ABSTRACT

Developing and executing marketing strategies is a vital aspect of any business and few books currently cover this with relation to creative industries. This textbook provides students and managers in the creative industries with a solid grounding in how to maximize the impact of their marketing efforts across a range of business types in the creative and cultural industries.

The author, an experienced cultural marketing educator, provides sector-contextual understanding to illuminate the field by:

• taking a strategic approach to developing marketing plans;

• bringing together strategic planning, market research, goal setting, and marketing theory and practice;

• explaining how content marketing on social media encourages a relationship with consumers so that they co-promote the creative product.

With a range of learning exercises and real-life examples throughout, this text shows students how to create successful marketing plans for their creative businesses. This refreshed edition is a valuable resource for students and tutors of creative, cultural and arts marketing worldwide.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|25 pages

Marketing strategy in a social media age

chapter 2|27 pages

Planning marketing strategically

chapter 5|27 pages

Establishing strategic goals

chapter 7|26 pages

Discovering product benefits

chapter 8|24 pages

Determining the product price

chapter 9|26 pages

Distributing the product to the consumer

chapter 10|25 pages

Creating marketing media

chapter 11|26 pages

Using owned media to gain earned media

chapter 12|25 pages

Implementing the marketing plan