CIM Coursebook 04/05 Marketing Communications - Softcover

Hughes MD, M D Graham; Fill, Director Of Fillassociates Visiting Professor At Poitiers Business School Formerly Principal Lecturer At The University Of Portsmouth And Senior Examiner At The Chartered Institute Of Marketing Chris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0750661925 ISBN 13: 9780750661928

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2004

Synopsis

Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann's 2004-2005 CIM Coursebook series offers you the complete package for exam success. Comprising fully updated Coursebook texts that are revised annually, and free online access to the MarketingOnline learning interface, it offers everything you need to study for your CIM qualification.

Carefully structured to link directly to the CIM syllabus, this Coursebook is user-friendly, interactive and relevant, ensuring it is the definitive companion to this year's CIM marketing course. Each Coursebook is accompanied by access to MARKETINGONLINE (www.marketingonline.co.uk), a unique online learning resource designed specifically for CIM students, where you can:

* Annotate, customise and create personally tailored notes using the electronic version of the Coursebook
* Receive regular tutorials on key topics from Marketing Knowledge
* Search the Coursebook online for easy access to definitions and key concepts
* Access the glossary for a comprehensive list of marketing terms and their meanings
* Co-written by the CIM Senior Examiner for the Marketing Communications module to guide you through the 2004-2005 syllabus
* Each text is crammed with a range of learning objectives, cases, questions, activities, definitions, study tips and summaries to support and test your understanding of the theory
* Contains sample assessment material written exclusively for this Coursebook by the Senior Examiner, as well as past examination papers to enable you to practise what has been learned and help prepare for the exam

About this title

From the Back Cover

Marketing Communications: Contexts, Strategies and Applications, 3rd Edition

, uses theoretical frameworks and a wealth of examples to encourage students to adopt an analytical and reflective approach to this subject. With a primarily academic orientation, three sections cover contextual issues, strategy and the elements of the promotional mix. Relationship marketing concepts underpin the integrated approach to communications.

New to this edition:

All chapters have been updated plus

• Seven brand new chapters

Business-to- business marketing communications; Branding and the role of marketing communications; Interactive communications strategy; Online marketing communications; Marketing communication strategy and planning; Evaluation of marketing communications; Exhibitions, packaging and field marketing.

• New mini-cases and exercises to consolidate learning and conclude each chapter
• New colour plates and black & white exhibits of many leading brands to link theory & practice.

Marketing Communications: Contexts, Strategies and Applications, 3rd Edition, is recommended for students studying Marketing or Business Studies at undergraduate level, postgraduate students on Marketing related programmes, and it is the essential text for those studying the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) Diploma module, Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC).

For students:

A companion web-site for this text provides:

• a range of mini-case studies, including all the recent CIM examination cases for the IMC module
• download files, including an updated version of the Media chapter from the previous edition
• multiple choice questions to develop learning
• hyperlinks to pertinent and interesting web-sites

For tutors:

Instructors Manual to download containing:

• a range of teaching schemes
• key points about each chapter
• PowerPoint Slides
• exercises
• additional mini case studies

All found at www.booksites.net/fill

Chris Fill is Principal Lecturer in Marketing and Strategic Management at the University of Portsmouth. He is also the Senior Examiner for the Integrated Marketing Communications module offered by the Chartered Institute of Marketing on their Postgraduate Diploma programme.

About the Author

After 20 years sales and marketing experience in the engineering, automotive and academic publishing sectors, Graham joined Leeds Business School in 1992. He is now a Principal Lecturer in Marketing teaching marketing communications and with responsiblity for postgraduate and professional courses in the School of Business Strategy. These include CIM, IDM and IPR programmes. He has been a CIM examiner in Integrated Marketing Communications for a number of years and is now Senior Examiner for this module during the period of CIM syllabus change. He is also involved with CIM as an external advisor on study centre accredition and an examiner for CIM certificated programmes. Graham has wide experience as an external examiner for marketing programmes at several other Universities and as a Subject Specialist Reviewer for the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education. He has presented a number of conference papers and made contributions to texts in the marketing communications field.

About this edition

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0750661925
• ISBN 13: 9780750661928
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288