Integrated
Marketing Communication
A Systems
Approach
Using a systems approach, this text explores the vital link between the marketing
communications mix and strategic marketing. How-to in focus, it leads students
step-by-step through the entire process of planning and managing the marketing
communications tools to ensure the attainment of marketing and corporate-level goals.
Focuses
on the planning and management process of marketing communications
and how to strategically plan and manage marketing communications, e.g.:
How to
strategically plan and manage all the varied marketing communications tasks as a system.
How to
coordinate among the various elements of marketing communications to ensure consistency.
How to
create a learning system which will aid in making periodic adjustments in the
communications elements to achieve better performance.
How to
plan and manage the marketing communication tools to ensure the attainment of marketing
and corporate-level goals.
How to
assemble the elements of the marketing communications mix and adjust them periodically in
such a way as to achieve marketing and corporate-level goals.
Introduces
the concept of integrated marketing communications (IMC), systems concepts
used to build the systems model of IMC, and a specific systems model of IMC.
Explores,
in depth, the core of the systems model strategy and tactics viewing
them as a process hierarchy or decision tree.
Describes
objectives and performance measures, budget, and monitoring and control.
Considers
analysis and planning.
Highlights
in detail the principles of systems integration and explains how to best use them.
Contents
I.
INTRODUCTION.
1.
Integrated Marketing Communications.
2. Systems Concepts.
3. A Systems Model of Integrated Marketing Communications.
II. STRATEGY AND TACTICS.
4.
Corporate Strategy and Tactics.
5. Marketing Strategy and Tactics.
6. Marketing Communications Strategy and Tactics.
III. OBJECTIVES, BUDGETING, AND CONTROL.
7.
Objectives and Performance Measures.
8. Budget.
9. Monitoring and Control.
IV. ANALYSIS AND PLANNING.
10.
Analysis and Planning: Selecting a Strategy.
11. Analysis and Planning: Setting Objectives.
12. Analysis and Planning: Budgeting for Marketing Communications.
V. THE MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AT LARGE.
13.
Lessons in Integration.
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