This workbook is designed to help students prepare and present a professional campaign in conjunction with their advertising, promotion, or IMC text. Using a 10-step guide, the Campaign Planner for Promotions and Integrated Marketing Communications, 2e clearly explains the process of planning and executing a successful campaign. Students have the option of working alone or in agency teams to complete the workbook activities. Students working in teams will learn about specific agency roles as they create their campaign. Acting as a simulated agency, students provide solutions for a chosen client's promotional problem. Problem solutions involve advertising, public relations and promotional aspects to deliver a truly integrated marketing communications plan. To aid students in the development of campaign objectives, strategies and tactics, a case synopsis featuring Starbucks Coffee is included as an example brand. Finally, students are asked to develop a Plans Book containing their recommendations for a successful campaign.

Concise yet comprehensive, this practical, campaign-oriented guide follows the logical progression

Campaign Planner for Integrated Brand Communications is designed to help consumers prepare and present a professional campaign in conjunction with their advertising, promotion, or IMC text. Using a 10-step guide, this workbook clearly explains the process of planning and executing a successful campaign. Consumers have the option of working alone or in teams to complete the workbook activities. Consumers working in teams will be exposed to and learn about specific agency roles as they create their campaign.

Concise yet comprehensive, this practical guide covers the critical role of the account planner in advertising. The new edition of Advertising Account Planning features several new topics as well as deeper content in existing areas based on feedback from students, instructors and practitioners.

For courses in Integrated Marketing Communications, Advertising Principles, and Advertising and Promotions. Pure IMC: an integrated approach to teaching integrated marketing communications, with a solid advertising core not an advertising book with a few other chapters tacked on. Furthermore, the text gives students an integrated learning experience by incorporating a Building an IMC Campaign project, with free IMC Plan Pro software in every copy, so that by the end of the course students will have a portfolio-ready campaign.

Now in its second edition, this textbook explores the continuing transformation of advertising, sales promotion, and public relations functions within the marketing discipline. The content focuses on emerging new technologies, as well as established digital and legacy media, as the reader is guided through the process of developing and implementing a comprehensive Integrated Marketing Communication plan for companies, organizations, and brands. Clear, concise, and practical, the book takes the reader through consumer, market, and competitive research; creative conceptualization; market segmentation, identification of a target audience, and brand positioning; as well as strategic decisions involving the timing, placement, and intensity of advertising, sales promotion, public relations, and brand visibility. The new edition emphasizes the importance of social media, website development, search engine optimization, mobile marketing, brand promotion events, and retail store connectivity. Updated to include more digital content with detailed international examples, this new edition adds four new chapters including Integrated Marketing Communication objectives, budgets, and metrics, legacy media planning, business-to-business marketing strategies, and innovative technologies with topics such as artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, synthetic media, virtual reality, and voice marketing. Upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students will appreciate this lucid, up-to-date text, as will business professionals in executive education and certificate programs. Experiential learning is provided with chapter assignments and a continuity case study woven into the textbook. The second edition is also accompanied by robust online resources, including PowerPoint slides, chapter videos, lecture notes, classroom exercises, digital flash cards, test banks, an instructor resource book, and interactive templates for preparing an Integrated Marketing Communication Plan.