Uniting industry experience with academic expertise, the authors combine marketing communications and advertising with the branding perspective, providing students with a practical planning system and a seven-step approach to creating a comprehensive marketing plan.
The new SAGE Marketing Communications textbook is a contemporary evolution of the well-known Rossiter and Percy Advertising and Promotion Management textbook, which at its peak was adopted by six of the top 10 U.S. business schools - Stanford, Wharton, Columbia, Berkeley, UCLA, and Northwestern - as well as by the London Business School, Oxford's Said Business School, and by most of the top business schools in Europe such as Erasmus University Rotterdam, INSEAD, and the Stockholm School of Economics.
Key features include:
- An author analytical approach with checklist frameworks in chapters, providing students with a systematic guide to doing marketing communications.
- A managerial perspective, helping students to become a marketing manager and study as though they are in the role.
- Coverage of key new marketing communications topics such as branding and social media.
In each of the end-of-chapter questions there are mini-cases that involve real brands, and the numerous examples throughout the text refer to globally known brands such as Gillette, Mercedes, Revlon, and Toyota.
The book is supported by online instructor resources, including PowerPoint slides and teaching outlines for each chapter, multiple choice exam questions and answers, team project templates, true and false quizzes and answers, and an instructor manual.
Suitable for Marketing Communications and Advertising & Promotion modules at UG and PG levels.
Table of Contents:
Part I: Marcoms and Branding
Chapter 1: Marketing Communications and Campaign Planning
Chapter 2: Branding and Brand Positioning
Part II: Marcoms Campaign Objectives
Chapter 3: Campaign Target Audience Selection and Action Objectives
Chapter 4: Campaign Communication Objectives
Part III: Creative Strategy
Chapter 5: Key Benefit Claim and The Creative Idea
Chapter 6: Brand Awareness and Brand Attitude (Grid) Tactics
Chapter 7: Attention Tactics and Pretesting
Part IV: Sales Promotion Strategy
Chapter 8: Manufacturer and Retailer Promotions
Part V: Media Strategy
Chapter 9: Media-Type Selection and the Reach Pattern
Chapter 10: Effective Frequency and Strategic Scheduling Rules
Part VI: Campaign Management
Chapter 11: Setting the Campaign Budget
Chapter 12: Campaign Tracking
Part VII: Other Marcoms
Chapter 13: Corporate Image Advertising, Sponsorships, and PR
Chapter 14: Personal Selling and Customer Database Marketing
Chapter 15: Social Marketing and Ethics
About the Author :
John R. Rossiter, Professor of Marketing, University of Wollongong, Australia. Larry Percy, Professor of Marketing, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Lars Bergkvist, Professor of Marketing, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Review :
I was already a big fan of the seminal Rossiter & Percy textbook. I read the first edition as a student and became fascinated by advertising. Later, I used the second edition in my classes. Unsurprisingly, the new Rossiter, Percy, & Bergkvist book is an excellent textbook: clearly structured, based on a sound theoretical approach, and highly relevant for marketing practice. This symbioses of theory and practice provides students with a perfect knowledge base for their later job in marketing management.
Rossiter, Percy, and Bergkvist’s Marketing Communications is a delightful guide full of essential concepts and theories for our students who are keen to learn modern "marcoms". The authors take readers a delightful journey into a magical world of branding and communication.
I grew up with this book. And as the authors continue to refine and update it, Marketing Communications represents one of the truly great insights into advertising, marketing and consumers.
This book, influenced by seasoned ad industry authorities, contains all you need to know about creating and managing a communication effort from brand positioning to and campaign objectives to campaign management. All students of communication in a tough environment should have this book on their shelf.
This book represents a successful, meaningful synthesis of the thoughts and practical experiences of the authors. Readers will find strategy-based insights for marketing communications together with implementable tactics. This book could function as a stand-alone text for undergraduate and graduate students and as a resource for practitioners who desire additional perspectives on how to manage their marketing communication efforts.
