The ultimate marketing solution?

[Arakash]

So, I think we're on the same page with this one.
In appearance the marketing manager would look pretty much the same as the current screen for city marketing with the addition of a way to select which regions marketing you were adjusting.
It would probably need to have a manual entry field that accepted percentage values but should display the total dollar value spent on each marketing type across all managed branches in that region.

Yep sounds right.
Your original paragraph from your first post sums it up very well. It only needs the minor additions weve been discussing(values listed and making it clear its talking about marketing types), but i think it does a good job of explaining it.
Here i copied it into the post, admire your handiwork

How I see it working: Each branch should have a check box underneath it's marketing section labeled "marketing manager" if this is checked the marketing controls would grey out and become unusable for that city.
Now, under the telephone menu (someone was talking about there needing to be more reasons to use the phone) there would be a marketing manager option. This would bring up a marketing screen basically the same as the screen used for controlling city marketing but with a dropdown box for selecting regions (the current regions used by the game ie Europe, north America etc.). This would display the combined total marketing cost of every city in the selected region with the "marketing manager" check box ticked and applying a marketing value in this screen would apply that percentage of the full marketing price to every city in that region with the check box ticked..
Also, once the values are setup in the marketing manager it should automatically add in a set numbers for and new cities that get their check box ticked.
Lastly, the manager should update marketing for every managed city so it is always the same percentage of the max value that you set it at when you set it up.

Just in general, not in response to that quote .....
Now that we have hammered a good suggestion out, i guess we wait to see what Eric thinks of it.