Essentials of marketing communications / Chris Fill.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Essentials of Marketing Communications offers a concise and student-friendly introduction to the principles and theories of marketing communications.

Written in a lively and engaging style, the book provides you with a coherent and consistent text, blending marketing communications principles and theory with practice. Divided into three parts, the book considers the strategic issues associated with managing marketing communications activities before moving on to look at branding, budgeting and evaluation issues and concluding with chapters on stakeholders, international marketing communications, and the operations and personnel involved in the industry.

The book is the essential companion for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying Marketing Communications. It is also an invaluable resource for students studying for professional marketing qualifications, most notably those studying courses offered by the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Part 1 Introduction to Marketing Communications
• Chapter 1 The Scope of Marketing Communications
• Chapter 2 Communication: interactivity & conversations
• Chapter 3 Audiences: attitudes, behaviour & decision making
• Part 2 Managing Marketing Communications
• Chapter 4 Strategies, objectives and positioning
• Chapter 5 Integration and Planning
• Chapter 6 Branding, Budgeting & Evaluation
• Chapter 7 Agencies: Practice, Regulation & International Communications
• Chapter 8 Shaping Relationships with Marketing Communications
• Part 3 The Marketing Communications Mix
• Chapter 9 Advertising
• Chapter 10 Public Relations and Sponsorship
• Chapter 11 Direct Marketing and Personal Selling
• Chapter 12 Sales Promotion, Exhibitions and Product Placement
• Chapter 13 Media: conventional and digital
• Chapter 14 Interactive Marketing Communications
• Chapter 15 Content: credibility, messages and creative approaches

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Chris Fill is the founder and Managing Director of Fillassociates ( www.fillassociates.co.uk ). The company develops learning materials related to marketing and corporate communications, provides training, evaluation and consultancy for organisations wishing to manage their marketing communications and corporate reputation. Formerly a Principal Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, Chris is a Visiting Professor at several European Business Schools and a Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Marketing where he is the Senior Examiner responsible for the Professional Postgraduate Diploma module, Managing Corporate Reputation .