Marketing and Advertising Planning: Top-Down, Bottom-Up, and IMC, 234
The Marketing Plan, 237
The Importance of Marketing Planning, 237 The Effect of the Marketing Plan on Advertising, 237 Top-Down Marketing, 237 Bottom-Up Marketing: How Small Companies Plan, 243
The New Marketing Mantra: Relationship Marketing, 244
The Importance of Relationships, 245 Levels of Relationships, 245
Using IMC to Make Relationships Work, 246
IMC: The Concept and the Process, 247 The Dimensions of IMC, 249 The IMC Approach to Marketing and Advertising Planning, 250 The Importance of IMC to the Study of Advertising, 252
The Advertising Plan, 252
Reviewing the Marketing Plan, 252 Setting Advertising Objectives, 252 Advertising Strategy and the Creative Mix, 255 The Secret to Successful Planning, 258
Allocating Funds for Advertising, 258
Advertising: An Investment in Future Sales, 258 Methods of Allocating Funds, 263 The Bottom Line, 265 |