Consumer Marketing Preferences for Nursery Stock

Consumer Preferences for Mass Customization

Increasingly, firms adopt mass customization, which allows consumers to customize products by self-selecting their most preferred composition of the product for a predefined set of modules. For example, PC vendors such as Dell allow customers to customize their PC by choosing the type of processor, memory size, monitor, etc. However, how such firms configure the mass customization process deter...

Direct-to-consumer marketing for genetic testing.

Modeling Interdependent Consumer Preferences

An individual's preference for an offering can be influenced by the preferences of others in many ways, ranging from the influence of social identification and inclusion, to the benefits of network externalities. In this paper, we introduce a Bayesian autoregressive discrete choice model to study the preference interdependence among individual consumers. The autoregressive specification can ref...

Consumer responsiveness to mobile marketing

From a marketing communication point of view, new digital marketing channels, such as Internet and mobile phones, are considered to be powerful opportunities to reach consumers by allowing interactivity and personalisation of the content and context of the message. The increased number of media has, however, led to a harder competition for consumers’ attention. Given the potential of digital me...

Blog Marketing: A Consumer Perspective

The phenomenon of blogs is growing rapidly and is expected to increase even in a more rapid pace (Technorati, 2006, November 6). As Wright (2006) discuss; blogs provides a new way of communicating with customers, as customers want to be talked with, not to. Companies have newly started to pay attention to this and as a result, the concept of blog marketing has been born. The little research tha...