This volume provides a thoughtful and wide-ranging exploration of approaches to the critical study of advertising. Current and impending practices of advertising have in many ways exceeded the grasp of traditional modes of critique, due at least in part to their being formulated in very different historical conditions. To begin to address this lag, this edited collection explores through critical discussion and application a variety of critical approaches to advertising. Authors address a ...

The book that completes Positioning . . .Thirty years ago, Jack Trout and Al Ries published their classic bestseller, Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind—a book that revolutionized the world of marketing. But times have changed. Competition is fiercer. Consumers are savvier. Communications are faster. And once-successful companies are in crisis mode.Repositioning shows you how to adapt, compete—and succeed—in today’s overcrowded...

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An indispensable writing tool for authors.This Punctuation Primer contains generally accepted rules authors need to make reading clear, and enjoyable. This e-book is intended to be left open on the desktop as a ready reference while writing. It explains and provides examples for:Commas Semicolons ColonsDashes Ellipses ParenthesesQuestions Quotations ExclamationsPeriods Dates ApostrophesDialogue Numbers Relative PronounsThoughts Sounds Inde...

The Agency business has been struggling for the last decade and everyone is looking for solutions. In this book you will find 102 different answers. Some are big picture observations. Others are common sense tips. There are thoughtful observations and insightful approaches. Most of all, it is a call to go back to the nuts and bolts of the business in order to find a way forward.

In 1993, in order to stop an economic freefall on the island of Cuba, Fidel Castro’s government reluctantly instituted a series of reforms to compensate for the demise of foreign aid from Moscow. These policies ushered in a broad spectrum of national and international consumer products and services previously unknown to islanders. In a few short years, Cubans were seeing foreign brands among consumer durables and a broad array of logos brought in by tourists. Today, nearly two decades into...

The marketing of luxury goods faces a fundamental challenge: balancing sales growth against exclusiveness. In today’s digital world, this trade-off has become even more challenging. A luxury brand’s fragile concept of exclusiveness is seemingly incompatible with the ubiquitous availability provided by the mass medium Internet. The author addresses this trade-off both conceptually and empirically. First, the author conceptually examines the specific marketing-mix for luxury goods in terms o...

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