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The sixth edition of Terence ShimpÆs market-leading Advertising, Promotion, and Supplemental Aspects of Integrated Marketing Communications fully integrates all aspects of marketing communication. While continuing to focus on the time honored, IMC methods, the text has undergone a significant revision to reflect new academic literature and practitioner developments in the field. Comprehensive treatment on the fundamentals of advertising and promotion combine with the InternetÆs impact on IMC. A major focus of this revision, Internet issues have been seamlessly integrated throughout the text to highlight the dynamic relationship between basic marketing communication concepts and the power of the Internet.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #521162 in Books
• Published on: 2002-07-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 672 pages

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• ISBN13: 9780030352713
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About the Author
Terence A. Shimp received his doctorate from the University of Maryland and taught for four years at Kent State University before moving to the University of South Carolina, where he was a faculty member for 29 years. While at the University of South Carolina, Shimp was the W. W. Johnson Distinguished Foundation Fellow and for 12 years was the Chair of the Marketing Department in the Moore School of Business. He now is Distinguished Professor Emeritus but continues to research, write, teach occasionally, and work with Ph.D. students. Shimp earned a number of teaching awards during his career, including the Amoco Foundation Award that named him the outstanding teacher at the University of South Carolina in 1990. He has published widely in the areas of marketing, consumer behavior, and advertising. Shimp was the 2001 recipient of the American Academy of Advertising's lifetime award for outstanding contributions to research in advertising. Shimp is past president of the Association for Consumer Research and past president of the Journal of Consumer Research policy board. He has represented the Federal Trade Commission and various state agencies as an expert witness in issues concerning advertising deception and unfairness.

Customer Reviews

i love this book
Cheung Yin Fan, Octo from City University of Hong Kong, Department of Marketing

Advertising is what my favorite study in University. Indeed, advertising plays a critical role on promote the products and brands, therefore, a well integrated marketing communication plan can help organizations to promote the product and service in the market effectively.

This book, which is written by Terence A. Shimp, provides a basic knowledge and information on design the well integrated marketing communication plan. And the book is divided into six parts as follows.

Part one
It is a introduction of the IMC program in the market and its role in brand equity enhancement.

Part two
It will consider the IMC in the customer¡¦s perspective. Since the main role of IMC plan is communicating the message to customers and persuade the customer to make a purchase decision. It is necessary to understand how the customers think, therefore, auditor introduce the consumer processing model and hedonic experiential model.

The book mentions that a well IMC plan should identify the brand image first, and then understand the target customer needs and wants. It can help the marketers to know what the target customers concerns to make a purchase decision; therefore the marketers can design promotion strategy, which match the customers¡¦ preference, provide some information and satisfy the customers¡¦ requirement.

Part three
The auditor introduces the adoption and diffusion process with the broader issue of how an innovation is communicated and used to promote the new brands in the market.

Also it considers some factors that would affect to promote the new brands. They are opinion leadership, word of mouth, brands name, logos, packages, and point of purchase materials.

Part four
This part concerns about how to implement and manage an IMC plan. It consists of introducing the creative advertising strategy, endorsers and message appeals, the promotional channel, media planning and its analysis.

This part would be the main focus of the books since each task above would be the critical success factors on how the messages deliver in the market and persuade the customers.

Part five
This part consider on the sales promotion management, marketing oriented, public relations and sponsorships. The auditor introduces the promotional devices such as coupon and premiums which would help to implement the IMC plan. In the sponsorship marketing, the auditor introduces how to select the sponsorship events and its benefit on promotion.

Part six
Some external factors would also affect the effectiveness of IMC plan such as regulatory, ethical and ¡¥Green¡¦ issues. To have further understood on those external factors, the auditor describes the factors deeply by providing with examples MarCom.

Due to the study scheme, I just concern about a several part from part one to three in order to prepare the report and tests. Indeed, I love to read its book very much since it has a lot of pictures and examples to explain the comprehensive theory that can attract you to keep on reading. Moreover, the book contains broaden contents to help the reader to plan the IMC program.

And I would also like to recommend the auditors to add more globalize company as an example. Since there are all American companies as an examples in the book that it is not practical in Hong Kong. Moreover, I would suggest the auditor to do an overall summary with a chart or diagram so that the reader can get the focus of the book easily.

Moreover, I like the part of ¡¥creating advertising strategy¡¦ more even it does not have enough colorful pictures. Personally, I love to create advertising; therefore, I like to learn how to make a creative advertising. The auditor just introduces some styles of creating advertising strategies in general; however, it can stimulate me to think out of the box to create an advertisement.

Don't waste your money on this book !!
Please check its table of contents first !! Do you notice there is no a chapter to tell you how to write a IMC plan, even a sample !! In a real world, as a marketer, you need to work out marketing communication plan including situation analysis, objectives, communication strategy, action plan.... but how to "intergrate" them together is very important !! And the book should tell us "how", not only introduce different communication tools. Maybe this book should change its title as "marketing communication"!! Drop off "integrated" !!

Advertising and promotional tools are very important
Teresa Tsang from City University of Hong Kong, Marketing Department

Nowadays, companies need to differentiate them from other competitors in this competitive environment. Advertising is one of the important tools to communicate with customers that your company is different from other companies in terms of brand personality, product quality, service quality and other benefits, etc. Moreover, other promotional tools such as coupon, point of display, premium, etc. also can help to attract customers to buy the products. But advertising is the main communication tool to communicate with customers about the company¡¦s offers and promotional campaign. Therefore, learning how to apply different advertising techniques and other promotional tools is a must in this competitive market.

Actually, my university uses this book as a textbook for the subject of ¡§Integrated Marketing Communications¡¨. I found that this book gives us very useful information about advertising and promotion strategy. This book divides the content into six parts. Each part explains different concepts for readers. Part one is about the overview of integrated marketing communications (IMC) and its role in the brand-equity enhancement. It explains what IMC is and how IMC helps to enhance the brand equity.

Part two talks about positioning and targeting for marketing communications efforts and the communication process between the sender (marketer) and the receiver (customer). Moreover, Shimp explains the differences between consumer processing model and hedonic experiential model since marketers need to understand these models in order to use different advertising and promotional tools to appeal customers.

Part three is bout the marketing communications¡¦ role in facilitating new product adoption since different marketing communications methods are used in different stages of product adoption. Moreover, Shimp also explains the roles of brand names, logos, packages, and point-of-purchases in promoting companies¡¦ products and assisting sales.

Part four involves advertising management. It includes creative advertising strategy, endorsers and message appeals in advertising, and media planning, etc. Since advertising is very important in this competitive marketplace, learning how to apply advertising really can help companies to have better communications with customers about companies¡¦ offers. Moreover, media plan can help marketers to plan which media is the most effective channels to deliver the persuasive messages to customers.

Part five explains trade-oriented and consumers-oriented sales promotion management, marketing public relations (MPR) and sponsorships marketing. Actually, public relation is also important to foster goodwill between the company and the public. Shimp has given different examples to explain proactive MPR and reactive MPR which help readers to understand the concepts easily.

Part six talks about the external pressures which include regulatory, ethical, and green issues on marketing communications. For example, there should not have misrepresentation, omission, or practice that is likely to mislead the customers acting reasonably in the circumstances. Therefore, there is a need for marketers to practice ethical advertising; otherwise, it will damage companies¡¦ reputation and lose customers.

We can see that this book can teach us much useful knowledge about advertising, promotion and other marketing communications approaches. I believe that better use of marketing communications can project better image and deliver clearer messages to customers. Moreover, successful advertising can project a good impression in customers¡¦ hearts for a long time. Therefore, this book can help readers to grasp the knowledge of integrated marketing communications and apply in real situation to build companies¡¦ reputation and gain more customers. I hope that all readers can also enjoy reading this book and find useful knowledge from this book.