Summarizing the Response Process and the Effects of Advertising | p. 170 |
| Source, Message, and Channel Factors | p. 174 |
| Promotional Planning through the Persuasion Matrix | p. 177 |
| Source Factors | p. 178 |
| Source Credibility | p. 178 |
| Source Attractiveness | p. 182 |
| Choosing a Celebrity Endorser | p. 189 |
| Source Power | p. 191 |
| Message Factors | p. 192 |
| Message Structure | p. 192 |
| Message Appeals | p. 195 |
| Channel Factors | p. 201 |
| Personal versus Nonpersonal Channels | p. 201 |
| Effects of Alternative Mass Media | p. 201 |
| Effects of Context and Environment | p. 201 |
| Clutter | p. 202 |
| Objectives and Budgeting for Integrated Marketing Communications Programs | p. 206 |
| Establishing Objectives and Budgeting for the Promotional Program | p. 206 |
| The Value of Objectives | p. 209 |
| Communications | p. 210 |
| Planning and Decision Making | p. 210 |
| Measurement and Evaluation of Results | p. 210 |
| Determining Integrated Marketing Communications Objectives | p. 210 |
| Marketing versus Communications Objectives | p. 210 |
| Sales versus Communications Objectives | p. 211 |
| Sales-Oriented Objectives | p. 211 |
| Communications Objectives | p. 215 |
| Dagmar: An Approach to Setting Objectives | p. 220 |
| Characteristics of Objectives | p. 220 |
| Assessment of Dagmar | p. 222 |
| Problems in Setting Objectives | p. 223 |
| Improving Promotional Planners' Use of Objectives | p. 223 |
| Setting Objectives for the IMC Program | p. 224 |
| Establishing and Allocating the Promotional Budget | p. 226 |
| Establishing the Budget | p. 226 |
| Budgeting Approaches | p. 230 |
| Allocating the Budget | p. 242 |
| Developing the Integrated Marketing Communications Program | p. 248 |
| Creative Strategy: Planning and Development | p. 248 |
| The Importance of Creativity in Advertising | p. 252 |
| Advertising Creativity | p. 254 |
| What Is Creativity? | p. 254 |
| Different Perspectives on Advertising Creativity | p. 254 |
| Planning Creative Strategy | p. 258 |
| The Creative Challenge | p. 258 |
| Taking Creative Risks | p. 258 |
| The Perpetual Debate: Creative versus Hard-Sell Advertising | p. 259 |
| Creative Personnel | p. 260 |
| The Creative Process | p. 260 |
| Account Planning | p. 261 |
| Inputs to the Creative Process: Preparation, Incubation, Illumination | p. 262 |
| Inputs to the Creative Process: Verification, Revision | p. 267 |
| Creative Strategy Development | p. 268 |
| Advertising Campaigns | p. 268 |
| Copy Platform | p. 268 |
| The Search for the Major Selling Idea | p. 270 |
| Contemporary Approaches to the Big Idea | p. 276 |
| Creative Strategy: Implementation and Evaluation | p. 280 |
| Appeals and Execution Styles | p. 283 |
| Advertising Appeals | p. 283 |
| Advertising Execution | p. 290 |
| Creative Tactics | p. 299 |
| Creative Tactics for Print Advertising | p. 299 |
| Creative Tactics for Television | p. 302 |
| Client Evaluation and Approval of Creative Work | p. 307 |
| Guidelines for Evaluating Creative Output | p. 308 |
| Media Planning and Strategy | p. 314 |
| An Overview of Media Planning | p. 316 |
| Some Basic Terms and Concepts | p. 317 |
| The Media Plan | p. 319 |
| Problems in Media Planning | p. 319 |
| Developing the Media Plan | p. 321 |
| Market Analysis and Target Market Identification | p. 321 |
| To Whom Shall We Advertise? | p. 323 |
| What Internal and External Factors Are Operating? | p. 325 |
| Where to Promote? | p. 326 |
| Establishing Media Objectives | p. 328 |
| Developing and Implementing Media Strategies | p. 329 |
| The Media Mix | p. 329 |
| Target Market Coverage | p. 329 |
| Geographic Coverage | p. 330 |
| Scheduling | p. 330 |
| Reach versus Frequency | p. 332 |
| Creative Aspects and Mood | p. 337 |
| Flexibility | p. 339 |
| Budget Considerations | p. 339 |
| Evaluation and Follow-Up | p. 342 |
| Characteristics of Media | p. 342 |
| Sources of Media Information | p. 346 |
| Evaluation of Broadcast Media | p. 348 |
| Television | p. 351 |
| Advantages of Television | p. 351 |
| Limitations of Television | p. 354 |
| Buying Television Time | p. 358 |
| Network versus Spot | p. 358 |
| Methods of Buying Time | p. 363 |
| Selecting Time Periods and Programs | p. 364 |
| Cable Television | p. 365 |
| Measuring the TV Audience | p. 371 |
| Radio | p. 375 |
| Advantages of Radio | p. 376 |
| Limitations of Radio | p. 379 |
| Buying Radio Time | p. 381 |
| Time Classifications | p. 382 |
| Audience Information | p. 383 |
| Evaluation of Print Media | p. 388 |
| The Role of Magazines and Newspapers | p. 391 |
| Magazines | p. 391 |
| Classifications of Magazines | p. 392 |
| Advantages of Magazines | p. 393 |
| Disadvantages of Magazines | p. 400 |
| Magazine Circulation and Readership | p. 402 |
| Audience Information and Research for Magazines | p. 404 |
| Purchasing Magazine Advertising Space | p. 405 |
| The Future for Magazines | p. 406 |
| Newspapers | p. 409 |
| Types of Newspapers | p. 409 |
| Types of Newspapers Advertising | p. 412 |
| Advantages of Newspapers | p. 413 |
| Limitations of Newspapers | p. 414 |
| The Newspaper Audience | p. 415 |
| Purchasing Newspaper Space | p. 417 |
| Newspaper Rates | p. 418 |
| The Future for Newspapers | p. 418 |
| Online Delivery | p. 421 |
| Support Media | p. 424 |
| The Scope of the Support Media Industry | p. 427 |
| Traditional Support Media | p. 427 |
| Outdoor Advertising | p. 427 |
| Alternative Out-of-Home Media | p. 429 |
| In-Store Media | p. 431 |
| Miscellaneous Outdoor Media | p. 432 |
| Transit Advertising | p. 432 |
| Measurement in Out-of-Home Media | p. 436 |
| Promotional Products Marketing | p. 436 |
| Advantages and Disadvantages of Promotional Products Marketing | p. 437 |
| Measurement in Promotional Products Marketing | p. 439 |
| Yellow Pages Advertising | p. 439 |
| Other Traditional Support Media | p. 441 |
| Advertising in Movie Theaters | p. 441 |
| In-Flight Advertising | p. 443 |
| Nontraditional Support Media | p. 445 |
| Branded Entertainment | p. 445 |
| Guerrilla marketing | p. 449 |
| Miscellaneous Other Media | p. 449 |
| Direct Marketing | p. 456 |
| Direct Marketing | p. 458 |
| Defining Direct Marketing | p. 458 |
| The Growth of Direct Marketing | p. 460 |
| The Role of Direct Marketing in the IMC Program | p. 460 |
| Direct-Marketing Objectives | p. 462 |
| Developing a Database | p. 462 |
| Direct-Marketing Strategies and Media | p. 466 |
| Direct Selling | p. 473 |
| Evaluating the Effectiveness of Direct Marketing | p. 475 |
| Advantages and Disadvantages of Direct Marketing | p. 475 |
| The Internet and Interactive Media | p. 480 |
| A Brief History of the Internet | p. 483 |
| Why the Rapid Adoption of the Internet? | p. 483 |
| Web Objectives | p. 484 |
| Developing and Maintaining a Web Site | p. 485 |
| Communications Objectives | p. 486 |
| E-Commerce | p. 488 |
| The Internet and Integrated Marketing Communications | p. 488 |
| Advertising on the Internet | p. 490 |
| Sales Promotion on the Internet | p. 494 |
| Personal Selling on the Internet | p. 495 |
| Public Relations on the Internet | p. 495 |
| Direct Marketing on the Internet | p. 496 |
| Measuring Effectiveness of the Internet | p. 498 |
| Audience Measures and Measures of Effectiveness | p. 498 |
| Sources of Measurement Data | p. 500 |
| Advantages and Disadvantages of the Internet | p. 500 |
| Additional Interactive Media | p. 503 |
| Wireless | p. 504 |
| Sales Promotion | p. 506 |
| The Scope and Role of Sales Promotion | p. 509 |
| The Growth of Sales Promotion | p. 510 |
| Reasons for the Increase in Sales Promotion | p. 511 |
| Concerns about the Increased Role of Sales Promotion | p. 516 |
| Consumer Franchise-Building versus Nonfranchise-Building Promotions | p. 517 |
| Consumer-Oriented Sales Promotion | p. 518 |
| Objectives of Consumer-Oriented Sales Promotion | p. 518 |
| Consumer-Oriented Sales Promotion Techniques | p. 522 |
| Sampling | p. 522 |
| Couponing | p. 524 |
| Premiums | p. 530 |
| Contests and Sweepstakes | p. 532 |
| Refunds and Rebates | p. 533 |
| Bonus Packs | p. 535 |
| Price-Off Deals | p. 535 |
| Loyalty Programs | p. 537 |
| Event Marketing | p. 538 |
| Summary of Consumer-Oriented Promotions and Marketer Objectives | p. 539 |
| Trade-Oriented Sales Promotion Objectives of Trade-Oriented Sales Promotion | p. 540 |
| Types of Trade-Oriented Promotions | p. 542 |
| Coordinating Sales Promotions with Advertising and Other IMC Tools | p. 549 |
| Budget Allocation | p. 549 |
| Coordination of Ad and Promotion Themes | p. 549 |
| Media Support and Timing | p. 550 |
| Sales Promotion Abuse | p. 551 |
| Public Relations, Publicity, and Corporate Advertising | p. 556 |
| Public Relations | p. 559 |
| The Traditional Definition of PR | p. 559 |
| The New Role of PR | p. 560 |
| Integrating PR into the Promotional Mix | p. 561 |
| Marketing Public Relations Functions | p. 561 |
| The Process of Public Relations | p. 564 |
| Determining and Evaluating Public Attitudes | p. 564 |
| Establishing a PR Plan | p. 565 |
| Developing and Executing the PR Program | p. 566 |
| Advantages and Disadvantages of PR | p. 571 |
| Measuring the Effectiveness of PR | p. 573 |
| Publicity | p. 574 |
| The Power of Publicity | p. 575 |
| The Control and Dissemination of Publicity | p. 575 |
| Advantages and Disadvantages of Publicity | p. 577 |
| Measuring the Effectiveness of Publicity | p. 577 |
| Corporate Advertising | p. 577 |
| Objectives of Corporate Advertising | p. 579 |
| Types of Corporate Advertising | p. 579 |
| Advantages and Disadvantages of Corporate Advertising | p. 586 |
| Measuring the Effectiveness of Corporate Advertising | p. 586 |
| Personal Selling | p. 590 |
| The Scope of Personal Selling | p. 592 |
| The Role of Personal Selling in the IMC Program | p. 593 |
| Determining the Role of Personal Selling | p. 593 |
| The Nature of Personal Selling | p. 594 |
| Advantages and Disadvantages of Personal Selling | p. 600 |
| Combining Personal Selling with Other Promotional Tools | p. 602 |
| Combining Personal Selling and Advertising | p. 602 |
| Combining Personal Selling and Public Relations | p. 603 |
| Combining Personal Selling and Direct Marketing | p. 604 |
| Combining Personal Selling and Sales Promotion | p. 605 |
| Combining Personal Selling with the Internet | p. 605 |
| Evaluating the Personal Selling Effort | p. 607 |
| Criteria for Evaluating Personal Selling | p. 607 |
| Monitoring, Evaluation, and Control | p. 612 |
| Measuring the Effectiveness of the Promotional Program | p. 612 |
| Arguments For and Against Measuring Effectiveness | p. 615 |
| Reasons to Measure Effectiveness | p. 615 |
| Reasons Not to Measure Effectiveness | p. 617 |
| Conducting Research to Measure Advertising Effectiveness | p. 619 |
| What to Test | p. 619 |
| When to Test | p. 620 |
| Where to Test | p. 622 |
| How to Test | p. 622 |
| The Testing Process | p. 623 |
| Concept Generation and Testing | p. 623 |
| Rough Art, Copy, and Commercial Testing | p. 624 |
| Pretesting of Finished Ads | p. 627 |
| Market Testing of Ads | p. 632 |
| Establishing a Program for Measuring Advertising Effects | p. 640 |
| Problems with Current Research Methods | p. 640 |
| Essentials of Effective Testing | p. 641 |
| Measuring the Effectiveness of Other Program Elements | p. 641 |
| Measuring the Effectiveness of Sales Promotions | p. 641 |
| Measuring the Effectiveness of Nontraditional Media | p. 643 |
| Measuring the Effectiveness of Sponsorships | p. 643 |
| Measuring the Effectiveness of Other IMC Program Elements | p. 644 |
| Special Topics and Perspectives | p. 650 |
| International Advertising and Promotion | p. 650 |
| The Importance of International Markets | p. 653 |
| The Role of International Advertising and Promotion | p. 655 |
| The International Environment | p. 656 |
| The Economic Environment | p. 656 |
| The Demographic Environment | p. 657 |
| The Cultural Environment | p. 659 |
| The Political/Legal Environment | p. 663 |
| Global versus Localized Advertising | p. 664 |
| Advantages of Global Marketing and Advertising | p. 665 |
| Problems with Global Advertising | p. 665 |
| When Is Globalization Appropriate? | p. 667 |
| Global Products, Local Messages | p. 670 |
| Decision Areas in International Advertising | p. 672 |
| Organizing for International Advertising | p. 672 |
| Agency Selection | p. 673 |
| Advertising Research | p. 675 |
| Creative Decisions | p. 677 |
| Media Selection | p. 678 |
| The Roles of Other Promotional Mix Elements in International Marketing | p. 681 |
| Sales Promotion | p. 681 |
| Personal Selling | p. 684 |
| Public Relations | p. 685 |
| The Internet | p. 686 |
| Regulation of Advertising and Promotion | p. 690 |
| Self-Regulation | p. 694 |
| Self-Regulation by Advertisers and Agencies | p. 694 |
| Self-Regulation by Trade Associations | p. 694 |
| Self-Regulation by Businesses | p. 697 |
| The National Advertising Review Council and the NAD/NARB | p. 697 |
| Self-Regulation by Media | p. 700 |
| Appraising Self-Regulation | p. 704 |
| Federal Regulation of Advertising | p. 704 |
| Advertising and the First Amendment | p. 705 |
| Background on Federal Regulation of Advertising | p. 705 |
| The Federal Trade Commission | p. 707 |
| The Concept of Unfairness | p. 708 |
| Deceptive Advertising | p. 708 |
| The FTC's Handling of Deceptive Advertising Cases | p. 713 |
| Current Status of Federal Regulation by the FTC | p. 716 |
| Additional Federal Regulatory Agencies | p. 717 |
| The Lanham Act | p. 722 |
| State Regulation | p. 723 |
| Regulation of Other Promotional Areas | p. 724 |
| Sales Promotion | p. 724 |
| Marketing on the Internet | p. 728 |
| Evaluating the Social, Ethical, and Economic Aspects of Advertising and Promotion | p. 734 |
| Advertising and Promotion Ethics | p. 738 |
| Social and Ethical Criticisms of Advertising | p. 740 |
| Advertising as Untruthful or Deceptive | p. 740 |
| Advertising as Offensive or in Bad Taste | p. 741 |
| Advertising and Children | p. 745 |
| Social and Cultural Consequences | p. 749 |
| Summarizing Social Effects | p. 759 |
| Economic Effects of Advertising | p. 760 |
| Effects on Consumer Choice | p. 760 |
| Effects on Competition | p. 762 |
| Effects on Product Costs and Prices | p. 763 |
| Summarizing Economic Effects | p. 764 |
| Glossary of Advertising and Promotion Terms | p. 769 |
| Endnotes | p. 783 |
| Credits and Acknowledgments | p. 814 |
| Name and Company Index | p. 817 |
| Subject Index | p. 828 |
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