includes glossary and index

Contents: Part One: Integrated marketing communication: processes, brand equity, and marcom's role in introducing new brands: Overview of integrated marketing communications -- Marketing communication challenges: enhancing brand equity -- influencing behaviour, and being accountable -- facilitating the success of new brands -- Part Two: The fundamental marcom decisions: targeting, positioning, objective setting and budgeting -- Part Three: Advertising management: Overview of advertising management -- Effective and creative advertising messages -- Message appeals and endorsers -- Measuring adverting messages effectiveness -- Advertising media: planning and analysis -- Traditional advertising media -- Internet advertising -- Other advertising media -- Part Four: Sales promotion management: Sales promotion and role of trad promotion -- Sampling and couponing -- Premiums and other promotions -- Part Five: Other marcom tools: Marketing-oriented public relation and word-of-mouth management -- Event and cause sponsorship -- Signage and point of purchase communication -- Part Six: Marcom constraints: Ethical, regulatory, and environmental issues.