The document discusses advertising and sales promotion as tools of integrated marketing communications. It defines advertising as paid, non-personal, mass communication with an identifiable sponsor. It notes the advantages of advertising such as helping to build goodwill and introduce new products. It also discusses different media used for advertising like mail, newspapers, magazines. The document then discusses sales promotion, its role in IMC, types of sales promotion and objectives of consumer and trade promotion. It emphasizes the importance of evaluating sales promotion campaigns through pre-testing, concurrent testing and post-testing.